Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the death of a former Governor of the State, Alhaji Adamu Attah as painful and tragic. Governor Ahmed in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Abdulwahab Oba also described the demise of Alhaji Adamu Attah, who was the governor of Kwara State between 1979 and 1983 as shocking ... Read More »
DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has assured workers in the state of improved welfare, better working conditions and extra pay at the end of the year to enable them meet the financial strains during the yuletide season. Giving the assurance on Thursday at the 2014 Workers’ Day (May Day) celebration in Asaba, Governor Uduaghan observed that workers deserved to ... Read More »
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Lagos State University chapter, on Thursday said it had given the institution’s a seven-day final ultimatum to address its demands. The Chairman of the union, Dr Adekunle Idris, who made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, said the ultimatum became effective on Wednesday, April 30 and would expire in May ... Read More »
A 25 year old Commercial Motorcycle rider popularly called Okada Ayorinde Igbasan has stabbed his girlfriend Tope Ajibade aged 17 to death for allegedly double dating in Okitipupa area of Ondo state. Vanguard gathered that the suspect thereafter attempted suicide by slashing his throat with the same knife he used to stab the lover. The ugly incident according to police ... Read More »
A medical team of the Kwara State Association in North America (KSANG) yesterday arrive Ilorin to provide free medical services, including surgery to patients as part of efforts by Kwarans in the diaspora to support government’s healthcare services through 500 meters access to quality primary healthcare. Addressing the team, which comprises pharmacists, consultants and neurologists from the United States of ... Read More »
The first civilian Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Adamu Atah is dead. He was said to have died at Abuja on Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that he could be buried today according to islamic rites. It was also learnt that a Kogi State Government’s delegation led by the deputy Governor, Yomi Awoniyi had gone to Abuja to convey the remains ... Read More »
..as Boko haram demands ransom Two of the girls kidnapped from a school in Northern Nigeria have died from snake bites, elombah.com has learnt. The latest information emerged even as scores of the girls and young women are being forced to marry their Islamic extremist abductors. At the same time, the Boko Haram terrorist network is negotiating over the students’ fate and ... Read More »
The Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, Ikoyi, Lagos, has arrested a 29-year-old man, Henry Ogu, for allegedly defrauding an American citizen (name withheld) of N52.5m ($350000). His accomplice, 42-year-old Yunusa Okonkwo, was also arrested in connection with the fraud. A statement by the SFU Police Public Relations Officer DSP Ngozi Isintume-Agu, said the unit had received a ... Read More »
The family of the late Dr Ayo Daramola, a governorship aspirant who was killed in Ijan-Ekiti in 2006, has expressed disappointment over the visit of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ayo Fayose, to the Onijan of Ijan, Oba Samuel Oyewole. The family, in a statement by Dare Daramola, the late Daramola’s younger brother, said the ... Read More »
Five persons have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of fraudulent transfer of a total of N5, 550,000.00(Five Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) from an account in Skye Bank. The suspects, Ademola Okunlola, 36; Tajudeen Oluwanisola, 41; Kolawole Adams, 52; Temitope Pedro, 27; Bayo Olowoyo, 39 and Otunba Biodun Adebanjo, 56, were ... Read More »
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