Month: August 2018

By Steve Oni, Ilorin A presidential aspirant, Prof. Olufunmilayo Adesanya-Davies has condemned what she observed as contradictions of the approval of the Not Too Young To Run Bill, in the current electoral process and guidelines for the 2019 general elections. Adesanya- Davies in a statement by her special assistant,Isioma Nkenchor said, “the contradictions of candidates…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin A total number of 315,000 permanent voter cards (PVC) are yet to be claimed by registered voters since 2015 till date in Kwara state. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the Correspondents’ Chapel of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the weekend, the state Resident Electoral…

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin city A Senatorial Aspirant in Edo Central Senatorial District, Chief Francis Inegbeneki, has assured the Esan people from the zone a good and better representation if given the mandate to represent them in the forth coming election. Inegbeneki, who was the All Progressive Congress candidate , (APC), in the 2014 election…

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin city Former Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Olufemi Baniro, has said that African countries including Nigeria must find solution to the problems of under development rather than relying on help from international communities. The Professor of Engineering, said this at the University of Benin, during the inauguration of Centre of…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The 2018 Ilorin Emirate Grand Durbar will hold on Wednesday, 22nd August at the frontage of the Emir’s Palace, Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. Briefing journalists at the NUJ Press Centre, Ilorin on Friday, the Chairman of the Grand Durbar Committee, Engr. Sulyman Yahaya Alapansanpa, said the sole aim of the…

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin city THE wind of defections blowing across the country has once again berthed in Edo State, the home state of the National chairman of the All Progressive Congress, ( APC), Adams Oshiomhole, as some notable members of the ruling party today dumped the party for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Former Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has declared that the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, remains the only politician that can unite Nigeria. He added that Saraki has what Nigerians are looking for in a true and pragmatic leader. Baraje spoke with newsmen on…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Chairman of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS), Dr. Muritala Awodun, has disclosed that the Service has contributed about N13. 5 billion to the state’s special infrastructure development fund, IF-K, since the inauguration of the fund in September 2016. Awodun, who made the disclosure on Wednesday in Ilorin, the…

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin city ESAN Youth Movement (EYM), has insisted that it would resist any move by leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) outside the zone to dictate to the people of Edo Central Senatorial district who flags its ticket in the Senate in 2019. The group therefore called on the National Chairman…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Reprieve came the way of the long suffering people of Adanna community and its environs in Ajikobi ward of Ilorin West local government area of Kwara state as the Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki donated a 500 by 11KVA transformer to the community. Residents of the benefitting community and its…