Tag: Kwara
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EFCC uncovers 1000 ghost workers ‘smuggled’ on Kwara payroll
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kwara Zonal Office, has uncovered 1000 ghost workers, allegedly smuggled into the payroll of Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB). The Zonal Head of EFCC, Mallam Isyaku Sharu, disclosed this in Ilorin on Thursday, while speaking with newsmen on the commission’s achievements during the lockdown, occasioned by…
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Nobody defected from APC to PDP in Kwara – Spokesman
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara has dismissed a report that 10, 000 members of the party defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). APC State Publicity Secretary in Kwara, Alhaji Tajudeen Aro, said in a statement on Friday in Ilorin that ” the recent garrulous and spurious rumour of 10,000 defectors from…
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A Memo to Professor Agboola Gambari – Hope Eghagha
By Hope Eghagha It is part of our national dilemma, confusion and uncertainty that the appointment of a new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has elicited so much excitement, anxiety and concern that we have forgotten that the CoS is a personal staff to the president. Given our perception, private anecdotes and media…
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Kwara foils Covid-19 patients’ plot to escape from isolation centre
The Kwara Government’s intelligence network has uncovered plot by some COVID-19 patients to escape from the state isolation centre at early hour of Friday. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and spokesman to the state COVID-19 Committee, Rafiu Ajakaye made this disclosure in a statement in Ilorin. Ajakaye said that the attempt was promptly…
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Coronavirus kills Lagos returnee in Kwara
The Kwara Government on Saturday announced that it recorded its first death from a confirmed case of COVID-19 pandemic. This was made known by Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and spokesman, Kwara Technical Committee on COVID-19. According to Ajakaye, the deceased recently arrived Kwara from Lagos with his wife and a…
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Police intercept lorry of 200 Almajiris in Kwara
The Kwara state police command Saturday intercepted a lorry loaded with about 200 suspected Almajiris around Kanbi/Oloru/Bode-Sadu axis of Moro local government area of the state. The lorry, with registration No. Kaduna MKA 54 XL, driven by one Shehu Hashim of Manigi in Niger state, was said to be conveying the ‘passengers’ from Funtua in…
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PDP, APC fight over palliative distribution
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State are trading blames over the distribution of palliatives, to cushion the effect of the state government stay-at-home directive. PDP accused the state government of politicising the distribution of palliatives. It expressed its trepidation about the alleged reports from civil society groups…
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Newly appointed Kwara Commissioner dies in his sleep 48Hrs to Resumption
A newly appointed Commissioner 1 in the Kwara State Local Government Service Commission, Olatunji Abel, has died in his sleep 48 hours to his resumption at his new office. Abel, who is from Igbaja in Ifelodun area of the state died on Saturday of a suspected heart attack at his home town on his return…
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BREAKING: Kwara discharges two COVID-19 patients
The Kwara State Ministry of Health has discharged two index cases of COVID-19, after testing negative twice. This was announce on Thursday, by the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Abdulrazaq, via his twitter page. Am happy to announce to you all that we just discharged two index cases of #COVID19 in Kwara State after…
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BREAKING: Five new coronavirus cases in Lagos,Kwara, Katsina…total now 323
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced five new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Sunday taking the total to 323. “Five new cases of COVID-19 have been reported as follows: two in Lagos, two in Kwara and one in Katsina. “As at 09:10 pm 12th April there are 323 confirmed cases of COVID-19…