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2014-03-15
Bolaji Abdullahi gets heroic welcome
The former Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, was yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital accorded a rowdy welcome back home. The former minister was last week re...
The former Sports Minister and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, was yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital accorded a rowdy welcome back home. The former minister was last week re...
DPR seals three filling stations in Kwara.
The Department of Petroleum Resources on Friday sealed three filling stations in Ilorin for alleged under dispensing, selling above official pump price and hoarding petrol. The Controller of DPR in the state,...
The Department of Petroleum Resources on Friday sealed three filling stations in Ilorin for alleged under dispensing, selling above official pump price and hoarding petrol. The Controller of DPR in the state,...
Why I didn't resign before being sacked - Bolaji Abdullahi
Former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has revealed that he almost resigned from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, before he was eventually fired a fortnight ago. Abdullahi said that he did n...
Former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has revealed that he almost resigned from President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet, before he was eventually fired a fortnight ago. Abdullahi said that he did n...
Gang-rape: How Female Students In Kwara Institution Live In Fear
The last may not have been heard about the incessant rape of female students of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa in Offa local government area of the state by gangs of several men at a time. ABD...
The last may not have been heard about the incessant rape of female students of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa in Offa local government area of the state by gangs of several men at a time. ABD...
Press Release - Re: Kwara PDP tears apart over ministerial nominees.
Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples' Democratic Party, (PDP), has called on its teeming supporters to remain firm, focused and steadfast to the visions of the founding fathers of the party. The party also described...
Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples' Democratic Party, (PDP), has called on its teeming supporters to remain firm, focused and steadfast to the visions of the founding fathers of the party. The party also described...
Ekiti LG Chair tasks LG chairmen on grassroot development
The chairman of Ekiti Local Government of Kwara state, honorable Akintoba Fatigun has tasked his fellow local government chairmen on grassroot development in their various local government areas. Akintoba made thi...
The chairman of Ekiti Local Government of Kwara state, honorable Akintoba Fatigun has tasked his fellow local government chairmen on grassroot development in their various local government areas. Akintoba made thi...
2014-03-14
Opinion - Bolaji Abdullahi's Sack : Like Bukola Saraki, Like Goodluck Jonathan. By Abdullahi Ikokoro
By Abdullahi Ikokoro My attention has been drawn to a statement credited to a former Governor of Kwara state, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to the effect that the sack of Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Nigerian former Sports Minist...
By Abdullahi Ikokoro My attention has been drawn to a statement credited to a former Governor of Kwara state, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to the effect that the sack of Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Nigerian former Sports Minist...
Kwara, Kogi urged to collaborate on skill acquisition
Chairman, board of directors, Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Hon David Idoko, has urged Kwara and Kogi state governments to collaborate with relevant agencies towards promoting entrepreneurial and ski...
Chairman, board of directors, Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Hon David Idoko, has urged Kwara and Kogi state governments to collaborate with relevant agencies towards promoting entrepreneurial and ski...
Opinion: Saraki: Kawu Modibbo's fantasy. By Abdulkadir Bolakale
PUBLIC commentators are remarkably good listeners, great learners and very humble species. Usually driven by objectivity and never assuming to know everything, the public commentator will never dabble into a matter w...
PUBLIC commentators are remarkably good listeners, great learners and very humble species. Usually driven by objectivity and never assuming to know everything, the public commentator will never dabble into a matter w...
I'll be fair to all political parties - Kwara CP
The Kwara State Police Command, Ilorin would provide equal playing ground for all the political parties in the state,as the command warned political parties against violence. The state Police Commissioner, ...
The Kwara State Police Command, Ilorin would provide equal playing ground for all the political parties in the state,as the command warned political parties against violence. The state Police Commissioner, ...
Over 2000 land and chieftaincy disputes resolved since 2008
Over 2,000 disputes in areas such as land matters, chieftaincy disputes, unlawful termination of employment, fundamental human right and rights infringement have being resolved using mediation and dispute resolution ...
Over 2,000 disputes in areas such as land matters, chieftaincy disputes, unlawful termination of employment, fundamental human right and rights infringement have being resolved using mediation and dispute resolution ...
Kwara governor advises Islamic organisations
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on Islamic organisations to promote religious values on the basis of justice, equity and respect for adherents of other faiths in the country. Ahmed made the ca...
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on Islamic organisations to promote religious values on the basis of justice, equity and respect for adherents of other faiths in the country. Ahmed made the ca...
