The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu has expressed heartfelt appreciation to Kwarans and indeed the great people of Kwara north and Baruten in particular for their overwhelming votes given to the All Progressives Congress APC at the Presidential and National Assembly elections. Rt. Hon. Engr. Danladi-Salihu who led and…
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami A. Abubakar, and Chairman, National Peace Committee has commended Nigerians for turning out in mass to exercise their civic duty by voting in the February 25 elections. According to him, the National Peace Council took note of the patience, dignity and enthusiasm which Nigerians lined up to vote despite…
Nigerians are out again for an election. A sort of ritual that is carried out at the turn of every four years to elect other sets of leaders. Instead of electing leaders who will better our lot, elections in Nigerian are tantamount to renewal of covenant with poverty, with injustice, with grinding hardship, with joblessness…
The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu has expressed disappointment at the late arrival of election materials and electoral officers to some wards in the Baruten Local Government Area of the State. Rt. Hon. Engr. Danladi-Salihu made this known while addressing newsmen in his hometown immediately after casting his ballot…
Kwara Gov satisfied with voter turnouts, peaceful ballot, hopeful of APC victory • Upbeat about APC victory Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has expressed satisfaction with voters’ turnouts for the presidential and parliamentary elections, but called on the electoral umpire to quickly work on reports of the BVAS machines malfunctioning in some locations in the…
The former Presidential candidate under the platform of Action Alliance, HE (Dr.) Yahaya Ibrahim Al-Yakub and his entire followers have followed suit to declare support for the PDP Presidential candidate HE Alh. Atiku Abubakar. In a statement signed by HE (Dr) Yahaya Ibrahim Al-Yakub said his entire structure in all the thirty-six States and FCT…
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu has taken campaign trail to Baruten Local Government Area of the state, rooting for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be the next president of the Federal Republic of…
The Executive Governor of Kwara State, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has declared Tomorrow, Friday 24th February, 2023 work – free day for the State Civil Servants. This is to enable the State Workers to travel down to their respective polling areas to actively participate in the Presidential election holding on Saturday. This was contained in a…
By Tajudeen Raji (Olofamojo) After reading this article last time, I got divergent responses from the public: to some it taken a well informed mind to take this path, while others believed that its nothing but act of betrayal,,,,,, some even dropped the biggest bombshell! “Taju,,ELO NI GBENGA POWER GBE FUN E? How much did…
By Tajudeen Raji (Olofamojo) My mother who is an octogenarian, never hesitate to narrate how the first republic politicians work passionately not about amazing wealth for themselves and their associates, but how to make the country a place of pride. Due to the opportunity she had in acquiring western education, my mother gives stage by…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned judgement in the new naira policy suit to March 3, 2023. With the apex court’s decision, Nigerians, especially consumer and business groups as well as professional and trade unions looking up to the apex court for a favorable judgment (today) that they expect will ameliorate their suffering, will have…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has suspended until further notice the ongoing 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise, which commenced on Monday, 20th February, 2023, with effect from Tuesday, 21st February, 2023. This is according to a statement issued by the JAMB’s head of Public Affairs and Protocols, Fabian Benjamin PhD. The…
By Tajudeen Raji (Olofamojo) Last time I gave out some of the remarks made by Gbenga Oyekunle-Power in one of his numerous empowerment programmes where he displayed his usual passion for uplifting women, girl child and the youth. For a man who has never occupied any political office, to make it a point of responsibility…
By Tajudeen Raji (Olofamojo) Before delving into this episode’s discourse, let me identify with my fellow Kwarans and Nigerians at large, the dilemma which we have been subjected to in the last 60 days! Do I hear someone say it’s more than that? You are correct. The fuel scarcity has been very terrible at this…
An Ilorin Chief Magistrate Court, on Thursday February 16, 2023 remanded one Mohammed Lawal Ismail (suspect) to Nigerian Correctional Center Ilorin for the offences of Criminal Breach of Trust and Obtaining Money by False Pretence contrary to Section 312 of Penal Code Law and Section 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Offences…
PRESS RELEASE NSCIA/HQ/PRS/041 Date: 25th Rajab, 1444AH1 16th February, 2023 THE CHARTER OF EXPECTATION OF NIGERIAN MUSLIMS FROM THE NEXT GOVERNMENT The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) is the apex body overseeing the affairs of about 150 million Muslims who constitute majority of Nigerian citizens. It was founded in 1973 to “cater…
The more you see in Nigeria, under the current rulership, the more you are confused. The more you read newspapers or listen to daily news broadcasts to keep abreast of current events, the more you regret why you are educated and invest energies in current affairs. “Ignorance is”, at times, “golden.” That is right in…
