2022-10-10

Sola Saraki Foundation Urges FG, ASUU to Halt Strike
Sola Saraki Educational Foundation at the weekend called on the federal government and the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to take genuine proactive steps to halt the ongoing strike. ...

At 68, associates hail JAMB registrar over conferment of third national honour
In less than a decade, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede, a Professor of Islamic Studies, would be having on his well-stocked award shelves, three medals of Nigeria's ...

Police Arrest Three Armed Robbers in Kwara
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command over the weekend arrested three suspected armed robbery gang that have been terrorising the students of Kwara State University, Malete. A statement issued in Ilorin...

APC Has Better Choices For Kwara National Assembly Seats, Group Says
A socio-cultural organization of Igbomina indigenes in Kwara State, Orisun Igbomina, has said that personalities fielded for National Assembly seats by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state are the best to d...

Kwara govt holds retreat for MDAs on performances, impacts on citizens
Kwara State Government on Saturday held a retreat for Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to appraise their achievements, programmes, policies, and areas of impacts on the citizens. The appraisals cover...

Kwara Hotel to shut ahead repositioning
Kwara State Government has directed the shutdown of the ailing Kwara Hotels pending rehabilitation and repositioning of the facility, a statement said on Sunday. Commissioner for Business, Innovation and Techn...

2022-10-08

AbdulRazaq greets Muslims, attends Kwara's annual Maulid celebration
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated the Muslim community on the birth anniversary of the Prophet Muhmmad, urging faithful to emulate the great examples and legacies of the prophet. Add...

Cabinet approves return of Kwara Hotels to BIT Ministry
KWARA State Executive Council has approved that control and supervision of the Kwara Hotels should revert to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Technology(BIT) as it was before it came under Harmony Holdings Ltd....

2022-10-07

Marketers Association lauds Kwara govt's grants for petty traders
Kwara State Association of Marketers (KWAM) on Wednesday commended the state government for its various policies and programmes that support small scale businesses to thrive. The association, jointly led by Iy...

Kwara Gov, Khalifatul Adaby, others grace Fidau prayers for late Sheikh Aboto
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday joined prominent citizens, scholars and sympathisers in Aboto-Alfa in Asa local government of the state for the Fidau prayer for the late Sheikh Abdulganiyu Aboto...

Govt 'll complete Tunde Idiagbon flyover bridge in Ilorin by Dec – Iliyasu
Kwara state Commissioner for Works and Transport, Engr Rotimi Iliyasu has allayed the fears, assuring that the ongoing Tanke Flyover Bridge initiated by the current administration would be completed by December. ...

Kwara Hotels staff protest, disrupt business activities
Staff of Kwara Hotels paralysed business activities along Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin Thursday, locking the entrance of the hotel over unpaid seven months' salaries and over 18 months' service charges. The workers...

Flood: Kwara APC Chieftain Donates Houses To Cleric's Widows
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Saliu Mustapha has donated a 2-bedroom semi-detached apartment to the wives of the late Islamic cleric, Sheikh AbdulGaniyu Aboto. Mustapha's gesture ...

Firm Launches 5 Housing Projects In Kwara For Workers, Others
Ground breaking of five new housing projects were inaugurated yesterday in different locations in Ilorin, Kwara State. Speaking at the official commissioning of Kwara State headquarters of T Pumpy Concept, the...

Kwara Assembly urges thorough probe of Kaiama's general hospital CMD
The Kwara State House of Assembly, on Thursday, called for a thorough investigation into the detained Chief Medical Director of Kaiama General Hospital, Dr Adio Adeyemi, over alleged murder of two women. The Ho...

2022-10-06

World Teachers' Day: Kwara Honours Teachers With Awards
Kwara State government, on Wednesday, presented various categories of awards to 60 outstanding teachers from public primary and secondary schools, including state-owned tertiary institutions to mark the 2022 world teac...

Kwara footballer bags 12-year jail for Internet fraud
A professional footballer, Jacob Chukwuemeka, has been convicted and sentenced to six years' imprisonmentafor offences bordering on Internet fraud and possession of fraudulent funds. In a statement, the Economi...

APC, PDP, LP, NNPP, others sign peace accord in Kwara
Leaders of political parties in Kwara State on Wednesday, signed peace accord ahead of the 2023 general election. The event, which was held at the Police Officers' Mess, GRA, Ilorin, the state capital, was at t...

Kwara APC Senatorial Candidate Unveils Legislative Agenda
The All Progressives Congress candidate in the 2023 Kwara Central Senatorial election, Mallam Saliu Mustapha says that if elected, he would advocate for laws and reforms, collaborate with the Kwara State Government and re...

CAFCC: Kwara Utd brace up for RS Berkane challenge
Kwara United Football Club has rounded up its preparations for the First Leg, First Round match of the 20222023 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup competition against Renaissance Sportive de Berkane of Morocco, billed...

Kwara Gov. mourns Moonlights Editor, Issa Saliu
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has commiserated with the family and media fraternity on the death of the publisher of Real News, an online platform and Editor of Moonlight Newspaper, Malam Issa Saliu. Abd...

2023: Kwara Central Candidates Harp On Quality Education, Healthcare
Three Senatorial candidates in Kwara State have stressed the need for qualitative education, health systems and enduring poverty alleviation schemes. They expressed these views during a debate organised for t...

2 Abducted Kwara Cleric's Sons Escape As Kidnappers Sleep Off
Two teenagers who were abducted after gunmen killed their father, Alfa Tunde Aribidesi, have escaped from the den of their abductors. Aribidesi was killed in his residence at Gaa-Osibi in Ilorin West LGA of Kwa...

Political parties cautioned at peace accord signing in Kwara
Political parties in Kwara State on Wednesday signed a peace accord to ensure issue-based campaigns for next year's elections in the state. At the signing of the accord, held at state police command headquarter...

Awards Galore as AbdulRazaq Celebrates Kwara Teachers
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday joined the global community to celebrate teachers, calling them the centrepiece of his administration's transformative agenda in the education sector and reassur...

Minister, Buhari's COS flex muscles over Offa Poly rector
POWER tussle between the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, and the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has led to the delay in the appointment of a substantive Rector for the Fe...