2022-09-21

Volleyball: Offa VC tops league table in Akure
Offa VC are currently leading the men's table standing on Day 4 of the ongoing 2022 Nigeria Volleyball Premier League in Akure. Offa VC is the only club yet to taste defeat while defending champions Kano Pilla...

Kwara begins fresh grant disbursements for 30,000 women petty traders
Kwara State Government will on Wednesday begin the disbursement of N20,000 grants each to 30,000 female petty traders across the 16 local government areas. The support, which is modelled after a World Bank prog...

Why youths should support Kwara SDP, by candidate
Kwara State governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Hakeem Oladimeji Lawal has indicated that the “Otege” (Enough is enough) campaign that ushered the current government in the state was not for pe...

Concerned indigenes fault UNILORIN VC's appointment process
Some concerned indigenes of Ilorin Emirate in Kwara state, Tuesday, challenged the process that produced the vice chancellor designate of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole. The concerned Ilorin...

Kwara State Ministry of Works launches “Commissioner's Diary” Series
The Kwara state ministry of works and transport has launched a series called “commissioner's diary” to keep up with all activities and projects in the state. According to a statement on Tuesday, the series is ...

CAFCC: We'll qualify for group stage – Kwara Utd Chairman
Kwara United Football Club Chairman, Kumbi Titiloye, has assured that the team would qualify for the group stage of the CAF Confederation Cup ahead of their opponent, RSB Berkane of Morocco. The News Agency...

Unilorin Alumnus Wins Adam Smith Prize For PhD Excellence
Dr. Babatunde Omotosho, an alumnus of the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), has won the 2021 Adam Smith Business School Prize for PhD Excellence in Economics. This is contained in the Unilorin Bulletin Tuesday e...

2022-09-20

Governor AbdulRazaq is an achiever, says immediate past hospital board chief Aluko
It's been a privilege and honour to have served under Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq whose administration clearly puts the interest of his people first. The state hospitals have seen significant growths under...

Tinubu is best for our country in 2023, AbdulRazaq tells Diaspora Nigerians
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has challenged Nigerians in the Diaspora to go home and vote or mobilize support for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2023 Presidential election. Speaking at the wee...

What Principal Accused Of Abusing 7 Female Students Told Us – School's Mgt
The management of Hassanat Islamic College in Kwara State, which acting Principal, Samuel Prosper, was accused of abusing seven female students, has broken its silence on the matter. Although the embattled prin...

Kwara Govt tasks private tertiary institutions on synergy with public institutions
The Kwara Government has charged heads of private tertiary institutions in the state to collaborate with public tertiary institutions to boost the education sector in the state. The state Commissioner for Terti...

Kwara Govt trains officers on 10-year development plan
The Kwara Government on Monday began a week-long training for dozens of its planning officers across various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the implementation of its 10-year Development Plan (SDP 2021-2...

2023: PDP Will Unite, Reclaim Nigeria's Lost Glory ? Kwara Reps Candicate
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives candidate for Asa/Ilorin West federal constituency in Kwara State, Alhaji Mohammed Ibrahim Ajia, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will reclaim its lost glory i...

Police, NANS differ on Ilorin airport protest
The Kwara State Police Command has dispelled the rumour that the National Association of Nigerian Students in the state has planned to shut down the Ilorin International Airport to protest the prolonged strike action b...

2022-09-19

Islamic media group mourns Ilorin-based photo journalist, 'Tallest'
The Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria has described the death of a Photo-Journalist in Kwara state, Alhaji Ibrahim Salami of National Pilot, as a great loss. Salami, who died on Saturday, has been buried at h...

CAF club competitions: Kwara, Plateau, Rivers Utd advance to next round as Remo Stars crash out
Three of Nigeria's representatives on the continent have advanced to the next round. In the CAF Champions League, Plateau United and Rivers United who are Nigeria's duo representatives, on two legs, edged out t...

Kwara 2023: Factors, forces that will determine elections
The Ekiti and Osun governorship elections have become an eye-opener to parties and politicians who think 2023 is theirs for sure. And the outcomes of these elections have rekindled hope of others that it is pos...

Govt will prosecute looters of Kwara funds – APC chairman
In this interview with TUNDE OYEKOLA, the Kwara State All Progressives Congress Chairman, Sunday Fagbemi, discusses how Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq's administration has changed the face of the state in the last thr...

Kwara community seeks govt intervention over killer drivers
Residents of Idofian Community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State have appealed to the State Government and other stakeholders to assist in raising speed breakers on Ilorin-Omu-Aran federal highway in the...

ASUU: NANS moves to occupy Kwara Airport
The Kwara state chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS has moved to embark on a protest at the Kwara airport to further press down on their demands before the federal government to provide a sol...

2022-09-18

Fire destroys building, property worth N8.5m in Kwara
Ravaging fire engulfed a block of seven flats at Olorunsogo area in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State in the early hours of Sunday and left household property estimated at about N8.5million destroyed....