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Bode Saadu-Ilorin road accident claims 20 lives Published Kwara State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Jonathan Owoade, confirmed the incident, NAN reports. Owoade said that the cause of the accident was associated with over speeding and wrongful overtaking. “The multiple Road traffic crash occurred at about 3 am today, at a location called Oloko area, which involved three vehicles: a blue commercial MAK Truck GGE614XM, a white commercial Mitsubishi canter Truck BRK534YX and a white Toyota Hummer bus KEY479YE,” Owoade said. “Of the thirty-one persons involved in t...

Share Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has generated and remitted a sum of  N 9,310,734,065.11 billion in one and half years into the federation account. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, on Tuesday, the customs area controller Hussaini Ahmed, said that the command generated a sum of N6.9 billion between January and December 2020 representing 86 per cent of the year annual target, “as against N2.4 billion in 2019.” Comptroller Ahmed, who said that COVID-19 pandemic that came with lockdown, EndSARS protests and partial border closure were the reasons for not meeting t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola Residents of Ilesha-Baruba in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State are still mourning the death of three persons after a clash between security agents and some youths last Friday in the area left three dead. Men of the Joint Border Operation Drill securing the Nigeria/Republic of Benin border posts were accused of firing shots that killed the trio identified as Hakeem Muftau, Abdulqudus Saadu and Zubair Halidu. Two versions emerged regarding what led to the clash. The first stated that trouble started when security agents mounted a roadbloc...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Tunde Oyekola, Alexander Okere and Kayode Idowu with agency report No fewer than six people have been killed and houses razed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in a community near Chibok town in Borno State. The attack was reported to have been carried at about 5pm on the eve of Christmas. The insurgents were said to have stormed the village in a bid to raid Piyemi, a community 10 kilometres from Chibok town in the southern part of the state. It was learnt that the residents were forced to flee the town into the mountainous areas as the invading te...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Six persons lost their lives, while about 30 houses were burnt down on Wednesday when the driver of a petrol-laden tanker lost control in the Gaika area of Jebba, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. PUNCH Metro gathered that properties worth millions of naira were destroyed by the inferno that followed the crash. It was gathered that the accident happened around 9am when the tanker driver suddenly lost control of the vehicle. The tanker was said to have hit a car in its rear, which was instantly engulfed by fire before it ran into nearby ...