2014-02-26

Oluyole Warriors, Police Baton to Kick-Start League Season
Oluyole Warriors of Ibadan and Police Baton of Lagos are scheduled to kick-start the 2013/ 2014 DStv Men's Basketball Premier League season on February 28. Matches are also billed to continue across the Atlan...

Jonathan Yet to Inform Senate of Sanusi's Suspension - Saraki
The leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state and Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment Senator Bukola Saraki in this interview with ABDU...

Kwara to disburse N214m loan to farmers
The Kwara State Government on Wednesday said it would disburse N214 million loan to farmers to boost agricultural activities in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Anthony To...

Slain Kwara APC chieftain buried
The remains of a slain 35-year-old politician, Femi Awoyale, were on Tuesday interred in his home town, Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Awoyale, a stalwart of the All Progressives Congre...

Don't Promote Violence, Kwara Police Boss Warns Politicians
The police in Kwara have warned politicians in the state to refrain from promoting violence in order to sustain the peaceful co-existence in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Ambrose Aisabor, ga...

Be on your toes, Moronfoye charges Information staff
Kwara State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Prince Tunji Moronfoye, has called on the staff of the ministry to work harder in the performance of their statutory responsibility. He gave the ...

Kwara NYSC set to revive Kwara Kopa's newsletter - NYSC PRO
The Public Relations Officer of NYSC, Kwara State, Mr. Dipo Murakiyo stated that Kwara State NYSC has concluded plans to revive the Kwara Koper's newsletter that has not been in existence for a longtime. Mr...

Kwara approves 50 waste bins, 10 compactors for refuse disposal
The Kwara State government has approved the procurement of 50 waste bins and 10 compactors to ensure adequate cleaning and maintenance of the environment. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Fore...

TUC, NLC serve strike notice in Kwara
The Kwara State chapters of the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday said that industrial peace was a potent strategy for improved national productivity. They called on Governor Abd...

2014-02-25

Committee chairman solicits support for PDP in Kwara
The Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the Peoples' Democratic Party PDP) in Kwara, Mr Solomon Edoja, on Sunday solicited the support of the people of the state for the party. Edoja made the call in Ilorin, in h...

Kwara PDP group seeks party leaders' unity
The Kwara Unite for Liberation, a group of Personal Assistants to all Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) leaders in Kwara state, has urged all the caucus and sprinter groups to unite and deliver the state for the party in...

PDP Kwara Holds Rally To Dispel Rumour Of Factions
In order to dismiss the notion of disunity and rancour among leaders of the People's Democratic Party in Kwara State, a rally was organized where the political gladiators in the state resolved to continue...

Defections in PDP, APC: Turning point in Kwara politics
Until recently, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was the ruling party in Kwara State as it repeated, at the 2011 governorship election, the victory it had recorded since the 2003 election. The...

Interview: Belgore's Defection Will Not Affect APC - Saraki
 Former Governor of Kwara State and Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in this interview, speaks on the recent defections in the state but says t...

APC Governors Move Against Unemployment
The Progressive Governors Forum led by Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, met yesterday in Ibadan and resolved to work with economic experts on formulating policies to stimulate private sector participation i...

Know Your Disco - Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company
The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) was recently acquired under the privatisation programme of the Federal Government by Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Limited (IEDM), a limited liabilit...

Judge's Absence Stalls Hearing in Suit Against Five Defecting Governors
The absence of Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday stalled hearing in the suit filed by the PDP against five governors who defected to the APC. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...

FG Eyes N24 Billion Revenue From Groundnut Pyramids
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said Nigeria will return to massive production and processing of groundnut pyramids, noting that the production would add N24 billion to th...

Saraki Wants Sanusi's Suspension Reviewed By Senate
The chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, has called for the review of the suspension of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor by President Goodluck Jonathan because it wa...

'Saraki Will Lose His Hegemony in 2015 Elections'
A former Chief Whip, Kwara House of Assembly, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo, on Monday said the results of the 2015 general elections would mark the end of Saraki's hegemony in the state politics. Oyedepo, who is also...

