2014-03-11

Nigeria Governors Forum invites Jang-led splinter group to retreat
The retreat is to discuss corruption, dwindling state of education, and Nigeria's dependence on oil. The Nigerian Governors' Forum, NGF, has invited me...

2015: Can Kwara PDP spring surprise?
President Goodluck Jonathan has visited Kwara State to boost the morale of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members, wo have lost many of their leaders to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Correspondent ADEK...

760 FISH FARMERS BENEFIT FROM GES IN KWARA
The Federal Government, through its Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, has donated fish feed and juveniles (fingerlings) worth about N21 million to 760 fish farmers in Kwara State under its Growth Enhance...

Bolaji Abdullahi: A Fall Success Cannot Hold
Immediate past Minister/Chairman, National Sports Commission (NSC), Bolaji Abdullahi, escaped the first major cabinet reshuffle of the Goodluck Jonathan administration. On the day the cabinet reshuffle took place, Ab...

Police decorate 38 promoted officers in Kwara
The police in Kwara on Monday  decorated 38 officers of the command who were promoted to different ranks. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Ambrose Aisabor, who  decorated the officer...

Schools in Kwara to benefit from skills training programme
About 1000 secondary schools across the 16 local government areas in Kwara state is to benefit from a skill training programme organised by an Ilorin based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Omoluabi Foundation....

Sports-Loving Nigerians Speak On Bolaji's Removal
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan removed the Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. He then directed one of the 11 newly sworn-in ministers, Dr. Tamuno Danagogo, to take over from Abdullahi. No reason was...

INTERVIEW: My Life After NTA Job - Makanjuola
INTERVIEW Before her retirement from active journalism, Moji Makanjuola was a household name in the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). During her career that spanned over 30...

Kwara Govt to Empower 5,400 Youths
The Kwara Government says it will empower 5,400 youths under the first phase of its "Quick Win Empowerment and Employment" programme. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Isiaka Gold,...

2014-03-10

Kwara Outlines Modalities for 5200 Youth Jobs
The Kwara State Government has outlined modalities for engaging 5200 youths in the first phase of its Quickwin Empowerment Programme in the first quarter of this year. Giving a breakdown of the empowerment at a p...

Stop tagging us Islamic party, APC warns PDP
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is not taking kindly to ruling Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP's) description of its road map as 'Janjaweed Ideology'. A statement by its spokesperson, Lai Mohammed, on Sun...

Stop bemoaning our exit; fix PDP, Nigeria's problems, 5 APC govs reply Jonathan
Five former governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, last December, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to stop bemoaning their exit but to find urg...

2015 Election: Kwara NOA to collaborate with INEC on electoral process
Ahead of the 2015 general elections in the country, the Director, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Kwara State Directorate, Mr Felix Olowokere, has said his agency would collaborate with state Indepe...

Saraki calls for collective effort in solving Nigeria's security challenges
The Senator representing Kwara Central at the National Assembly, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Saturday called for collective effort of all Nigerians regardless of religion or background in solving the security problem facing...

Kwara holds promotion exam for civil servants
The Kwara State Civil Service Commission  is to hold promotion examination for qualified Civil Servants in the state between Tuesday 18th March, to Thursday 20th March, 2014. Chairman of the Commission...

Allocation: Kwara loses N10b in six months... FG insensitive to workers plight
Kwara State has lost about N10billion since August last year due to reduction from statutory allocation, even as the state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Nurudeen Banu accused the Federal Government of insen...

How Sports Minister Was Fired Over PDP Uniform
Facts have emerged on how President Goodluck Jonathan sacked his former sports minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, over a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) uniform (also called 'aso-ebi' in local parlance), which he did not wea...

Confab - Council Boss Wants More Recognition for Traditional Institution
The Chairman of Oke-Ero Local Government of Kwara, Mrs Aminat Yusuf, on Sunday said that traditional rulers should be given more constitutional recognition through the national conference. Yusuf made this kno...

COED Ilorin inducts 103 into teaching profession
The Kwara State College of Education, IIorin has inducted 103 students from various disciplines into the teaching profession. The graduands who underwent a 12-month course were awarded Professional Diploma ...

President May Name Gov Obi, Belgore Ministers
Barring all unforeseen circumstances, the outgoing governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and the former governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in Kwara State during the last general ...

