South-West

Shariah Panels Not Under Southwest Governors—Kwara Judge Declares 0
- Uncategorized
- February 24, 2025
Shariah Panels Not Under Southwest Governors—Kwara Judge Declares According to Justice Abdurraheem Sayi, Qadi of the Shari’ah Court of Appeal, Kwara State, Muslims in the South-West can create and run Shari’ah arbitration panels without the consent of traditional leaders or state authorities. He said that the impacted states had purposefully disregarded the objections to Shari’ah
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Banji Lawal Appointed As New South West DIG – PSC 0
- SECURITY & CRIME, SLIDE
- January 17, 2025
Banji Lawal, the Assistant Inspector General in charge of the Border Patrol at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, has been named the South West zone’s substantive Deputy Inspector General of Police. Ikechukwu Ani, the Commission’s Head of Press and Public Relations, announced this in a statement released in Abuja on Friday. According to Ani, Lawal
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Newsworld…Connecting You To The Southwest And Beyond.0
- SLIDE, SOUTH WEST
- January 14, 2025
Newsworld…Connecting You to the Southwest and Beyond. One of Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, the South West (often hyphenated to the South-West) denotes both a geographical and political area in the southwest of the country. It includes the following six states: Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, and Ekiti. It is a portion of Nigeria’s Yorubaland, which
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Fight Back Now, Gani Adams tells South-West Govs 0
- SECURITY & CRIME, SLIDE
- January 8, 2025
Gani Adams, the Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, has called on South-West governors to take immediate action to counter the increasing security risks posed by bandits penetrating their regions. Adams made the call after Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde expressed concern that criminals escaping military operations in the North-West have penetrated Oyo State woodlands during Monday’s 2025
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