Residents of a village in Dagbalodo community in Patigi local government area of Kwara state are seen in a viral video digging up holes in sand for dirty water which they drink, use to cook and for other household activities. An interpreter who captured the scene on video, said the villagers dig the holes and scoop the dirty water which Read More
The Chairman of FCT Football Association Abba Mourtar Mohammed has given his approval to the hosting of the Unity preseason tournament holding in Abuja from 30th October to 5th November 2021. Revealing this in Abuja, the Organising Committee Chairman, Patrick Ngwaogu (Odogwu Ndi Abia), said the Chairman was so excited of the programme, and has agreed to donate the main Read More
The Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said it has started compiling the lists of party members in court, with a view to securing the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) ratification for their sanction. The ruling party’s leadership also declared that it won’t recognise any parallel congress at the just concluded nationwide local Read More
A former Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu, has described the Turaki as a very important title in Kwara state, adding that it was conferred on Mallam Saliu Mustapha in recognition of his contributions to the development of the ancient city. Recently, the Emir of Ilorin, His Royal Highness, Dr Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, appointed a national chairmanship aspirant Read More
Ahead of today’s commencement of its Wards, Local Governments and States Congresses, the ruling All Progressives Congress “APC) has threatened to dish out maximum punishment on any of its members who conduct parallel exercises or open parallel party secretariats. Some aggrieved party chieftains in Kwara, Osun, Delta, Imo states and many others have threatened to conduct a parallel exercise. The Read More
A group of All Progressives Congress (APC) known as APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) said President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was moving Nigeria steadily towards self-sufficiency in food production in a way that has never been witnessed since independence. The group said the country’s steady progress in the administration’s efforts at positioning agriculture as the fulcrum of the country’s economic Read More
Nigeria’s struggle for democracy had been quite thorny from the first and second republics to the June 12, 1993 election, which was annulled, to the present dispensation which has lasted 22 straight years. Throughout this period, there has been the good, the bad and the ugly moments. We have also had players who shaped, and have continued to shape, the Read More
A humanitarian organisation based in the United States of America, Achana Legacy Foundation, has donated boimedical equipment worth millions of naira to boost primary healthcare centres in the Federal Capital Territory. Some of the items donated include Electric, Hill-Rom, Advanta worth $2,800.00, CV Arts, CV Split, CSR Wrap worth $900.00, Dharma Relief Face Masks with Earloops worth $1,080.00, Monitor worth Read More
The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has visited four corps members who had sustained various degrees of injuries in an auto crash along Mokwa road recently, and receiving treatment at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). According to a release presented to Blueprint by the DG Saturday, the corps members were on their way Read More
Following the announcement by the Nigeria Women Football League that the nationwide league will commence on April 11, head coach, Prince Kazeem Eletu Queens Football Club, Jaiyeola Damilare, has expressed the team’s readiness for the second tier league. Prince Kazeem Eletu Queens are among the 22 clubs confirmed by the NWFL for the two phase tournament holding at the Aguyi Read More
Amid commotion over a bill seeking for the establishment of Armed Forces Service Commission (AFSC), the Senate in avoiding division, hurriedly went into closed door session last week Wednesday. TAIYE ODEWALE reports . The hope of the Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe ( PDP Abia South ), to get his bill seeking for establishment of Armed Forces Service Commission (AFSC) pass for Read More
BODE OLAGOKE, in this piece takes a look at the ongoing politics of wit at the Kwara state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) vis-a-vis the performance of the incumbent Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq in less than two years in office. Background The 2019 effect of the ‘Oto’ge revolution’ in Kwara state which threw up Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq of the Read More
Confusion rented the air Monday in Ifedolapo community in Ilorin after a corpse was found under Osere Bridge. Residents raised unanswered questions as to the cause of death. Some thought Friday night’s rainstorm, which destroyed many properties in Ilorin, could have been responsible for the death. Police spokesperson in Kwara, Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the development in an interview. He said Read More
The National Chairman of the deregistered Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) Alhaji Ganiyu Galadima, has formerly joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the ongoing nationwide membership registration and revalidation exercise. Galadima, who was the ACPN presidential candidate in 2019, also asked all his members in the deregistered party to register in the ongoing registration exercise of the Read More
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday reported 27 coronavirus-related deaths in the country, bringing the total number of those who had succumbed to the deadly virus to 1,577. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Friday. The public agency also announced 1,114 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the past 24 hours and these have taken the Read More
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq of Kwara state have urged the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) to review the syllabus of their programme to meet up with challenges of 21st century. The duo spoke at a workshop themed, “The Role of NBAIS in the Integration of TSANGAYA System of Education in Read More
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has commiserated with the people of Bauchi state and family of the legendary hunter and crime fighter, Ali Kwara who died recently. The forum chairman and governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong, in a message signed by his director of press, Dr. Makut Macham, described the late Ali kwara as an outstanding hunter who devoted Read More
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Minister Mr Sunday Dare has commended the Delta state Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for hosting the Council of sports meeting at short notice, even he promised a new dawn for sports development in Nigeria. Speaking on Friday at the opening of the Council on Sports meeting Dare said, “What is the council without the Read More
President Mohammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of 12 new Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yem-Esanmade, this known in a statement signed by Director Communication, Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, in her office in Abuja. The new Permanent Secretaries are; Mr Akinlade Oluwatoyin from Kogi, Malam Alkali Nura Read More
There are now 14 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Nigeria, and patient with the virus has died, bringing the number of deaths to seven. As at Wednesday night, six persons were confirmed dead. Thirteen new cases are in Lagos and one in Delta state. As at 09:30 pm, April 9, there are 288 confirmed cases of COVID-19 Read More
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