2022-06-27

Ilorin Prominent Politician, Elepo, Dies At 101
A prominent Ilorin businessman, politician and community leader, Alhaji Habeeb Baba Elepo, is dead. Aged 101 years, Alhaji Elepo, until his death was a prominent stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC )...

3,000 Kwara SMEs to Get Post-COVID-19 Relief Grants
About 3,000 Small Scale Business Enterprises(SMEs) owners in Kwara State have been selected to benefit from the first batch of operational cost grants under the Kwara COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (CA...

Senate In Focus: Insecurity Has Gone Worse, Senate Now Alerting Military On Terrorists Hideouts
The primary functions of the legislative arm of government is to make laws, carry out oversights on the executive and the judicial branches, carry out the duty of appropriation, screen president's nominees amongst othe...

PDP Governorship Candidate in Kwara Reneges on Monetary Promise to Delegates
The Peoples Democratic Party's governorship candidate for Kwara State, Shuaib Yaman Abdullahi, is allegedly broke. Abdullahi emerged the winner of the party's governorship primary a few weeks ago. He allegedly paid his...

AbdulRasaq's govt beneficial to Kwara north -Monarchs
Kwara north has benefitted massively from the Administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, traditional rulers in the district stated at the weekend. “This is a period of mourning but we have many positive...

Presidential Poll: Tinubu Will Win With Landslide, Says Kwara APC Stalwart
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Alhaji Sa'adu Salahu, has said that the party's presidential candidate, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, will win the 2023 presidential election with a lands...

2022-06-26

200 arrested for violating sanitation exercise in Ilorin
About 200 people were arrested on Saturday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, for violating the environmental sanitation exercise. “They will be arraigned for immediate prosecution accordingly”, the State Comm...

2022-06-25

Kwara Gov pledges fair treatment as PDP chieftains join APC
Dozens of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bigwigs and stalwarts in Kwara State on Thursday defected to the ruling party in the State (APC). The defectors cited the leadership qualities and achievements of Govern...

Brazilian returnee excretes cocaine wraps, Kwara NDLEA nabs 38 youths
A Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Benson, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, with pellets of cocaine concealed in his pr...

Ohan bridge collapse cuts off Kwara from Oyo
A collapsed bridge that links Kwara and Oyo States from the Okolowo junction of Ilorin in Kwara has cut off the two states. Residents of the state, as well as transporters, are now facing severe hardship in acc...

2022-06-24

Kwara Guber: AbdulRazaq Upbeat Ahead Of Poll
The governorship primary election of the Kwara state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has come and gone, with sweet memories though, following the emergence of the incumbent governor, Abdul- Rahman...

2023: Kumuyi Cautions Politicians On Religious-based Tickets
General superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has advised the presidential candidates of political parties in the country to look at the heartbeat of the country and desires of th...

Kwara Man Stabs 2 'Peacemakers' To Death
A 28-year-old man, Habeeb AbdulGaniyu, has been arraigned before a magistrates' court sitting in Ilorin for stabbing two persons to death after they prevented him and one other person from fighting. The charge ...

Boyfriend Leads Operation To Rob Lover N9.5m In Kwara - Police
An Ilorin magistrates' court sitting in Kwara State has remanded one Rubabat Sanni for robbing his Beninese lover, Zubera Bio Gbengagi, of the sum of CFA 10m (N9.5 million). According to the Police First Inform...

KWASU VC, Akanbi, Emerges 'Raise' Teacher at June Life Class in Ilorin
Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Prof. Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, (SAN) has emerged as Teacher at the June 2022 edition of Raise Life Class, a non governmental organisation promoting youths de...

Kwara transporters request FG expedite completion of abandoned bridges
Commercial transporters in Kwara state have staged another peaceful save-our-soul protest in response to the deplorable conditions of the Moro and Ohan bridges along the Kwara-oyo-Benin Republic border....

Illicit Drug Destroys Families, Undermines Govt - Kwara Gov
Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman of Kwara State has urged youths to shun the use of illicit drugs, saying it destroys communities and undermines the government. The governor spoke in Ilorin at t...

Kwara records first confirmed case of monkeypox
Kwara State government on Thursday confirmed the first case of monkeypox in the state. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Raji Razak, who confirmed the presence of monkey disease in a statement he personally...