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2013-07-05
Ahmed Advocates Transparency in Pension Administration
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has called on Pension administrators to institutionalize transparency in order to sustain public confidence in pension funds as investment instruments. Gov...
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has called on Pension administrators to institutionalize transparency in order to sustain public confidence in pension funds as investment instruments. Gov...
Reps insist on 2013 budget implementation
The House of Representatives may not pass the fresh N72 billion 2013 Amendment Bill forwarded to the National Assembly last week by President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chairman of the House Committee on Medi...
The House of Representatives may not pass the fresh N72 billion 2013 Amendment Bill forwarded to the National Assembly last week by President Goodluck Jonathan. The Chairman of the House Committee on Medi...
'Spend your wealth to uplift orphans'- Maria Adeleke
An Ilorin-based octogenarian, Mrs Maria Adeleke, has urged Nigerians to always spend their wealth towards the upliftment of the orphans and motherless children in order to make the society a better place to liv...
An Ilorin-based octogenarian, Mrs Maria Adeleke, has urged Nigerians to always spend their wealth towards the upliftment of the orphans and motherless children in order to make the society a better place to liv...
Insecurity: Kwara plans special task force
The Kwara State Government is planning a special security task force that will comprise of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Police and the State Security Service (SSS) as part of the measures to tackle criminal activities in th...
The Kwara State Government is planning a special security task force that will comprise of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Police and the State Security Service (SSS) as part of the measures to tackle criminal activities in th...
Atunwa Canvasses Financial Autonomy for Legislature
The Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, Hon. Rasaq Atunwa, has advocated full financial autonomy for the legislature in states to enable them deliver dividends of democracy. Atunwa made the call on Thursday in Il...
The Speaker, Kwara House of Assembly, Hon. Rasaq Atunwa, has advocated full financial autonomy for the legislature in states to enable them deliver dividends of democracy. Atunwa made the call on Thursday in Il...
Prof. Oba Abdulraheem's Battle of Survival
For Professor Oba Abdulraheem, the battle to retain his job as chairman of the Federal Character Commission, transcends thriving on stewardship, writes Shola Oyeyipo These are certainly not t...
For Professor Oba Abdulraheem, the battle to retain his job as chairman of the Federal Character Commission, transcends thriving on stewardship, writes Shola Oyeyipo These are certainly not t...
New Offa Poly Governing Council Promises Academic Excellence, Staff Welfare
The newly inaugurated Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa (FEDPOFFA), Kwara State, has promised to ensure that the polytechnic continues to produce wellrounded graduates and also improve workers' welfa...
The newly inaugurated Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa (FEDPOFFA), Kwara State, has promised to ensure that the polytechnic continues to produce wellrounded graduates and also improve workers' welfa...
How Kwara Groom Youths Through Agriculture
The Malete Youth Integrated Training Farm Centre established by the Kwara state government is one of the measures introduced to arrest the menace of youth unemployment and engage the youths positively, thereby preventi...
The Malete Youth Integrated Training Farm Centre established by the Kwara state government is one of the measures introduced to arrest the menace of youth unemployment and engage the youths positively, thereby preventi...
Dogo out to upset Kwara United
ABS coach, Kabir Dogo has said his side will show dominance over city rivals, Kwara United in the Glo Premier League Matchday 21 game on Sunday at the Kwara State Stadium, llorin. Both sides shared honours in...
ABS coach, Kabir Dogo has said his side will show dominance over city rivals, Kwara United in the Glo Premier League Matchday 21 game on Sunday at the Kwara State Stadium, llorin. Both sides shared honours in...
Ahmed kicks against autonomy for LGs
Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has kicked against autonomy for local government councils in the country, saying that they lacked independent resources to sustain them. Ahmed noted that the much...
Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has kicked against autonomy for local government councils in the country, saying that they lacked independent resources to sustain them. Ahmed noted that the much...
Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway, others to be completed- Works Minister
The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, on Thursday said the Federal Government would complete all ongoing road projects, including the Oyo-Ogbomosho section of the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway. Mr. Onolememen st...
