2023-11-20

Odigie gives reasons for Bendel Insurance's draw with Kwara United
Bendel Insurance head coach, Monday Odigie has attributed his team's 2-2 draw against Kwara United to complacency. The Benin Arsenals rallied twice to earn a share of the spoils in the keenly contested encounte...

400 youths set to benefit from tech summit by Kwara lawmaker
Member representing Ekiti/Isin/ Irepodun/Oke-Ero federal constituency of Kwara state, Tunji Olawuyi has announced a plan to launch a tech summit among 300 youths in his constituency and 100 youths outside his co...

Kwara: Suspected cultists hack two students to death in Offa Poly
Suspected student cultists at Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara state on Thursday hacked to death two Higher National Diploma(HND)1 students. While one is a yet-to-be-identified male student, the other victim ...

Akanbi emerges ANA President
Dr Shehu Usman Oladipo Akanbi, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, University of Ilorin, has been elected as the 14th President of the umbrella association for creative w...

Kwara welcomes support for devt, cautions against arbitrary works
•official communication necessary for standard, non-duplication of efforts Kwara State Ministry of Works and Transport wishes to inform members of the public, corporate bodies, community organisations, and all stakehol...

APC stalwart commends industrial drive of Kwara Gov
A Legal Luminary and APC Stalwart, Barrister Debo Aderibigbe has applauded the Kwara State Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, for delivering on his campaign promises in all areas of human endeavours aimed at maki...

Student Remanded Over Attempted Rape Of 3-Year-Old Girl In Kwara
A 21-year-old student, Adamu AbdulGaniyu, a resident of Ajijola Anabi Compound, Ita Kudima, Ilorin, Kwara State, has been remanded for allegedly sexually abusing a three-year-old girl. The mother of the girl, M...

Group donates N6m, food, others to Ilorin orphanages
About 100 golfers, including serving and retired military officers and public-spirited Nigerians, have donated about N6 million cash, foodstuff and building materials to two orphanage homes in Kwara State. The ...

Foundation empowers Kwara residents with N250 million
About 1,800 Nigerian women and youth from Kwara State on Saturday benefitted from a cash donation programme aimed at improving their standard of living and their economic wellbeing. The intervention, which was ...

Kwara police arrest one over murder of Offa poly student
Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspect over the alleged murder of Miss Toyin Bamidele, an HND student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State According to a statement signed by the state Commis...

2023-11-19

Fire destroys N4.6m goods in Kwara
The Kwara State Fire Service said it saved six shops and goods worth N68.5million in the early morning fire which occurred at the Basin Road area, Ilorin, the state capital, on Saturday. The fire, which started...

7 Kwara Poly Students Injured As Fire Razes Gas Station
Seven students at the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, have reportedly sustained varying degrees of injury during a fire incident at a gas refilling shop near a student hostel. The fire incident, it was gathere...

Kwara Gov hosts, splashes cash rewards on winners of presidential debate
•'Brilliant six' get N1m each, varsity scholarship Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend hosted the six public school students who won the presidential debate competition in Abuja, rewardin...

2023-11-18

Re-GOV Abdulrasaq Susends Emir of Tsaragi for 6 Months
The attention of the Kwara State Government has been drawn to a malicious and fake news circulating on the social media purporting that the Executive Governor of Kwara State Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (CON) has susp...

Kwara signs partnership deal with IHS Towers on innovation hub
•Project shows purposeful leadership, says IHS chief Kwara State Government has struck a deal with global telecoms giant IHS Towers on how to effectively deploy the Ilorin Innovation Hub to deliver on its core o...

2023-11-17

Know What to Do and How to Do it Well -Dr. AbdulTaofeeq Abayomi
On the 14th of November 2023, the Innovation and Advanced Science Research Group (IASRG) at Summit University, Offa, had the privilege of hosting Dr. AbdulTaofeek Abayomi, a distinguished researcher and prolific writer...

AbdulRazaq Restored Royal, Institutional Dignity, says Sultan of Sokoto
•He is making my reign colourful - Emir of Ilorin •He will end his tenure with Alhamdulillah - Chief Imam of Ilorin The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, has commended Governor A...

EFCC boss asks corps members to shun crime
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede, has called on corps members across the country to embrace hard work. He urged them to look inward and challenge their cr...

Borno State Governor To Partner Centre In Agric Mechanization
The Borno State Governor, Northeastern Nigeria, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has disclosed the readiness of his administration to partner with the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, Ilorin (NCAM) in order to...

NEXIM, Kwara Partner On Industrialisation, Commodities Export
The Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kwara State Government as part of the bank's effort to achieve the federal government's drive to increase economic growth and jo...

Gunmen abduct 3 in Kwara community
Gunmen Monday invaded Ora, Ayetoro community in Ekiti local government area of Kwara state and abducted three people. It was gathered that the incident happened when about nine gunmen, four of them wearing mask...

Kwara: Agency Supports Farmers With Solar-Powered Pumps
The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, in collaboration with National Fadama Development Project, NFDP, has supported dry season farming across the 16 local government areas of Kwara State with Solar Powered Irrigation...