Tambuwal - 2015 Elections Will Not Disintegrate Nigeria
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Wednesday allayed fears in the certain quarters that the 2015 general election would break up the country. Tambuwal disclosed this in Ilorin, ...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Wednesday allayed fears in the certain quarters that the 2015 general election would break up the country. Tambuwal disclosed this in Ilorin, ...
Truck-Driver Arraigned for Killing Corps Member, Teacher
A truck-driver, Afolabi Gafar, has been arraigned before an Ilorin chief magistrate's court for allegedly killing a National Youth Service Corps member, Fatima Feyipitan, and a teacher, David Adeleye. Feyipit...
A truck-driver, Afolabi Gafar, has been arraigned before an Ilorin chief magistrate's court for allegedly killing a National Youth Service Corps member, Fatima Feyipitan, and a teacher, David Adeleye. Feyipit...
Kwara: Creating jobs through easy 'metro taxi' procurement
People of Kwara State, particularly Ilorin indigenes, are acclaimed to have started taxi business in the country and they have remained proud of this accomplishment ever since. In local parlance, the people of the st...
People of Kwara State, particularly Ilorin indigenes, are acclaimed to have started taxi business in the country and they have remained proud of this accomplishment ever since. In local parlance, the people of the st...
2014-03-13
Opinion: Modibbo Kawu's bete noire for Bukola Saraki. By Ade Fakuyi
I read END GAME FOR BUKOLA SARAKI's KWARA HEGEMONY by Is'haq Modibbo Kawu in Vanguard Newspaper, 6th of March, 2014. Later, I stumbled on a rejoinder authored by the Spokesman of All Progressives Congress in Kwara State...
I read END GAME FOR BUKOLA SARAKI's KWARA HEGEMONY by Is'haq Modibbo Kawu in Vanguard Newspaper, 6th of March, 2014. Later, I stumbled on a rejoinder authored by the Spokesman of All Progressives Congress in Kwara State...
Jonathan's Impossible Rallies
Ojo M. Maduekwe questions the political implications of some of the recent Peoples Democratic Party rallies personally led by President Goodluck Jonathan Since late 2013, the Ni...
Ojo M. Maduekwe questions the political implications of some of the recent Peoples Democratic Party rallies personally led by President Goodluck Jonathan Since late 2013, the Ni...
INEC Needs N63.8 Billionn, Not N45 Billion Proposed in 2014 Budget - Tambuwal
Ojo M. Maduekwe questions the political implications of some of the recent Peoples Democratic Party rallies personally led by President Goodluck Jonathan Since late 2013, the Ni...
Ojo M. Maduekwe questions the political implications of some of the recent Peoples Democratic Party rallies personally led by President Goodluck Jonathan Since late 2013, the Ni...
Adedoyin: APC Boasts Progressive Disposition
Speaking with Shola Oyeyipo, daughter of a frontline businessman, Prince Samuel Adedoyin of Doyin Group, a two-time former minister and leading female politician in Kwara State, Funke Adedoyin, hinted about h...
Speaking with Shola Oyeyipo, daughter of a frontline businessman, Prince Samuel Adedoyin of Doyin Group, a two-time former minister and leading female politician in Kwara State, Funke Adedoyin, hinted about h...
FG flays delay in kwara irrigation project
The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, David Idoko, yesterday revealed concerns of the federal government over delays in the execution of the N 3.2 billion irrigation p...
The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, David Idoko, yesterday revealed concerns of the federal government over delays in the execution of the N 3.2 billion irrigation p...
Day Jonathan visited Kwara
PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continued his tour of state chapters of the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP and penultimate Monday, his train berthed in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, which is controlled by...
PRESIDENT Goodluck Ebele Jonathan continued his tour of state chapters of the ruling People's Democratic Party, PDP and penultimate Monday, his train berthed in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, which is controlled by...
240 Kwara youths trained on use of farm sprayers
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kwara State has trained 240 youth farmers on use of sprayers for weeds and pest control in the farm. The beneficiaries cutting across the 16 ...
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Kwara State has trained 240 youth farmers on use of sprayers for weeds and pest control in the farm. The beneficiaries cutting across the 16 ...
2014-03-12
Gov Ahmed launches Community Health Insurance, targets 600,000 subscribers
Beneficiaries of the Kwara State Community Health Insurance Scheme will hit 600,000 mark from the present 80,000 by the year 2018 when the scheme would have been in operation for about eleven years. Kwara State Go...
