2023-04-07

Customs, EFCC To Fight Corruption And Smuggling In Kwara State
The Area Controller, Nigerian Customs Service, (NCS), Kwara Command, North Central Nigeria, Kehinde Ilesanmi has promised to partner with the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC)...

950 FRSC personnel deployed to Kwara for Easter festivities monitoring
The Kwara State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has deployed 950 personnel and equipment for the Easter festivities in the state. The Sector Commander, Frederick Ade Ogidan disclosed this in a statement...

Kwara First Lady Hosts Global Affairs Canada, Action Aid, UN Women Delegation
The First Lady of Kwara State and Founder Ajike People Support Center, Ambassador Olufolake Abdulrazaq has hosted a delegation of development partners and civil society organizations in her office. The delegatio...

I'll increase Shariah courtrooms in Kwara – New Grand Khadi, Justice Kamaldeen
The Kwara State House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Justice Abdullateef Kamaldeen as the substantive Grand Khadi. The designation was considered at the Committee of a Whole chaired by Speaker Yaku...

Kwara Assembly confirms Justice Kamaldeen as substantive Grand Khadi
The Kwara House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Justice Abdul-lateef Kamaldeen as the substantive Grand Khadi of Kwara. The confirmation of his appointment as the substantive state Grand Khadi was c...

SOME ILORIN REMINISCENCES By : IS'HAQ MODIBBO KAWU
I've just been directed to the interesting stroll that you've had today, on the shores of history, and of hindsight! That's very useful for the younger members of our community. A lot has disappeared today. Mar...

2023-04-06

Innovation Hub moves closer to completion
Just like the Visual Arts Centre, construction work on the Ilorin Innovation Hub has gone far, with fervent efforts being made to reach closure on the project soon. When finally completed, the facility will be o...

Families with sudden death history need screening – Cardiologist
A professor of Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, Philip Kolo, discusses the risk factors of sudden death in this interview with LARA AD...

Guber Poll: Kwara North Voted Development, Not Sentiment – Commissioner
The people of Kwara North senatorial district voted for development by re- electing Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in the March 18 governorship election, the state Commissioner for Communications, Abubakar Buhari has ...

Post Election: Kwara State APC Invalidates All Suspensions
The Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, says it has nullified all suspensions made in the state after the general and state elections. This decision was taken in an emergency meeting organi...

Kwara State Strengthens Partnership With LNRBDA On Food Security
The Kwara State Government North Central Nigeria has pledged to strengthen the existing partnership with Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority (LNRBDA), and other relevant bodies to improve food security in the...

Nothing Can Stop Tinubu's Inauguration – Kwara Group
A group known as Moro AA Unity Forum in Kwara state on Wednesday said the emergence of president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was God's ordained. The group declared that no amount of hang-up, conspiracy and...

Census: NPC holds building numbering, household listing in Kwara April 17
The National Population Commission will begin building numbering and household listing by April 17, before the actual census exercise. The State Director of NPC, Alhaji Sa'eed Yusuf, made this known in Ilorin, o...

FG grants approval for rehabilitation of four major roads in Kwara
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has granted approvals to the BUA Group for the rehabilitation of four major roads in Kwara State as part of efforts to open up the state for socioeconomic growth. Governor Abd...

2023-04-05

Court convicts two journalists for defaming agro-allied company
A magistrate's court in Illorin, Kwara State, has jailed two Nigerian journalists for publishing a defamatory article against an agricultural company, Hillcrest Agro-Allied Industries Limited. The convicts – Gid...

Development commission verifies projects execution in Kwara
The Chairman of the Governing Council of Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), Terfa Ityav, has reiterated the commitment of the body to keep up with its development plan. Sp...

OPINION: AbdulRazaq's Second Term And Expectation On Independent Power Plant Project By Hammed Adedayo Said
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has been given great opportunities to improve the lives of the people of the State by focusing on fixing the power sector in his second tenure. With President Muhammadu Bu...

25 Cars Destroyed As Youths Clash Over Girlfriend In Kwara
No fewer than 25 cars were destroyed on Saturday as youths from two communities in Ilorin, Kwara State, clashed over a girl. City & Crime gathered that a disagreement started after the two youth group leader...

House Speakership: N-Central'll go for consensus candidate — Kwara gov
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazak of Kwara State, on Tuesday, said the North-Central will go for a consensus candidate based on experience when it decides to pick the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. ...

Kwara Rep declares bid for Speaker's seat
A member of the House of Representatives from Kwara State, AbdulRaheem Olawuyi, has officially declared his bid to become the Speaker of the House in the coming 10th National Assembly. Olawuyi, a member of the r...

Kwara Assembly invites acting judge for screening
Kwara State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Salihu-Danladi, has directed the state acting Chief Judge, Justice Abiodun Adebara, to appear before the House on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, for screening and confi...

Kwara commercial motorcyclist bags jail term for raping teenager
A Magistrate's Court sitting in Kaiama in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State has sentenced a commercial motorcyclist, Hussain Kamilu, to a total jail term of 42 months for raping a 15-year-old girl. ...

Speakership Race: I'll adhere to zoning by APC – Kwara lawmaker
An aspirant for the Speakership of the House of Representatives, Abdulraheem Olawuyi (APC, Kwara), has said only zoning the position out of the North-central will deny him the position. Mr Olawuyi stated this in...

2023-04-04

Olofa breaks silence, distances self from Obi's leaked audio
Olofa of Offa in the Offa local government area of Kwara, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi, has described the circulated audio tape where his name was mentioned in a telephone conversation between the Labour Party presidential ca...

Emir of Ilorin organises special prayers for Aishatu Gobir, AIGs , CP
The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara State Council of Chiefs, Mai-Martaba Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari CFR, will on Sunday organise a special prayer in honour of four eminent sons and daughter of the Emirate who w...

Kwara cabinet okays proposal to offset debt with pending FG's Excess Crude Accounts' deductions
Kwara State Executive Council has approved for the state government to offset its local debt stock with the outstanding payments of its share of the Federal Government's unauthorised deductions from Excess Crude Accou...

Visual Arts Centre nears completion
The Visual Arts Centre, Ilorin, one of the legacy economic projects of Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, is fast approaching completion. Most of the structural works and aesthetics at the facility hav...

NPFL'23: Kwara United FC Players Apologise To MGT, Fans After Losing To Shooting Stars
The Kwara United Football Club Players have apologized to the state government, the management of the team, and Kwarans, after losing the Matchday 12 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) encounter to Shooting Stars S...

Relief as PoS operators swing back to business in Ilorin
Point of Sale operators are now fully back in business after a long break occasioned by the recent naira scarcity crisis in the country. DAILY POST reports that the increase in the number of old naira notes in c...

Offa poly gets new rector
The Federal Government has appointed Dr Kamoru Kadiri as the fifth Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State. The appointment, which was announced on Monday, came 15 months after the expiration of the...

Kwara man defrauds admission seekers, flees with prophet's car
A 42-year-old man, Abdulsalam Ajibola, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara State for allegedly defrauding two admission seekers. Ajibola was said to have pres...