2012-11-23

FG Sets Aside N9.7b for Flood Recovery Food Production
The federal government has approved the sum of N9.7 billion to the 'national flood recovery food production plan' nationwide, it was learnt yesterday. Under the fund, government also plans to distribute a tota...

Kwara Aim for Festival Football Gold
Head Coach of Kwara men's football team to Eko 2012, Mashood Adebayo has said to supersport.com that his wards would win gold at the multi-sports fiesta in Lagos. The 18th National Sports Festival is expected t...

Kwara Begins Vaccination of Dogs Against Rabies
The Kwara state government yesterday began dog vaccination to stem rabies infection in the state. Twelve of the animals were injected with anti-rabies vaccine in Omu Aran at the launch of a sensitisation campaign organ...

Kwara Pays Athletes' Outstanding Allowances
The Kwara Government has paid all the outstanding allowances of the state athletes ahead of their trip to the 18th National Sports Festival in Lagos. Coach Tunde Kazeem, Director of the State Sports Council, di...

Gov. Ahmed Wants Kwara People to Sustain Saraki's Legacy
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has urged indigenes of the state to join hands with his administration to sustain the legacy of late Dr Olusola Saraki. He made the call when he received Prince Samuel Adedoyin, t...

Ahmed Urges Northern Leaders to Collaborate over Insecurity
The Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has called on the leadership of the north to close ranks in order to find solutions to the social and security challenges bedeviling the zone. Ahmed made the c...

'Revive Technical Schools to Engage Youths in Rural Areas' - Elelu
Government at all levels have been urged to revive technical schools across the country to serve as catchment areas for admission into Polytechnics in Nigeria. Presenting a paper entitled: "Repositioning e...

2012-11-22

Kwara Sends over 100 Athletes to Eko 2012
One hundred and thirteen athletes will represent Kwara State at the 18th National Sports Festival holding in Lagos from November 27th-December 9th. The State Director of Sports, Coach Tunde Kazeem said this in ...

Shoprite Opens New Outlet in Ilorin
Shoprite, one of the biggest retail stores in the country, is to open its new flagship store today in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, thereby fulfilling its promise to establish outlets in different parts of the count...

Flood Crisis: Implications for Agric and Food Security in Nigeria
The flood incidences that plagued our country several weeks ago resulting in a national disaster have been difficult to forget. For many who saw their means of livelihood washed away as they tried to keep their very li...

Cleric Advises Lawal's Family Not to Join Politics
A prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Habeebullah El-Ilory, has advised members of former Kwara State governor, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal's family, not to join partisan politics for now. Delivering a sermon at a pray...

2012-11-21

KWASU Marks Global Entrepreneurship Week
FOCUS on Entrepreneurship for Community Development as KWASU marks Global Entrepreneurship Week. The Vice - Chancellor of the Kwara State University, Professor AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, has reiter...

Proposed Moses Orimolade University in Omu-Aran
Moses Orimolade Tunolase was born in 1879 at Ikare, now in Ondo State. He was the founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church and originator of Pentecostal Church in Nigeria. He began his evangelism in 1916 from his h...

Unilorin to Offer Course in Chinese Language
The University of Ilorin on Tuesday said it would commence teaching of Chinese (Mandarin) language. The University, which resolved the issue at its 23rd meeting of the Senate held in Ilorin, said that preparati...

Tukur, Amaechi, Uduaghan in Ilorin, Say Nigerians Will Miss Saraki
The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Alh. Bamanga Tukur, and the chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday said that the late Second Republic S...

Gov Ahmed Consoles Jonathan over Loss of Brother
The Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has described as shocking the death of President Goodluck Jonathan's younger brother, Mr. Meni Jonathan. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji...

Crashes: FRSC Records 19 Deaths in Omu-Aran in 11 Months
Mr Suleiman Mohammed, the Omu-Aran Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in Kwara, on Tuesday said that the unit recorded 19 deaths in road traffic crashes. Mohammed told the News Agency of Niger...

2012-11-20

Kwara Utd Signs Three New Players
NPL Club, Kwara United have completed the signing of three mid fielders from Nigeria National League (NNL) Club, Prime FC. The Players are Sunday Taiwo, Taiwo Mayegun and Samuel Adegbenro. United team m...

Senate Wants Ilorin Airport Renamed after Saraki
The Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to rename the Ilorin International Airport after Second Republic Senate Leader, Sen. Olusola Saraki. The Senate also resolved to send a high powered delegatio...

Buhari is our Leader - IBB
Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) was yesterday described as a leader who must be respected in line with military tradition. General Ibrahim Babangida made the remark yesterday when three for...

Saraki the Father, Saraki the Son?
There were at least two ennobling traits in the private life of Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki (1933-2012) that public figures today can imbibe to strengthen their homes and enrich the polity: religious tolerance and comp...

There is Hope for Nigeria - Ribadu
The Action Congress of Nigeria presidential candidate in the 2011 elections, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Monday assured Nigerians that there was hope for the country to overcome its multiple problems. Ribadu gave th...

IBB, Buhari, Abubakar, Ribadu, Others Pay Tribute to Saraki
Three former Heads of State, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar, were among several other prominent Nigerians that paid glowing tributes to the late political icon and Waziri of Ilorin, Dr. Abu...

NYSC: Tales of a Kwara Corper
My first day outside Yikpata camp in Kwara state as I recall it now was not so much to be happy about. I recall not wanting to do anything asides from update myself on what had been going on in the world on the web (th...

IBB Extols Saraki, Says Nigerians Should Emulate Him
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, former Military President, has called on Nigerians to emulate the unique qualities of the late Waziri of Ilorin, Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki. Babangida described the second republic senat...

PhD is a Must for Professorship - NUC
The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Monday reaffirmed that Doctorate degree (Ph.D) was a prerequisite for the attainment of professorship in the nation's university system. Prof. Julius Okojie, the Ex...

Kwara Inaugurates Committee on Agriculture Master Plan
An 11-man committee to implement the Kwara State Agriculture Master Plan (KAMP) has been inaugurated by the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, with a charge to work diligently to ensure the aims of food security ...

With Clean Oil Sector, No Need for Subsidy Removal - Ribadu
Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has said that with a clean and sanitised oil and gas sector, there will not be any need to remove subsidy on oil. Spea...