Beneficiaries of the Kwara State Community Health Insurance Scheme will hit 600,000 mark from the present 80,000 by the year 2018 when the scheme would have been in operation for about eleven years. Kwara State Go...
2015: Poor INEC funding worries Tambuwal, Jega
The 2015 election and the future of Nigeria was at the centre of discussions Wednesday in Ilorin, Kwara State, among key stakeholders in the polity at a public lecture on “Challenges of Fraud-Free Elections und...
The 2015 election and the future of Nigeria was at the centre of discussions Wednesday in Ilorin, Kwara State, among key stakeholders in the polity at a public lecture on “Challenges of Fraud-Free Elections und...
Insurgency - Lawmaker Wants Military to Change Approach
Mr Zakari Mohammed, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, on Monday, urged the military to explore new approach in combating the Boko Haram insurgency. Mohammed mad...
Mr Zakari Mohammed, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, on Monday, urged the military to explore new approach in combating the Boko Haram insurgency. Mohammed mad...
Bolaji Abdullahi and the price of loyalty, By Dele Agekameh
I got the unfortunate news about mid-day last Wednesday when my phone rang. The person at the other end, a senior Journalist with one of the nation's frontline newspapers, simply broke the unexpected news to me witho...
I got the unfortunate news about mid-day last Wednesday when my phone rang. The person at the other end, a senior Journalist with one of the nation's frontline newspapers, simply broke the unexpected news to me witho...
KWSG sealed off 15 dilapidated houses in Ilorin
Owners and occupants of dilapidated buildings in Ilorin metropolis have been called upon to as matter of urgency vacate or renovate when necessary so as to prevent the incidence of building collapse as it soon starts...
Owners and occupants of dilapidated buildings in Ilorin metropolis have been called upon to as matter of urgency vacate or renovate when necessary so as to prevent the incidence of building collapse as it soon starts...
Kwara 2014 Appropriation Bill passed
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday passed the state 2014 Appropriation Bill of N130,262,850,907. The Budget size passed was increased with N5,736,893,794 or 4.61 per cent against N124,525,957,113 p...
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday passed the state 2014 Appropriation Bill of N130,262,850,907. The Budget size passed was increased with N5,736,893,794 or 4.61 per cent against N124,525,957,113 p...
Aviation College launches Kwara in world map - Buyo
The Chairman, Board of Directors of International Aviation College, Ilorin, Captain Edward Buyo has said that establishment of the college has launched Kwara State in the map of the world even as he described the col...
The Chairman, Board of Directors of International Aviation College, Ilorin, Captain Edward Buyo has said that establishment of the college has launched Kwara State in the map of the world even as he described the col...
You Can't Campaign Now, Police Warn Politicians In Kwara
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Ambrose Aisebo, on Tuesday warned politicians against political campaign, saying the ban was still in force in the state. Aisabor gave the warning at a meeting he held ...
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Ambrose Aisebo, on Tuesday warned politicians against political campaign, saying the ban was still in force in the state. Aisabor gave the warning at a meeting he held ...
Kwara to Name Street in Ilorin after Awoniyi
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday declared that it has finalised arrangements to name a major street in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital after a Nigeria player, Mr. Taiwo Awoniyi who was part of the team tha...
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday declared that it has finalised arrangements to name a major street in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital after a Nigeria player, Mr. Taiwo Awoniyi who was part of the team tha...
Kwara CP warns against political rallies at airport
The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ambrose Aisebor, on Tuesday warned political parties in the state against any political rallies within the premises of the Ilorin International Airport. He reminded...
The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ambrose Aisebor, on Tuesday warned political parties in the state against any political rallies within the premises of the Ilorin International Airport. He reminded...
Kwara Assembly passes N130bn budget
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday passed into law the 2014 Appropriation Bill presented by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed in December last year. The budget size of N130.2 billion was unanimously passed by member...
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday passed into law the 2014 Appropriation Bill presented by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed in December last year. The budget size of N130.2 billion was unanimously passed by member...
Deforestation: Kwara Suspends Forest Activities
The Kwara State Government has suspended forest activities following continued destruction of forest reserves by some individuals. The government said in a statement issued in I...
The Kwara State Government has suspended forest activities following continued destruction of forest reserves by some individuals. The government said in a statement issued in I...
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