2012-03-16

Ghastly accident at Police Road
An out-of-control truck ran into shops on Police Road this afternoon. The truck which was hauling cement lost control when the driver tried to negotiate the junction of Onikanga/Police Road. Fortunately no fatalities were...

Kwara Govt. makes new appointments
The Kwara State Government today appointed new chairmen for the governing councils of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin and Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS). Alhaji Musa Yeketi wa...

Kwara United Coach Says Home Draw's A Good Result
In spite of securing a 2-2 draw with visiting Niger Tornadoes FC on Wednesday in Abuja, Kwara United’s coach Tunde Sanni still had cause to be happy with the result. The week 14 match in the 2011/2012 N...

NYSC trains corps members on entrepreneurial skill
To reduce graduate unemployment and boost self reliance, the National Youth Service Corps has commenced exposing over 2,300 corps members in Kwara State to skill development ventures. The programme, according t...

Ilorin LG offers N1.29m for 41 Law students
About 41 indigent students of Nigeria Law School and two students pursuing their Masters Degree in Law, will benefit from a grant of N1.29 million presented to them by the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara Sta...

Magical Gwar haunts Kwara Utd again
Kwara United have started to pay for the sins of their fans as Niger Tornadoes became the first beneficiary of their banishment to the nation's capital, Abuja on Wednesday. Both teams have since remained rivals...

Lack of maintenance culture, bane of rural projects
Lack of maintenance culture of development projects in rural areas has been identified as the bane of sustainability of such projects in most rural communities of Nigeria. Speaking at a two-day sensitisation wo...

Kwara Assembly intervenes in Budo-Egba's erratic power supply
Following erratic power supply in Budo-Egba community in Ilorin, Kwara State, the state House of Assembly has urged Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, to direct the state Ministry of Energy, to supply appropriate transformer t...

2012-03-15

Bode-Saadu/Jebba road: LG chair, lawmakers solicit govt assistance
Chairman, Moro local government area of Kwara state, Alhaji Shuaib Baba Jimoh, and two lawmakers from the area, Hon. Raliat Aremu Adifa, and Hon. Iliasu Ibrahim, have appealed to the federal government to repair the dam...

Gombe United 1-1 ABS FC
Gombe United this evening payed a 1-1 draw with Abubakar Bukola Saraki Football Club in a Nigerian Premier League match. ...

Keep Environment Healthy, Govt Urges Kwarans
The Kwara State Government has called on people of the state to always make their environment clean and tidy, so as to prevent outbreak of diseases in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Abdul ...

Opinion: M. D. Belgore and the unfinished work in Kwara State by Is'haq Modibo Kawu
by IS'HAQ MODIBBO KAWU Last week, the Suprem Court affirmed that Abdulfatai Ahmed, was winner of the April 2011 gubernatorial election in Kwara state. The verdict effectively closed the judicial challenge which follo...

Flood claims 1,555 lives,N50 billion lost in 2010-NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency has said that flood disaster in the country in 2010 affected 23 states of the federation and killed about 1,555 people, while over N50 billion was lost to fire incident in 22 stat...

Baby, seven others die in Ilorin auto crash
An eight-month-old baby and seven others died on Monday night in an auto crash in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Many people were injured and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. The accident was said ...

Kwara will feed Nigeria soon - Ahmed
The Kwara State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mosila Group Limited for the establishment of a 600-tonne agro-processing complex in Share, Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.&nb...

Lawmakers seek urban planning for Ilorin
In an attempt to correct perceived improper planning of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the state House of Assembly has called on the state government to re-present the State Urban and Regional Planning Bill. ...

2012-03-14

Kwara unveils four-year plan to upgrade public schools
CONVENTIONAL and nomadic primary and secondary schools in Kwara State are to benefit from the state government’s 800-classroom renovation project. The scheme would be completed in four years. The exercise...

Sen. Adeyemi, Kwara Assembly Bicker Over Hotel
Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi and  the Kwara House of Assembly are in serious disagreements over alleged blockade of a stream occasioned by the former's investm...

Govt. Urged to Partner NGOs to Finance Rural Agriculture
Taiwo Toluyemi, a trainer with the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara, wants governments to partner with NGOs to finance rural farmers. Toluyemi, who was in Delta to coo...

Residents call for intervention over land dispute in Kwara
Residents of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero local government has appealed to the state House of Assembly to urgently intervene in the land dispute between the town and Osi-town to avoid imminent breakdown of law and order. ...

Kwara establishes agro-processing complex
In a bid to transform Kwara State into the nation’s number one investment destination in agriculture, the state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aMosila Group Limited for the establish...

Kwara to spend N289m on schools rehabilitation
The Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Development, Alhaji Raji Muhammad yesterday said that N289 million was released for the rehabilitation schools that are in bad conditions in the state. He said the m...

Positioning Kwara State for 'Shared Prosperity'
In what looks like a clear departure from the normal trend in the running of government, whereby government functionaries work in isolation without connecting with the dream of their chief executive officer, the admini...

2012-03-13

Security - Gov. Ahmed Advocates State Police
The Kwara State Governor,Alhaji Abdulfattah Ahmed,has advocated for the establishment of state and local government police force to handle minor and civil cases.According to governor Ahmed,the establishment of the stat...

Kwara establishes $150m Agro-processing complex in Share
by Femi Akorede In its determined efforts to transform Kwara State to Nigeria's number one investment destination for Agriculture, the Kwara State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Mos...

Result for Kwara Utd. and ABS on match day 13
Sharks 1-0 Kwara United A goal at the death by Hope Fiberesima condemned all the good work of Kwara United at the Sharks Stadium on Saturday. Sharks remain outside of the top half while Kwara United drop one sp...

2,405 corps members to serve in Kwara rural areas
The majority of the total number of 2,405 Batch 'A' corps members under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) posted to Kwara State this year will have their primary assignment in rural communities of the state. ...

848 Fadama projects ongoing in Kwara
Malam Usman Akanbi, the Kwara State Project Coordinator of FADAMA development office, says 848 projects are currently ongoing under FADAMA III in Kwara. Akanbi spoke at a two-day seminar, organised for select m...

Kwara Gov. Calls for New Revenue Sharing Formula
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called for the review of the revenue allocation formula in favour of states and local governments to reflect the activities of those levels of government. He noted t...

We're not compelled to sell kerosene - IPMAN boss
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has organised the sale of N50 per litre of kerosene to consumers in Ilorin metropolis as part of the routine distribution of kerosene for the people. ...

NPL takes over security at match venues
Following the recent spate of crowd restiveness at league venues, the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has decided to take over security arrangements from state football associations. Alhaji Owolabi Agbaji-Wopa, an...

Emir of Ilorin urges more attention on security studies
The Emir of Ilorin,Kwara State, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has charged participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course 5 of the Institution of Security Studies, Abuja, to use their knowledge and wealth o...

Ilorin West to build NYSC quarters
Arrangement has been concluded by the authorities of the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State to construct a befitting National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) quarters in the council area. Speaking whil...

Sarakis hold sway in Kwara
Who succeeds Alhaji Abubakar Baraje as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) national chairman. The question will be answered on March 24. The process leading to the national convention started with the wa...