By Victor Babayemi It is with a heavy heart so agonizing, shocking and still very unbelievable that my father is no more with us in flesh. I find it very difficult to believe that the cold hand of death had taken my father to the world beyond but people kept flowing into his house to…
By Tajudeen Raji ( Olofamojo) *My foundation was set up to help humanity, some old men and women can no longer go to the farm and they have to eat and access medical care no matter how little. The Gbenga Power Foundation has given out free JAMB forms to no fewer than 1,800 candidates across…
NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CHALLENGES OF THE CURRENCY SWAP AND STATE OF THE NATION, ON 16th FEBRUARY, 2023 My Dear Compatriots, I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation and to render account on the efforts of our…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended its 2023 UTME registration exercise by one week starting from Wednesday, 15th February, 2023. By this extension, the sale of ePINs would end on Monday, 20th February, 2023, while the UTME registration ends on Wednesday, 22nd February, 2023. Recall that in line with the Board’s 2023…
By Tajudeen Owolabi. (Olofamojo) Good begets good, let us reciprocate his numerous gestures by voting for him during the election, we shouldn’t betray his continuous effort, he was the only one we got to meet during our hunger days, anyone that comes to us now is just for benefits of election please let us remember…
The Kano state government had on Sunday, shut down popular supermarket, Wellcare, over refusal to accept old Naira notes from the populace. According to the Acting chairman of the consumer protection council, Baffa Babba Danagundi, the supermarket was shut shortly after Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje gave the order. Also confirming the story, Abubakar Aminu Ibrahim,…
By Issa Imam Recall that the foundation laying of Imam Gambari Mosque was performed by the Emir of Ilorin Mai Marrtaba Serikin Ilori Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Zulu Gambari CFR sometime in June, 2018 and central committee was constituted to ensure the realisation of the project and the reconstruction began in earnest. It is also recalled…
By Tajudeen Raji (Omo Olofamojo) The last time we tried to dissect the personality of Gbenga Power-Oyekunle, a man who has proven beyond reasonable doubts that indeed “All powers belongs to the most high God” and that “Politics is not a do or die affair”. Some readers might find the two expressions above strange while…
By Abdulkadir Salaudeen This is an interesting question if one chooses to answer it. It is, at the same time, an answerless question if one chooses to discard it as a silly question. Indeed it is. It is to be noted that it is not a new question being asked by modern man whose mind…
The regulatory agency for universities in Nigeria, the National Universities Commission has ordered a closure of universities across the country to enable students to participate in the 2023 general elections. In a letter addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres, the NUC noted that the directive was based on the directive…
By Tajudeen Raji (Omo Olofamojo) Occupying a public office in Nigeria over the years, has been attached with the good, the bad and the ugly. The good in this context is that some leave indelible marks on those they were oppotune to serve, to others it is a tale of poor performance which gives them…
A Lagos based association of Kwara South extraction, Orepeju Igbaja Club, under the aegis of Ifelodun Indigenes in Lagos for Gbenga Power, have thrown their weight behind the candidature of the African Democratic Congress, ADC candidate for Ifelodun, Offa and Oyun Federal Constituency, Gbenga Oyekunle-Power. Speaking at a town hall meeting held at Lagos Airport…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc, has ordered the posting/redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police (CPs) to Departments, Commands, and Formations in line with his manpower development policy of placing round pegs in round holes. DIG Danmallam Mohammed, fdc,…
The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi-Salihu has congratulated the state governor, His Excellency Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on the occasion of his 63rd birthday. In a congratulatory message issued by the Speaker’s Chief Press Secretary, Sheu Abdulkadir Yusuf, Rt. Hon. Danladi-Salihu noted that family, friends, and indeed citizens have every…
The Adamawa Woman in Satanic Mold, Her Wicked Son, and their Ignorance of Islam. I write with pain. I am in pain. I am uneasy and unsettled. It rankles my being. It ruffles my mood. I lose my composure. I am off balance. I cried; but my tears are drained out of shock, gravity, and…
Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has alleged plot by some powerful group to cause a crisis that will lead to the postponement and disruption of the February 25 polls in Nigeria. Tinubu stated this at the presidential campaign rally at the Ekiti Parapo Pavilion in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State…
As the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS popularly known as petrol bites harder in Ilorin, Petroleum marketers operating within and around Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, have,again, been urged to emulate the Bovas Petroleum Services Company by ensuring that petroleum products are sold to members of the public as expected to ease their suffering….
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday told holders of the old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes that in line with the provision of Section 20(3) of the CBN Act, they would still have the opportunity to redeem the face value of their cash only at central bank offices…
