Year: 2019
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Insecurity: Kwara To Set Up Joint Security Task Force
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Following repeated cases of political violence in the Ilorin metropolis ahead of coming general elections, the Kwara state government has set up a joint security task force to curb orgy of violence being witnessed in the state capital. It is recalled that political thugs had unleashed mayhem in the past few…
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Attacks: Ploy To Postpone Elections In Kwara – PDP Campaign DG
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Director – General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council in Kwara state, Professor Abubakar Suleiman said the reign of violence unleashed on innocent residents of Ilorin, the state capital between Thursday and Sunday was a ploy by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government to prepare grounds…
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South-south governor’s condemn the victimization of CJN
By Ere-ebi AGEDAH The south- south governors forum have out rightly condemned the victimization and assault on the Chief Justice of Nigeria Justice Walter Onnoghen, stating that it is a slight on the judiciary and the nation’s democracy. While briefing journalist in Abuja, on Sunday, after long hours in a closed door meeting, the…
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Factional APC Thugs Allegedly Attack Saraki’s Ilorin Agbaji Home
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Political thugs loyal to the factional gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrasak, have been alleged to have attacked the Agbaji Ilorin family residence of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. In the ensuing melee on Sunday,11 persons were reportedly injured, while about 50 exotic…
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Attacks: Saraki Urges Kinsmen To Remain Calm
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki yesterday hurriedly returned to Ilorin from Erin- Ile in Oyun local government area of Kwara state where he had gone to address a political rally, to sympathise with his family members, who were attacked by the thugs of factional All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate…
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Attacks On PDP Members: Kwara PDP Leaders Ask Buhari To Call Factional APC Members To Order
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state have asked President Muhammadu Buhari and national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to halt the violence being perpetrated by their supporters in the state. The PDP leaders made the call on Friday at a press conference where they condemned the…
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Threat To Saraki’s Life: Kwara PDP Faults Police Claims
By Steve Oni, Ilorin . The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state has faulted claims by the state’s police command that the party never reported cases of assault on its members to any police station in the state. The party, in a statement made available to newsmen last night described the police position as another…
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50m Nigerian voters line up for Owuru presidency
Owuru Presidential Campaign Organisation, OPCD, has announced that the welfarist policies of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, had galvanised not less than 50 million prospective Nigerian voters to queuing behind its presidential candidate, High Chief Ambrose Owuru, in the forthcoming 2019 general elections in the country. In a press release signed by Yusufu Ibrahim Esq.…
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Aten Condemns Inclusion Oftheir Executives Names On Nitel/Mtel Persioners Association List
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City The Association of Former Telecoms Employees of Nigeria ( ATEN ) has condemn the wrong inclusion of the names of ATEN executive officials/members in the list of PTAD by the lawyer of the Nitel/Mtel Pensioners Association. Speaking to newsmen in Benin City, on Monday , the General Secretary of the…
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EDSG Resumes School to School Campaign Against Human Trafficking
By Ikhili Ebalu Benin City In continuation of the fight against human trafficking and irregular migration, Edo State government has resumed its school to school campaign in 2019. The Task Force Against Human Trafficking and Irregular Migration took the campaign to Uromi the administrative headquarters of Esan North East local government area of Edo state…