2022-07-14

UNILORIN constructs gallery for Ilorin arts – Management
Prof. Oba-Yusuf Abdul-Hamid, the Director, Centre for Ilorin Studies (CILS), the University of Ilorin, says the university has completed the construction of a gallery for the centre. Abdul-Hamid said this on We...

Progress in KwaraLEARN as Methodology receives Nobel Prize Winner Commendation
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's revolutionary basic education transformation program in Kwara State, KwaraLEARN (Leading Education Achievement and Reform Now) is already benefitting more than 54,000 primary school ch...

TSO Plans Parley With Tinubu Supporters In Kwara
Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential flagbearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in North-Central will converge on Ilorin, the Kwara State capital as Kebbi billionaire businessman and Director General Tinu...

Kwara 2023: In Search Of Political Unity In Ilorin
For decades, development in terms of self-help projects has eluded Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, due to lack of cooperation amongst the elite, especially the politicians. In the years past, a large chunk of ...

6,000 farmers benefit from empowerment in Kwara
At least 6,000 crop and livestock farmers in Kwara State have benefited from the first round of government and World Bank-enabled support along agricultural value chains. According to the state governor, AbdulR...

2022-07-13

Former Media Trust Staff Loses Father
The death has occurred of Malam Adamu S. Galadima, the Galadima of Kaiama Emirate in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. He died at 83 on Sunday in his residence in Kaiama after a protracted illness. ...

Poverty, Unemployment Bane of Vote Buying, Says NYCN President
The National President, National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Mr. Sara-Igbe Sukubo has attributed poverty and unemployment among the people of the country as major cause of voting buying that has characterised the ...

Road to 2023: PDP designed to govern, APC for opposition – Bolaji Abdullahi
Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdulahi is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Kwara Central senatorial District. He hosted a select group of journalists at his GRA residence...

One killed, six suspects arrested over communal clash in Kwara communities
Kwara State police command has confirmed the arrest of six suspects in connection with the bloody communal clash between Iwo and Odo-Ekun communities in Isin Local Government Area of the State. The communal cla...

Cult clash claims one in Kwara
A clash between cult members at Akerebiata in the Ilorin-West Local Government Area of Kwara State on Tuesday has claimed the life of a 23-year-old student identified as Mohammed Isiaka. Isiaka, a Computer Scie...

2022-07-12

Kwara SDP factional chair sues national excos, others
The pioneer chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Kwara State, Comrade Ibrahim Yahaya, has dragged 18 national and state executive officers of the party to court over the control of the party structure in the state. ...

N4.9m Property Lost In Kwara Fire
An 11-storey was on Sunday gutted by fire in Igangu Compound, Omu-Aran in Irepodun LGA of Kwara State. The fire, which occurred around 5am, resulted from electric power surge, according to the fire spokesperson...

Budget Spending In Kwara Not Research Based - CSO
The Elite Network for Sustainable Development (ENETSUD) has said government appropriation and spending associated with budgets in Kwara State are not products of research. ENETSUD Deputy Coordinator (Projects T...

Kwara commits N4bn on salaries, pensions monthly – Abdulrazaq
Kwara State government has said that it was spending over N4 billion monthly on payment of salaries and pensions of workers and retirees. The state Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq disclosed this in Ilorin, the...

2022-07-11

One year without a monarch, Kwara community cries out
It is over a year since the Idofian community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State has had a traditional ruler. This development came after the demise of the Oludofian of Idofian, Oba Subair Agboola...

Hoodlums rape pregnant Kwara woman in husband's presence
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State, has arrested three suspects over the alleged rape of a seven-month pregnant woman in Woro village in the Kaiama Local Government Area of the state. The suspect...

Emir of Ilorin endorses Kwara gov for reelection
The Emir of Ilorin, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has said that the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, deserves a fresh term of another four years as the governor of the state adding that he has shown enough com...

One Shot Dead In Kwara Community Land Dispute, Palace Destroy In Odo-Eku, Isin LG In Kwara Over Land Dispute
Iwo Community are importing mercenaries from Lagos, High Chief Raises Alarm One person has been reportedly killed in Odo-Eku Community, Isin LG of Kwara state over an age long land dispute pending at the Suprem...