2022-08-24

Pre-season: Kwara United beat Ajaokuta Academy
Kwara United FC of Ilorin on Tuesday began their preparations for the 2022/2023 football season with a 3-0 victory over Ajaokuta Football Academy. The match was played at the Kwara Complex Stadium in Ilorin....

Ilorin court remands two suspected cultists
Magistrate Ibrahim Dasuki, in Ilorin, on Tuesday, remanded two suspected secret cult members, in Oke-Kura Correctional facility, Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The suspects, Sulyman Bankole and Balogun Ibrahim, w...

Police arrest four suspected armed robbers in Kwara
Four suspected armed robbers have been arrested by the Kwara State Police Command. They are Bello Baneri, Umaru Shehu, Awalu Umaru and Mamma Muhammed, all of Fulani camp, Oro Ago, Ifelodun Local Government Area...

Illegal mining: Kwara seeks security agencies' partnership
The Kwara State government has sought the partnership of security agencies to flush out illegal miners in the state. Adenike Harriet Afolabi-Oshatimehin, the state commissioner for solid minerals development, m...

CAFCC: Kwara United's Choice of MJA Excites Egbe
The Chief Executive Officer of Monimichelle Group, Ebi Egbe, has hailed the decision of Kwara United FC to prosecute their home games at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena (Onikan Stadium) in Lagos. Egbe whose outfit c...

New electoral law has returned power to the electorates- Ex- Kwara Gov
Former Governor of Kwara State, Dr. AbdulFatah Ahmed has stated that the new electoral law has returned power to the electorates. He, therefore, charged stakeholders of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to em...

2022-08-23

HYPPADEC Flags Off N212m Erosion-Control Projects In Kwara
Hydroelectric Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC), on Wednesday, flagged off the construction of 570 metre drainage, dykes, erosion control works worth N212 million at the Patigi General Hospital in the P...

Ex-Kwara governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, denies being grilled by EFCC over alleged N9bn fraud
The immediate-past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has said he was never interrogated by operatives of the EFCC for allegedly diverting N9 billion from public coffers while in charge of the state. Mr...

2022-08-22

Kwara far better, more receptive under Gov AbdulRazaq: KSANG
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has achieved commendable feats in the areas of basic amenities and repositioning the state for a better future, the most influential body of Kwarans in diaspora KSANG said at the weekend...

Defection of Leaders Worries Kwara APC Chieftain
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress(APC) and advocate of “O To Ge” mantra in Kwara state, Alhaji L. A.K Jimoh, has said that the defection of some notable leaders of the party and the depletion in the party may p...

Kwara State Governor Bags Health Care Award
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has conferred an award of excellence on the Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, in recognition of the commitment of his administration to the health...

Why Kwara Governor Deserves Second Term – Stakeholders
Speakers at a town hall meeting organised by the Virtuous Elite Forum in Ilorin yesterday highlighted the numerous achievements of the Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq which should earn him a second term of...

Vandals Cart Away Transformer Components, Throw Ilorin Into Darkness
Five months after the residents of Oko-Erin community in Ilorin, Kwara State contributed N2million to fix the two power transformers serving the area, vandals have again carted away cables and other vital components of...

1,056 Police Constabularies in Kwara, not on monthly salaries – Force Command
Kwara state police command has said that the 1056 Police Constabularies who protested in Ilorin on Saturday were not placed on monthly renumeration like the conventional policemen, and that they were so briefed at the...

Gunmen invade hotel in Kwara, kill owner, abduct one
Some gunmen, Sunday night, invaded a hotel in Alomilaya area, Ganmo, in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, killing the owner of the hotel identified as Kayode Akinyemi, and abducting his friend, known as Or...

2022-08-21

The Polytechnic Ojoku gets operation license
The Rector of The Polytechnic Ojoku, Salaudeen Oyewale, on August 17, visited the liaison office of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Abuja for the official presentation of the Institution's License to...

ICT boosts exports, sustains Nigeria's $420bn economy –Experts
Experts in global export business have said that success of Nigeria's local exports business in the 21st century will be determined by digital marketing operations. They have also said that the digital operatio...

Strike: Resident doctors extend ultimatum by two weeks
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has shifted its decision on the ultimatum it issued to the Federal Government by two weeks, The PUNCH reports. The association said it shifted its decision to give r...

Kwara Rice Farmers Seek Dredging Of River Niger
Rice farmers in Kwara State have called on the federal government to dredge the River Niger to increase harvest circles in the state. Most of the farmers now do only two season farming, rainy season and irrigat...

Police Dismiss Video Of Protest By Constabularies In Kwara
The police authorities in Kwara State have dismissed a viral video regarding a protest by some policemen over alleged non-payment of one year's salary. About 1,056 special constables had manned some strategic a...

Special constabularies free to disengage – Kwara CP
Kwara State special police constabularies are at liberty to honourably disengage from the service if they so wish, the state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo has declared. He stated this on Saturday while ...