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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara State Command, Gwanara Division, has passed out 300 Vigilante members after two weeks training

The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a woman, identified as Mrs Abibatu Jimoh for being the supplier of garri and other food items to kidnappers. She was specifically accused of supplying food items to the kidnappers of Jumoke Bamigboye, wife of a former military governor of Osun State, Col. Theophilus Bamigboye (rtd).   Abibatu was arrested alongside three male suspects identified as Abubakar Ibrahim, Mamud Ibrahim and Muhamed Kiri.  

The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, Paul Odama, has commended the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal

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A human rights group, Community Outreach for Development and Welfare Advocacy (CODWA), has decried the repression of journalists in Nigeria by security agencies, especially the police.   The group condemned the arrest and detention of two journalists working with Sobi FM, Dare Akogun and Abdulrasheed Akogun, by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police Force. The detained journalists are brothers.

Nigerian broadcast journalist Dare Akogun is detained by police in Ilorin State, Nigeria, as a means to force him to retract statement he allegedly made implicating a state government official.

  The Federal High Court in Ilorin on Wednesday, convicted and sentenced a 29-year-old Chinese national, Gang Deng, to five years imprisonment for offences bordering on illegal mining and possession of minerals without lawful authority. Justice Muhammed Sani convicted Gang in a suit filed by Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against him.

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved promotion examinations for police officers scheduled to start from next year 2023 in line with the Public Service Rules.

The executives of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Kwara State chapter, have distanced themselves from the directive by the national

A Nigerian journalist and publisher of 234sportsng, Olukayode Thomas, has narrated how a self-acclaimed personnel of Department of State Services (DSS), Kwara State Command,  identified as Janguza Salisu Hamisu threatened him to show up at the DSS's Ilorin on Monday without revealing the cause of the invitation. Thomas said the manner in which Hamisu spoke to him during a telephone conversation on Friday amounted to a threat to his life.