A Commission on Elections official attends to a young voter registering for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) as hundreds trooped to the atrium of Robinsons Place in Iligan City on Wednesday (6 August 2025). MindaNews photo by VIOLETA M. GLORIA
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 20 June) – Ozamiz City in Misamis Occidental has one confirmed case of mpox, Mayor Indy Oaminal said in a statement on June 20 based on information released by the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance and Disaster Response
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 17 June) — Re-elected Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go joined Iliganons in commemorating the city’s 75th Charter Day on Monday, highlighting the celebration with humanitarian efforts for those affected in last year’s Severe Tropical Storm Kristine
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 16 June) – Mindanawon candidates won three of four major awards in the Binibining Pilipinas 2025 Grand Coronation Night on Sunday, June 15 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Katrina Anne C. Johnson of Davao
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 14 June) – The Iligan City government is offering a ₱100,000 reward for any information that can lead to the identification and arrest of the suspect in the death of an 8-year old girl who was
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 13 June) – Former Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to grant his interim release, citing the absence of flight risk, the lack of threat to proceedings, and humanitarian considerations.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 5 June) — The local government here, in in collaboration with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Environmental Management Bureau Region 10 (DENR-EMB 10), launched on Wednesday an air quality monitoring system. “This project
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 30May) — A total of 628 aspiring Shari’ah counselors-at-law completed the 2025 Shari’ah Special Bar Examinations (SSBE) on Wednesday, marking a historic milestone as the first fully digital and decentralized SSBE in the country. Held over
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 29 May) – For Shameena M. Mapupuno, the death of his father, lawyer Basari Dimakuta Mapupuno, was difficult to accept, but she dealt with it by recalling how dedicated he was to his job as president
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 27 May) – Atty. Basari Dimakuta Mapupuno, president of the Mindanao State University (MSU) System, succumbed to cardiac arrest early Tuesday morning, May 27. He was 61. Mapupuno was brought to the Amai Pakpak Hospital in
Religious and local leaders in Iligan City, including Mayor Frederick Siao and Vice Mayor Marianito Alemania, walk with the devotees of Saint Michael, the patron saint of the city honored as an angel who defended and fought against evil in the battle described in the Bible’s Revelations 20:1-3 on Friday, 20 September 2023. MindaNews photo by VIOLETA GLORIA
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 31 May) – Samira Gutoc-Tomawis, human rights advocate and resident of Marawi City, resigned from her post as a member of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) following the siege of her hometown. The BTC is tasked
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/30 May) — A Catholic priest who was kidnapped along with other persons by the Maute Group in Marawi City has appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to stop the offensive against their abductors in order to save the
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/30 May) — Despite the burning of the historic Dansalan College (DC) in Marawi City and even if some of its employees are being held hostage by the Maute Group, the school’s president expressed that they exhausted all measures
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – Lawyers have condemned the ambush last Monday that killed Marawi City assistant prosecutor Saipal Alawi Sr. Unnamed assailants fired bullets on the red Toyota driven by the 64-year-old Alawi while he was on his way home
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 September) — Local media workers will hold an indignation rally against the murder of DXLS commentator Fernando “Nanding” Solijon on Monday, Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. DXLS station manager Rudy Catubay said they will demand justice for
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/30 August)—Iligan lone district Rep. Vicente “Varf” Belmonte offered a P300,000 bounty on Friday for the arrest of the killers of radio commentator Fernando “Nanding” Solijon of DXLS-Love Radio. Solijon was killed Thursday night by two men who
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/14 May)– Riding on the platform of a better peace and order situation, a retired police officer appears headed for victory as mayor of this city. Celsio Regencia, a former city police director, has so far garnered 33,754
MARAWI CITY (MindaNews / 12 March) – Electoral candidates in Lanao del Sur and this city signed on Monday a covenant to end violence and political machination that made the area as the “cheating capital of the country.” The signing
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/06 March) – Peace groups in Mindanao and abroad have asked all parties involved in the Sabah dispute to arrive at a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The Mindanao Peace Weavers, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/01 March)— Two peace advocates in Lanao del Norte urged Friday the Philippine and Malaysian governments to peacefully resolve the Sabah conflict arising from the claims of the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu. A firefight reportedly broke
Unlike many residents living near Mandulog river in Iligan City who stayed home to keep watch as Tropical Depression Crising was nearing Mindanao, this fisher chose to cast his net in the hope of having a good catch. MindaNews photo by Violeta M. Gloria
Jeepney passes through flooded street in Corpus Christi Village, Iligan City as water from the creek overflowed Tuesday, February 19. Heavy raina brought about by Tropical Depression Crising poured from dawn to 8 a.m. Mindaey ws photo by Violeta M. Gloria/MindaNews
