In its ongoing clampdown on illegal mining activities, the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC, has secured the conviction of a 50-year-old truck driver, Kasimu Bawa, from Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State. He was jailed for unlawful possession of solid minerals valued at N2.4million. Bawa was sentenced...
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Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has said the reforms of the administration of President Bola Tinubu in the mining sector is beginning to manifest, with over $2.6 billion in Foreign Direct Investment attracted to the sector in the last 30 months alone. He explained that through the de-risking of the...
Governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Bashir Bolarinwa, PhD, has unveiled 6-point strategic plans for the state, when elected as Governor comes 2027. Bolarinwa, who holds PhD in International Relations made this announcement on Tuesday during his official declaration to contest...
Tension is mounting in Kwara State after gunmen holding 176 abducted residents of Woro community in Kaiama Local Government Area issued a chilling one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government. The armed group reportedly warned that failure to meet their demands within the stipulated period could lead to the killing...
Nigeria Police Force, through the Force Intelligence Department Special Tactical Squad (FID-STS), has recorded a major breakthrough with the arrest of two (2) suspects involved in the large-scale vandalisation of critical national infrastructure and the recovery of railway materials valued at over Four Hundred Million Naira (₦400,000,000). The Force...
Barely five years after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) recorded the first seizure of the deadly terror drug, Captagon, in Africa at the Apapa seaport in Lagos, operatives of the Agency have again intercepted a consignment of the amphetamine substance in Kwara state. Captagon, a tiny, highly...
Former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has appealed to the Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to reconsider plans to file criminal charges against former Senate President Bukola Saraki and others over the 2018 Offa Robbery incident. Sani made the appeal in a post shared on his verified X (formerly Twitter)...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Udoma David Ekeh, a Tiktok user, for spreading false information about the Commission and its officers. The commission disclosed this in a post via its verified X handle on Wednesday. It said: “Udeh, in December 2025, alerted the...
The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC has arrested a company representative, Kofoworola Motunrayo Kolawole, over an alleged fraud to the tune of N993,247,796.70 (Nine Hundred and Ninety-Three Million, Two Hundred and Forty-Seven Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Six Naira, Seventy Kobo). The arrest of Kolawole, 37, was sequel to...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed claims linking its recent operation in Ilorin, Kwara State, to protests by students of Kwara State Polytechnic, describing such reports as misleading and a misrepresentation of facts. Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC carried out a sting operation...
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Olufemi Oluyede, has formally operationalised the Joint Task Force North Central Operation SAVANNAH SHIELD (OPSS) at 22 Brigade, Sobi Military Cantonment, Ilorin, Kwara State. Director Defence Information, Major General Samaila Uba, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Maj. Gen....
Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, secured an interim attachment order on nine trucks loaded with assorted solid minerals, as well as the final forfeiture of the contents of another truck, in a sustained crackdown on illegal mining activities...
Trial of former Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over the alleged diversion of ₦5.78 billion Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds resumed on Monday, February 16, 2026, with fresh revelations before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in...
Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed grave concern over Saturday night’s terror attack across three communities of Tunga-Makeri, Konkoso and Pissa in Niger State, resulting in multiple deaths and abduction of innocent citizens. Kwara State Governor/ NGF Chairman, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in a statement on Monday said the Forum commiserated...
Federal Government of Nigeria has intensified security operations across Nigeria’s North Central region to protect civilians in vulnerable communities, following cowardly terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of about 75 innocent villagers in Kwara State. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced this in a state issued...
Armed bandits have demanded N100 million ransom to release the wife of a forest guard killed during a deadly attack on Oba community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State. The gunmen invaded the community around 8 p.m. on Wednesday, shooting dead Raimi Ogunrinde, a forest guard recently...
United States (US) Mission in Nigeria has condemned the deadly attack on communities in Kwara State that reportedly claimed the lives of more than 160 people, describing the violence as horrific and senseless. In a statement shared via its official X handle, @USinNigeria, the U.S. expressed deep sympathy with...
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has launched a blistering attack on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, over comments he made while condoling with victims of a recent Boko Haram attack that reportedly claimed over 150 lives. Governor Zulum, who visited Kwara State to commiserate...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja for Kwara State following a directive from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to conduct an on-the-spot assessment of the recent deadly terrorist’s attack in Woro, Kaiama Local Government Area of the state. The visit underscores the Federal Government’s resolve to respond decisively to...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday strongly condemned the deadly attack on villagers in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, describing the assault as “cowardly and beastly,” while ordering the immediate deployment of an Army battalion to restore peace. The President disclosed this after a meeting with the...