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10 members of a single family were reported dead after taking a concoction of local herbs purportedly to cure an ailment that afflicted the mother of the house and to prevent other members of the family from being infected. The family believed the woman was afflicted with foot infection.
The sad incident occurred at Biogberu, a settlement near Gwanara in Baruten Local Government area of Kwara State.
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has forwarded the Kwara State Public Audit Bill 2021 to the state House of Assembly for consideration.
The letter of the governor was read by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Danladi, during Tuesday’s plenary.
A 47-year-old businessman, Ibrahim Saidu, on Friday appeared in a Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, for allegedly being in possession of a stolen gold neckless worth N1m.
The police charged Saidu, who resides in Suleja, Niger State, with three counts of criminal trespass, house breaking and possession of stolen property.
The Prosecution Counsel, Abudullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant, Rebecca Gwary of Paikon-Kore of Gwagwalada, FCT, reported the matter at the Police Station on March 24.
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq will on Saturday, unveil a book titled Ó Tó Gé: How Kwara people took their destiny in their hands.
The book is a compendium of the political history of Kwara State from formation to the epochal political change and all the inherent dynamics that facilitated the Ó Tó Gé movement of 2019 in the state.
Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a farmer, Segun Adebayo, who allegedly shot an 18-year-old herder to death be remanded in Oke-kura Correctional Centre,.