Offa, a Kwara community with over 100 Professors

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- January 04, 2019

Offa is a popular town in Kwara State, located in Offa local government area of Kwara South. Apart from Ilorin, the state capital, Offa is the most popular town in the Kwara state.

Offa became globally recognised recently when some murderous armed robbers attached the town, killing more than 30 people, including 10 police officers.

The armed robbers, when arrested, claimed to be political thugs loyal to Nigeria's senate President, Bukola Saraki.

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Kwara Must Change unveil list of Offa robbery victims, urges govt to immortalize them

- April 20, 2018

Victim Kwara Must Change has compiled at least, 14 names of victims murdered in the deadly armed robbery attack that took place in Offa Community, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. The names gathered so far include 10 police officers and 4 civilians. However, we shall continue to update the list as we gather more details. It would be recalled that on 5th April 2018, a deadly armed robbery attack took place in Offa Local government Area of Kwara State, in which several innocent lives were lost. While several figures were claimed by police and several media houses, Vigilance Group of Nigeria in Offa said vigilantes in the state counted about 50 dead bodies after armed robbers attacked and robbed five banks. It was on this basis that Kwara Must Change has set out to preserve the memory of the victims, through compiling and documenting their names, not only to ascertain the figure, but to also immortalize them. We believe that only by documenting the names of the victims, wi...

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- March 05, 2019

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- January 17, 2019

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Danger averted,Female Student Caught With 2 Grenades (Bombs) In Taraba State

- January 06, 2015

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- December 16, 2018

Foundation for Peace Professionals (FPP), an independent Non-Governmental Organization for Professional Peace Advocacy, Research and Conflict Transformation received with great honour, our nomination for the NCMG prestigious Peace Award in the Institutional Peacebuilders category. The 2017 edition of this award category was won by the #BringBackOurGirls movement led by former Minister of Education and 2019 Presidential Candidate, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili. Negotiation and Conflict Management Group (NCMG) that was incorporated in Nigeria in 1996 translated due to global demands into an international brand with major focus on promoting and advocating for world peace and conflict management within the Africa continent. The NCMG thus became NCMG International as approved by its Board of Governors with its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in 2012 and has been on the vanguard of ADR development in Africa, and continues to advance the frontiers of this relatively new industry through collabor...

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- January 02, 2019

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