2012-12-21

Police Arrest 15 Undergraduates for Robbery
Police in Ekiti State have arrested 15 polytechnic students for armed robbery. The students were said to have carried out some operations on December 14 using a white bus with number plate SUG 002 Thunder Attac...

Letter - Re: Christmas Bonus Tears Kwara United Board Apart
I am Prince Taiwo Ibrahim, the Website/ Information Manager Kwara United Football Club. This is to inform you that the post "Christmas Bonus Tears Kwara United Apart" is wrong information. This Media officer of the Club A...

Ahmed's 2013 Budget Speech to Kwara House
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Christmas Bonus Tears Kwara United Board Apart
The Board members of Kwara United United Football Club of Ilorin on Tuesday threw caution to the wind as they went for one another's jugular fighting publicly over sharing formula of monetary allocation in the name of ...

Senate Committee Hails Kwara on Ilorin Airport Cargo Shed
Senate Committee on Aviation has commended the Kwara State government on the cargo terminal shed it built at the Ilorin International Airport at the state capital. The committee made the commendation after insp...

FoI Act Will Help Win Anti-Graft War - Kwara Speaker
Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulrasaq Atunwa has said the fight against corruption in Nigeria will be difficult to win if the Freedom of Information Act is not made totally applicable. Atunw...

Communities are Feeling our Impact on Road, Power - Kwara Govt
On December 19, 2011, Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed presented his government's budget estimates to lawmakers in the state. He told them he wanted to spend N11.5 billion on the construction and rehabilitation of roads in vari...

Kwara Residents Worry over Refuse Contractors' Performance
Residents of Ilorin in Kwara State on Thursday expressed worry over the non-availability of waste bin facilities in the metropolis. Findings by our correspondent showed that about 19 companies were contracted b...

FCMB Cleans Up Kwara
First City Monument Bank Plc (FCMB) will today embark on an environmental sanitation exercise in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, in furtherance to its environmental sustainability project tagged "Committed to Gree...

Ilorin's Finest Hour
Vice-President Namadi Sambo led eminent personalities to commission the newly renovated Ilorin Central Juma'at Mosque, Ilorin in Kwara State on Sunday. ADEKUNLE JIMOH reports. The big men were there in large nu...

PDP Kwara Replies ACN on Accusation of Appellate Session of Bias
The Peoples Democratic Party view the alleged bias by the Appellate Session of the High Court sitting in Kwara over Offa Council Chairmanship Election by Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in our favour as an unguarded...

2012-12-20

Council Chairman Charges Appointees to be Dedicated to Work
The Chairman of Offa local government of Kwara state has on Tuesday sworn in new members of cabinet which includes the secretary of the local government, supervisors and special assistant on poverty alleviation. ...

ARMTI Wants Incentives for Farmers
The Executive Director of Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Mr. Samuel Afolayan has canvassed more incentives to Nigerian youth towards encouraging them to adopt farming as a profess...

Saraki: Standing Up to be Counted at 50
At 50 years old, he is one of the few personages of his generation who have been decorated in some of the most imaginable phrases: 'the strongman of Kwara', 'the new Kwara kingmaker', 'the new godfather', 'new Lord of the...

Kwara Proposes N94.4b for 2013
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has presented a budget proposal of N94.4billion for the 2013 fiscal year, representing a 10 per cent increase over last year's projection of N85.1b. Presenting th...

Senate Urge FG to Recognise Ilorin's Cargo Terminal
The Chairman Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has called on the Federal Government to recognise and consider the nearly completed Ilorin Cargo Terminal in its effort to encourage agricultural sector...

Why We Stopped Degree Programmes in Colleges of Education - Kwara Govt
The Kwara Government on Wednesday said it stopped degree programmes in the state's Colleges of Education because the institutions were losing focus on the purpose for their establishment. Alhaji Aliyu Mohammed-...

Kwara to Partner with Comunitiy, Religious Bodies to Eradicate Poverty
The Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has reiterated the commitment of his administration to partner with community and religious associations in its effort to eradicate poverty and improve the well being ...

Kwara ACN Accuses Court of Bias in Council Chairmanship Election Petition
THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has expressed serious doubt over the ability of the Kwara State Session of the High Court to do justice in the appeal filed by the party against the decision of the Election Petitio...

Air Mishap Averted on Ilorin-Lagos Route
Smarting from the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of former Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi, and four others last Saturday in Bayelsa State, the ...

2012-12-19

Bukola Saraki and Kwara Politics: What Future?
The political career of Dr. Bukola Saraki is quite rich. He has been a presidential aide, governor, chairman of Governors' Forum and now a Senator. Deputy Political Editor EMMANUEL OLADESU writes on the car...

