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KWARA UNITED SIGNS ONE-YEAR SHIRT SPONSORSHIP DEAL WITH CHOWDECK. (PHOTOS).

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 Kwara United signs one-year shirt sponsorship deal with Chowdeck Kwara United have signed a one-year shirt sponsorship deal with leading Nigerian food delivery company, Chowdeck, for the 2026/27 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season. The partnership was consummated on Saturday at the club’s secretariat in Ilorin, with Chowdeck unveiled as the club’s shirt sponsor. Under the agreement, Chowdeck’s logo will feature prominently on the front of Kwara United’s jersey throughout the ongoing NPFL campaign, while the partnership will also extend to other areas of the club’s matchday and digital operations. Speaking at the unveiling, Chowdeck’s Head of Operations, Nasir Umar, who grew up in Ilorin, described the partnership as an honour and an opportunity to reconnect with the state through his company. “I grew up here in Ilorin and it is an honour for me to come back to the state through my company to sponsor Kwara United for the 2026/27 season. “We definitely look forward to furt...

RATS ARE NOW TRAINED IN TANZANIA,TO DETECT MINES & TUBERCULOSIS.

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                        Today it was announced today that researchers from Tanzania's Sokoine Unversity are training rats so that they can be able to detect land mines and tuberculosis.The researchers are banking on the rats ability to use their extraordinary sense of smell to detect landmines and tuberculosis,then convey that information to their handlers.These rats from Tanzania have been used to eradicate landmines in Angola,Mozambique and Cambodia.Researchers say that rats can detect mines buried up to 30 centimetres underground,and that they are more efficient than conventional metal detectors.One more photo below.            

GUINEA BISSAU PRESIDENT ''JOSE VAZ'',SWORE IN NEW CABINET TODAY.

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                                                     Today tuesday,Guinea Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz,swore in new cabinet to end a two month crisis in the country.Guinea Bissau has been without regular government since President Jose Vaz,dismissed his political rival,Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira,on August 12 pitching the tiny former Portuguese colony into an institutional crisis.President Jose Mario Vaz,who was elected last year said at the swearing in ceremony that ''The challenges facing this government are enormous and complex.That is why they must be tackled immediately''.The new cabinet excludes Pereira,who was on the list of ministers submitted by Correia to the president,and former foreign minister Mario Lopes da Rosa.Jose Vaz will act as interim Minister of Internal Administration and Minister of Natural Resources until those pos...

READ WHY KANO STATE GOVERNOR,DECLARED PUBLIC HOLIDAY TOMORROW IN HIS STATE.

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                                                 The notice of the holiday is contained in a statement issued by Alhaji Baba Dantiye,the Director General,Media and Communications to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje,made available to newsmen in Kano today tuesday.Dantiye qouted Governor Ganduje as congratulating the people of the state and Muslims all over the world for witnessing the new year.He said Governor Ganduje had appealed to Kano citizens to untilise the holiday to offer prayers for peace and prosperity of the country.He said the governor had reassured the people of the state government's determination to work hard toward improving their living standards and pledged to continue to give priority attention to both formal and non formal education in the state.Wednesday October 2014,is the first day of Muharram,the first month in the Islamic calender and marks the n...

VIEW THE LAST MINISTERIAL NOMINEE LIST+ELECTION TRIBUNAL CONFIRMS SARAKI'S ELECTION IN KWARA.

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                                                              Today before the Senate President Bukola Saraki posted the last nomination ministerial list,he confirmed that ''The Election petition tribunal sitting in Ilorin,the Kwara state capital,has upheld the election of Senate President Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki,as the duly elected Senator representing Kwara Central constituency''.The new nomination list contains 16 names and they are:Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim,Claudius Omoleye Daramola,Professor Anthony Anwuka,Geoffrey Onyeama,Bri.Gen.MM Dan-Ali {Rtd},Barrister James E Ocholi,Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed,Okechukwu Enelamah,Muhammadu Bello,Mustapha Babashehuri,Ms.Aisha Abubakar,Heineken Lokpobiri,Adamu Adamu,Professor Isaac Adewole,Pastor Usani Usani Uguru and Abubakar Bwari Bawa.Today the first batch of the ministerial nominees were scre...

A STAFF OF UNILAG ''OKE'',ARRESTED FOR ADMISSION FRAUD.

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                              Today it was reported that a man who claimed to be a staff of the University of Lagos has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates court for allegedly defrauding an admission seeker under false pretence of securing for the victim a post graduate admission in the school in Lagos state.The suspect Gbeminiyi Oke N200,000 from Reginald Mbanusi under the false pretence of registering him in pos graduate diploma in Economics in the school.Oke's journey to prison started after he convinced Mbanusi that he was a staff of Unilag and he was entitled to a slot in the admission exercise every academic year.Mbanusi had expressed his frustration to get admission for a post graduate studies and Oke promised to assist him and asked him to pay N200,000 to facilitate the admission,which he did.Oke reportedly collected his documents and promised to process the admission.Despite paying the mon...