2022-09-02

N11.9bn Stolen from Kwara Between 2011 and 2019, Forensic Audit Reveals
A forensic audit company hired by the Kwara State Government yesterday disclosed that about N11.9 billion of public funds were allegedly carted away from the treasury of the state between 2011 and 2019 without any proj...

Emir of Ilorin mourns former Nigeria's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sambo Imam
Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has described late Amb. AbdulKadir Sambo Imam, as a gentle and committed public servant, who served Nigeria meritoriously during his lifetime. The deceased, who at o...

Nigeria's Ex-envoy To Saudi Arabia, Imam, Dies At 90
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Alhaji AbdulKadir Imam, is dead. Imam died yesterday in his country home, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital at the age of 90. One of his children, Dr AbdulRazak...

Ilorin Court Jails Two Siblings, Six Others for Internet Fraud
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of eight convicts: two siblings and six other internet fraudsters. The siblings: Ayuba ...

Unknown gunmen kidnap two persons in Ilorin
Unknown gunmen struck on Tuesday night at Gaa Olobi community in Okoolowo area of Ilorin, Kwara State capital, and kidnapped one Kazeem Asalapa, and the wife of his son. Spokesman of the state police command, O...

2022-09-01

17 Kwara Graduates Become Public Health Fellows
The African Institute of Public Health Professionals, has inducted 17 graduates of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State as fellows. Speaking at the annual induction event, the Director, Centre for Wellness...

New Kwara Customs Area Controller visits factories in Ilorin, harps on total compliance
The newly posted Customs Area Controller, Kwara Command, Compt AG Bello, paid an extensive visit to all the excise factories in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. In a press statement made available to the media ...

2 Remanded For Stealing Calf In Kwara
A magistrate's court in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has remanded two suspects, Nura Buda and Segir Bello, for stealing a calf. The suspects were apprehended by soldiers of 22 Battalion of the Nigerian Army...

150,000 Babies Born With Sickle Cell Yearly In Nigeria
Statistics have shown that out of 300,000 babies born every year globally with severe haemoglobin disorder, otherwise called sickle cell disorder, Nigeria accounts for almost half of the share with an estimated 150,000...

2022-08-31

Rotavirus: Kwara To Vaccinate 150,000 Children
Kwara State government is to vaccinate 150,000 children below the age of five years against rotavirus and other preventable child-killer diseases across the 16 local government areas of the State. The wife of t...

Two fashion designers, Mujeeb, Abdulsamad, others jailed for internet fraud in Ilorin
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, Kwara State has convicted and sentenced two fashion designers: Jatto Mujeeb and Opeyemi Bhadmus Abdulsamad. They were convicted and sentenced alongsi...

Kwara flags off N160m COVID-19 recovery grants for MSMEs
Kwara state government, Tuesday, flagged off the disbursement of N160, 550,000 in grants to 688 small and micro-scale businesses in the first tranche of the KWARA NG CARES RA3 operational grants. These benefi...

NSCDC arrests railway line vandals, three others in Kwara
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kwara State Command, has arrested two suspected railway line vandals and three alleged house breakers. Parading the suspects at the NSCDC's headquarters in I...

2022-08-30

Kwara Govt continues gradual payment of pre-2019 SUBEB, LGAs' N11bn arrears
Kwara State Government has paid another 15% of one month of the huge salary arrears of SUBEB teachers, pensioners and local government workers it inherited in 2019 from the past administration in the state. Th...

Strike: We're confident Nigerian govt will implement agreements – SSANU, NASU
The University of Ilorin, Unilorin, chapters of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have said they suspended the industrial actions to give the Federal ...

IEDPU Hails Dr Saudat Abdulbaqi over NIPR Fellowship, Urges Women to Emulate Her
Female indigenes of Ilorin Emirate origin have,again, been reminded of the need to always be focused on their various professions in order to attain positions of eminence as currently being achieved by an Associate Pro...

70% Kwarans to get COVID-19 vaccine
Hanifa Hamza, a pharmacist and Kwara State Coordinator, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), has disclosed that seventy percent of Kwara population will be vaccinated to further prevent COVID-19 in...

2 Kwara Varsity Students Found Dead, Naked In Hostel
Two students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Tobiloba Daniel and his suspected lover, Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in Daniel's hostel... Two students of the Kwara State University (KWASU),...

Ripples at Offa Poly: Education minister ignores Buhari's choice of rector
A major crisis is brewing at Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, over the appointment of a substantive rector for the 30-year-old institution. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, is alleged to have rejected ...

Kwara govt vows to deal with electrical cable vandals, thieves
The Commissioner for Energy in Kwara State, Hajia Mariam Ahmed Hassana, on Monday, warned electrical cable vandals and thieves to desist from the act as the state government is ready to deal with them. She gave...