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  • 2 students killed as cultists unleash attacks on police team

    2 students killed as cultists unleash attacks on police team

    Two students have been killed in Kwara during an attack on security detectives by suspected cultists, the state Police Command confirmed.

    A statement from the command in Ilorin said some cultists on Saturday unleashed attacks on a team of Police detectives from the Special Tactical Squad (STS) FIB, Abuja, thereby causing pandemonium around the Kwara State Polytechnic gate, Ilorin.

    The statement by the command’s spokesman, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, explained that the team came on the trail of some cultists in the area.

    It however allayed fears among residents around the state Polytechnic area that the pandemonium experienced on Saturday within the area, arose as a result of the attack.

    Recalled that some cultists attacked and killed a student of Kwara State University, Malete, on Friday.

    The statement said that four of the cultists were arrested and dangerous weapons recovered from the suspects.

    It noted that some of the cultists were hiding at Lajolo area of Kwara Polytechnic Ilorin, where a similar attack was unleashed on one student named Idris Aderemi, at about 0600hrs on Saturday.

    “This prompted the visit to the area by the STS team.

    “Surprisingly, the cultists who were already in ambush, attacked the police team damaging the police Hummer bus, and inflicting a gunshot injury on the head of one police Sergeant, Adebayo Abdulahi, attached to the STS team.

    “In the ensuing imbroglio, students in their numbers came out to block the road and prevented free flow of traffic and burning tyres on the road.

    “The state Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo, immediately dispatched teams of policemen to the area to restore peace.

    “However, two cultists, one Ahmed ‘m’ surname unknown, and one Musibau ‘m’ A.K.A Shaban, were arrested with one fabricated English pistol with 3 live ammunition, 2 live cartridges and one pistol magazine.

    “The injured policeman and the suspects have been taken to the hospital for treatment.

    “The commissioner of police, had however, advised members of the public to go about their lawful businesses without any fear of attack or intimidation,” the statement read in part.

    It said calm has been totally restored in the affected area, while security men were on standby to forestall any further act of lawlessness.

    Reacting to the development, the Polytechnic management described as misinformation that the institution’s campus was under siege by students’ protest.

    The school’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Yunus Abdulkadir, explained that students of the institution were law-abiding citizens and would not indulge in any illegal activity that would disrupt their academic careers.

    “Meanwhile, the incident that occurred at Lajolo community early Saturday morning was between the police and Lajolo community and has nothing to do with the polytechnic students or the campus, as first semester CBT examinations are going on right now at the Campus without any disturbance.

    “However, the management of the polytechnic has magnanimously accepted the plea of the students who could not make it to the campus before the blockage at Oyun.

    “Their examinations will be rescheduled to another date, which will be communicated to them via their heads of the department,” the statement said.

  • Security: NSCDC creates female squad in Kwara

    Security: NSCDC creates female squad in Kwara

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) Command in Kwara has created a female squad to take charge of security in schools across the state.

    The State Commandant of NSCDC, Makinde Ayinla, stated this at a press conference in Ilorin.

    Ayinla said that the squad was set up to prevent abduction of pupils and students in schools.

    “There is need for a female squad that will keep watch over our schools and checkmate students’ abduction.

    “We have trained some selected personnel on this, and with the permission of the state governor, we will deploy them to schools this month,” he said.

    He said that the command planned to deal ruthlessly with vandals, prevent economic sabotage and safeguard government installations and other properties.

    The commandant said that the officers would work in conjunction with the Nigeria Customs Service to tackle smugglers in border towns across the state.

    Ayinla also said that NSCDC intended to keep 24 hours surveillance on correctional centres, to forestall any breach of security in the facilities.

    He said that the corps would intensify efforts on training of its officers, especially on how to handle weapon as well as intelligent information gathering, to further aid their performance.

    Ayinla disclosed that the Agro-ranger unit of the corps in 2021 handled 76 cases on agro-allied matters and farmer/herder clashes, and added that 63 of the cases were resolved.

