The Kwara State Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has successfully intercepted a Daf truck carrying approximately 1,153 parcels of cannabis sativa, with an estimated duty paid value of over ₦57 million. The illegal […]
Thirty one suspected drug peddlers have been arrested by the national drug law enforcement agency Kwara State command with about 270 kilograms of illicit drugs which include psychotropic and other substances suspected to be cannabis […]
In recognition of the 28th anniversary of the Emir of Ilorin, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, Prof. Abubakar O. Sulaiman, former Minister of National Planning and Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic […]
A housewife, Shakirat Ayinla has begged an area court in Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, on Thursday to approve her request for a divorce on the grounds that she had not had children for two years. Ayinla told […]
The main opposition party in Kwara State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the current administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have continued to trade words over the alleged sum of Four hundred and fifty […]
Two female Kwara State Polytechnic students have been detained in connection with the suspected murder of Adeniyi Ojo. ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, stated this to reporters on Wednesday in Abuja. Adejobi […]
Mrs. Folashade Omoniyi has been reappointed as the Executive Chairman of the state Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) for the second and last time by Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara. The reappointment is effective October 3, […]
CP Victor Olaiya, the new Commissioner of Police for Kwara Command, has stated that he is resolved to deal mercilessly with all types of criminals in the state, regardless of their nomenclature. In a statement […]
On Saturday, hoteliers in Kwara pleaded with Gov. Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaq to protect them from the state’s tax agency’s harassment, coercion, intimidation, extortion, and unlawful shutting up of their premises. They said that Kwara Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) agents often locked up their hotels without a court order, threatening the state’s hospitality economy. Alhaji Dauda Akande, President of the Association of Hotel Owners in Kwara, and Mr Babatunde Oladunmoye, General Secretary of the Association, represented the hoteliers in making the request. They alleged that KWIRS regularly used the police to harass, intimidate, arrest, detain and charge members with criminal offences. They alleged also that there was complete lack of synergy between KWIRS and […]
Rotimi Illiyasu, the previous Commissioner for Works and Transport in Kwara, has denied rumors that the EFCC had invited him to testify on alleged financial mismanagement. Iliyasu brought up the widely reported claim that the […]
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