2012-02-25

HEARTLAND VS KWARA UNITED
VENUE: Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri DATE: Sunday, February 26, 2012 Heartland are home again after a morale boosting away draw in Enugu against Oriental rivals, Rangers International,last weekend.The ...

Governor Ahmed signs Kwara budget to law
THE Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday signed the 2012 Appropriation Bill of N91.329 billion into law with a promise to demonstrate transparency in the implementation of the budget's provision....

Top Celebrities Storm Ilorin For Moshood Mustapha
TODAY, the capital city of Kwara State, Ilorin will play host to an unusual crowd consisting of politicians, businessmen and corporate players as Kwara politician, Moshood Mustapha is staging a wedding ceremony for h...

ABS hosts Rangers today
ABS VS RANGERS VENUE ; Ilorin Township Stadium DATE : Saturday, February 25, 2012 TIME: 4 PM Erasmus Onuh must be feeling the heat as his side, Abubakar Bukola Saraki Football Club of ...

2012-02-24

Kwara Utd. Resign Philemon Daniel
NPL table toppers Kwara United have boosted their squad with the resigning of Nigeria youth international Philemon Daniel.      The defensive midfield trojan was part of Kwara United last season ...

Lent: Jonathan, Ahmed task Christians
President Goodluck Jonathan and Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Thursday urged Christians to pray for peace and progress in the country during the Lenten season. In separate statements, they urged the ...

Saraki UTME initiative: Sell your form, risk EFCC arrest
The Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki Education Foundation (ABSEF) has threatened that it would report to the police and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) anyone caught selling the free Unified Tertiary Matric...

Kwara Poly Students Get State's Bursary
The Kwara State government is currently giving out this year's student bursary to Kwara indigenes in Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. The bursary is worth five thousand naira, #5000. The disbursement is in the polytechnic...

Kwara governor's wife's pet project is touching lives positively - LEAH Ambassador
Abdul-Hameed Oladipupo Alli, popularly known as Mr. Nigeria, is currently the Ambassador of Life Empowered Anchor (LEAH), the pet project of the First Lady of Kwara State, Mrs Omolewa Ahmed. He is a youth leader, a jou...

Kwara police ban night-time Okada operation
The Kwara State Police Command has banned night-time operations of commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada. Addressing newsmen yesterday in Ilorin, Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Dabo Ezeki...

NAFDAC uncovers fake anointing oil
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered an alleged maker of fake Goya Olive oil. The discovery of the shop in Oja-tutu in the the Kwara State capital followed a t...

Saraki provides UTME forms, coaching classes for 2,675 youths
total of 2,675  prospective polytechnic and university students in Kwara State, who are beneficiaries of free Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) forms under Senator Bukola Saraki Education Foundatio...

2012-02-23

Don wants sack of Kwara CJ probed
THE Dean, Faculty of Law, Igbinedion University, Prof. Rasheed Ijaodola, has canvassed the trial of all those involved in the removal from office Kwara State's Chief Judge, Raliat Elelu-Habeeb, before her recent reinst...

Dele Belgore v Abdulfatah Ahmed: Supreme Court fixes March 5 for judgement
The Supreme Court today fixed March 5 for judgement in the appeal brought by Mr. Dele Belgore, SAN, of the Action Congress of Nigeria, against the judgement of the Federal Court of Appeal in Ilorin, which affirmed the ...

Research institute workers may resume work Feb 29
There are indication that the Joint Research and Allied Institutions Sectors Union (JORAISU) will by Tuesday, February 29, 2012, suspend their strike. This comes as the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Chukwu...

Redefining style of governance in Ahmed's Kwara
Governor Ahmed Abdulfatah\'s revolutionary scheme of measuring the performance of civil servants in Kwara State through stated indicators aims to boost the productivity of the state and consolidate the relationship bet...

JUSUN disowns Kwara judiciary workers’ strike
National Publicity Secretary of Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, Alhaji Marwan Adamu, has denied that the national body is in support of the ongoing strike by JUSUN in Kwara State over the reinstatement of Justice Rali...

Inconsistency hinders development - Kwara gov
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has blamed policy inconsistency for the slow pace of development in Nigeria. Speaking during the inauguration of Kwara Agriculture Modernisation Master-plan in Ilorin on We...

2 arraigned for alleged cow theft in Ilorin
A trader, Alhaji Sheriki Labanka of Afon town and a 17-year-old cattle rearer, Babuga Umaru Usman of Gbugu area in Kwara State, have appeared before an Ilorin Chief Magistrates\' court over alleged theft of cows. ...

2012-02-22

KWARA GOVT TAKES OVER UITH
In its quest to ensure quality healthcare delivery services among its people, the Kwara State government has finally taken over the old site of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, UITH, from its management who ...

KWSG To Spend N1.6b on Hospitals
The Kwara State Government is to spend the sum of N1.6billion to rehabilitate and upgrade five hospitals across the three senatorial zones of the State in to general hospitals. This was made known yesterday in...

Kwara CJ: Labour Disowns JUSUN Strike
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday disowned the industrial action embarked upon by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) Kwara State, branch over the Supreme Court judgement reinstating the Chief Judge (CJ)...

Kwara police nab fake inspector
The Kwara State Police Command said it has arrested a 30-year-old fake police inspector, Yemisi Fagbemi. The police spokesperson in the state, ASP Ezekiel Dabo, confirmed the arrest yesterday, saying that the suspect was...

NLC, NBA flay Kwara judicial workers strike
The Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, Kwara State Chapter, Mr. Faruk Akanbi, and the Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin chapter, Mr. Rafiu Balogun, have said the strike of the Judicial Staff ...

Kwara contractor gets 9-day ultimatum
Kwara State Government yesterday gave the contractor handling the Sharia Court of Appeal building, Ilorin, a nine days\' ultimatum to complete the project. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Sola Isiaka Go...

Kwara Judiciary workers insist on CJ’s removal
The strike action by judiciary workers in Kwara State, over the reinstatement of Justice Raliat Elelu as Chief Judge by the Supreme Court, entered its third day today, with the workers insisting that they will not return ...

Tenants of the House lands in Kwara
Kwara State will come alive on Sunday as Iqra Bookshop, Ilorin, will host the author of the award-winning novel,Tenants of the House, Dr Wale Okediran. Okediran, a former president of the ...