2013-06-27

Kwara commissioner donates borehole to community
kwara State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Olabode Olayemi has donated a hand pump borehole to the people of Gaa-Agbo community in Igbaja, Ifelodun Local Government Area of  the state....

KWABES trains 500 on public call office
As part of its continued support on youth empowerment, the Kwara State government through the KwabeS programme on Tuesday, trained about 500 youths during the formal opening ceremony of the GLO Public Call Office (PC...

LG boss blasts Sarah Jibril's assessment of Kwara
The remarks of Special Adviser to the President on Ethics and Values, Dr. (Mrs.) Sarah Jibril about development in Kwara State have been described as unscientific and unfounded. Chairman, Patigi Local Gover...

Court dismisses suit against Ilorin varsity vice chancellor
A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin and presided by Justice Olayinka Faaji has dismissed the suit filed by a former law Prof. Rasheed Ijaodola, against the appointment of Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali as the Vice Chanc...

Saraki, Abdulraheem feud and the Kwara PDP
Although the PDP in Kwara State has denied the existence of crisis within the party, the cold war between Senator Bukola Saraki and chairman of Federal Character Commission (FCC), Professor Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem, s...

Ilorin Emirate council moves to reconcile Saraki, Abdulraheem
The Ilorin Emirate Council has begun moves to broker peace between former Governor Bukola Saraki and the chairman of Federal Character Commission (FCC), Professor Shuaib Abdulraheem, investigations by Daily Trust hav...

Drug Abuse: Kwara to resuscitate Quality Control Laboratories
The Kwara State Government is to resuscitate Quality Control Laboratories in the State for testing the efficiency and genuineness of pharmaceutical productions, processed foods and drinks in its stride to curtail dru...

2013-06-26

Gov Ahmed condemns political violence
The Governor of Kwara State, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on the Nigerian Police, Kwara State Command, to carry out thorough investigation of the alleged attempt by some gun ...

Merger: Kwara CPC,ANPP warn members against impostors
Kwara State chapter of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) have warned members of the parties and general public against some unauthorised people going round the state...

Increasing abuse of psychoactive substances worries NDLEA
The Kwara State Commandant, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Mr. Olusegun Oke, has expressed worries over increasing abuse of new psychoactive substances (NPs). He also noted that there had been a nu...

Politician charged with rape of 5-year-old girl
Kwara state Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin, has remanded a 35 -year old ex-Councillorship aspirant in Yagba West local government area of Kogi state, simply identified as Sunday Gbenga, for allegedly raping ...

Kwara group backs Mimiko's stance on NGF
The President of Akoko Development Union, Kwara State chapter, Steve Ajulo, has described the recent stance of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on the Nigeria Governors' Forum as a true reflection of the wish a...

Omu-Aran Banks To Re-open, One Month After Robbery Attacks
Some commercial banks in Omu-Aran, Kwara, that were closed for more than one month after armed robbery attack may re-open to customers soon. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that armed robbers, had on...

2013-06-25

Opinion - Belgore: A challenge to status quo
By Abdullahi Ishaq As the Kwara State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain, Mr. Dele Belgore (SAN), celebrates his birthday today, ABDULLAHI ISHAQ examines his contributions as a legal giant and irrepre...

NDLEA arrests 148 drug suspects in Kwara
The Kwara State Command of the National Drugs Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested 148 suspected drugs peddler in the last one year. During the period, the agency seized 898.715 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa (I...

'500, 000 Nigerian children go blind every year'- Prof. Olantinwo
The Chief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Professor Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, has blamed the high rate of blindness among children on parents' negligence. He said it was due to negligence ...

Unilorin VC, others raise fund for student's kidney transplant
Ilorin -The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, Monday, rescued one of his students, a renal patient from the throes of death when he donated N2.5 million towards his treatment...

Tragedy as student is electrocuted to death in Ilorin
It was a day of sorrow to the family of Adeyanju on the loss of their first son James Tolu Adeyanju, a 25 year old student of the college of management information technology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, who w...

Communal clash: Court remands Oniganmo and Oluganna in prison
A Magistrate's Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has remanded in prison custody two traditional rulers of Ganmo, Ifelodun Local Government Area. The two monarchs are: Oniganmo of Ganmo and Olu...

Attack On Former Offa LG Boss, A False Alarm - Kwara PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has described media reports about alleged attack by gunmen on the former Chairman of Offa Local Government Area and a member of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Prince...

Belgore is 52 today.
Mohammed Dele Belgore, the 2011 Kwara governorship aspirant on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), is fifty-two years old today. Dele Belgore was born on June 25, 1961. He had his Primary education at Ca...

2013-06-24

KWSG to establish world class soil and agricultural laboratory.
The Kwara State Government is to spend about three hundred million naira on the establishment of a World class soil and water Agricultural laboratory to serve as a roadmap for Agricultural development in the State....

Oyeyipo, former Dep Gov dies at 81
The death has occurred of Chief Ezekiel Adeyemi Ore Oyeyipo, a former Deputy Governor of Kwara State. A statement issued by the family indicated that Chief Oyeyipo passed on on Friday at the age of 81 years....

Baraje promises efficient railway
The Chairman, Governing Council of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has disclosed his plan to build an efficient railway system that can compete favorably with rail transportation anywhere in...

Constitution will decide PDP zoning, automatic ticket - Baraje
Former Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has said the party's constitution will decide the zoning of the presidential candidate of the party for 2015 or the agitation for p...

Three arrested over attempt to assassinate LG boss
Three men in Offa, Kwara State, were at the weekend, arrested by military men while allegedly attempting to assassinate former Chairman of Offa Local Government, Alhaji Saheed Popoola. Popoola, an Action Congre...

Group condemns dynasty rule in Kwara
A Pressure group, known as the Kwara Leadership Caucus, KLC, has condemned the current state of governance in Kwara State, insisting that it will work to destroy the Saraki dynasty. The group which described ...

Don't increase rent rate, Baga shop owners begs Kwara govt
Shop owners in Baga, Jebba town, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, have appealed to the state government not to increase the rent of shops erected by Shaaba Lafiagi administration in 1992. The govern...