2013-12-25

Shonga Farms Holdings: A Peep Into The Works Of Nigeria's Zimbabwean Farmers
WHEN at the middle of the year 2004 the then government of Dr. Bukola Saraki of Kwara State proposed the move to establish a commercial farm settlement at Shonga in Edu Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, many ...

2014 Kwara State Budget Speech Delivered by Gov. Ahmed
THE 2014 BUDGET SPEECH DELIVERED TO THE KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, BY HIS EXCELLENCY, ALHAJI ABDULFATAH AHMED, THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF KWARA STATE ON TUESDAY 17TH DECEMBER, 2013.Mr. Speaker Sir, Honora...

Justice Saidu Kawu (rtd) is dead.
Justice Saidu Kawu (rtd) is dead. The retired Justice of the Supreme Court died late this afternoon in Ilorin after a brief illness. Justice Kawu would have been eighty-five (85) years old tomorrow. His janazah (funer...

FRSC Deploys 300 for Accident-Free Festivities in Kwara
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has deployed 300 personnel and stationed four ambulances to ensure accident-free Christmas and New Year celebrations in Kwara State. The state commandant, Mrs. Mary W...

Defected PDP Lawmakers: We Made PDP What It Is - Ahmad
One of the 37 lawmakers who defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), has defended his colleagues, insisting that their seats are secure under the law. Po...

Yuletide: Gov Ahmed, Saraki, Atunwa, northern governors call for national rebirth
Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on Christians to use the period of the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and the new year to preach national rebirth and transformation. In his Christmas an...

Oduah is no longer a minister - Ali Ahmad
The House of Representatives has ceased to recognise Princess Stella Oduah as the Minister of Aviation in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan, Rep. Ali Ahmad said. Ahmad who is the chairman, House of Rep...

FG committed to transform aviation sector - Minister
The Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, has said the Federal Government is committed to revamping and transforming the aviation sector. She stressed the Nigerian aviation industry was undergoing unprecede...

Stakeholder Laments Ageing Workforce in Aviation Industry
The acting Rector of International Aviation College (IAC), Ilorin, Captain Nuhu Abdulkarim, has projected that in the next 10 years indigenous manpower in the aviation industry would be less than 20 per cent, unless ...

University of Ilorin had not gone on strike in 13 years
In an era when Nigerian university students spend more time at home than they spend in tertiary institutions due to incessant strike by lecturers, the University of Ilorin had not gone on strike in 13 years and some ...

Press Release: Bukola Saraki urges Nigerians to reflect on Christ teachings
I rejoice with our Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria and all over the world on this happy occasion of Christmas. As we celebrate, it is imperative to reflect on the events that have defined us as people as it re...

2013-12-24

Unilorin student bags SWAN award
The Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria (SWAN), an affiliate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), has awarded a scholarship to Miss Rasheedat Oyindamola Afolabi, a 300 Level student of the...

Unilorin Library donates books to Kwara schools
In line with its community service mandate, the University of Ilorin Library has donated 1859 titles of books in 3,676 volumes in various disciplines to secondary schools in Kwara State as well as the state School of...

Stray bullets kill two women in Kwara
Stray bullets allegedly fired by  men of Kwara State police command killed two women around Oja-Oba area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, yesterday. Vanguard reliably gathered that the victims were ...

Insurgency: FG Urged To Secure Nation's Borders Technologically
A security expert, Brigadier General Musa Hassan (rtd) has called on the federal government to secure the nation's borders technologically. He said this is the practice in other climes, expressing optimism th...

KWARA 2015: Bukola and Gbemi again
Since the  merger of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State with the All Progressives Congress (APC) last month, the political climate in Kwara has changed as politicians opposed to the politic...

7 Policemen, 3 Others Killed In Kwara Robbery Attack
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara state, Mr Agboola Oshodi- Glover on Monday confirmed that seven policemen and three civilians were killed in the robbery incident that occurred in Offa last Thursday....

2013-12-23

2 Nigerians shot dead by kill-and-go cops in Ilorin
Two persons have been killed by stray bullets from a team of Police officers on patrol around the central market,Ilorin, Kwara State in central Nigeria. P.M.NEWS gathered that at about 11:40a.m. on Monday 23 ...

