2022-07-15

Ilorin Emirate Descendants task stakeholders on cultural revival
Alhaji Uthman Babatunde-Salman, the Chairman of the llorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (lEDPU), Central Zone, has called on stakeholders to work towards ensuring the revival and sustainability of culture and ...

NPFL: Remo Stars, Kwara United in titanic race for third spot
The curtain will fall on the 2021-22 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season on Sunday with the final fixtures. Unlike the previous seasons in which the three representatives of the country in the Co...

2023: Lawal, SDP and expectations of Kwarans
Politics in Kwara state is always a delight to watch or keenly observe for obvious reasons. The state is home to one of the most popular and entrenched political dynasties in Nigeria's history with historic national im...

Kwara Gov'ship: Why I Am Working For PDP Candidate — Lai's Aide
A staunch supporter of the minister of Information and Culture, Kayode Ogunlowo, has said he is working for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state ahead of the 2023 general poll. ...

Farmer Killed, Other Injured In Kwara Boundary Dispute
A farmer has been killed and another injured in a land dispute between Iwo and Odo Ekun communities in Isin LGA of Kwara State. It was learnt that the communities have been involved in an age-long boundary disp...

2023: Hundreds of APC Members Defect to PDP in Kwara
Hundreds of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State have dumped the party for the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of next year's general ele...

Three suspects arrested for alleged armed robbery in Kwara
Three suspects are now in police net in Kwara State for alleged criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. They are Mohammed Bello, Abubakar Mohammed and Mohammed Bello. According to a report by the spokesm...

Fire destroys N1.6m goods in Kwara
No less than N1.6 million worth of goods were, on Thursday, destroyed during a fire incident at an electronics and furniture shop in Ilorin, Kwara State. The Kwara Fire Service Spokesman, Hassan Adekunle, in a ...

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...