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Men of the Kwara State Fire Service has recovered the lifeless body of a 43-year-old man, simply identified as Kazeem, from a domestic well in Ilorin, the state capital. The lifeless body was recovered from a domestic well at Ile Alapo, Edun area of Ilorin metropolis, according to a statement by the spokesman of the…
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Justices Haleema Saleeman and Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin have convicted and+ sentenced six persons to jail for fraud. The convicts are: Akingbehin Temitope Oluwaseyi, Ajayi Elijah Olaoluwa, Samsom Babatunde Ilesanmi, Quadri Olamilekan Lamidi, Kolawole Kehinde Moses and Olatunji Elija Olabisi. They were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate…
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. The convict, a self-styled spiritualist was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a two-count charge that bordered on internet fraud, impersonation and obtaining by false…
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Suspected assassins on Wednesday gruesomely murdered a retired controller of works at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, AbdulRazaq Ajani, moments after returning home with his wife and children from a trip to his hometown, Offa. According to PREMIUM TIMES, the incident occurred at about 3 p.m. at Dele Gege Street, off Awolowo Road,…
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ILORIN: An unidentified man suspected to be a cultist, accompanied by several of his friends stabbed one of them in the neck after an argument. It was gathered that the incident occurred at a popular hotel at Egbejila, off Asa dam road in Ilorin. Sources disclosed that the victim demanded that the music playing at…
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Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested Forty-four (44) suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Ilorin, Kwara State. They were arrested on Friday, September 6, 2024, at Sango, Kulende, Taxaco and Harmony Estate, all in Ilorin, following credible intelligence over their alleged involvement in internet-related…
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The city of Ilorin, Kwara State capital, today remain devoid of meaningful signs of a mass protest going on in spite of the palpable tension whipped up by organizers of a nationwide protest proposed to commence today August 1. Rextun City Updates drove past the Ilorin metropolitan square, the approved venue for the protest to…
The August 1-10, 2024, nationwide anti-government protests Proceedings in Kwara State has been restricted to the Ilorin Metropolitan square in the state capital by an Ilorin high Court hours before it’s commencement. Granting an ex parte order on Wednesday, the court said it agreed with the Attorney General of the State and Commissioner for Justice,…
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A 46 years old man, a suspected ritualist, identified as Isiaka Adeniyi has been apprehended and in custody of kwara Police comnand as investigations into an attempted culpable homicide is underway. Details of his suspected crimes and apprehension were made known to newsmen, Sunday in a statement released by the Kwara State Police Command Public…
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The Kwara State Police command yesterday restored normalcy to Budo-Oke in Eiyenkorin axis of Ilorin, following an orgy of violence unleashed by rival cultists during which one person was stabbed to death. Details of the cult Clashes and the police peace restoration operations were contained in a statement released Wednesday by the command spokesperson, DSP…
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