Month: September 2019
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Investors key to economic development, says Kwara Deputy Governor
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State government has reiterated its commitment to supporting investors towards boosting the state’s economy and making life more meaningful for the citizenry. State Deputy Governor Kayode Alabi, who stated this on Monday shortly after inspecting Padson Assembly Plant at Irewolede Area, Ilorin, the state capital, said he was impressed with…
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Fake Lawyer impersonates EFCC, tears statement
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a 53 year old man, Muhammed Bolaji Abdulraheem for allegedly parading himself as a Lawyer and obtaining money under false pretence. Abdulraheem was accused of using dubious means to defraud his client, Mallam Yusuf Bello, of three hundred…
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35% rise in public hospital patronage as Kwara prioritises healthcare
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State has recorded at least 35% rise in hospital patronage in the last three to four months as the government focuses on basic healthcare and coupled with the recent equipment at the General Hospital Ilorin, health officials said at the weekend. “We’ll make sure that all our primary health centres…
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EFCC arraigns one of the most wanted FBI suspects in Ilorin
*Remanded in Mandala Prison By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office, has arraigned a 36-year-old Joseph Oyediran, described as one of the most wanted suspects by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Oyediran was arraigned on Thursday before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court sitting…
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Internet fraudster jailed six months in Ilorin
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, ( EFCC) Ilorin Zonal Office yesterday secured the conviction of a thirty five year old Stephen Olarewaju Odanye charged before a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. Odanye had on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the one count charge preferred against him by the EFCC.…
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Cleric charges Nigerians to praise God as the Mother of the Kwara State Deputy Governor clocks 94
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Nigerians have been charged to always praise God, no matter the circumstances, for His mercy and benevolence over His creations. A Cleric, Reverend Olushola Ajolore gave the charge on Thursday in ilorin, the Kwara state capital, in a short exhortation delivered at a programme to mark the 94th birthday of the…
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Kwara gets N3.4bn allocation for September
*As FG begins deduction of bailouts to states By Steve Oni, Ilorin A total of N3,499,479,078:81 (three billion, four hundred and ninety nine million, four hundred and seventy nine thousand, seventy naira and eighty one kobo) was received as federal allocation to Kwara State for the month of September, an official said on Wednesday. The…
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Beneficiaries hail AbdulRazaq, partners over Kwara’s free surgeries
100 free cataract, 300 other surgeries ongoing By Steve Oni, Ilorin At least 70 percent of the ongoing free eye surgeries and 50 percent of the overall medical interventions in Ilorin General Hospital have been carried out, with beneficiaries commending the Kwara State Government and other sponsors of the exercise for the gesture. The beneficiaries…
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Court orders final forfeiture of hotel belonging to Kwara Civil Servant to FG
By Steve Oni, Ilorin A High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has ordered the final forfeiture of the hotel belonging to a civil servant in the state to the Federal Government of Nigeria. Also forfeited to the Federal Government is a Landed property comprising three bedroom flat, two wings of three bedroom…
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Kwara gets N3.4bn allocation for September
*As FG begins deduction of bailouts to states By Steve Oni, Ilorin A total of N3,499,479,078:81 (three billion, four hundred and ninety nine million, four hundred and seventy nine thousand, seventy naira and eighty one kobo) was received as federal allocation to Kwara State for the month of September, an official said on Wednesday. The…