The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, on Thursday said the Federal Government would complete all ongoing road projects, including the Oyo-Ogbomosho section of the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway. Mr. Onolememen st...
KWSG threatens severe penalties for communal disputes over land
COMMUNAL disputes in Kwara State over land would henceforth be treated as criminal offences with severe penalties, the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has said. Ahmed said yesterday in Ilorin that t...
COMMUNAL disputes in Kwara State over land would henceforth be treated as criminal offences with severe penalties, the state Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has said. Ahmed said yesterday in Ilorin that t...
Opinion: The battle is of us, not of you! An open letter to Prof Oba Abu
By Abdullahi Abdulmajeed Ever since the controversies that heralded the re-appointment of Prof. Oba Abu vis-à-vis the alleged opposition of Dr. Bukola Saraki berthed, I have consciously opted to rem...
By Abdullahi Abdulmajeed Ever since the controversies that heralded the re-appointment of Prof. Oba Abu vis-à-vis the alleged opposition of Dr. Bukola Saraki berthed, I have consciously opted to rem...
'Nigeria spends N674b yearly on rice, sugar, fish imports' - Adesina
MINISTER of Agriculture and Food Security, Akinwunmi Adesina, has said that Nigeria spends N360 billion to import rice every year, N217 billion to import sugar annually and N97 billion on fish. The huge sum,...
MINISTER of Agriculture and Food Security, Akinwunmi Adesina, has said that Nigeria spends N360 billion to import rice every year, N217 billion to import sugar annually and N97 billion on fish. The huge sum,...
Opinion: Governor Ahmed's First Term or Governor Bukola's Third Term?
By Adebayo Abdulrasheed Since the election of Governor Ahmed of Kwara state on May 29th, 2011, there have been various arguments that the governor is not really the one in charge of affairs of governance in Kwara ...
By Adebayo Abdulrasheed Since the election of Governor Ahmed of Kwara state on May 29th, 2011, there have been various arguments that the governor is not really the one in charge of affairs of governance in Kwara ...
Kwara Poly expels 29 students for 'exam malpractice'
Authorities of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, have expelled 29 students for alleged examination malpractice during the last semester examinations for the 2012/2013 academic session. In a statement in Il...
Authorities of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, have expelled 29 students for alleged examination malpractice during the last semester examinations for the 2012/2013 academic session. In a statement in Il...
2013-07-04
Kwara govt to penalise 25 teachers over absenteeism
Kwara State Government has said it has concluded plans to penalise 25 primary school teachers over alleged absenteeism. Already, the affected teachers have been ordered to report at the State Universal Basic ...
Kwara State Government has said it has concluded plans to penalise 25 primary school teachers over alleged absenteeism. Already, the affected teachers have been ordered to report at the State Universal Basic ...
Police pledge adequate security for Kwara street soccer tourney
Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, the Kwara Commissioner of Police, on Wednesday assured the organiser of the maiden Kwara Five-A-Side Street Soccer event of adequate security. Oshodi-Glover gave th...
Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, the Kwara Commissioner of Police, on Wednesday assured the organiser of the maiden Kwara Five-A-Side Street Soccer event of adequate security. Oshodi-Glover gave th...
Kwara Police Boss Assures Residents of safety
Ilorin, July, 3, 2013 (NAN) The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, on Wednesday said that the command had redoubled its efforts to rid the state of criminal activities. The police boss...
Ilorin, July, 3, 2013 (NAN) The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Mr Agboola Oshodi-Glover, on Wednesday said that the command had redoubled its efforts to rid the state of criminal activities. The police boss...
Igbomina group eulogises late Kwara deputy governor
The death of the former deputy governor of Kwara State, Chief Ezekiel Oyeyipo, who recently passed away, has been described as a painful loss to all Kwarans. This assertion was made by the National P...
