Month: June 2018
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KWASU Convocation: Residents Charged On Tax Payment
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has charged residents of the state to reciprocate state government’s infrastructural drive by paying their taxes willingly. Governor Ahmed represented by the State Head of Service, Mrs. Susan Modupe Oluwole, gave the charge today while speaking at the sixth Convocation ceremony of the Kwara…
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Ex Envoy Stresses Need To Strenghten Democratic Institutions
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A Former United Nations Under-Secretary General, Professor Ibrahim Gambari has advocated the need for Nigeria to create and strengthen institutions that would assist in achieving the national goals of holistic security, democratic governance and sustainable socio-economic development. According to him, “in Nigeria, we don’t run short of ideas. A lot of…
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No Impeachment Threats Against Buhari- Lai Mohd
By Steve Oni, Ilorin All 12-point resolutions passed by the National Assembly to President Muhammadu Buhari, do not warrant impeachment, says the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. He said that the lawmakers have not in any way threatened to impeach the President as being insinuated in some quarters. Answering questions from journalists…
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Kwara APC State Executives, LG Chairmen Inaugurated
By Steve Oni, Ilorin New executive members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state have been inaugurated. A state counsel, Barr. Olanrewaju Afeez administered the oath of office on the 36 members of the state executive and 16 local government chairmen of the party. Speaking during the brief swearing-in ceremony, the state chairman…
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Buhari Makes Deft Political Moves
President Muhammadu Buhari in a seeming move to re-endear himself to the south west in particular and pro-democracy groups has changed the sequence of celebrating Nigeria’s democracy by declaring June 12 as the country’s new democracy day. This is even as he has conferred the highest title of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic. GCFR,…
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Herdsmen Kill 11 In Nasarawa Attacks
Eleven people, including three operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force, SARS and eight farmers are feared killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in a fresh attack on Maraba Udege community of Nasarawa State. National Trail correspondent reports that, many houses belonging to farmers in nearby villages of Aisa and Aguma have…
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KWASU to confer honorary doctorate degrees on Mbeki, Adeola and Jaiyigbade Alao
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University, Professor AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, has disclosed that the University would for the first time confer honorary doctorate degrees on three distinguished Africans for their contributions to humanity and services to the African continent. The honorees, according to him, are former President of South Africa,…
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Police Invitation: Offa Community, Youths, Others Defend, Absolve Saraki
Police Invitation: Offa Community, Youths, Others Defend, Absolve Saraki By Steve Oni, Ilorin The people of Offa in Kwara state, the scene of the bloody armed robbery attacks of April 5, this year, have stated that they did not agree that the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had anything to do with the incident.…
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We Have Delivered On Our Promises – Gov Ahmed.
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has declared that despite lean resources, his administration had modestly fulfilled its campaign promises to the people of the state. Ahmed who stated this on Thursday in Ilorin during a special interactive session with journalists to mark the 7th year anniversary of his administration,…
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kwara assembly outlaws indiscriminate feling of trees
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Worried by the indiscriminate felling of trees in Kwara state, two bills for laws to prohibit the Production, Transportation, Storage or Sale of charcoal and prescription of the planting back of trees, tariff have been passed into law by the state House of Assembly. Under the amended Charcoal law, it…