Unease in House of Reps Over APC's Majority
For the first time since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be working to fix itself in a minority position in the House of Representatives, following Wednesday's def...

ABS set to name Dogo's successor
Nigeria National League (NNL) side, ABS are poised to name a head coach on or be...

Three to Die By Hanging for Stealing N50,000
For robbing a woman of N50,000 at gun point, the trio of Kayode Babarinde, Akeem Haruna and Yusuf Nurudeen must die by hanging so held yesterday by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous judgment five justices of ...

Expect tsunami in PDP soon - Ali Ahmad
The Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary in the House of Representatives, Dr Ali Ahmad, has predicted more dooms in the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, saying the party should expect a devastating "tsu...

Yuletide: Beehive of activities in Ilorin
With less than 48 hours to the celebration of Christmas, it has been beehive of activities in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Investigations by The Herald yesterday showed that several roads in the city ha...

NMA directs doctors to end 5-day warning strike today
Normalcy will return to public hospitals across the Federation from 8a.m. today as the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has directed all doctors in the public health sector to return to work following the five-day ...

Gov Ahmed, Sultan preach peace, religious tolerance
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has charged  religious leaders in the country to separate religious activities and preaching from particianship in order to sustain peace and unity of the country. ...

Towards rancour-free labour relations
DailyTrust reporters take a brief look at labour disputes in the country and what stakeholders are doing to engender peace in the sector. Within the last 12 months, there have been more than six unions that h...

'Independent judiciary, panacea to corruption'
Kwara State Grand Khadi, Justice Abdullahi Harun, has stressed the need for a strong, effective and independent judiciary to stem the tide of corruption and develop the country. Justice Harun who stated this ...

Saraki Hails Defection of 37 PDP House Members to APC
A former Governor of Kwara State and  chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bukola Saraki, at the weekend hailed the defection of 37 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House...

3,000 PDP Members Defect to APC in Kwara
No fewer than 3,000  members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in ErinIIe town  in  Oyun local government council area of Kwara state  Sunday dumped the party for the  All Progressives Co...

Suspected vandals nabbed with N3.5m truckload of fuel
Three suspected pipeline vandals have been arrested in Ilorin, Kwara State, by the anti-vandalism unit of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association, Ilorin chapter. The chapter IPMAN Chairman, Alhaji Ra...

2013-12-22

Unilorin Lecturers to teach from homes by 2014 - Registrar
The Registrar of the University of Ilorin, Mr Emmanuel Obafemi, has said that the institution would, from January 2014, be fully digitalised. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ilorin...

2015: Jonathan's fixers take over PDP structures as G-5 govs cross over to APC
The national leadership of the opposition All Progressive Congress (APC) must be basking in the euphoria of  the success of its aggressive recruitment campaign which saw the defection of five out of the seven ag...

Kwara SURE-P Allays Fears of Beneficiaries' Sack
The Kwara State chapter of the  Peoples Democratic P, All Progressives Congress (APC) and 15 other political parties have no records before the State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC), the commission has...

Sultan To Leaders: Treat All Nigerians Equally.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, yesterday enjoined Nigerians to tolerate one another regardless of their religion or ethnic background. He also urged Nigerian leaders to treat all citizens ...

Ahman Galadima: Man Of Integrity, Honesty.
Ahman Patigi was born in 1914 and named Ahman Saba to Hadiza and Mohammed Ndeji at Patigi area council of Kwara State. Ahman attended Patigi Elementary School between 1923 and 1926, before he proceeded to the...

'Kwara PDP, APC, others have no records at KWSIEC'
The Kwara State chapter of the  Peoples Democratic P, All Progressives Congress (APC) and 15 other political parties have no records before the State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC), the commission has anno...

Kwara Assembly Joins Forces with NBA to Achieve Judicial autonomy
Speaker of the Kwara House of Assembly, Rasaq Atunwa on Friday while receiving the Ilorin branch Executive Members of the Nigerian Bar Association in Ilorin, said the two bodies would collaborate to ensure total autonomy ...