  • Bandits rape two, attack others in Kwara

    Bandits rape two, attack others in Kwara

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has confirmed that unknown gunmen have attacked Nuku Village in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara.

    This is contained in a statement signed by the Spokesman of Kwara Command of the Corps, Mr Babawale Afolabi, and made available to newsmen in Ilorin on Thursday.

    Afolabi said that the gunmen abducted two minors of the same family and injured the head of the family and one other person with machete.

    He said that the abducted girls were later released after the abductors had canal knowledge of them.

    “In the early hours of November 3, some yet to be identified gunmen invaded Alhaji Hassan Yunusa’s settlement, at Nuku Village in Kaiama.

    “Investigation revealed that the assailants were actually looking for money, as they ransacked the whole place and could not find anything.

    “They attacked Alhaji Yunusa and Woru Yunusa with multiple machete wounds and went away with two girls, but later released them a few hours later.

    “It was discovered that the abductors had canal knowledge of the innocent girls,” he said.

    The spokesman said that the two victims were receiving medical treatment at a medical facility, adding that series of medical tests were carried out on them.

    He, however, said that security operatives had started investigation to apprehend the evil men for the prosecution to serve as a deterrent.

     

  • Lai Mohammed to Kwara Gov: I will respond to your false allegations at due time

    Lai Mohammed to Kwara Gov: I will respond to your false allegations at due time

    The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says, at the appropriate time and forum, he will respond to the false allegations levelled against him by Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara.

    The Minister stated this on Monday when he featured on a phone-in programme of TV Continental, “This Morning’’.

    In an exclusive interview with a national newspaper, published on Monday, the governor alleged that the minister dehumanised him during the campaign and other preparations towards the 2019 Governorship and other elections in the state.

    AbdulRazaq also alleged that the minister did not remit some funds raised for the campaign for the elections.

    Responding to a question from the anchor of the progrmme on the allegations and the crisis in the All Progressive Congress in the state, the minister said “at the fullest of time’’ he would give his response.

    “I read the article and I also read the response of some people.

    “I believe that issues of national importance I have come here to discuss are more important than the personal disagreement between me and the governor.

    “At the appropriate time and forum, I will respond to the false allegations,’’ he said.

    The minister also declined response to questions on the parallel congresses held by the APC in some states.

    According to him, the party executives appointed or elected as spokespersons and other officers are in better position to respond to such issues.

    “As a federal minister, I am not supposed to be partisan in the discharge of my duties, whether on intra-party or inter-party matters,’’ he said.

    NAN reports that the minister featured on the programme specifically to discuss national security and other related issues.

  • 11 passengers die in Kwara auto crash

    11 passengers die in Kwara auto crash

    Eleven people have lost their lives in an auto crash said to have been caused by wrongful overtaking along the Jebba-Bode Saadu in the Moro local government area of Kwara State.

    According to eyewitnesses, the accident which occurred around 4:00pm on Sunday at Onipako village, involved two vehicles – a Toyota Corolla salon car and a commercial Toyota Hiace bus.

    The state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Jonathan Owoade, who also confirmed the incident said there were 26 people involved in the accident – (20 males and six females).

    He said all six females died in the incident.

    Owoade also added that 15 other people suffered varying degrees of fracture.

    The FRSC boss said those injured were taken to the Jebba Medical Centre and Emmanuel Hospital, Jebba, while the corpses of the deceased have been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH).

  • How gunmen unleashed terror in Kwara, abducted five members of royal family

    How gunmen unleashed terror in Kwara, abducted five members of royal family

    Five members of the household of Oba Samuel Adelodun, the Owalobbo of Obbo-Ayegunle in the Ekiti Local Government area of Kwara State, were on Thursday kidnapped by gunmen on Osi/Obbo-Ayegunle road.

    The police command noted that victims included the monarch’s driver whose name was given only as Kunle, the monarch’s security detail, Lawrence Abiodun, his maid, Mrs Bunmi Akanbi and her six-year- old twin daughters; Kehinde and Taiwo.