NEMA Provides Relief Materials to Flood Victims in Kwara
The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday in IIorin presented relief materials worth millions of naira to flood victims in Kwara State. The materials were presented by the NEMA Zonal Coordinator, Mr...

Saraki at 50: Emergence of New Kwara Kingmaker
In 2002 at the height of the violent political debacle between former Kwara state governor, late Alhaji Mohammed Lawal and his political godfather, Dr. Olusola Saraki, the late political warlord made a "strange" decision:...

Kwara Cautions Transporters, Okada Operators
Kwara State Government has urged transport operators, especially commercial motorcyclists and other road users, to be more safety conscious and avoid acts that can lead to road crashes. The Special Adviser to th...

Translate Constitution to Local Languages, National Assembly Urged
Pastor of the Holy Ghost Harvest Church Ilorin, Rev. Yinka Adedokun , has urged the National Assembly Constitution Review Committee to ensure that the new constitution is translated into three Nigerian major languages....

Consumers Owe PHCN N1.7bn in Ilorin
Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, Baboko Business Unit, in Ilorin, Kwara State, is being owed about N1.7 billion by electricity consumers in the area. The district comprises Sawmill, Adeta, Poly and Sobi. ...

Ilorin Residents Raise Alarm over Abandonment of Refuse
The residents of Ilorin have on Tuesday called on the state government to prevail on the Kwara State Waste Management Corporation (KWMC) through the Kwara State Environmental Protection Agency to as a matter of urgency...

Doctor Bukola Saraki Golf Championship Called Off
The annual "Doctor Bukola Saraki golf open championship" will not be coming up this year as expected. Revealing this at a press conference held this week at the Ilorin Golf club; sponsor of the golfi...

Reps to Investigate Abandoned Road in Kwara
House of Representatives say the abandoned rehabilitation of the Lambata–Bida-Mokwa-Jebba-Ilorin Federal Highway must be investigated. The House of Representative...

My Husband Behaves Like a Woman, Wife Tells Court
A 38-year-old housewife, Amudatu Nafiu, on Tuesday prayed an Ilorin Area Court to dissolve her marriage to her husband, Kareem, on the grounds that he behaves like a woman. Nafiu of Okelele area of Ilorin told ...

Omu Aran: Court Admits 51-Year-Old to Bail over Alleged Rape
An Upper Area Court in Omu-Aran, Kwara, on Tuesday admitted to bail a 51-year-old trader, Yinusa Idris, accused of allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl. Idris, an engine oil retailer, who resides at Igangu C...

Oladuntoye Begs Afonja Fans
Kwara United defender, Isiaka Oladuntoye is positive that his side are ready to challenge for the NPL title in the coming 2012/13 season. Oladuntoye, 22, told supersport.com that United's new gaffer, Samson Unu...

Saraki: Between Leadership, Power and Service
A remarkable feature of the 2011 governorship election in Kwara State was the contest between the outgoing governor, now Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki and his illustrious father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, the strongman of K...

Kwara Academy will Arrest Rot in Nigerian Table Tennis, Says Lasisi
Nigeria's former national table tennis champion, Kasali Lasisi, has revealed that the Kwara State government is building a table tennis academy in Ilorin to arrest the slide in the fortune of the game. Lasisi, ...

Kwara Moves to Save Capital Flight with Diagnostic Centre
Health is wealth goes the popular saying. It is also an incontestable fact that the wealth of any society is determined by its healthy workforce. An environment plagued either by sick or unhealthy workforce will not be...

2012-12-18

Man, 26, in Court for Allegedly Stabbing Motorcyclist
A 26-year-old unemployed man, Taye Adeoye, was on Monday arraigned before an Omu-Aran Area Court in Kwara for allegedly stabbing one Biodun Babalola in the neck. The accused, who had no fixed address, is sta...

Kwara Spends N19m on Hospital, Empowerment Scheme
The Kwara State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Dr. Abubakar Amuda-Kannike, has urged public office holders, philanthropists, corporate organisations and donor agencies to pay more attention to community developm...

Gov Ahmed Congratulates Gen Buhari at 70
The Governor of Kwara State, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described former Head of State and presidential flag bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari as a gallant military officer and g...

PDP Warns ACN Not to Turn Kwara to Battle Ground
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has warned the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the State not to turn Kwara State, known as the State of Harmony, in to a battle field for political thuggery. ...

Kwara Rehabilitated 400 Classrooms in 2012 - Ahmed
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Monday, said the state government rehabilitated about 400 classrooms at the basic and senior secondary school levels in 2012. A statement by the Chief Press Sec...

Kwara Football Academy Vows to Successfully Defend Shell Cup Title
The Kwara Football Academy said on Monday that it had prepared adequately to retain the 2013 NNPC/Shell Cup Soccer Competition title it won this year. The Academy's Chief Coach, Amusa Adisa, told newsmen in Ilorin that th...