2022-06-22

NYSC DG tasks corps members on discipline
Brig.- Gen Mohammed Fada, the Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has advised the 2022 Batch B, Streams 1 corps members to maintain high level of discipline during their one-year mandatory national S...

Senate Okays Establishment of Four Medical Centres, Amends Teaching Hospitals Act
The Senate yesterday passed four bills to establish Federal Medical Centres in four states across the country. The medical centres would be established in Osogbo, Osun State; Onitsha, Anambra State; Gada, Sokot...

Auto Crashes: Kwara Records 44 Deaths, 231 Injuries In 2 Months
Forty-four lives lost were lost and 231 persons injured in auto crashes in Kwara State between April and May this year. The state's Commandant of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Fredrick Ade Ogidan, discl...

Fedpoly Offa Embarks On Seven-Day Warning Strike
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) in the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State have embarked on a seven-day warning strike action. According to a statement by the branch ...

Ilorin court convicts engineer, POS operator for cybercrime
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a self-professed engineer, Oyewole Maruf Damilare, from Ifedore Local Government Area of Osun State, for cyb...

Senate alerts military over terrorists' hideouts in Kwara, Niger
The Senate, on Tuesday, raised an alert to the military over terrorists' hideouts in communities within three local government areas of Kwara and Niger States. The upper chamber at the plenary urged the militar...

Kwara man strips, flogs girlfriend over cheating, suspect, friends arrested
The Kwara State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a man identified only as Fatai and three of his other friends for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, identified only as Aduke, over claims that she cheated o...

2022-06-21

Abdulrazaq Sends 5 New Commissioner-Nominees to KWHA
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has forwarded the names of five new commissioner-nominees to the State House of Assembly for approval. The nominees are former House of Representatives aspirant Dr. Afeez A...

Tunji Moronfoye Apologises to Gov Abdulrazaq, Kwara REC over corruption allegation
The publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, ‘Tunji Moronfoye, has apologised to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, and the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Garba Madami, over his a...

Hijab: Kwara Muslim Students Seek Compensation For Victim
Members of the Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria (MSSN) in Kwara State yesterday urged the state government to compensate the family of Habeeb Idris, who lost his life to hijab crisis in Ijagbo, Oyun local governmen...

REC gives Kwara PDP 48 hours to apologise or risk court action for alleged defamation
The Kwara State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr Garuba Attahiru Madami, has given the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the state 48 hours to tender a public apology, widely circulated in the media for defam...

People with Disabilities Call for Inclusiveness
People living with disabilities have called for inclusiveness in all spheres of life, for them to have a sense of belonging. The call was made by the Kwara Women Leader for Joint National Association of People ...

NDLEA seizes 2000kgs of drugs in one year - Official
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kwara Command on Monday in Ilorin, said it had seized about 2,329.642kgs of drugs from July 2021 to date. Mr Ibrahim Saidu, its Commander, stated this during a ...

Kwara Students Laud Governor's Education Reforms
Several hundreds of students in Kwara State trooped to the streets in Ilorin to express their gratitude to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's administration for its education sector reforms and investments, which they s...

OPINION: Of Yaman's debt gaffe and PDP’s shock-jocks - Rafiu Ajakaye
Believing one’s own lie — a kind of cognitive bias — is about the worst singular thing to happen to anyone. Arrowheads of Kwara’s PDP actually believe their own lies, and that explains their wob...

2022-06-20

JAMB, US Grant Agency Partner on Provision of Medical Equipment to 12 Teaching Hospitals
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has partnered with Project Cure in United States of America to facilitate the provision of medical equipment worth several billions to 12 teaching hospitals across six ...

World Sickle Cell Day: Kwara First Lady Procures Health Insurance Cover For 100 Warriors
In commemoration of the 2022 World Sickle Cell day, wife of Kwara State governor and founder, Ajike People Support Center, Ambassador Dr. Olufolake Abdulrazaq, has procured health insurance cover for over 100 people li...

2023: Ex- Saraki's Chief of Staff, Makanjuola, Emerges PDP Deputy Gov Candidate in Kwara
A two terms member of House of Representatives representing Irepodun/Isin/ Oke-Ero/ Ekiti Federal Constituency in Kwara State at the National Assembly and immediate past Chief of Staff to former Senate President, Dr. ...

Hajj: First batch of 560 Kwara pilgrims leave for Saudi Arabia
The first batch of 560 intending pilgrims from Kwara State yesterday left for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the Ilorin International Airport. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the pilgrims depar...

Gov. AbdulRahman commits N150m to Kwara water projects
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has committed N150 million to the construction of at least 48 modern motorized boreholes and their accessories in Moro and Asa local government areas of the state. ...

Flooding: Kwara farmers demand insurance scheme
Farmers in Kwara have called on the government to provide insurance cover for their farms to cushion losses caused by natural and manmade disasters. Speaking with journalists on Sunday of a need for training an...

In Kaiama, Bad Roads, Cost Of Transportation Stifle Bountiful Harvest
Every Saturday, a popular market comes alive in Kaiama, a farming community in Kwara State. Dawn reveals lively women expressing themselves in Bokobaru, the language of the area. Women alight from motorcycles w...

Kwara poly scales NABTE hurdles, secures accreditation for 52 programmes
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has accredited 52 academic programmes of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. Speaking at the exit briefing of accreditation exercise, Friday, the director of poly...

Kwara Farmers Lament Low Rainfall
Farmers in Kwara State are lamenting the low rainfall that has trailed the ongoing planting season. Some of the farmers, it was learnt, embarked on early planting season despite warnings from meteorologists aga...

NPFL: Kwara United defeat Sunshine Stars
Kwara United Football Club of Ilorin on Sunday defeated Sunshine Stars FC 1-0 in a 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match day 34 encounter. Kwara United began the game better than the visit...

2022-06-19

55 Persons Benefit N20m Empowerment Tools In Kwara
About 55 people in the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church, Muritala Mohammed Way, Ilorin have been empowered with various working tools worth N20million by a philanthropic organisation in the church, the Oluwole fou...