2014-10-24

First Kwara City Basketball League dunks off in Ilorin
Eight teams have registered to participate in the first Maigida Grassroots Basketball City League, which begins on Saturday, Oct. 25, in Ilorin, the Kwara capital. The teams include Falcons, Unilorin, Al-Hikm...

Kwara Muslims Celebrate Hijrah
As Muslims across the world celebrate Hijrah to mark the beginning of a new Islamic calendar year, thousands of Muslims have converged on llorin, Kwara state for the celebration of 1436Islamic calendar. Monar...

Benefits of slaughtering animals with Allah's name
Islam is an all-encompassing religion. It is a way of life, a religion which encapsulates every aspect of the life of Ummah in the Quran and Hadith (traditions/sayings and practices) of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh). ...

Why I Offered Myself to Liberate Kwara - Babalola, PDP Aspirant
Engineer Sunday Babalola, a Petroleum Engineer was a gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2011 election. He, however, stepped down for the incumbent shortly before the prim...

Train Students As Agents for National Development, Jonathan Advises Varsities
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has urged authorities of Nigerian universities to refrain from using their student as agents to destabilise the country. President Jonathan, who gave the advice while deliver...

Aide slugs it out with Saraki for Kwara central seat
A former Special Adviser on Security to former governor of Kwara State, Dr Bukola Saraki, who is now a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Yinka Aluko, has picked nomination form to contest Kwara Ce...

Erosion Damages Rail Tracks, Disrupts Train Services
Erosion has continued to damage rail tracks in some parts of the country and disrupting train services in the process. Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) District Manager, South West Zone, Mr. Rasheed Gbadamos...

Govt Targets 20 Million Tonnes of Domestic Food Production By 2015
The federal government has expressed its readiness to increase domestic food production by additional 20 million metric tonnes for the populace and create about 3.5 million jobs by 2015. President Goodluck Jo...

Hurdles As Saraki Endorses Ahmed's Re-Election Bid
As the count down to the 2015 general elections begins, Kwara State will no doubt be a focal point of political analysts due to the growing level of opposition there. The development is coming on the heels of...

KWARA 2015: Are the Sarakis struggling for survival?
The two most prominent children of the late elder statesman, Senator Olusola Saraki: Senators Bukola Saraki and sister, Senator Gbemisola Ruqqayat Saraki are fighting from different angles for lead position in the affa...

Court Remands Pastor for Allegedly Snatching Cars at Gunpoint
A pastor of a church in Kwara State, has been charged with three counts of armed robbery. The 37-year-old pastor, Adebambo Adetunji, is allegedly a member of a robbery gang notorious for snatching cars and ro...

Afenifere cautions Kwara govt over Yoruba rulers
The Afenifere Renewal Group has protested an alleged disrespect for Yoruba traditional institutions by the Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led Kwara State government. The Kwara State chapter of the group, in a peti...

2014-10-23

FG To Fix Jebba-Mokwa, Ajase-Ipo- Offa Roads
The federal government has announced its resolve to fix the Jebba-Mokwa as well as the Ajase-Ipo- Offa roads in Kwara State. The minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman stated this in a statement...

Technocrats Are Doing Well in Government - Ibrahim
Chairman of Lubcon Group and a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Jani Ibrahim, spoke with Anayo Okolie, on the roles of technocrats in government. Excerpts: There are spe...

I will dislodge Ahmed if given PDP ticket - Ajadi
The immediate past special adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Suleiman Ajadi, has said he will defeat Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gives him...

3 held over murder
A Magistrate's Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, yesterday ordered the remand of three suspects in prison for allegedly killing one Abdulrasheed Gatta Suleiman. The accused persons are; Yusuf Gimoh, Yahaya Akeem ...

FG starving APC states of funds - Govs
Governors of All Progressives Congress, APC, controlled states, yesterday, complained about dwindling allocation to their states and wondered why their Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, colleagues were not sharing their c...

2015 Election - Haliru Heads President Jonathan's Presidential Declaration Committee
Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday announced the appointment of Dr Bello Haliru, a former Minister of Defence, as Chairman of President Goodluck Jonathan's Presidential Declaration Committee...

2014-10-22

Press Release: Saraki Charges FG on Spreading Clean-Cook Stoves Nationwide
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment amd Ecology and a Member of the Leadership Council of the Global Alliance for Clean-Cook Stoves, Senator Bukola Saraki, has called on the Federal Government to provide...

