2024-02-08

KWASU Deputy Bursar Dies After Watching Nigeria/South Africa AFCON Match
The Deputy Bursar of Kwara State University (KWASU) Malete, Ayuba Olaitan Abdullahi, died on Wednesday night while watching the semi-final match between Nigeria and South Africa in the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations (AF...

2024-02-07

EFCC Arrests 41 Suspects, Impounds Truckloads of Lithium in Kwara
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ilorin Zonal Command, has arrested 41 suspects and impounded 12 trucks containing different types of solid minerals mined without license. Parading the suspects in ...

2024-02-06

ARMTI Launches Training Workshops to Empower Youth, Women, Young Farmers
The Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Kwara State, has organised a comprehensive agripreneurship training series aimed at empowering selected 90 women, young farmers, and youths in agribusin...

APC Chieftain Asks Tinubu To Implement Party's Policy On State Police
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has called on President Bola Tinubu and the party and National Assembly leadership to, as a matter of urgency, implement the party's policy of d...

NIPR President, Academia, Others Train Information Officers in Kwara
The President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr. Ike Nellaku; Prof Saadat Abdulbaki of the University of Ilorin, and other A-rated speakers have corroborated to train Information Officers in the ...

Kwara Disburses N25,000 Palliatives to Over 8000 Unemployed Youths, Women
The Kwara State Government has commenced the disbursement of financial interventions of N25,000 each to over 8000 unemployed youths and women in the state. The disbursement according to the government was to cu...

Kwara: 500 Benefit From Lawmaker's Free Medical Intervention
No fewer than 500 persons, over the weekend, benefitted from the free medical outreach sponsored by the member representing Ilorin East constituency at the Kwara state House of Assembly, Hajia Fatima Arinola Lawal, spe...

Man Bags Life In Prison For Raping Minor In Kwara
A 22-year-old man, Sulyman Babatunde, has been sentenced to life in prison for raping a minor (name withheld) by a Kwara State high court. The trial Judge, Justice Adenike Akinpelu, while delivering judgement, ...

Police Rescue Widow of Kwara's Slain Monarch, Arrest 13 Suspects
Wife of the Olukoro of Koro kingdom in Ekiti local government area of Kwara state, the retired Army General turned monarch, the late Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, who was gruesomely murdered in his palace last Thursday, and...

2024-02-05

President Tinubu Felicitates Kwara State Governor At 64
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has felicitated the Governor of Kwara State and the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on his birthday. President Tinubu celebrates the thorough-bred p...

FG Charged On Abandoned Kabba-Egbe-Ilorin Road
A socio-political organisation, Yagba Action Group (YAG) has made a passionate appeal to the federal government to reconstruct the collapsed Kabba-Egbe-Ilorin federal road, which has become a haven for bandits. ...

Kwara Monarch's Killers Demand N40m Ransom for Release of Abducted Wife
Unknown gunmen, who killed Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, Olukoro of Koro-Ekiti in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State have reportedly reached out to the family of the late monarch demanding a ransom of N40m for t...

Murdered Monarch Olukoro Taught Us to Fight, Not Surrender to Kidnappers, Says Kwara Group
A leading Pro-democracy group, Kwara Must Change has hailed the late Olukoro of Koro in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, who resisted kidnappers attempt to abduct him in his pala...

Fire Guts Bungalow as Kwara Firemen Rescue Fuel Station
A fire which spread from an undergrowth in Anuoluwapo community, Kangile area, Sango, Ilorin in Ilorin East local government of Kwara State on Saturday destroyed a four-bedroom bungalow in the area. The Kwara S...

Teachers, Pensioners: Kwara Offsets Ahmed-era Salary Arrears with Additional N1bn
•Pays 100% CONHESS for LG health workers Kwara State Government has committed another N1,031,149,451.36 (one billion, thirty one million, one hundred and forty nine thousand, four hundred and fifty one naira, ...