2023-09-10

Kwara State: Foundation Enrolls 100 Indigent In Healh Insurance Scheme
The President of the foundation, Alhaji Saheed Alakoso, said this during a medical outreach, organised in conjunction with Kwara Health Insurance Scheme, Rotamedics Pharmacy and Ilorin Emirate Local Health Clinic. ...

Kwara Revenue Agency Generates N35.4bn
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) in Northcentral Nigeria, has generated the sum of N35.4 billion as revenue for the year 2022. The Executive Chairman of the agency, Mrs. Shade Omoniyi dropped th...

2023-09-09

Kwara Palliative: Committee distributes to Ilorin South, Kaiama LGs
The Kwara State Palliative Committee on Thursday continued the distribution of the 250,000 (10kg) bags of rice. The exercise had begun on Wednesday with Oke-Ero and Asa Local Government Areas. The distrib...

Turaki condoles Iponrin community over ex-Perm Sec, Aremu's passing
The Senator representing Kwara Central in the National Assembly, Mallam Saliu Mustapha, has expressed grief over the passing on of a retired Permanent Secretary in Kwara State, Alhaji Shuaib Tunde Aremu. In a st...

Radio Kwara NUJ mourns demise of ex-Perm Sec
The demise of Former Permanent Secretary Political Cabinet, Special Duties and One-time Corporation Secretary, Kwara State Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Kwara Ilorin, Alhaji Shuaib Tunde Aremu has been described as a...

2023-09-07

KWASU VC felicitates new Commissioner for Tertiary Education
The Acting Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Malete, Professor Shaykh-Luqman Jimoh, has congratulated the newly appointed Commissioner of Tertiary Education in the state, Mrs Mary Arinde, describing her as the...

PEPT judgment, a triumph of truth, law, says Kwara Gov
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the unanimous decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) u...

AbdulRazaq's Legacy of Inclusion in Kwara By Rafiu Ajakaye
Kwara made a very significant history on Monday, September 4, but it got buried in the deluge of media reportage that expectedly attended the swearing-in of the cabinet members. Not many people paid attention to the sw...

Ilorin: A city in metamorphosis By Tunde Olusunle
FROM across my various addresses over the years, the road has always been my preferred means of transport to Ilorin the Kwara State capital. At various times, I have lived in Lagos, Lokoja and Abuja and land transporta...

Dogo blames fatigue for Kwara United's loss to Sunshine Stars
The National League of Veteran Journalists (NALVEJ) in Kwara State has elected new executives that will run its affairs for the next three years, while returning Alh. Mohammed Tunde Akanbi, who is Voice of Nigeria's co...

Kwara State: NALVEJ Elects New Executives, Reappoints VON's Correspondent As Chairman
The National League of Veteran Journalists (NALVEJ) in Kwara State has elected new executives that will run its affairs for the next three years, while returning Alh. Mohammed Tunde Akanbi, who is Voice of Nigeria's co...

NLC strike records total compliance in Kwara
The two-day warning strike declared by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, throughout the country ended in Kwara State on Wednesday without any ugly incident recorded while it lasted. In Ilorin, the state capital, g...

2023-09-06

Emir of Ilorin hails Gov. AbdulRazaq for appointing Mahe AbdulKadir as new SSG
The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara State Council of Chiefs, Mai-Martaba Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, has thanked Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for appointing Alhaji Mahe AbdulKadir as the new Secretary to the ...

N300,000 debt cancelled after Kwara boy Ololade Adesina got 9As in WAEC – Father
Father of Ololade Adesina, the Kwara State student who scored nine distinctions in the 2023 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination, has revealed that Rehoboth College cancelled N300,000 debt due to his p...

Former work commissioner addresses Kwara project details, transparency
Engineer Rotimi Illiasu, who previously served as the Commissioner of Works and Transport during the first term administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has accounted for some of the projects carried out duri...

Tinubu's Tribunal Victory, A Welcome Development, Says Kwara APC Chieftain
A stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Elder Peter Daramola, has described the verdict of the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal (PEPT) reaffirming Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as t...

43-year-old man dies while dredging well in Kwara
A 43-year-old man on Tuesday fell into a well and died in the Egbejila area, Ilorin in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. The man, whose remains were recovered from the well by men of the Kwar...

Stop harassing our men on duty – FRSC warns Nigerians
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has advised the public to stop harassing their officers on the road and accord them respect. Assistant Corps Marshal Hyginus Uche-Omeje, the Zonal Commanding Officer incharge...

Kwara, Adamawa record highest prices for LPG, kerosene
Kwara State recorded the highest average price for refilling a 5kg Cylinder of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) in July 2023 at the rate of N4, 780. This is just as Adamawa State, also recorded the highest average...