2013-02-27

Opinion - Offa Grammar School at 70: Lessons in Vision
By Siraj Oyewale What do these men have in common: Oladele Olasore, David Jemibewon, Alani Akinrinade, and Isa Ayo Salami? Forthrightness and integrity? Yes. But to us old students of Offa Grammar School, Offa, Kwara ...

Belgore Flays FG's Anti-Graft War
Governorship candidate for the Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 election in Kwara State, Mr. Dele Belgore, has accused the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of lack of commitment to the anti-graf...

Berende Not a Terrorist - Family
Members of the Berende family of Ile-Are in Idi-Ape, Ilorin East local government area of Kwara state have vouched for Abdullahi Mustapha Berende who was paraded last week by the State Security Service (SSS) as Nigeria...

NURHI Launches Rapid Response Initiative on Family Health Care
The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI), a non-governmental organization, on Monday launched its “72 hours make over” at Okelele Health Centre, to improve family planning services in the s...

USAID, Cornell Varsity, KWSG Partner to Grow Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Cornell University, USA and the Kwara State Government yesterday entered into a tripartite agreement to further enhance the commercial farming in the stat...

Surveyor-General Denies Misconduct on Offa/Erin-Ile Boundary
The Surveyor-General of Kwara State, Mr. Lamidi Oyebode, yesterday said that part of the measures taken by the state government to bring lasting solution to the recurrence of the communal clashes between Offa and Erin-...

Church Set Ablaze in Ilorin
The Prayer, Faith and Miracle Ministry, a church located at Asa Dam area in Ilorin was yesterday burnt down by yet to be identified people. The church, which is also known as Ori-Oke Majemu Agbara was said to have been...

Kwara Sacks 35 Workers over Certificate Forgery
The Kwara state government has sacked 35 civil servants for certificate forgery and may soon charge them to court for the inappropriate act. The state Head of Service, Dabarako Muhammad announced this in an int...

Athletics Association of Kwara Organises Secondary School Competition
The Kwara State chapter of the Athletics Association of Nigeria is organising a three-day athletics championship for secondary schools in the state with the aim of grooming the youths for future leadership. The...

Kwara Rrainstorm Victims Get N11m Relief Materials
Kwara State government, yesterday, gave relief materials worth N11 million to the victims of rainstorm in Ilorin. It would be recalled that the first rainfall two weeks ago blew off rooftops of several building...

2013-02-26

Illegal aliens, traditional ruler nabbed for felling trees
The Kwara State Forestry Monitoring Committee has arrested 15 foreigners for alleged felling of economic trees in the state. The suspects who were said to be illegal aliens from Niger Republic were arrested  a...

Govs, stakeholders, in London, woo investors
NIGERIA’S vast investment potential came to the fore at the weekend as governors and stakeholders wooed participants at the two-day second Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) business investment forum and exhibit...

Kwara: NPC to embark on scientific random selection of households
The National Population Commission (NPC) has concluded arrangements to embark on scientific random selection of 45 households in Kwara State for the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Speaki...

FG Committed to Implementing HYPPADEC Act, Kuchi Assures
The Minister of State for Power, Hajiya Zainab Kuchi, has said that the Federal Government is committed to implementing contents of the Hydro Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) Act of 2010 as part ...

2013-02-25

How bye-law sparked off Kwara COED crisis
Strong indications have emerged that the crisis rocking Kwara State College of Education (COED), Ilorin was fuelled by a bye-law allegedly introduced into the college system by its suspended Governing Council Chairma...

Boko Haram's West agenda will fail - AIG
The police have described the attempt by Boko Haram and its splinter faction, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan, to make an incursion into the South West as a failed mission. The Assistant Inspe...

Unilorin ASUU Dissociates Self From Court Ruling
Ilorin â€" Following the National Industrial Court (NIC) ruling sacking the Wahab Egbewole-led executive of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities(ASUU) University of Ilorin chapter, members of the union have pa...

Nigeria has many corrupt people — Ex ICPC boss
The former President Court of Appeal and pioneer Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other Crimes(ICPC) Justice Mustapha Akanbi has lamented the high number of corrupt people in Nigeria. The retired juris...

