The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has threatened to prosecute any official found involved in the Patigi boat mishap where over 100 persons lost their lives in Kwara.
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Kwara State Police Command has confirmed that 103 persons died in a boat accident at Egbu village, in the Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara.
Mr Yakubu Salihu, has been re-elected as the Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly for the 10th Assembly.
A boat ferrying over 100 people has capsized on the River Niger around Patigi in Kwara.
The Kwara Government on Monday directed that work days be reduced from five days to three per week for every worker in the state.
Four persons were killed and 16 others injured in a lone accident on Olooru-New Jebba Road in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara on Friday
Mr Olumide Idowu, an Environmental expert, has trained 85 youths on climate change in Kwara to solve problems and misconceptions about climate challenge in Nigeria.
The agency, in a statement issued by the Head of NEMA Operation in Minna, Mrs. Zainab Suleiman-Sa’idu on Monday, advised village and district heads as well as religious leaders, especially those at community levels, to begin the preparations in order to mitigate the effect of the flood.
The National Population Commission (NPC) will begin building numbering and household listing by April 17, before the actual census exercise.
Security operatives in Illorin, Kwara State have shutdown mandate market along Western Reservoir Adewole Area in the state capital, Royalnews has reported.