Clad in red, students of the Mindanao State University-IIT in Iligan City from Nursery to Grade 6, queue for a chance to watch the sun using Celestron Nexstar telescopes as their way of celebrating Valentines’ Day. MSU-IIT Coop Academy partnered with Voyager Adventure for
TEACH YOUR MAN. Leonila Vicoy, a day care worker and lecturer on reducing domestic violence, urged mothers in a family development session at the Suarez gym in Iligan CIty on February 14 to teach their partners to perform their tasks, too, for the
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) — Five persons were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in front of Ysmael Restaurant in Tubod, Lana o del Norte at 11:10 a.m. on Monday. Lanao del Norte police director Gerardo Rosales said the
Fruit vendors take over portions of the road in Iligan City. Round fruits, usually a dozen of them, are popular gifts to greet the New Year. MidnaNews photoss by Violeta M. Gloria
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/30 October) – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has started investigating the arson and twin killings last week inside the Mindanao State University campus in Marawi City that claimed the lives of a philosophy professor and his
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 October)– Alumni of Mindanao State University-Marawi City are demanding justice for a philosophy professor and his student assistant who were robbed before they were shot to death and burned by four unidentified men at around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / 7 Sept) – Leaders of the Subanen tribe, timuays and baes all, from the Zamboanga Peninsula are calling on President Benigsno Simeon Aquino III to help them rid their communities of paramilitary personnel and private armies
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/04 September) — A Subanen leader in the anti-logging and anti-mining campaigns in Bayog, Zamboanga del Sur survived an ambush attempt early Tuesday morning but his 11-year old son who was with him was killed. In a statement,
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/9 Aug) – There is no martial rule declared inside the campus, according to Dr. Macapado A. Muslim, president of Mindanao State University, despite the attack within MSU premises Wednesday evening that killed three soldiers. But Muslim, in
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/24 June) – — Sixty-eight students were displaced while 27 others injured when fire allegedly caused by faulty electrical wiring razed the north wing on the ground floor of the Princess Lawanen Hall (PLH) ladies’ dormitory at the
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/25 January) – President Benigno S. Aquino III today told officials of the National Housing Authority (NHA) to finish all the houses for suvivors of floods brought by tropical storm Sendong last month by June 2012. “Dapat ipangako
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/28 Dec) – The city government of Iligan is eyeing to make use of lands owned by the National Steel Corporation (NSC) as relocation site for victims of the flood that damaged thousands of homes here. Mayor Lawrence
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/18 December) — Five-month old Kathleen crawled on a piece of carton, her bed for the night, at the gymnasium of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology campus on Saturday. Kathleen is one of 2,224 persons, according
ILIGAN CITY—Like in the past years it won’t just be a seven-day Mindanao Week of Peace celebration in Iligan and Lanao provinces but a month-long peace festival. Pastor Tenorio, chair of the Civil Society Forum for Peace, said they will
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/29 Oct) — A brigade commander in Lanao del Norte has warned that an advisory spread through text messages allegedly coming from him and warning the public to “refrain from traveling” along the Iligan-Zamboanga highway this week “because
KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews/26 July) — Delegates to an assembly of indigenous peoples expressed dismay at their being not mentioned in the second State of the Nation Address of President Benigno S. Aquino III during the joint session of Congress on
FLOODED A resident walks on knee-deep flood waters waters brought by heavy rains this week. MindaNews Photo by Violeta Gloria
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/08 March) — A small-scale miner in Mount Canatuan of Siocon town, Zamboanga del Norte was gunned down 12:30 p.m. Sunday allegedly by a security guard of a mining company there. Rudy Segovia, leader of small-scale miners opposed
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/24 February) – A professor and a student who were abducted by unidentified armed men Saturday inside the Mindanao State University campus in Marawi City had been released, Pastor Da Romas of the Seventh Day Adventist Church told
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/23 February)—An American national was reported missing and believed kidnapped by unknown persons but police and military authorities said they were baffled by the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Milton Taylor was reportedly last seen on January 11 at
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews) – This city is celebrating the National Arts Month by pushing indigenous arts more than popular arts and those from other countries. “We need to uphold our beliefs and values to promote our indigenous arts and our
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews)—A military official with operational control over Lanao del Norte province heaved a sigh of relief as peace talks with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ended on a
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/13 February) — Aleem Elias Macarandas, 56, a Muslim leader and educator considered to be one of the pillars of interfaith dialogue, succumbed to cardiac arrest Thursday morning and was buried in Islamic rites at his hometown at
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/8 Feb) – An independent documentary film on the Bukidnon-Talaandig culture will premier on March 1 during the Kaamulan Festival in a yet unannounced venue, contemporary Talaandig visual artist and musician Redelio “Waway” Saway said. Saway said the
