2022-07-19

Full salary payment a top priority despite revenue drop: AbdulRazaq
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday said the state is not immune to the steady decline of revenue, adding however that the administration will continue to make payment of full salaries a firs...

Healthcare: NMA advises FG, States to speed up NHIS implementation
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has advised the Federal and State Governments to speed up implementation of the mandatory health insurance uptake for citizens. Prof. Baba Issa, the NMA Chairman, Kwara bra...

2023: Associations of Artisans Endorse Former Minister's Candidature for Kwara Central Senatorial District
Ahead of the next year general elections, associations of artisans in the Kwara Central Senatorial District, Kwara State, have endorsed the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Senatorial Candidate, Mr. Abdulganiyu Bolaji A...

Court jails Engineer, two others for Cybercrime in Ilorin
Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court in Ilorin on Monday convicted a 26-year-old Computer Engineer, Olabisi Damilola Samuel from Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State and two others over offences bo...

Escaped Suspected Kidnapper Re-Arrested In Kwara
One of a three-man inter-state kidnap gang, Boodoo Musa Alhaji, has been arrested by men and officers of the Kwara state command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for alleged kidnapping and murde...

Kwara Resident Drowns While Fetching Water From Well
A 25-year-old man, Banji Adebayo, on Monday lost his life after he fell inside a domestic well in Kwara State. The incident occurred at Ile-Nla, Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. It...

2022-07-18

Why Shea-Butter Business Is No Longer Booming In Kwara
Shea-butter farmers in Kwara State have lamented the lack of value addition and unavailability of a ready market for the growth and standardisation of the industry. A cross-section of Kwara farmers who spoke on...

As Ilorin Durbar Gains International Recognition
The 2022 edition of Ilorin durbar in Kwara State will remain evergreen green in the memory of the people of Ilorin Emirate and their friends, from near and far. The durbar, a culture of horse riding by the de c...

Monkeypox cases hit 101, highest in five years
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 101 cases of Monkeypox in 2022, its highest figure since 2017 when the disease re-emerged. The centre, in its latest Monkeypox situation report for week 27, ...

Fulani couple robbed of cow proceeds, suspects arrested
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested three suspects for allegedly robbing a Fulani couple of N800,000 in Ilorin, the state capital. The suspects, Mohammed Bello, Mohamed Bello and Abubakar Mohammed, were...

Food inflation highest in Kwara, Kogi, Rivers in June – NBS
National Bureau of Statistics has said that prices of food items where highest in Kwara, Kogi and Rivers in the Month of June 2022. In its June inflation report the NBS said “in June 2022, food inflation on a year-on-y...

2023: 2,000 More APC Youth, Women Defect to PDP in Kwara
About 2,000 youth and women in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State at the weekend publicly dumped the party for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The defectors, who were mainl...

2022-07-16

Police rescue abducted Chinese in Kwara
Operatives of Kwara Police Command have rescued the Chinese national abducted by gunmen on July 3 at a construction site on Shao-Oloru Expressway. Police spokesman SP Ajayi Okasanmi disclosed this on Friday....

No APC chairman suspended in Kwara – Party
The Kwara State chapter of the All Progressive Congress on Saturday distanced itself from the suspension of the Chairman of Moro Local Government Area chapter of the party, Adebayo Jimoh. Jimoh, was said to hav...

2022-07-15

Ilorin Emirate Descendants task stakeholders on cultural revival
Alhaji Uthman Babatunde-Salman, the Chairman of the llorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (lEDPU), Central Zone, has called on stakeholders to work towards ensuring the revival and sustainability of culture and ...

NPFL: Remo Stars, Kwara United in titanic race for third spot
The curtain will fall on the 2021-22 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season on Sunday with the final fixtures. Unlike the previous seasons in which the three representatives of the country in the Co...

2023: Lawal, SDP and expectations of Kwarans
Politics in Kwara state is always a delight to watch or keenly observe for obvious reasons. The state is home to one of the most popular and entrenched political dynasties in Nigeria's history with historic national im...

Kwara Gov'ship: Why I Am Working For PDP Candidate — Lai's Aide
A staunch supporter of the minister of Information and Culture, Kayode Ogunlowo, has said he is working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state ahead of the 2023 general poll. ...

Farmer Killed, Other Injured In Kwara Boundary Dispute
A farmer has been killed and another injured in a land dispute between Iwo and Odo Ekun communities in Isin LGA of Kwara State. It was learnt that the communities have been involved in an age-long boundary disp...

2023: Hundreds of APC Members Defect to PDP in Kwara
Hundreds of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State have dumped the party for the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of next year's general ele...

Three suspects arrested for alleged armed robbery in Kwara
Three suspects are now in police net in Kwara State for alleged criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. They are Mohammed Bello, Abubakar Mohammed and Mohammed Bello. According to a report by the spokesm...

Fire destroys N1.6m goods in Kwara
No less than N1.6 million worth of goods were, on Thursday, destroyed during a fire incident at an electronics and furniture shop in Ilorin, Kwara State. The Kwara Fire Service Spokesman, Hassan Adekunle, in a ...