2012-07-04

Federal allocation: Kwara warns against impending financial crisis
The Kwara State Commissioner for Finance Mr. Demola Banu has warned against impending financial crisis in many states of the federation over late release of federal allocations. Banu who made the call in Ilorin while ...

Kwara Assembly wants more feeder roads in Ilorin
Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, to construct feeder roads in Ilorin, the state capital, to check the increasing traffic congestion in the metropolis. A member...

Kwara's shameful GDP and her political leadership
By Ishaq Abdullah The last few days have been somewhat depressing for me as a freeborn of Kwara State – no thanks to a newsletter I received from one of the online pan-African groups sarcastically titled 'th...

Kano Pillars 2 - 1 ABS FC
Nigeria Premier League Week 33 Result: Kano Pillars 2 - 1 ABS FC...

Kwara United 2 - 0 Sharks
Nigeria Premier League Week 33 Result: Kwara United 2 - 0 Sharks...

Saraki: Why I Initiated Fuel Subsidy Probe
Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Monday said his concern for the future of the economy of the country amongst others prompted him to raise the motion which led to the probe of o...

Nursing mothers advised on breast feeding
Nursing mothers in the country have again been advised to embrace exclusive breast feeding to ensure healthy growth of their children. A promotion expert with the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Internation...

Atte Anuoluwapo wins Kwara spelling bee 2012
The Kwara State Banquet hall, the largest government event place brimmed with passion and tension in the contest of giants in the nebulous art of spelling like a bee. It was the grand finale of the Great Kwara Spellin...

Workshop in Ilorin: FG can’t resolve unemployment problem alone - NDE
The Director-General, National Directorate of Employment, Mallam Abubakar Muhammed, has said that there is the need for a collaborative synergy between the federal, state and local governments and other stakeholders in...

Oloyede seeks special study on Boko Haram
Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has canvassed academic solutions to the problems of insecurity in some northern states. Oloyede believes that if the security agencie...

2012-07-03

Senate Okays Removal Of Federal Character Commissioner
The Senate has endorsed the removal of Alhaji Muhammadu Gwaska as Commissioner representing Nasarawa State in the Federal Character Commission (FCC). The Senate's approval followed its consideration of the report of...

Gov. Ahmed effects minor cabinet reshuffle
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Tuesday moved four commissioners around in a minor cabinet reshuffle. A statement from the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka ...

Kwara Pledges Quality Education
The Kwara Government is committed to ensuring availability of skilled manpower through the provision of quality education, the Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Mallam Raji Mohammed, has said....

Utterances on possible break-up of Nigeria irrresponsible - NLC
Vice-President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Issa Aremu, has described the utterances of some Nigerian leaders over a possible break-up of the country as a result of Boko Haram insurgency as &qu...

Kwara primary health care registration card bill reduces by 90%
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has approved the immediate reduction of the cost of registration cards at primary health care centres in the state from N200 to N20. Making the announcement in...

Man escapes death at GSS round about
A middle ade man, whose identity could not be ascertained, Friday, narrowly escaped death at Government Secondary School Ilorin (GSS) round-about along old-Jebba road, Ilorin, Kwara State. The man, who appeare...

Prof. Hassan Saliu raises the alarm over resurgence of cultism
A lecturer in the University of Ilorin, Prof. Hassan Saliu, has called on governments at various level to make concerted efforts aimed at curbing the resurgence of cultism in Nigerian tertiary institu...

Flood: Kwara Begins Besilting Of Drains
To check flooding, the Kwara Government has embarked on desilting of drains to ensure free flow of water in Ilorin metropolis. Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara said this on Monday during an interactive session wi...

Woman Arrested for Kidnapping in Offa
The "weaker vessel" tag on women could not restrain a woman in Offa from joining the inglorious business of kidnapping. Luck ran out of a middle-aged woman who was accused of involvement in the kidna...

