2013-09-22

Don't sacrifice quality for revenue, private varsities told
Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, yesterday charged private universities in the country not to sacrifice quality on the altar of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). Wike made the call during the 3rd convo...

NPFL: Dolphins deny Kwara United claims
Dolphins football club of Port Harcourt have denied the claims made some people in the camp of Kwara United, that the Ilorin side was prevented from working out as is custom, before their Sunda...

Heartland crisis over, storm Ilorin for ABS clash
The Media Officer of Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Kajetan Nkwokpara, has revealed that the crisis rocking the club over unpaid players’ contract fees has been resolved. Speaking to newsmen ...

PDP: Ceasefire under fireworks
The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have reached a stalemate with firefights intensifying under supposed ceasefire among the warring factions From Sunday, when the purported ceasefire was agreed, to th...

Opinion: Misadventure of Baraje's New PDP
By Ojeifo The prognosis by those who have posited that the deliberate factionalisation of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is part of the larger plot to stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s second ...

2013-09-21

Crisis persists over Olofa stool
Fresh confusion has surfaced in the battle over Olofa’s stool as a prince from the Olugbense ruling house in Offa, Kwara State, Barrister AbdulHakeem AbdulRaheem, has dragged the family to court over the select...

Jonathan Sacks Emordi, Olagunju As Advisers
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan Friday relieved two Presidential Advisers, Senator Joy Emordi (National Assembly) and Dr. Tunji Olagunju (New Partnership for African Development, NEPAD) of their duties. No official re...

Political appointments based on geographical location not on religious sentiments - Ahmed
Appointment of political office holders in the State is purely on geographical location and not based on religious sentiments. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed disclosed this while speaking on his monthly edition of a live ...

Kwara to build a new secretariat to house 4 ministries
A new Secretariat to house four Ministries is to be built by the Kwara State Government. The four Ministries are Energy, Economic Planning, Commerce and Cooperatives and Water Resources. The State G...

Kwara to Spend N8bn on Federal Roads
The Kwara State Government has said that it will be spending over N8b on federal roads in the state after appropriate approval is received from the Federal Government. Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahme...

Ashworth joins ABS technical crew
The Technical Director of Kwara Football Academy, Paul Ashworth has joined the technical crew of Nigeria Premier League side, ABS FC as technical observer. According to the Media Officer of the team, Jimoh Ba...

Saraki: Atunwa Relinquishes His Security Personnel
The Speaker, Kwara  House of Assembly, Hon. Rasaq Atunwa, on Thursday relinquished the security personnel attached to him following the failure of Police to return security details to the former Governor of the state, ...

Why PDP Has Not Sanctioned Baraje Group, By Metuh
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) declared yesterday that it has not sanctioned the Abubakar Baraje splinter group in the party because of its respect for President Goodluck Jonathan, former president Olusegun Obasanj...

Kwara To Train 300 Youths On ICT And Mobile Money
The Kwara State Government yesterday flagged off a five-day training exercise on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and mobile money for 300 selected youth drawn from across the three senatorial...

2013-09-20

Kwara flags off N3b second batch car loan
The Kwara state government will on Monday flag off N3b second batch car loan facility for the civil servants in the state. The state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu who made this known yesterda...

Roads: Ahmed seeks synergy between Fed, State governments
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has called for a strong synergy between the Federal and the two other tiers of government on the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of roads across the coun...

Flood: Kwara creates 13 camps
The Kwara State government has created 13 camps to relocate people in flood prone areas. Though, the state is yet to experience flood disaster this year, government says it does not want to be caught unawares...

Ilorin court orders suspected fake doctor to be remanded
An Ilorin Magistrates' Court on Thursday remanded a suspected fake doctor, Omololu Adebayo, for allegedly parading himself as a trained medical practitioner. The 30-year-old was said to have been practising w...

I have no regrets, retiring Justice Salami affirms
Retiring President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, said yesterday that like any human being he was subject to"human foibles",declaring  that he never, for a moment, regretted what he di...

FG and ASUU should continue negotiations -NANS, National Youth Council
National Association of Nigerian Students and National Youth Council have urged the federal government and striking university lecturers to go back to the negotiation table with the aim of resolving the current impas...

Ban on Rice Importation Will Trigger Local Production - Gov. Ahmed
Kwara State Government says the proposed ban on rice importation by the federal government by year 2015 will encourage the growth of local rice farmers and millers in the country.     &nb...

2013-09-19

'PDP can never win in Offa'- Opadokun
Pro-democracy activist and Secretary of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) Mr. Ayo Opadokun spoke with MUSA ODOSHIMOKHE on the local government election crisis in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State....

W'Bank Sets Criteria for $300m Employment Fund
The World Bank has said that only states that had been involved in job creation and poverty reduction schemes in the last two years would benefit from its $300 million-counterpart fund targeted at employment generati...

NBA Appeals to FG to Stem Spate of Kidnapping
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA)  Tuesday appealed to the federal government to curb the incessant kidnapping in the country rather than being distracted by 2015 general election and intra-party wrangling. ...

19 states shun national culture festival
Nineteen states on Wednesday shunned the 27th National Festival of Arts and Culture which opened in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The states did not participate in the opening parade of the festival where President...