2023-12-27

Abdulmalik emerges IEDPU new President
A retired Assistant Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Alhaji Abdulmumini Ayo Abdulmalik, has been elected as the new National President of Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), the...

NGF Chairman mourns Ondo Gov Akeredolu SAN
Kwara State Governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has expressed sadness on the death of Ondo State Governor Olurotimi Akeredolu (SAN), describing him as an exceptional stat...

How Daughter Of Slain Kwara Doctor Escaped From Kidnappers
More facts emerged on Monday on how the daughter of a medical doctor killed by gunmen over the weekend escaped from her abductors. The deceased, David Adefikayo, was the Medical Director of Dafikayo Clinic, Kan...

Kwara Govt Holds Family Funfair To Celebrate Children At Christmas
Kwara State Government on Tuesday holds a family funfair to mark the Christmas and end of the year holiday, with a show of joy and excitement from children and their parents who brought them. Held at the amusem...

Liberate Your Community From Economic, Political Challenges, Don Tells Ilorin Professors
The President of the National Political Science Association of Nigeria (NPSA), Prof. Hassan Saliu, has urged professors of Ilorin origin to courageously strive towards freeing their community from political and economi...

2023-12-26

Senator Urges Nigerians To Be Patient With President Tinubu
The Senator representing Kwara State Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Mallam Saliu Mustapha has congratulated Christian community for witnessing another Christmas. He admonished the brethre...

Job Creation: Diocese Bishop Enjoins Government To Create Enabling Environment
Government at all levels have been urged to create enabling environment for job creation to ensure better economic prosperity in the country. The Bishop of Diocese of Kwara (Anglican Communion) and Chairman Chr...

Open Tanker-Tipper Garage Road, UNILORIN ASUU Begs Kwara Govt
The chairman of the Academic Staff Union (ASUU) of the University of Ilorin, Dr Alex Akanmu, has appealed to Kwara State government to open the Tanker-Tipper garage road to ease movement of the people to the university...

Kwara Fire Service averts Boxing Day disaster
A swift response by operatives of the Kwara State Fire Service on Tuesday averted a major fire disaster in Ilorin, the state capital. According to the spokesman of the Service, Hassan Adekunle, the brigade was ...

Ilorin Emirate canvases establishment of Kwara university of science, technology
The Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), on Monday tasked the State Government with the establishment of Kwara State University of Science and Technology in Ilorin the State capital. TAliyu Ott...

Work To Begin On Ilorin Smart City Next Year, Says Kwara Gov
Works will begin on the 18,000-hectare Ilorin Smart City Satellite Town next year, Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said. Ilorin Smart City Satellite Town is an offshoot of the Ilorin City Mast...

2023-12-22

Kwara Govt Completes 11KV Feeder Network to Emir's Palace
Palace always dark at night but AbdulRazaq restored uninterrupted power supply: Emir of Ilorin In continuation of its dedication to the welfare of the people, the Kwara State Government has completed the install...

Kwara United Vs Plateau United: Governor AbdulRazaq declares free entrance for fans, urges maximum support
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq CON has declared that the gates of the Kwara State Stadium Complex be opened free of charge for fans of Kwara United FC as they face Plateau United on matchday 15 on December...

Kwara Gov, AGF, EFCC Chief Drum Support for Anti-graft Campaign
•As EFCC new zonal office is commissioned Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has drummed support for the anti-corruption campaign of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, commending the administration for prosec...

VP Shettima Wants Nigeria's Economic Council Members To Shelve Yuletide Vacation
Nigeria's Vice President Kashim Shettima has charged members of the National Economic Council (NEC) to shelve the idea of vacation in the yuletide and carry on with issues of governance to ease the burden of Nigerians ...

AFCON: We'll Back Eagles To Success, Pledges Sen. Umar
Sen Sadiq Umar, senator representing Kwara North and one of the committee chairman in the Senate has stated that he has it on good authority that the body of law makers would back the senior national team, Super Eagles...

Garment Factory: Kwara Targets 2% of Global Market
Kwara State is poised to capture at least two percent of the global garment market when it begins full operations in 2024, with daily production of 10,000 garments from its newly set up factory that is the biggest in W...

INEC Presents Certificate of Return to Kwara Member-Elect
The Kwara resident electoral commissioner, Muhammed Abubakar, performed his first official duty by presenting the certificate of return to a member-elect, Yusuf Musa. Mr Musa was elected to represent the people...

Kwara Assembly Speaker to Keynote 2023 NUJ Press Week Finale
The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Engineer Yakubu Danladi Salihu, is scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the grand finale of the 2023 Press Week of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of J...

Probe Oshiomhole For Vote-Buying, Kwara PDP Tells EFCC
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate Senator Adams Oshiomhole over his comment on the amount his party, the All Progres...

ENDSARS' Panelist Nafisah for Parliament Screening Ahead of Kwara Cabinet Job
Twenty-six-year-old political activist and entrepreneur Nafisat Buge is joining the Kwara State executive council, again bolstering youth representation in the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's government which is pop...

Subsidy: Kwara Labour Movement Demands N35,000 Wage Award
Kwara State Joint Labour Movement has asked the state government to implement N35,000 wage award for all categories of state workers to mitigate the hardship resulting from the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal gover...

AGF Harps On Legal Reforms To Aid EFCC's Assets Recovery Mandate
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has expressed support for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in its fight against economic and financial crimes and other a...

77 New Opticians Inducted in Kwara Health Tech
No fewer than seventy-seven newly qualified Dispensing Opticians have been inducted in the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, in the Offa local government area of Kwara State. The inductees includ...

2023-12-21

NYSC Lauds Kwara Gov. For Ex-Corps Member Nomination As Commissioner Designate
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has been applauded for nominating Miss Nafisat Buge a youth corps member who just completed the mandatory one-year national service as a commissioner designate. Reac...

Kwara Police Kill Robbery Suspect, Recover Stolen Car
The anti-robbery squad of the Kwara State Police Command on Wednesday shot dead a suspected member of a five-man armed robbery gang and recovered a Toyota Camry car in the Sango area of Ilorin metropolis. PUNC...

360 SMEs access N229.5m loan in Kwara as NGO engages 21 graduates
A total of 360 Kwara-based Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), have received a sum of N229,565,000 non-interest loan to expand their businesses and create more opportunities. This was part of Kwara State Gover...

Police Arraign Man for Allegedly Killing Father in Kwara
The Nigeria Police has charged a 23-year-old man, Saidi Musa, to a Kwara State Magistrates Court sitting in Ilorin over an alleged killing of his father, Chief Musa, the Elemosho of Shareland in Ifelodun Local Governme...

COREN certifies Tunde Idiagbon bridge, other projects
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) has expressed satisfaction with some capital projects being embarked upon by the present administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State...

KWSG Begins Renovation of RUWASSA 20 Years After
• Hon Lade inspects project, charges contractor on quality delivery Kwara State Commissioner for Water Resources, Hon. Usman Yunusa Lade, has carried out an on-the-spot assessment of the ongoing renovation of t...

Governor AbdulRazaq Admonishes Corp Members on Resilience and Patriotism
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has advised Corp members in the state to be resilient and patriotic in discharging their duties. The Governor made this statement during the official closing ceremony ...

Counsellor Salau, CPS Ajakaye task Muslim journalists on new media, accurate reporting, adherence to Islam's ethics of fairness
•As Hijrah Islamic Org holds interactive session for Muslim media practitioners An appeal has gone to Muslim media practitioners across the world to always fact-check their information and ensure accuracy amidst...