TETfund: Ahmed orders probe of colleges of education
The Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has ordered a probe into the spending of state-owned colleges of education following an alleged mismanagement of the Tertiary Education Trust fund. The colleges are...

2014-02-24

Press Release - Kwara APC to Police: Stop PDP thugs from burning Kwara.
The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the violence and disruption of business activities perpetrated by PDP thugs in the State on Monday describing it as war on the people of Kwara...

Agric: UK offers technical support to Kwara
The United Kingdom Trade and Investment is to set to offer technical support on agriculture to Kwara State to enable the state meet international best practices. The Senior Trade Development Manger of UK Trade and...

Jonathan, Mu'azu visit Kwara on Monday
President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Adamu Mu’azu, will be in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Monday, March 3, to assess the state of the party in the area. ...

Consultant arraigned for defrauding Kwara Football Academy
A Consultant, Edward Essien, 45 of Plot 38, Abdullahi Aguyi Road, GRA, Ilorin, who allegedly defrauded Kwara Football Academy the sum of N1,870,000 has been arraigned before an Ilorin Chief Magistrate Court....

Defection: 5 APC govs resume legal battle against PDP today
Today, at a Federal High Court in Abuja, the five PDP governors who defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC) will resume a fierce legal battle against their former People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the i...

Gov Ahmed bags City People's award in Lagos
Gov Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State yesterday led the list of award-winning governors at the City People Political Excellence Awards 2014 in Lagos. Gov Ahmed was honoured as the Best Governor in Youth Empow...

My style is decent - Omolewa Ahmed
But for her aides, and the emblem of her office, nothing in her disposition gives her away as the Kwara State First Lady. Quite amiable, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed erases the stereotype of a governor's wife. A First Lady, sh...

Group Asks Court to Sack Akande, Others
A group, Conscience Group, which is within the All Progressives Congress (APC), has asked a Federal High Court  in Abuja, to sack the interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and other executive members of t...

NANNM suspends strike, directs nurses to continue civic duties
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) on Sunday put a hold to its planned indefinite strike nationwide earlier scheduled to commence today, and directed all its members nationwide to remain ...

NATE supports removal of HND/Degree disparity
The Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering (NATE) has thrown its weight behind the proposed removal of disparity between Higher National Diploma (HND) and Degree holders in the nation. Speaking ...

4,142 DPP Members Defect to APC in Kwara
No fewer than 4,142 members  of Democractic  Peoples  Party, DPP,   from Ilorin East/ Ilorin South state  constituency of the state  publicly dumped their party and  joined the...

Kwara to establish agriculture laboratory
The Kwara Government on Sunday said it would soon establish an agriculture laboratory for soil-testing and allied matters so as to attract commercial agriculture into the state. Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed dropped this hi...

Kwara SWAN congratulates Popoola, Bankole
Kwara chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) has congratulated the new Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Hon. Saheed Popoola and the new Special Assistant on Sports Matters, Bashorun...

2014-02-23

Presidential media chat holds on Monday
Another edition of the Presidential Media Chat will hold on today. According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the programme would be broadcast l...

Press Release: PDP Leaders are deceitful - Kwara APC
The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said the declaration by Leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the APC is "dead on arrival" in the State is deceitful and frustration-induced. ...

Commissioner sad over residents' poor attitude to sanitation in Kwara
Alhaji Usman Mora, the Kwara Sate Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, on Saturday expressed disappointment over flagrant disobedience to the sanitation laws by some Ilorin residents. Addressing...

Kwara secondary schools volleyball finals to begin Feb. 26
The finals of the 2013 edition of D-Kit Kwara Secondary Schools Volleyball championship will hold from Feb. 26 to Feb. 28 at the Indoor Sports hall of the state stadium. The Chairman, Kwara Volleyball...

Kwara, no go area for PDP - Saraki
A member of the National Assembly representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to avoid wasting its resources for political campaign or ra...