A fire disaster ravaged a paint shop in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, in the early hours of Saturday, destroying property worth N38.8 million.The incident occurred at about 12:31 a.m. at the paint shop located around Balogun Afin, in the Ita-Kure Area of the Ilorin metropolis.According to the spokesman of the State Fire Service, Hassan Hakeem Adekunle, the shop suddenly caught fire and destroyed two residential buildings built beside it, comprising a two-story bu...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested an Islamic cleric and 27 others suspected to fraudster in Kwara state. The suspects were nabbed in Mandate area of the Ilorin metropolis.The commission’s followed actionable intelligence on the activities of fraudsters operating in the area.The anti-graft agency said preliminary investigation revealed the identity of the suspects to include a cleric, twin brothers, 6 students of various...

Several people have been mourning the death of a popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abdulganiyu Nuraini, and his two aides who died in the flooding that ravaged the state.The cleric popularly called Alfa Gani Aboto, his aides, Alfa Azeez Omoekun and Alfa Nurudeen, were coming from da’awah activity in Minna, Niger State, when the flood swept away his Toyota Yaris car while trying to cross a bridge near Harmony Estate/Kukende at the Akerebiata area of Ilorin.The bodies of...