Year: 2018
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CUPP: Female Presidential Candidate Asks Atiku To Step Down For Her
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The presidential candidate of the MAJA party, Prof. Mercy Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies, has asked former vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to step down for her. The female presidential aspirant said since her party and the PDP are members of the Coalition of United…
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Kwara Police Command Gives Marching Order To Hoodlums
by Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Police Command has assured law abiding citizenry that the Command would not rest on its oars until all bad elements and political thugs in the state are cleared from the streets before the 2019 general elections in Nigeria so as to ensure a peaceful exercise. The state Commissioner…
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Kwara Female Journalist Beaten By Political Thugs
By Steve Oni, Ilorin. Suspected political thugs, loyal to one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirants in Kwara state, physically attacked a chief correspondent of the Daily Trust newspaper, Mrs. Romoke W. Ahmad, on Thursday in Ilorin over allegation of bad publicity against their principal. The incident, which reportedly happened at the APC…
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Judges Cautioned Against Frivolous Injunctions
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Chairman of the Ilorin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Idowu Akande, has admonished Nigerian Judges not to grant injunctions capable of truncating the country’s democratic process. Mr. Akande, who gave the admonition on Thursday in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, while answering questions on a Radio Kwara…
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WITED Appeal To Poly Rectors For More Support
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Women in Technical Education and Employment (WITED) in Nigeria have enjoined Rectors of Polytechnics across the country to continue to give all the necessary support to facilitate the actualisation of the lofty WITED projects and activities not only in the Kwara state Polytechnic but also Nigeria and Africa as a whole.…
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Kwara PDP Blasts APC Over Comments On Saraki
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state has blasted the All Progressives Congress(APC) over what it described as the party’s latest reckless and undesirable comments on the Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki. The party in a statement by its state publicity secretary, Mr Tunde Ashaolu, asked the APC and…
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Kwara PDP Congratulates Secondus Over Successful Convention
By Stephen Oni, Ilorin The Kwara state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus over the successful organisation of the party’s national convention. The PDP in a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr Tunde Ashaolu, also commended the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa- led National…
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Two Kwara APC Guber Aspirants Protest Disqualification From Primary
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Two governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Hon. Mashood Mustapha and Mallam Saliu Mustapha have petitioned the Screening Committee of the party over their alleged disqualification in the primary that was conducted in the state on Saturday. The duo protested that there was no official communication…
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Badari Community Expresses Support For Rasaq Lawal, Thanks Saraki, Ahmed, Emir
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The people of Badari community in Ilorin West local government area of Kwara state have expressed their support for the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Asa/ Ilorin West Federal Constituency. The people of Badari at a crowded press conference held at the Secretariat of Badari Ward Development…
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Kwara APC Faction Elects Candidates For NASS, State Assembly Seats
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Ishola Balogun Fulani led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state announced yesterday names of its candidates for various legislative positions at both the state and federal levels in next year’s general elections. The state secretary of the faction, Chief Christopher Tunji Ayeni announced the names of candidates that emerged…