Four remanded for violating environmental laws
Four environmental law offenders were on Saturday remanded in Mandala Prison, while 26 others were fined between N5,000 N30,000.00 as part of measures to ensure compliance with environmental laws. The Commissioner ...

Kwara- Ministry begins clearing of illegal dumpsites
The Kwara State Ministry of Environment and Forestry has commenced clearing of illegal dumpsites, weeds and bushy setbacks and medians in designated areas in the Ilorin Metropolis. The Commissioner for Environment ...

Why Kwara adopted medium term sector strategy
As a determined government, Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed like his predecessor, former Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki when it came on board, had a retreat which served as road map for the administration  for the next fou...

Gov. Ahmed commiserates with Emir on Apaokagi's death
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed has commiserated with the Emir of Ilorin, His Royal Majesty, Alhaji Zulkarnaini Ibrahim Gambari, the Ilorin Emirate and the family of late islamic scholar and Mufti of Ilorin...

Kwara loses Grand Mufti of Ilorin
The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Mr Razaq Atunwa, has condoled with the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu-Gambari, Ansar-ul-Islam Society of Nigeria and Apaokagi family over the death of the Grand Mu...

Kwara Assembly seeks bill on Sharia Area Courts
The Kwara State House of Assembly is waiting for a bill to separate Area Courts from the conventional judicial system. However, those to be affected are the Area Courts handling Sharia cases whose matter would ...

Lawmakers want Kwara indigenes in Super Eagles
p>WORRIED by the absence of Kwara State indigenes in the squad of the Super Eagles, which recently won the African Cup of Nations in South Africa, two of the state’s members of the House of Representatives, Dr. Ahma...

PDP, APC set for epic battle
With 2015 silhouetted against the political skyline, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the soon â€"to-be registered All Progressives Congress (APC), look to engage each other in an epic political battle. And since...

At reception for Oloyede, Sultan tasks Muslims to be united
Muslims Abuja, Feb. 25, 2013 Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III has tasked the Muslim community in Nigeria to be united and tackle the numerous challenges facing the community. Sultan gav...

'We equip Nigerians to reap from commodities export'
Maxwell Umeokafor Obumneme, chief executive, Jocarol Nigeria Limited, a private limited liability company with two decades experience in commodities export highlights some of the issues in export business in this inter...

Nigeria: Golden Eaglets' Star Striker Loses Mum
The death of Mrs. Mercy Iheanacho, mother of Golden Eaglets' star striker, Kelechi Iheanacho, has been announced. The 43-year-old Mrs. Iheanacho reportedly passed away in the early hours of Thursday, February 2...

Lessons of Nations Cup Victory, By Abdullahi
Mallam  Bolaji Abdullahi, a former editor at THISDAY and one-time Commissioner for Education in Kwara State, is the Minister of Sport and Chairman, National Sport Council. In this interview with Tokunbo Adedoja, Olawa...

Kwara: Civil defence corps nabs 30-yr-old lady for running fake employment agency
KWARA State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 30-year-old woman, Lola Afolayan, for allegedly duping unsuspecting members of the public by operating an illegal employment ag...

Jonathan Splits Governors' Forum
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday night boycotted the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State by splitting the forum into another faction which it ca...

2013-02-24

Unilorin Don advocates review of academic grading system
Professor Isaac Olakanmi Abimbola of the Department of Science Education, University of Ilorin has advocated the jacking-up of grading system at all levels of education, saying that this would aid production of compete...

No sane PDP man will join APC now - Saraki
Senator Bukola Saraki, former governor of Kwara State and the heir of the Saraki political dynasty, in this interview with a Correspondent in Abuja, speaks on the ground-breaking statement of the Senate on...

NIC: UNILORIN ASUU passes vote of confidence on its leaders
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities,(ASUU) University of Ilorin chapter  have passed a vote of confidence on its chairman, Abdulwahab Egbewole and other executive off...

Berende family disown terror suspect
Members of Berende family of Ile Eleran at Eruda tuntun, Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, on Friday, disowned a terror suspect, Abdullahi Berende, who claimed to be a member of the family. 50-y...

Civil defence corps nabs 30-yr-old lady for running fake employment agency
KWARA State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested a 30-year-old woman, Lola Afolayan, for allegedly duping unsuspecting members of the public by operating an illegal employment ag...