Tag: GOV. ABDULRAZAQ

10th Kwara Assembly: Gov. Abdulrazaq felicitates with new members

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has congratulated the new leadership and members of the 10th state House of Assembly on their inauguration. This is contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, in Ilorin. The governor specifically commended the legislators for the smooth election of a new leadership under Yakubu Salihu, who was returned unopposed. “This seamless transition, including the re-election of the Speaker and emergence of Emmanuel Oyebode, as the Deputy Speaker, speaks to the maturity of the lawmakers and their commitment to stability, collective prosperity…

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“AbdulRazaq is a ‘one chance’ governor” – Lai Mohammed

Aminu Imam

…Says they were warned not to support him The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Saturday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, took a swipe at Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq and his supporters over the recent leadership crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State. The minister literarily drew the battle line with the governor when he openly criticised him and lamented that “We were warned about his choice then but failed to listen”. Lai Mohammed, who was in Ilorin to commission the new party secretariat of…

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Wage war against fake news, Gov. AbdulRasaq urges Nigerian media

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has urged the media in Nigeria to fight the menace of fake news before it brings down the country. AbdulRasaq made this call in Ilorin today during the 2020 Press Week of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kwara council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).The governor, represented by the state Commissioner for Communications, Mrs Harriet Afolabi-Oshartimehin, said that the events of the past weeks in the country had shown the danger of fake news and unverified or one-sided accounts of events. This, he said,…

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