2023-01-01

NPFL: Kadiri rejoins Kwara United after stint in Lebanon
Samad Kadiri has rejoined Nigeria Professional Football League side, Kwara United. Kadiri left Kwara United for a Lebanese club, Al-Ahed last season and has decided to pitch tent with his former club again....

Ilorin residents demand new Naira notes
Some residents of Ilorin have called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to avail the redesigned Naira notes to the general public to avoid confusion. They expressed concern over the non-availability of the ne...

Police recover arms, ammunition, $255,000 from fleeing suspects in Kwara
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command, on Saturday, recovered arms, ammunition and a sum of $255,000 from fleeing suspects at a checkpoint along the Bode-Saadu expressway in the Moro Local Government Area of the...

Kwara State: House Of Reps' Candidate Seeks Active Electoral Participation
The People's Democratic Party's (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed Ajia, has congratulated Nigerians on the successful transition into the New Yea...

Excitement As Kwara Honours Dead, Living Legends
Friday, December 23, 2022 will forever remain green in the minds of the people of Kwara State. That was the day the All Progressives Congress (APC)- led state government honoured some of the late and living legends who...

2022-12-31

Kwara govt begins comprehensive renovation of Patigi General Hospital
The AbdulRazaq-led Kwara State Government has begun the comprehensive renovation of Patigi General Hospital, Patigi, in the northern part of the state. The health facility is one of the several ones that suffer...

Kwara cabinet approves industrial park, Shea butter processing factory
•Okays absorption of qualified Kwara Hotel staff to civil service Kwara State Executive Council has approved the establishment of an industrial park at Eiyenkorin in Asa Local Government Area of the state as w...

Kwara Govt splashes millions on athletes as stakeholders pour encomium on Gov AbdulRazaq
The Kwara State Government today Saturday, December 31, 2022 splashed the whooping sum of eight million, five hundred thousand naira and award of excellence on Kwara Athletes who have done the state proud in 2022 to cl...

AbdulRazaq congratulates Kwarans, sets progressive agenda for 2023
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated the people of the state on the dawn of 2023, praying that the new calendar ushers in glad tidings and greater things for everyone in the state and Nigeria i...

2022-12-30

OPINION: Hajiya Bola Shagaya: All Hail the Quintessential Queen of Ilorin Emirate By Basheer Luqman Olarewaju
Behold, the first Sarauniyah of Ilorin Emirate, Hajiya Muinat Bola Shagaya is a special breed and a queen personified — very likeable, has good energy and exudes charisma, appears to be genuinely happy which makes othe...

IG: 10,000 New Police Recruits 'll Be Deployed for 2023 Elections
Ahead of 2023 general elections, the Inspector General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali Baba, yesterday disclosed that the 10,000 newly recruited police constables that passed out from their training would be deployed to p...

'Kwara leads in catfish production in Nigeria'
Kwara State is the highest producer of Catfish in Nigeria as Farmers claimed that no less than 45 tonnes of fish loaded in buses move out of the state daily, deputy coordinator of fish farmers in the state, Brigadier G...

Olofa of Offa urges FG, States to create virile institutional framework for diverse culture
Federal and state governments have been urged to establish a virile institutional framework to rejuvenate the nation's diverse cultural values. Speaking at the ninth edition of Ijakadi festival in the ancient t...

Kwara hospital releases seized corpse, condemns attacks
The management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital on Thursday released the corpse of one Alhaji Salihu, which was seized on Tuesday following an attack on a doctor by his relatives. PUNCH Metro gathe...

Kwara State Enjoins Nigerians To Get Voter Cards
The Kwara State Government has called on the people of the state to ensure they obtain their Permanent Voter's Cards, PVCs ahead of the coming 2023 general election and go out to vote for the right candidate. T...

Kwara Gov'ship: How Parties, Candidates Stand
The atmosphere in Kwara State is full of politicking as political parties and their candidates have intensified strategies towards winning next year's general elections. The electioneering campaigns in the sta...

2022-12-29

At Faculty of Education Retreat, Egbewole harps on inter-disciplinary collaborations
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has encouraged knowledge sharing among the various Departments in the University, saying that this would birth more interdisciplinary ...

Virginity Test Is Humiliating, Illegal Says Medical Practitioner
Virginity test is illegal, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, a Consultant Family Physician at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, declared in Ilorin on Wednesday. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the si...

Only 250 Kidney Specialists In Nigeria – Nephrologist
Dr Ade Faponle, a Consultant Nephrologist, at Zenith Medical and Kidney Centre, Abuja, has disclosed that Nigeria has only 250 specialists in the area of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Faponle said this on Wedne...

Kwara United to play NPFL home matches in Ibadan
Barring any last-minute change, the management of NPFL side Kwara United has concluded plans to adopt the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan for their home games at the new NPFL abridged format season scheduled to begin on...

I'll touch lives directly if elected – Ajia
Ibrahim Mohammed Ajia, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), candidate for Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency, in Kwara State, says he will touch peoples' lives directly if given the mandate to represent his constitue...

Abdulmaliq-Bashir: Kwara Women'll Give AbdulRazaq Bulk Votes
Hajia Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir is the Kwara State Commissioner for Women Affairs. In this interview with STEPHEN OLUFEMI ONI, she bares her mind on sundry issues, including the stand of women in the reelection bid of...

2 Kwarans Emerge Runners-up At Qur'an Recitation Competition
Two members of Kwara State's contingent to the just concluded National Qur'an Recitation Competition in Gusau, Zamfara State emerged runners-up in two categories of the competition. Mariyam Issa-Onilu won the s...

UITH seizes corpse over assault on medical doctor in Ilorin
Authorities of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara state on Wednesday seized the corpse of a deceased patient following assault on one of the medical doctors of the facility. One of...

Kwara NLC chides marketers over petrol price hike
The organised labour in Kwara State has carpeted petroleum products marketers in the state for what it described as the incessant hike in the prices of premium motor spirit also known as petrol and other petroleum prod...