The Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday expressed its readiness to curtail rice smuggling in the Niger Area Command comprising Niger, Kwara and Kogi States.
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Alhaji Liad Tella, a veteran journalist and university teacher, on Wednesday, blamed the collapse of the First and Second Republics in Nigeria on the collaboration of the media with politicians.
The minister made this known in a statement on Wednesday made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The Chairman, Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Kwara State chapter, Joshua Omokanye, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the Joint Account Allocation Committee meeting held in Ilorin on Tuesday.
The call was contained in a communique read by the Chairman of the reconciliation committee, Peter Olorunnisola, after a meeting of party members in Ilorin on Monday.
The National Inland Waterways Authority has confirmed that 12 persons lost their lives in the recent boat mishap that occurred in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government area of Kwara State.
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has approved the promotion of 1,511 civil servants in the state civil service.
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has commiserated with the state House of Assembly and people of Lafiagi, headquarters of Edu Local Government Area of the state, over the demise of the pioneer Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Shehu Usman.
There had been speculations that the leader of his party and President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had ordered the forfeiture of the ticket by Ahmed following the loss of the bye election into the Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency, from where he hails.
The All Progressives Congress has said Kwara State politics has taken a new direction through the people’s votes as witnessed in the November 17 House of Representatives bye-election in the state.
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has denied social media speculations that the Kwara South Senatorial District ticket has been retrieved from him on account of the last House of Representatives by-election results in the state.
The police said this against the backdrop of the demand for a probe of the death of the principal suspect in the incident, Michael Adikwu, by Saraki.
NOPRIN called for the investigation into the death of Adikwu in a statement by its National Coordinator, Okechukwu Nwanguma, on Wednesday.
Following eventual disclosure by the Police that Michael Adikwu, the principal suspect in the deadly bank robbery attacks in Offa, Kwara State, on April 5, 2018, is dead, the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has called on the Presidency to institute a judicial inquiry into the ‘how and when’ the suspect died.
The Governor, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, urged Muslims to pray fervently for peaceful transition as general election approaches.
The minister stated this when he visited the families of the five deceased members in Arandun, Agbonda, Omu-Aran, Oko and Odo Owa, all in the Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara.
Adams Oshiomhole, the All Progressives Congress National Chairman, has said that the people of Kwara will retire Senator Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate from active politics in 2019.
Five shops were on Sunday razed in an early morning inferno in Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
APC chairman in the State, Bashir Bolarinwa, in a condolence, expressed shock at the news of the death of four members and injuries suffered by others in a car crash.
Olumoh, who gave the charge in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in llorin on Monday, said this would enable the governors save funds to pay the N30, 000 minimum wage.