    The victims were returning from Osi, a neighbouring community to Obbo-Ayegunle, in a Toyota Sienna bus when gunmen accosted them around 6.30pm and took them to the bush. The Sienna bus was reportedly abandoned on the road.

    Confirming the incident in a statement on issued on Friday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, appealed to members of the public to volunteer necessary information to the police on how to track the bandits and rescue the victims.

    Okasanmi said the king of Obbo-Ayegunle reported the incident to the police, adding that the state Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo, had dispatched an anti-kidnapping team and other tactical units and vigilantes to apprehend the kidnappers.

    He said, “The Kwara State Police Command wishes to inform the members of the public of a reported case of kidnap received from HRM Oba Samuel Adelodun, the Owalobo of Obbo Ayegunle in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, that on 14/10/2021 at 6.30pm, while in transit from Osi to Obbo Ayegunle, his driver by name Kunle, his security, Lawrence Abiodun, his maid, Bukunmi Akanbi and his twin baby girls, Taiwo and Kehinde aged six years were kidnapped by unknown number of armed men while his vehicle Sienna with the number plate bearing Owalobo of Obbo Ayegunle which was conveying the victims was abandoned on the road.

    “The commissioner of police wishes to advise members of the public with useful information that can aid the quick rescue of the victims to make such information available to the command. While assuring the good people of Kwara State of their safety and security at all times, the CP advises members of the public to be conscious of happenings around them and avoid movements in isolated and lonely routes at odd hours of the day

  • Kwara Govt suspends Arabic school head over brutal flogging of students in viral video

    Kwara Govt suspends Arabic school head over brutal flogging of students in viral video

    Kwara State Government has suspended the head of Musbaudeen Islamiya Arabic school in Ganmo, Ifelodun local government area of the state over the brutal manner some students were punished in the school.

    A viral video showed five students including a female being mercilessly flogged with long cane by five clerics for alleged conducts conceived to be contrary to the rules of the school.

    According to report, the students were punished for allegedly celebrating a birthday party in a club house and taking alcohol.

    A statement issued on Sunday, October 10, by the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu, said a government delegation has visited the Arabic school also took the affected students to a public hospital for proper medical examination and treatment.

    The team comprised the Hon. Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu; Special Assistant to the Governor on Religion (Islam) Alhaji Danmaigoro; Dr Saudat AbduBaqi of the University of Ilorin; Mallam Lawal Olohungbebe of Kwara State University; and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Rafiu Ajakaye.

    The team was joined by the Divisional Police Officer Ganmo SP Oko Nkama; and a representative of the NSCDC DSC Parati AbdulHameed.

    “The government’s team carefully listened to the authorities of the Arabic school, the father of the sole girl in the video, and four other students involved in the unsavoury development,” the statement read.

    “Regardless of the explanations of the authorities on the development, the self-confessed consent of the parents and regret of the affected students, the government seriously frowns at the harsh beating seen in the footage

    “Consequently, the government has directed the setting up of an investigative committee, comprising Muslim scholars, leaders and government officials, to look into the issue while the head of the Arabic school, who admitted to directing the punishment, has been asked to step aside pending the conclusion of the investigation

    “The government has also taken the affected students to a public hospital for proper medical examination and treatment. This is to ensure that none of them suffers any physical or psychological damage

    “The government appeals for calm while the committee does it works and submits a report for further action. The government commends the Ganmo Muslim community for the support given to the team.”

  • [Video] Outrage trails brutal flogging of Kwara Madrasa students

    [Video] Outrage trails brutal flogging of Kwara Madrasa students

    A viral video showing some madrasa students in Kwara State being brutally flogged as a form of punishment by some senior students of the institution has sparked outrage on social media.

    Madrasa is an institution established for the teaching of Islam and other studies.

    A segment of the video shows a female student on her knees while being surrounded by young men believed to be her senior colleagues.

    A voice was thereafter heard instructing the young men, who were all wielding sticks, to flog the female student.

