The bandits that abducted some 38 worshippers at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Eruku in Ekiti local government area of Kwara State have placed N100 ransom on the head of each abductees. Our correspondent gathered that the kidnappers have started contacting the families of the victims who were abducted during a church service on Tuesday….
The Kwara State Government, on Wednesday, ordered the closure of schools across four local government areas amid escalating insecurity in some communities. ‎The government’s decision was disclosed by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Kwara State wing, on Wednesday. ‎In a circular issued on Wednesday and obtained by Channels Television, the NUT Chairman, Yusuf Agboola,…
The Northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has condemned the renewed wave of insecurity across the country following separate attacks in Kwara, Borno and Kebbi States. In a statement on Wednesday, the Chairman of Northern CAN, Rev. Joseph John Hayab, described the incidents as painful reminders of the worsening security challenges confronting…
Actress Oluwabukola Awoyemi, popularly known as Bukola Arugba, has raised an alarm over Tuesday’s attack on worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Isegun, in Eruku, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, saying her relatives were abducted. In a video posted on Instagram on Wednesday, the actress, who hails from Eruku, said the incident was…
The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed a deadly bandits’ attack on a church in Eruku, Ekiti Local Government Area of the state, where at least three people were killed and about ten worshippers abducted during an evening service on Tuesday. The incident occurred around 6 p.m. at Christ Apostolic Church, Oke-Isegun, on Okeado Street….
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have attacked and abducted a trader and former ward chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Boriya–Shiya Ward, Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, Abubakar Sise. Sise was kidnapped from his residence in the Boriya community in the early hours of Thursday. ‎According to information gathered, the attack…
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested four suspects in connection with the killing of the Chief Imam of Sokunkpan village in Tsaragi, Edu Local Government Area of the state. The command’s spokesperson, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, saying the incident occurred on November 4, 2025, around 9:30 p.m. According…
The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed that a 21-year-old man, identified as Gafar, allegedly stabbed his 25-year-old friend, Usman Tunde, to death during an argument over a woman in Ilorin. The command’s spokesperson, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, said the police received a distress call around 2:30 a.m., on Wednesday and immediately dispatched officers to the…
A female teenager, Kamardeen Aishat, who was quoted last month in an online publication to have accused a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Comrade Musbau Esinrogunjo, of raping her, has described the online publication as false. She told newsmen in Ilorin that she was never raped by the former chairmanship…
There was confusion at an Area Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday when a woman, identified as Mulikat Yusuf, suddenly slumped after her husband, Ishaq Abdulganiyu, insisted on divorcing her. During the court session, Abdulganiyu told the presiding judge, Mr. Toyin Aluko, that he was no longer interested in the marriage. His wife, however,…