2014-05-30

Press Release: Be Ready to Go to Jail over Financial Recklessness - PDP Warns KWSG
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Kwara State Government of recklessly funding the machinery of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the public purse, warning that should ...

Press Release: APC Accuses Presidency of Scandalous Donation to Kwara PDP
The Kwara State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of "secretly making huge and scandalous fund donation" to the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party in a bid to make...

Milo African Championsip - Transformational Experience for Future Champions
Young lads, hardly 12 years but they are already having a taste of what being a future champion can bring. They are students of St. Barnabas LGEA , Ilorin who are Nigeria's representatives at the 3rd Milo African U-17 ...

Opinion: Professor Shehu Jimoh: Intellectual, broadcaster, decent man, By Ishaq Modibbo Kawu
Last week Monday, Professor Shehu Ahmad Jimoh, Chairman of the Governing Council of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, died at the age of 70. Shehu Jimoh was also a retired Professor of Educational Psychology at the ...

Put Nation Above Personal Interest, Says Kwara Speaker
The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Razak Atunwa, urged politicians to always put national interest above other considerations in other for the country to overcome its numerous challenges and sustai...

Ahmed woos investors to Kwara with conducive environment
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State says he has made the state conducive for business and enterprise to thrive within the last three years and asked investors living within and outside the state to come and set up...

The Sarakis and Kwara: Sibling rivalry
Senator Bukola Saraki had until recently reigned supreme on the political landscape in his native Kwara State, easily shifting the political machine of the state from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progre...

Democracy Day: Kwara employs 8,200 youths
Kwara State Government has earmarked N2.4b for the engagement of 8,200 youths over the next year one under its QuickWin Empowerment and employment scheme, as part of activities marking this year's Democracy Day. ...

2014-05-29

No more abandoned projects in Kwara, says Ahmed
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed promised yesterday that "abandoned project syndrome" will disappear in the state. The governor promised not to leave any community unattended to by his administration's p...

Ahmed Wins Governor of the Year Award
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State at the weekend in Lagos won the 2014 edition of the Hall of Grace (HOG) Governor of the Year Award. The award certificate and plaque were presented to the governor by ...

DPR seals four filling stations in IIorin
The Department of Petroleum Resources in Kwara on Wednesday sealed another four fuel stations for selling petrol (PMS) above official pump price and under dispensing. The Controller of DPR in Kwara, Mr. Amos ...

Demand End to Corruption, Insecurity
A former Governor of Kwara State and Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, has urged Nigerians to stand and speak as one to demand an end to insecurity, corruption, and all other...

Kwara school children go spiritual
Emotions ran high on Tuesday at the Ilorin Metropolitan Square venue of this year's Children's Day celebration. Tears floured down the chins of not a few of the scores of school children who converged on the venue in I...

2014-05-28

Chibok: Be Vigilant, We are Close to North, Ahmed Advises CDAs
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has advised Community Development Associations in the State to work together in creating awareness on the need for Nigerians to be more security conscious as part of strategies...

Ahmed Pledges Equitable Development in Kwara
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has vowed not to rest until the state achieves its maximum potentials of sustainable development, especially the necessary infrastructure requirement. Governor Ahmed s...

Musician, wife remanded in prison for assault.
A popular Ilorin musician, Alhaji Ibrahim Labaika along with his wife, Zeenat have been remanded at the Federal Prison, Oke-Kura, Ilorin for alleged assault on a woman. An Upper Area Court sitting in Ilorin remanded t...

OPINION: Appraising the healthcare delivery in Kwara in the last three years. By Usman Omotosho Aliyu
By Usman Omotosho Aliyu "Health is wealth", goes the saying. This assertion underscores the importance of quality health service, thus the need for any responsive and responsible government to view it as a basic nece...

End of a Romance?
There are indications that all is not well with the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State as Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s rumoured return to the Peoples Democratic Party is generating controversy and fuelling...

Citizens must be scientifically literate for progress - Prof. Olorundare
A university lecturer, Adekunle Olorundare, has said the nation’s democracy would not be effective or develop rapidly without the citizens being literate in science, scientific principles and technology. ...

Kwara Govt. and the Politics of a Loan
Kwara State Government bid to access a N23bn loan from the capital market is generating ripples. Our correspondent gives an insight into the bond proposal and the disagreement with the opposition party. Indic...

Three students, one other cheat death in Unilorin autocrash
Three undergraduate students of the University of Ilorin and a commercial driver yesterday escaped death in a car crash that occurred at the permanent site of the institution. The incident, which occurred aro...

Kwara First Lady condoles bereaved families
Wife of the Kwara State governor, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed, yesterday, paid a condolence visit to the family of late Professor Shehu Jimoh who died last week. Expressing sympathy to the representatives of the deceac...

Destination branding and the Kwara experience
One noticeable trend today, around the world, is the increasing adoption of destination branding by countries and their constituent units as a way of attracting both local and foreign investors to such countries and st...

2014-05-27

Kwara APC to PDP: mind your business.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for suggesting that government activities be shut down on May 29. The PDP has criticised the government ‘s...

Emir of Ilorin wants constitutional recognition for NIREC.
Following the recommendations of the Committee on Religion in the on-going National Conference, the Emir of Ilorin and Chairman, Kwara State Traditional Council, Mai-Martaba Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, yesterday advoca...

Unuanel drums support for Super Eagles
The Head Coach, Kwara United FC of Ilorin, Samson Unuanel, on Monday said he believed the Super Eagles would not be at the World Cup to complete the number of teams. Unuanel told newsmen after his team's trai...

Ahmed urges more action for Chibok girls
Kwara State Governor Alhaji Abduldfatah Ahmed has urged Nigerians not to relent in their prayers for the release of the abducted schoolgirls in Borno State. Ahmed spoke at an interdenominational service to ma...

Kwara partners NGO on maternal care
The Kwara State government has entered into partnership with White Ribbon Alliance Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation to provide 'respective maternal care' to women in the state. Under the scheme, initi...

Ilorin Emirate to Hold Conference On Security
Worried by restiveness among youths in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Ilorin Emirate Descendants' Progressive Union (IEDPU), the apex socio-cultural organisation of its indigenes at home and abroad, is to organise a ...

Girls' Abduction Threat to Nigeria's Future - Saraki
Former Kwara State governor, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday said the abduction of school girls constitutes "a severe threat to children's dreams as leaders of tomorrow". "In the past one month, our children...