    In another part of the video, a male student of the school can also be heard screaming as he was being flogged.

    It is understood that the beating was a form of punishment for the students after they attended a friend’s birthday.

    Although the students were said to have taken yogurt during the outing, their Islamic teacher, who saw a video of them at the birthday, had thought they took alcohol and ordered that they should be punished.

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    It was gathered that the students were severely beaten because they went to celebrate a friend’s birthday.

    Pictures of the birthday celebration were posted online. However, their teacher saw the post and thought they drank alcohol, but they only had yoghurt.

    After the beating, the students showed the injuries they sustained from the flogging and this has caused an outrage on various online platforms.

    In one of the video clips, some of the students were seen showing the injuries they sustained during the beating.

    The clips have since provoked outrage on social media platforms, as some Nigerians called on relevant authorities to investigate the matter.

    Reacting, Nigerian actor, Charles Inojie, condemned the treatment of the students, saying there is no justification for such actions.

    He wrote on Instagram;

    How could any school authority find justification for this? Which parent would see slide four and be able to sleep well at night, and to think that their teachers are there watching with glee and urging the assailants on is all the more heartbreaking.

    Whatever offence they might have committed, the school should have other means of administering discipline than this brazen display of barbarism.

    He stated;

    I hear this happened in Ilorin. Oya, Kwara State government over to you. You have a duty to redeem yourself before the whole world otherwise you would only have succeeded in raising hardened criminals that would turn around to terrorise society tomorrow. Say no to brutality, say no to man’s inhumanity to man, say no to violence, say no to torture.

  • Kwara court removes 16 transitional LG Chairmen appointed by Gov AbdulRazaq, orders fresh election

    Kwara court removes 16 transitional LG Chairmen appointed by Gov AbdulRazaq, orders fresh election

    An High Court sitting in Ilorin has declared the Transition Implementation Committees across the 16 Local Government Area in Kwara State as illegal and ordered for the conduct of proper election to usher in new executives.

    Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, had earlier suspended the elected Local Government Council Chairmen in the state and replaced them with the Transitional Chairmen.

    Justice Hassan Gegele, while delivering his judgement on Friday in a suit filed by Elite Network for Sustainable Development (ETSUD) said the appointment of Transition Committees to run the affairs of the third tier of government is against the provision of section 7 (1) of the constitution.

    The Judge also ordered that all the funds expended in the running of the councils in the last six months should be refunded to the coffers of government.

    Reacting to Friday’s judgement, the Kwara State Government said it would appeal the judgement.

    “We wish to state that the reasoning of the trial judge is not a finality on the issue as it is subject to appeals at the higher benches, up to the Supreme Court. This allowance is guaranteed under our law,” a statement signed by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Salman Jawondo, said.

    “In exercise of its right of appeal as enshrined under the 1999 constitution as amended, the state government intends to explore that right.

    “It will also, as allowed under the law, seek immediate stay of execution of the judgment of the trial Court.”

  • One killed as unknown gunmen attack Kwara community

    One killed as unknown gunmen attack Kwara community

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has reported that some unidentified gunmen attacked a farm settlement at Ahun village, Oro-Ago, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara, killing a teenager.

    This was contained in a press release signed by the command’s spokesman, Mr Babawale Afolabi, and made available to newsmen in Ilorin, on Sunday.

    Afolabi said that the incident happened at night, on Sept. 25, during which two other persons sustained bullet wounds.

    “On Sept. 26, some community leaders from Ahun farm settlement in Oro-Ago, reported at our Divisional office in the area, about an attack on their community by unknown gunmen.

    “The gunmen were in their large numbers and they started shooting sporadically when they entered the community, which resulted in the killing of one Rukayat, a teenager, by a stray bullet,” he said.

    The spokesman said that the motive behind the attack had not been established, adding; “we have commenced further investigations.”

    He said that the command was working with the community’s leaders, in order to get to the roots of the matter, adding that additional security officers had been deployed around the community, to forestall another attack.