Kwara: It's good here
It was Democracy Day in Nigeria recently and there was no shortage of celebration at the presidency and the State Houses. In Kwara State, it was low-key. To be sure, there was no dearth of projects to commissio...

Kwara Assembly poll: ACN to challenge results in court
Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has rejected the result of last Saturday\'s rerun election into the House of Assembly. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the candidate...

2012-07-02

State creation should not be priority in Constitution review - Bukola Saraki
Former Kwara State governor, Bukola Saraki, said on Friday that state creation should not be the priority on issues to be considered in the constitution review. Saraki, who is representing Kwara Central Se...

300 benefit from NEMA intervention in Kwara - What they got
No fewer than 300 residents of different local governments in Kwara State on Friday benefited from the National Emergency Management Agency\'s disaster response and intervention. ...

Surveyors' Conference in Ilorin: Baiyeshea (SAN) advises surveyors on professional practice
An appeal has gone to surveyors in the country to guard against unprofessional practice of surveying same plot of land for different or contending parties. A former NBA Chairman in Kwara State, John Baiyeshea (...

Banu warns of impending financial crisis
The Kwara State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Demola Banu, has warned of an impending financial crisis in many states of the federation over late release of federal allocation by the Federal Government. Spe...

PDP wins Kwara N/West constituency rerun
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the rerun of the House of Assembly in Oloje and Alanamu wards of Ilorin West-North constituency of Kwara State. Candidate of the party in the rerun, Abdulfatah Babakin...

2012-07-01

Update - Ilorin N/Worth Constituency: PDP defeats ACN
Nigeria's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Abdulfatah Salman, was on Sunday declared winner of June 30, re-run Kwara State House of Assembly election. The PDP candidate polled 25,708 to defeat his closest riv...

Corporate organisations charged on grassroots development
AS part of measures to develop grassroots sports,  Kwara state commissioner for Sports, Mr. Kayode Towou, has called on corporate organisation to emulate MILO by investing on youths development through sports. ...

Need To Subject Security Votes To Scrutiny - Bayeshea
John Bayeshea (SAN) is an Ilorin-based legal practitioner noted for his penchant for Human Rights cases and related issues. He spoke to ABIODUN FAGBEMI in Ilorin on the issues of Security Votes and State Policing System a...

Technology, Processing Have Made Cassava Very Safe
THE Executive Director of Agricultural Management and Training Institute (ARMTI) Ilorin, Mr. Samuel Afolayan has rated the cassava-supplement baked food as richer and safer for consumption for diabetes' patients than the ...

Succour for Kwara rainstorm victims
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has put smiles on the faces of the victims of recent rainstorm in Baruten, Asa, Ilorin West, Ilorin East and Moro LGAs of Kwara State as relief materials were distribut...

GSS Ilorin wins 14th Nestle Milo Basketball tourney
Government Secondary School (GSS)Ilorin has won the 14th Milo male secondary Schools Basketball category for the north central zone of Nigeria which was held in Kwara State indoor stadium. The Kwara state team def...

Kwara Targets Economic, Food Security With Agric Masterplan
The recent launch of the Kwara State's agricultural master plan promises to significantly turn around the state's economy. However, economic analysts say it's also a wake-up call to other states to fashion out a...

Ilorin N/Worth Constituency: PDP defeats ACN
The People's Democratic Party candidate, Alhaji Fatai Salman, in the Ilorin North-West State Constituency rerun election held yesterday defeated the Action Congress of Nigeria candidate, Mr Kayode Aiyelabegan. Announc...

ACN: Kwara bye-election marred by violence
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has rejected the conduct of the Saturday re-run election in Ilorin North-West State Constituency.  Mr Kayode Aiyelabegan, the ACN candidate for the election, said in a sta...

Kwara rerun peaceful - PDP; A sham - ACN
THE rerun election in the two wards of Ilorin North-West LGA for the Kwara State House of Assembly witnessed a large turn out in the 60 polling units in the Balogun Alanamu and Oloje areas of Ilorin where the electio...