The death of the former deputy governor of Kwara State, Chief Ezekiel Oyeyipo, who recently passed away, has been described as a painful loss to all Kwarans. This assertion was made by the National P...
Communities enjoined to complement govt on education
Communities in Kwara State and their leaders have been charged to be alive to educational responsibilities in their various areas as part of measures to complement government efforts in the area of educational ...
Communities in Kwara State and their leaders have been charged to be alive to educational responsibilities in their various areas as part of measures to complement government efforts in the area of educational ...
Frenage Soccer Academy Mourns Late Thompson Oliha
Ibadan based soccer school Frenage Soccer Academy has commiserated with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the family of the former Super Eagles midfielder Thompson Oliha who passed away at the early hours of...
Ibadan based soccer school Frenage Soccer Academy has commiserated with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the family of the former Super Eagles midfielder Thompson Oliha who passed away at the early hours of...
Berende: SSS DG, Kwara director face court contempt
An Ilorin Federal High Court may jail the Director-General, DG, of the State Security Service, SSS and its Kwara State director for flouting its order to release a terror suspect, Abdullahi Berende. ...
An Ilorin Federal High Court may jail the Director-General, DG, of the State Security Service, SSS and its Kwara State director for flouting its order to release a terror suspect, Abdullahi Berende. ...
Youth Makes a Nation: Senator Saraki Meets With Representatives From Group Of Unemployed Nigerians
An assemblage of young diverse mind representing youths from the 774 local governments of the federation under the aegis of Group Of Unemployed Nigerians “Gun774 Movement” paid a courtesy call to...
An assemblage of young diverse mind representing youths from the 774 local governments of the federation under the aegis of Group Of Unemployed Nigerians “Gun774 Movement” paid a courtesy call to...
Citizens' Report: Best Literature Students in Schools to Get N5000 - Barrister Dada
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat, Ilorin A legal practitioner, Barrister Abiodun Dada has promised to award the sum of N5,000 to the best literature student in each secondary school across Kwara State. Barrister Dada mad...
By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat, Ilorin A legal practitioner, Barrister Abiodun Dada has promised to award the sum of N5,000 to the best literature student in each secondary school across Kwara State. Barrister Dada mad...
Opinion: Egyptians Sack Bad Government: Are Nigerians Watching?
By Suleiman Buhari A Tunisian street trader who was in debt and tried to keep his small business afloat, set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, in protest at the repeated confiscation of his goods. T...
By Suleiman Buhari A Tunisian street trader who was in debt and tried to keep his small business afloat, set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, in protest at the repeated confiscation of his goods. T...
2013-07-03
VC commends Gov Ahmed, as Kwara Scholarship Board visits OAU
The vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Ornole has commended the kwara State Governor Dr AbdulFatha Ahmed for his commitment and interest in Education. Professor Omole ma...
The vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Ornole has commended the kwara State Governor Dr AbdulFatha Ahmed for his commitment and interest in Education. Professor Omole ma...
Unilorin ASUU defies strike order
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin Chapter, yesterday stated that it has no apology to tender to the national body of the union on its stance to steer clear of the union's recurrent strike....
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ilorin Chapter, yesterday stated that it has no apology to tender to the national body of the union on its stance to steer clear of the union's recurrent strike....
Oliha's only regret was govt unfulfilled house promise - wife
•Calls of Sports Minister to fulfill promise •Mark condoles Oshiomhole By Celestine Okafor, Abuja and Oladeji Oluwafemi, Lagos ...
•Calls of Sports Minister to fulfill promise •Mark condoles Oshiomhole By Celestine Okafor, Abuja and Oladeji Oluwafemi, Lagos ...
Capacity building, motivation, key to productivity - Experts
Director, Administration/Registrar, Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, Mrs. Deborah Olalere, and the Permanent Secretary, Kwara State Teaching Service Commission, Ilorin, Chief Samuel Ayobola,have id...
Director, Administration/Registrar, Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies, Mrs. Deborah Olalere, and the Permanent Secretary, Kwara State Teaching Service Commission, Ilorin, Chief Samuel Ayobola,have id...
