2022-07-01

Kwara: Elesa of Oke-Ode dies at 81
Oba Abdulkadri Adelodun, Alebiosu II, the Elesa of Oke-Ode, in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara, has died at the age of 81. Mr Kunle Akogun, the National Publicity Secretary, Oke-Ode Community Development Associ...

NSCDC Parades Two Suspected Bandits in Kwara
The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has paraded two suspects for allegedly bearing illegal arms. The suspects are Mr. Abdullahi, (19) and Mr. John Inyeka, both resid...

Police Ban Indiscriminate Checking Of Youths' Phones, Laptops In Kwara
The commissioner of police in Kwara State , Mr Tuesday Assayomo, has warned policemen in the state against indiscriminate stopping and searching of youths in both public and private vehicles for the purpose of lookin...

Man Abducts, Rapes Housewife In Kwara Forest – Police
A herder has been dragged before a magistrates' court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, for robbing, abducting and raping a married woman at gun point. The defendant, Hassan Namusa (25), was charged on a two coun...

Kwara Varsity Inducts 158 Laboratory Scientists
Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete yesterday inducted 158 newly qualified medical laboratory scientists. This brings the total of medical laboratory scientists produced by the university to 364. The...

Kwara House moves to curb harbouring of Yahoo boys by hoteliers
The Kwara State House of Assembly has asked Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq to direct the state Ministry of Communications to embark on sensitisation of hoteliers on the danger of harbouring Yahoo boys in their facilit...

Ex-Police Officer, 1 Other Charged With N40m Fraud In Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command has arraigned an ex-police officer, Issa Lukman, and one Babatunde Omotayo for defrauding one Ismail Omotayo of N40 million in Ilorin. According to the complainant, the suspects f...

2022-06-30

Mevron partners with TVS to empower bikers, trikers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mevron has announced a partnership with TVS, an affordable motorcycle and tricycle manufacturing company to give prospective and current Mevron bikers and trikers in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, access to the...

Ex-minister Decries Monetisation Of Electoral Process
Former minister of sports and youth development, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, has described the extreme monetisation of political process as witnessed in the recent political parties' primaries as the biggest threat to the ...

Kwara Internet fraudster jailed two years, forfeits N13m car
Justice Mohammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has sentenced an unemployed Internet fraudster, Olamilekan Olukayode, to two years' imprisonment for cybercrime. The court also or...

JAMB registrar condemns ASUU strike, donates medical equipment's to UITH, 11 others
Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has condemned the ongoing industrial strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),describing it as unn...

Kingmakers ask AbdulRazaq to remove Odo-Owa monarch
Kingmakers (Iwarefa) and Afin Descendants Union of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero local government area of Kwara state have passed vote of no confidence on the Olota of Odo-Owa, Oba Joshua Adeyemi Adimula, asking Governor AbdulRaz...

Kwara United: It's time to check and balance the books
Sports, especially football, is a massive money-making venture that sits on a global investment portfolio, worth billions in dollars. In terms of revenue, on an annual basis, football nets at least $50 billion globally...

Kwara, health agencies sensitise residents on monkey pox
Sensitisation on the Monkey Pox diseases began yesterday at Lafiagi, headquarters of Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. The advocacy is being sponsored by the government, through the Ministry of Health E...

Most APC Govs Manipulated Party Primaries – Kwara Senator
The Senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dr. Ibrahim Yahaya Oloriegbe, has accused governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of manipulating the recently concluded par...

302 NSCDC recruits pass out from training camp in Kwara
No fewer than 302 newly recruited officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) under Kwara Command have graduated from their training camp. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ...

Senator Oloriegbe Faults Conduct of APC Primaries in Kwara
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, who represents Kwara Central senatorial district of Kwara State at the National Assembly, Dr. Yahaya Oloriegbe, has faulted the just concluded conduct of the All Progressives C...

Community Devt: MM rallies indigenes support for Ilorin Emirate Durbar
An Ilorin-born business mogul and stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Moshood Mustapha (MM) has urged Ilorin indigenes in diaspora, irrespective of their political leanings to always support Ilorin E...

2022-06-29

EFCC to landlords: Rent house to 'yahoo boys,' risk 15-year jail term
The Economic Financial Commission Commission (EFCC) has issued a stern warning that landlords may risk 15 years in jail for renting houses out to “Yahoo boys.” The Commission made this known ahead of its next e...

Avoid Shortcut To Success, NYSC DG Tells Corps Members
The director general of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Muhammad Kaku Fadah has advised Corps Members to be patience, hardworking and embrace dignity of labour which are the hallmark of a success...

Foundation signs ?26.5m MoU With Kwara CSO
An anti-corruption Civil Society Organization, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), has partnered with the Gobir Organization Foundation (GOF) by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth ?26.5...

Four Jailed For Cybercrime In Kwara
An air-conditioner repairer, Pelumi Oluwatimileyin Sunday and three others have been convicted for offences bordering on cybercrime by a Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The three others a...

Gwanara road project: Kwara govt admits contracts inflation eight months after TheICIR report
Kwara state government (KWSG) has admitted that the contract sum for the Ilesha Baruba – Gwanara road project was inflated by ?751,551,647.22, this is coming eight months after the ICIR-funded report. The gove...

Kwara 2023: Forces Against Abdulrazak's Reelection Bid
Were Kwara's political temperature to be captured in human terms, the saying, 'still water runs deep', may best describe the deceptive calm pervading the political landscape of the North Central State these days. Polit...

2022-06-28

ARMTI Trains Small-Scale Women Farmers In Agripreneurship
Forty women in small-scale agriculture and agribusiness drawn from six geopolitical zones of the country have been trained in agripreneurship development by the Agriculture and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMT...

What I Discussed With Tinubu – Centenarian Who Kept Vigil During APC Primary
A video of Alhaja Shafau Alanamu, a centenarian from Ilorin Kwara State made rounds on social media a few days ago. In the video, the Alhaja Shafau was seen praying for the presidential candidate of the All Progressive...

23-year-old Kwara Poly student remanded for crushing police officer to death
An Ilorin Magistrate's Court has remanded a 23-year-old student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Babatunde Lekan, for allegedly knocking down one Police Inspector Isaac Osayintuyi. Police information rev...

Ex-UNILORIN VC emerges NNPP gov candidate in Kwara
The New Nigeria Peoples Party in Kwara State has adopted the former vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Shuaib AbdulRaheem as its gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election. The state chai...