By Tunde Oyekola The Janaza (burial) of Kwara-born Lagos entertainer, Mukaila Senwele was done at the Muslim Cemetery in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday. Mukaila, a popular Lagos-based entertainer was buried according to the Islamic rites at the Cemetery in the presence of family, friends and admirers who thronged the burial ground to…
By Tunde Oyekola No fewer than 15 lives were reportedly lost in a multiple auto crash involving a trailer and another vehicle in Oko Olowo area of the Ilorin-Jebba Expressway in Kwara State. It was gathered that several other persons sustained varying degrees of injury in the auto crash. According to eyewitness accounts,the accident involved…
By Tunde Oyekola The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has apprehended a 22-year-old security guard for allegedly vandalising armoured cables for a streetlight construction project at the University of Ilorin. The suspect, Idris Ibrahim Kayode, was reportedly employed as a private security guard at the university. He was caught…
The Kwara State Ministry of Education and the authorities of Government Day Junior Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin, moved swiftly to address a case of severe assault of an unnamed National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member by a teacher in the school where she had just completed her service year. The student was reportedly attacked by…
The proverbial long arm of the law has scored another big hit, with the arrest, diligent prosecution and sentencing of the robbers who invaded Offa town in Kwara State on April 5, 2018. It was a bank robbery unlike no other. Beyond the use of explosives to burst bank vaults, the gangsters embarked upon an…
Drama unfolded at a secondary school in Kwara state when a teacher allegedly assaulted a youth corps member for “not greeting properly” after she visited the school to request her clearance letter. The incident, which has gone viral on the popular social media platform X (formerly Twitter), was captured in a post showing the corps…
