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Kidnappers Miraculously Dump OAU Female Student In Kwara Bush

A student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, Osun State, had a near-death experience recently in the hands of some kidnappers, who picked her from the school environment and later dumped her in a bush in Kwara State. According to Punch, Saturday, July 23, 2016, was one day that will always give 18-year-old…

Kwara Govt Denies Paying Agabi N500m

The Kwara State government has reacted to allegations that it paid the sum of N500 million to counsel to the former state governor, Bukola Saraki, Kanu Agabi. Saraki, who is now the Senate President, is standing trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja for allegedly not declaring all his assets while he…

Star Actor, Femi Adebayo, Gets Political Appointment

One of the top figures in the Yoruba movie industry, Femi Adebayo, has now been appointed as Special Assistant on Culture, Arts and Tourism to the Kwara State governor, Ahmed Abdul Fatai. Ahmed was appointed on Monday, February 22, 2016, by the state governor in Ilorin, the state capital. Femi is the son of veteran…

I Deserve To Be Minister—Lai Mohammed

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed, says his nomination as a minister by President Muhammadu Buhari is well-deserved. The Kwara State-born politician made this known in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital while answering questions from journalists as regards protests that he never voted in the state during the last elections.…

How Saraki Was Stoned In Ilorin (Video)

On Thursday, embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, got a treatment he may never have imagined to get in his hometown in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, where he was once governed for eight years. Saraki was in Ilorin for the Sallah celebration, but when he went to the Muslim prayer ground in the morning…

How Gbemi Saraki’s Secret Romance With Dino Melaye Ruined Her Ministerial Ambition

The plan of some hitherto staunch allies of the late godfather of Kwara politics, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki to reap from the left over of the gains of the late politician and the new leader, Senator Bukola Saraki, who is now the leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state is beginning to…