One person was feared killed and four others sustained varying degrees of injuries, after a protest by Christian and Muslim parents of students of the Oyun Baptist High School over the use…
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Kwara: Robbers injure two drivers during operation
Armed robbers assaulted two commercial buses on the Oro-Ago/Omu-Aran route in Kwara State’s Ifelodun and Irepodun local government areas, inflicting knife injuries on two drivers. Babawale Afolabi, the Public Relations…
Kwara: Blood-Sprinkle forestalled Over Herder’s Killing As Police Protects Community, Fulani clash
Men of the Kwara State Police Command have averted a communal clash in Pampo village, Afon district of Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, over the killing of a Fulani herdsman,…
Kwara: NSCDC Arrests 3 Suspected Fuel Smugglers, Seals Filling Station
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara command has disclosed that it arrested three persons and seized 137 kegs of petrol being smuggled into Benin Republic. This was contained…
Kwara initiates residential data collection
Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has unveiled the state’s residents registration agency and the Kwara State Residents Card project, saying the effort would drive “effective planning, judicious allocation of resources, and sustainable…
Kwara: police refute reported ‘relocation’ of bandits
By Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Against the assertion that bandits and kidnappers have relocated to Kwara and Kogi states from northwestern states of the country, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo,…
Drama As Angry Lads, Customs Clash In Kwara Over Attempt To Arrest ‘Smuggler’
Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Services (NCS), on Wednesday night in Ilorin, clashed with some aggrieved youth over an attempt to arrest a trailer driver who was allegedly carrying contraband goods. …
Kwara: Bandits rape two, attack others
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has confirmed that unknown gunmen have attacked Nuku Village in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara. This is contained in a statement signed…
Man, 25 Arrested For Alleged Murder Of Brother For Money Ritual
A 25-year-old man, Ismail Saliu, has been arrested by the Kwara State Command, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, over the alleged murder of his blood brother for money…
President Buhari Approves Establishment Of New Neuropsychiatric Hospital
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a neuropsychiatric hospital for Kwara State. The hospital is to be located at Budo-Egba, in Asa Local Government Area of the State, according…