Jonathan's Kwara rally insignificant - Saraki
Former governor of Kwara State and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bukola Saraki at the weekend maintained that his party is fully on ground in the state. Saraki, who arrived Ilorin, the state c...

Forget Kwara in 2015, APC Tells Jonathan
The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as unrealistic, the dream of  President Goodluck Jonathan that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will win the 2015 general election ...

FG, PDP insensitive to wellbeing of Kwarans - Saraki
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr. Bukola Saraki on Sunday said his defection with his loyalists from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress was to free residents of...

TEXT OF A PRESS BRIEFING BY ALHAJI SOLA ISIAKA GOLD, SECRETARY TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND CHAIRMAN, COMMITTEE ON QUICKWIN EMPOWERMENT AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME ON MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014
Distinguished Gentlemen of the press, you will recall that this administration has since inception demonstrated a commitment to youth empowerment. The reason for this commitment is obvious. Every year our tertiary institu...

2014-03-09

Why I ignored Saraki's plea to stay in APC - Belgore
Before leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mohammed Dele Belgore used to be a leading chieftain of the opposition in Kwara State, having been the governorship candidate of th...

Koro Guruma wins Waziri Sulu-Gambari Football Tournament
The 3rd annual Waziri Sulu-Gambari Football Tournament has ended with Koro Guruma community emerging winners of the competition. The tournament which featured 16 teams representing different communities in Kwara s...

Total Blackout Looms in Kwara as Fire Guts PHCN Control Centre in Osogbo
RESIDENTS of Oyo, Osun, Kwara and Ekiti states may be thrown into total darkness as an early morning fire on Friday affected a section of the national control centre of the defunct  Power Holding Company of Nigeri...

2 bag 22 years for abducting Biodun Baraje
An Ilorin High Court Judge  has sentenced two kidnappers, Ajadi Oba AbdulRasheed and Ayeni Abayomi, to imprisonment for criminal conspiracy to commit kidnap, extortion and armed robbery in respect of Biodun Baraje...

Where does Ilorin really belong? ... As Ilorin elders brainstorm
If what resonated at the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) secretariat on 8th of March concerning its position on the national conference were anything to go by, it is no moot point to say that the Ilor...

Saraki Accuses Federal Government Of Abandoning Kwara State
A rally has been held by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, expressing their continued support for the Senator representing Kwara Central as one of the political leaders in the state. ...

Saraki dynasty suffers, as Bukola-Gbemi feud lingers
The frosty relationship between a former governor of Kwara State and the heir to Saraki’s dynasty in Ilorin, Dr Bukola Saraki and his sister, Senator Gbemisola Rukayyat Saraki dated back to 2011.  It  b...

Opinion - Re: End Game for Bukola's Hegemony
Having read Mr Isaq Modibo's article published on 6th of March 2014 on Vanguard News and some other news platform, it is salient to correct the author on his misgivings based on his new found ''love'' for the out-of-fav...

2015: Jonathan Vows to Recover Nassarawa, Kwara States
As the 2015 general elections draw close, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said that the peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will ensure Nassarawa and Kwara States are recover adding that those who had left the party w...

Kwara: Jonathan's visit and the journey to Abdullahi's fall
Mallam Bolaji Abddullahi, the erstwhile minister of Sports, was on the entourage of President Goodluck Jonathan to Kwara State last Monday. The President's visit was special as the apparatus of government was moved t...

Ahmed advocates merit in public, private sectors
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State during the weekend in Ilorin advocated the restoration of merit as a major standard in public and private sectors He said that merit together with capacity for excelle...

Conference: Yoruba in Kogi, Kwara want to join South-West
The Okun people in Kogi State and the Yoruba in Kwara State have resolved to join their kith and kin in the South-West geo-political zone. The Okun people have resolved to press for the re-adjustment of their p...

Large crowd receives Saraki in Ilorin
An unprecedented crowd of members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara state, weekend in Ilorin treated the party’s leader, Senator Bukola Saraki to a heroic welcome. The APC mem...

2014-03-08

PPA asks INEC to sanction PDP, APC over campaigns
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been asked to sanction the ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) and the leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) over alleged early campaigns ahead of t...

Abdullahi's Sack Political - Kojo
A former Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) Anthony Kojo Williams has described the sack of the Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Bolaji Abdullahi as a political decisio...