Following the collapse of the peace talks over the disputed land on which the controversial Ile Arugbo was built, Justice Abiodun Adebara of a Kwara state High Court, sitting in Ilorin, has fixed March 25 for the hearing of the suit challenging the state government’s revocation of the land belonging to late strongman of Kwara […]
The reconciliation talks over the controversial demolition of Ile Arugbo in Ilorin, Kwara state which commenced last Thursday has collapsed. The meeting between the representatives of the state government and Asa Investment Limited ended yesterday without a concrete resolution and without a specific adjourned date. Briefing newsmen at the end of the one- hour meeting […]
A High Court sitting in Ilorin has fixed March 2, for a report of settlement by all parties in the Ile-Arugbo demolition in the interest of peace and justice. Justice Abiodun Adebara while fixing the date held that parties showed their willingness for settlement was impressive. Adebara expressed hope that the time allotted would be […]
A Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital yesterday fixed January 24, for the commencement of hearing in the case between the state government and Asa Investment Limited over the disputed land on which the demolished Ile Arugbo was built. Agents of the state government had in a dawn operation on January […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state has sent a petition to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), calling for the probe of the alleged use of live ammunitions and tear gas to disperse aged women during the January 2, dawn demolition of the Ile Arugbo complex in Ilorin. The petition dated January 8 […]
The Kwara Progressives Group (KPG), an association in the vanguard of an egalitarian Kwara, has called on the Kwara State Government to investigate the numerous death of Kwara indigenes at Ile-Arugbo during the past administration. On May 27, 2011 several people died at Saraki’s Ile-Arugbo as they scrambled for rice and other items. Mr Rotimi […]