2022-12-12

UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN PRESS STATEMENT: Students' Resumption: Advisory on Likely Traffic Glitch on University Road
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, and the entire management of the University of Ilorin are eagerly waiting to welcome new and returning students of the University back on campus as from Thursday,...

OPINION: CONDOLENCE AND MOVING FORWARD by Professor Shaykh Luqman Jimoh
Dear University Community, Condolences to you all on the painful exit of our amiable Vice Chancellor, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi SAN as I formally welcome you on campus for the 2022/2023 academic sessio...

ATTACK ON FIRE-FIGHTERS & SECURITY OPERATIVES IN ILORIN CONDEMNED
An Ilorin-based Human Resources Management Consultant Alh. Abdullahi Ibrahim has appealed to youths in Ilorin Emirate to stop acts of gangsterism and hooliganism; admonishing them not to allow themselves to be misled i...

Harmattan: Unilorin warns nomads against bush-fire
The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) has warned nomads pasturing their livestock in and around the institution against the setting bushes on fire. Mr AbdulRazaq Ibrahim, the Head of the Fire Service Unit of Unil...

2023: NLC To Engage Political Leaders On Pensioners
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it plans to hold town-hall meetings across the country to engage political leaders on their programmes for workers and pensioners. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this at the ...

Seadogs campaign for girl's child education in Kwara rural school
Seadogs Association of Nigeria (SAN) otherwise known as Pyrates Confreternity, Friday took a campaign for promotion of Girl's Child Education to Government Secondary School, Afon, in Asa local government area of Kwara ...

Police Arrest 2 Robbery Suspects In Kwara
The police in Kwara State have arrested two suspected armed robbers, Abubakar Jimoh, alias Abu Carrot, and Abdulwaheed Murtador Olalemikan said to be on their way to rob members of a club who were holding a meeting....

Kwara college hails best graduating law student
The management and board of governors of Rehoboth College, Ilorin, Kwara State, have congratulated the overall best graduating student of the Nigerian Law School, 2022, Omotayo Dada. The congratulatory message ...

Minister Commissions N4.2bn Water Project In Kwara
Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Adamu, has commissioned a N4.2 billion water supply scheme in Patigi, the headquarters of Patigi local government area of Kwara State. The project has the capacity t...

2022-12-11

Kwara partners FG to launch N53.1M grants for 2,655 Kwarans
•Flag off GEEP 2.0 loans for farmers, widows, others •FG commends AbdulRazaq's buy-in, impactful projects The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian, Disaster Management and Social Development in partnershi...

Buhari will leave behind safer, more diversified economy in 2023 —Gambari
The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has again said his principal would leave behind a safer and more diversified economy when he lives office in 2023. Gambari, who spoke...

Buhari picks Kwara, Bauchi Govs, others for US-Africa summit
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday, 11 December, depart for Washington in the United States of America to join other African leaders at the United States-Africa Leaders Summit. However, the High Level Me...

OPINION: An Imitation That Just Doesn't Fly by Rafiu Ajakaye
I joined community folks and senior citizens from my part of Igbomina land last Friday in Alabe for the funeral of Mama Rachael Oyindasola Abogunrin, the respected wife of the famed general surgeon, Dr. Steven Abogunri...

VC Raises The Alarm As New Students Test Positive For Drugs
VICE Chancellor of Nigeria's first Islamic faith-based university, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Professor Noah Yusuf, has advised the nation's university vice-chancellors to screen prospective students on drug use bef...

Olam, Kwara Government offer free hydrocele surgery to indigent patients
The Olam Food Ingredient (OFI), in partnership with the Neglected Tropical Disease Department of the Kwara Ministry of Health has commenced free surgical intervention for 10 indigent patients with Hydrocele. Th...

Police arrest killer of 12-year-old boy in Kwara
Kwara State Police Command on Friday paraded one Abubakar Jimoh aka Abu Carrot who allegedly murdered a 12-year-old boy and injured his pregnant mother in the Adewole area of the Ilorin West Local Government Area of th...

25 bag first class at Kwara varsity
A total of 25 students have graduated with a first class at Al-Hikmah University, in Ilorin, Kwara State. The faith-based private institution also produced its first set of doctoral graduates at its 12th convoc...

Kwara driver arraigned for Islamic cleric's kidnap
A Kwara State Magistrate's Court in Ilorin has ordered the remand of a 49-year-old driver, Suleiman Alao, over the kidnap of an Islamic cleric, Alfa Sofiu Amolegbe, and his son, Ali. Alao was accused of playing...

2022-12-10

Kwara Gov names KW-IRS board members
•New RUWASA chief too Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed the trio of Razaq Adio; Barrister Falola Jimoh Olarewaju; and Fatima Asabe Jiyah as members of the board of the Kwara State Intern...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has promoted 9,175 civil servants between 2019 and 2021.
The 2022 promotion exercise is also ongoing with examination for 2,096 civil servants in the state. Kwara civil servants have hailed Governor AbdulRazaq for approving their promotions with cash backing as and w...

Kwara govt excited as NGO launches mobile App to check insecurity
The Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA), Kwara State branch, has launched a mobile app to complement the efforts of the state government and security agencies in checking crimes in the state. ...

International Conference Centre: With Governor AbdulRazaq, Kwara is on the path of prosperity
As part of his legacy projects, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is constructing the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Ilorin. The International Conference Centre is an all-in-one hospitality ...

NGO Empowers Widows, Orphans In Kwara State
A Non Governmental Organisation, the Prophet Agbana Foundation, has empowered 88 widows, orphans and indigent in Kwara on skills acquisition and job creation. Speaking at the financial empowerment and distribut...

Four persons remanded for alleged destruction of campaign billboards in KwaraPublished
Four suspects have been remanded for the alleged destruction of campaign billboards and posters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The state Police Commissioner, Paul Odama, who disclosed this to newsmen in Il...

2022-12-09

NLC tasks workers on 2023 elections
The President, Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba has called on workers and pensioners to get actively involve in the 2023 electioneering process and work to elect only leaders with committment to uplift ...

We're forced to implicate Saraki – Offa robbery suspect
A witness, Shamsudeen Bada, on Thursday narrated at the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin how men of the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police led by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba...

FG re-appoints Oladunni, ARMTI Executive Director
Federal Government has re-appointed Dr. Olufemi Oladunni as the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara State for the second ter...

6,000 Nigerian Kids In Detention Nationwide – NGO
The Save the Future of Children Initiative (SAFIN) has said that about 6,000 Nigerian children are in juvenile prisons and detention centres nationwide. The Executive Director of SAFIN, Mr Olufemi Oyedeji, disc...

Clerics Harp On Electing Upright Leaders
Islamic clerics have urged Nigerians across the country to shun sentiments but vote for upright leaders in the 2023 general elections. They gave the advice at a symposium organized by the Standard Bearers Islam...

Nigerian don bags UNESCO senior fellow award
A Nigerian development expert, educationist, poet, and former lecturer at the University of Ilorin, Noel Ihebuzor, has been appointed Senior Fellow of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisatio...

Ijakadi festival set to tackle cultural erosion
THE organisers of the Ijakadi, the annual cultural festival of Offa people in Kwara State, have said this year's edition was taking into consideration consequences of the rapid erosion of cultural values in the society...