Construction, renovation of Kwara schools gulp N2 bn
Ilorin Kwara State government has spent over N2 billion on the construction, renovation and fabrication of furniture in the last two years. The chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB Alhaji Lanre ...
Ilorin Kwara State government has spent over N2 billion on the construction, renovation and fabrication of furniture in the last two years. The chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB Alhaji Lanre ...
Kwara seals off 6 medicine stores
The Kwara Government on Tuesday closed down six patent medicine stores for dispensing fake and counterfeit drugs in Offa and Ijagbo. The Chairman, Kwara Assembly Committee on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs, Hajiya ...
The Kwara Government on Tuesday closed down six patent medicine stores for dispensing fake and counterfeit drugs in Offa and Ijagbo. The Chairman, Kwara Assembly Committee on Fake and Counterfeit Drugs, Hajiya ...
My husband parades his concubines openly, aggrieved wife tells court
**The presiding judge dissolved the marriage and issued a certificate of divorce. An Ilorin Area Court on Tuesday dissolved a two-year-old marriage between oneLola Dare and Dare Adeku...
**The presiding judge dissolved the marriage and issued a certificate of divorce. An Ilorin Area Court on Tuesday dissolved a two-year-old marriage between oneLola Dare and Dare Adeku...
2013-07-02
Aggrieved remedial students besiege KWASU office over admission process
More than a hundred students, who took part in the just concluded pre-degree and remedial programme of the Kwara State University (KWASU), today besieged the University's contact office at Sango, Ilorin to express th...
More than a hundred students, who took part in the just concluded pre-degree and remedial programme of the Kwara State University (KWASU), today besieged the University's contact office at Sango, Ilorin to express th...
Oliha's last wish for Eagles, family
Certain events during his final days on earth suggest that former Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha, may have had a premonition that death was near, reports '...
Certain events during his final days on earth suggest that former Super Eagles midfielder, Thompson Oliha, may have had a premonition that death was near, reports '...
Educationist blames wrong spellings for failure in English language
** The educationist said students should be prevented from speaking vernacular in class. Oluwakemi Waniko, the Managing Director, Scholars’ Quiz, has blamed poor spelling ability for...
** The educationist said students should be prevented from speaking vernacular in class. Oluwakemi Waniko, the Managing Director, Scholars’ Quiz, has blamed poor spelling ability for...
Press Release: Saraki Completes Rehabilitation of Jalala-Gago Road, Tanke, Ilorin
As part of his constituency project to ameliorate the sufferings of the masses in the development of Infrastructures across Ilorin and its metropolis; the Chairman Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator A...
As part of his constituency project to ameliorate the sufferings of the masses in the development of Infrastructures across Ilorin and its metropolis; the Chairman Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator A...
Kwara Gov mourns Thompson Oliha
The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described as painful and shocking the unexpected death of former Super Eagles player, Mr Thompson Oliha (MON). Governor Ahmed in a condolence message signed by ...
The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described as painful and shocking the unexpected death of former Super Eagles player, Mr Thompson Oliha (MON). Governor Ahmed in a condolence message signed by ...
Man Bagged 12 Months Jail for Stealing Nokia Handset
An Ilorin Magistrates' Court on Monday sentenced Olaitan Adebayo to twelve months imprisonment for stealing a Nokia handset and N1500. The convict was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and th...
An Ilorin Magistrates' Court on Monday sentenced Olaitan Adebayo to twelve months imprisonment for stealing a Nokia handset and N1500. The convict was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and th...
Opinion: Kwara State And The Shared Prosperity Agenda
By Wale Bakare Africa is home to over one billion people who horde in and out of the continent in their multitude on a daily basis to escape the harsh conditions back home. Some of these reasons could be to seek bett...
By Wale Bakare Africa is home to over one billion people who horde in and out of the continent in their multitude on a daily basis to escape the harsh conditions back home. Some of these reasons could be to seek bett...
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