2022-06-06

Kwara deploys security operatives in Obbo-Aiyegunle-Osi over kidnapping, killings
Kwara State Government has deployed a reinforced security team to Obbo Aiyegunle/Osi axis in the Kwara South Senatorial District following the killing of two persons and abduction of travellers by unknown gunmen on Sat...

IEDPU warns against idolatry invasion of Ilorin
Adherents of African Traditional Religions, Osun worshipers in particular, trooping into Ilorin,the Kwara State capital, on daily basis from God knows where, have been warned to desist from the disrespect with which th...

Imbibe Late Justice Akanbi's Legacies In Fixing Nigeria
Nigerians and their leaders have been urged to learn from the legacies of the pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the late Justice Mustapha Akanbi, in fixing th...

ABS force City FC to 1-1 draw in Ilorin
Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC on Saturday came from a goal down to force visiting City FC of Abuja to a 1-1 draw. The 2021/2022 Nigeria National League (NNL) match Day 13 was played at the Kwara Stadiu...

Kwara CP To Officers: Stop Searching Laptops, Phones Of Residents
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Tuesday Assayomo, has warned officers of the command against indiscriminate search of laptops and telephones of residents. The warning came less than ...

Woman, Kwara judge bicker over court shooting, alleged partiality
A defendant, Bukola Abikoye, has accused a High Court judge in Ilorin, Kwara State, Hammed Gegele, of ordering one of his police aides to shoot at the legal assistant of her (Abikoye's) lawyer. She also accused...

Former Kwara LP chieftain, Omotosho dies in US, Gov AbdulRazaq mourns
Kwara State-born politician and the 2015 Governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Mike Omotosho is dead. Dr. Omotosho, who reportedly died in the United States of America, emerged third behind former gov...

2 killed, others abducted by unknown gunmen in Kwara
Unknown gunmen have killed two persons and abducted a yet to be ascertained number of people along Obbo Aiyegunle/Osi highway in Kwara South Senatorial District on Saturday. The victims were reportedly attacked...

2022-06-05

Salman Magaji Emerges Kwara AA Governorship Candidate
A legal practitioner, Barrister Dauda Salman Magaji, has emerged as the governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) in Kwara State. Magaji emerged through a consensus arrangement and was affirmed by delegate...

APC members defect to SDP in Kwara
Many members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara. The defectors were led by an aggrieved House of ...

2022-06-03

Nigerian Politics Now a Criminal Enterprise, Says Gobir, Joins YPP
Former chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) and presently a governorship aspirant of Young Progressives Party (YPP) in Kwara State, Alhaji Yakubu Gobir, has stated that the country politics has become a “crimin...

Kwara Farmer Remanded For Sexual Assault
A 59-year-old farmer, AbdulGaniu Mohammed, has been sent to a correctional facility for having carnal knowledge of a girl in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to the First Information Report (FIR), the...

Kwara policeman detained for slapping brothers at checkpoint
A police inspector, Aigbobahi Ogbemudia, has been put on departmental orderly room trial by the Kwara State Police Command for allegedly assaulting two brothers on Unity Road, Ilorin, the state capital. The sta...

Kwara Hijab controversy: Islamic group demands justice for student allegedly killed
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has cried foul over the move to reopen Baptist High School, Oyun, where crisis erupted earlier this year due to the alleged refusal of the school authorities to obey the State governme...

Fake American Widow Bags Three-Year Jail Term In Ilorin
A fake American widow on Thursday bagged a three-year jail term in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The convict – Aderibigbe Sheu – was sentenced by Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Il...

2022-06-02

Abdullahi: Kwarans Voted Out a Government They Didn't Want for a Government They Don't Need
Former Minister of Youths and Sports and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Kwara Central Senatorial District, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi spoke with Hammed Shittu in Ilorin shortly after he wo...

Firm deworms Kwara pupils
Biomedical Limited has donated free deworming medicine to cater for pupils in Moro Local Council of Kwara State. Flagging off the programme, yesterday, in partnership with the Kwara government at the presidenti...

PCN seals 520 shops in Kwara over unethical practices
Pharmacists Council of Nigeria(PCN) has shut 520 pharmacies and patent and medicine stores in Kwara State over their alleged failures to comply with council's guidelines and ethical practices. The PCN Head of ...

One more resident dies from cultists' attack in Ilorin
Another victim of last Monday night attack by suspected cultists in Ilorin, Kwara State, has died of gunshot injuries. DAILY POST recalls that a bloody attack was launched by suspected cultists at Omoda/Adangba...

Kwara reopens Baptist school shut over hijab crisis
The Kwara State Government on Wednesday approved the reopening of Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, for students to resume academic activities after 119 days of closure over the crisis caused by the wearing of Hijab....

Policeman in trouble for manhandling, slapping two civilians in Ilorin
The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, has ordered the arrest, detention and orderly room trial of a police officer, Inspector Aigbobahi Ogbemudia, who allegedly manhandled and slapped two civilians in ...

2023: Waziri Yakubu Gobir to fly YPP governorship flag in Kwara
Waziri Yakubu Gobir, in Ilorin, on Wednesday, declared his ambition to contest for the governorship office of Kwara State in the 2023 general elections. He is vying for the governorship seat on the platform of ...