Photo News: APC Governors Meet in Ilorin
L-R; Yobe State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Geidam, Kwara and Kano State counterparts, Abdulfatah Ahmed and Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso during All ...

Saraki Commends Health Workers for Defeating Ebola
Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, representing Kwara Central at the National Assembly, commended all stakeholders, particularly healthcare workers, for halting the Ebola virus from spreading. he World Health Or...

2015: APC would "not be comfortable" with national result if ... - Lai Mohammed
Nigeria's main opposition party on Tuesday expressed concern that swathes of voters could be disenfranchised by Boko Haram violence at next year's elections, undermining the credibility of results. The countr...

APC writes Police IG on Asari Dokubo's threat on Lai Mohammed
The All Progressive Congress (APC) have written a letter to the Inspector -General of Police asking for questioning of Asari Dokubo on the threat he made against the the party's National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai...

Kwara Assembly okays Ahmed's N2bn loan request
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday granted the request of the Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, to source for N2bn loan from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund of the Central Bank of Ni...

Kwara 2015: 500 stakeholders endorse ex-VC for guber race
As the 2015 general election gathers momentum, about 500 politicians from Kwara South senatorial district of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday endorsed the Talba of Ilorin and Chairman, Federal Character Com...

Kwara to build gas, solar power stations - Ahmed
Kwara State government will soon embark on gas and solar powered projects to complement national electricity source that has recently become a disturbing problem in the country. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed disc...

Kwara assures parents on schools hand over
The Kwara State government yesterday assured parents that the planned hand over of faith-based/ community-based schools to interested owners would not jeopardize the education of their wards and children. Gov...

Kwara alleges poor federal presence
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday berated the federal government for allegedly abandoning road projects in the state. He alleged that the federal government has not done anything about roads in the state ...

2 Men Arraigned In Court For Snatching Bag In Ilorin
Ilorin Magistrate Court has remanded two persons at the Federal Prison, Oke-Kura in Ilorin, Kwara State, for allegedly snatching a bag at gunpoint. The accused persons who are; Hammed Yusuf of No. 8, Agaka Ar...

Gov Ahmed Gets Kwara Assembly's Nod To Obtain N2bn Loan
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday granted the request of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to secure N2 billion loan from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development Fund of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN...

Ahmed angry over FGs abandonment of federal roads in Kwara
Kwara state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed Tuesday expressed deep sheathed anger over the federal government's refusal to repair federal roads lying across the state in the last ten years even as he appealed for th...

Oba Abdulraheem is a year older today.
Professor Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem is a year older today. Abdulraheem was born on the 22nd of October 1947 in Ilorin. He attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and graduated with B.A. (Hons) degree in English in 1974. ...

2014-10-21

Monarchs, SAN laud Kwara governor, Ahmed
A senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu-Ali, has expressed optimism that despite its obvious multiple challenges, Nigeria is destined to survive as strong and developed nation. Mallam Alli made thi...

Kwara 2015: Ibrahim promises good leadership
Ilorin-based industrialist and Chairman of Lubcon Oil, Alhaji Jani Ibrahim has said he is prepared to give correct leadership to Kwara State, not based on the distribution of token gifts to the populace. Ibra...

Sustain lessons learnt - NMA
Kwara State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) yesterday applauded the WHO declaration, but urged Nigerians to sustain the lessons learnt during the battle against Ebola, especially on hygiene. ...

Kwara State Looking To Handover Schools To Proprietors
The Kwara State government is looking to hand over public schools in the state to proprietors willing to wholly run the schools, as a way of ensuring an improvement in the standard of education in the state. ...

Yinka Aluko picks form to contest against Saraki
A former security aide to Senator Bukola Saraki, Mr. Yinka Aluko, has joined two others, Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe and Hajia Bilikisu Gambari, in the race for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for Kwara Central sea...

Kwara 2015: Artisans endorse FOJ for REP
Different groups of artisans across four Local Government in Kwara South has endorsed the candidacy of Abdufatah FOJ, the Aare Musulumi of Oke Onigbin to represent the constituency consisting of Oke Ero, Irepodun, Ekit...

APC Governors to Meet in Ilorin on Party Primaries
All the governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will meet in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital tomorrow on the aegis of the Progressive Governors' Forum (PGF). THISDAY gathered that top...