2022-06-15

Kwara gets $15m intravenous fluid manufacturing complex
Healthcare delivery received a boost on Tuesday in Kwara with the inauguration of a Medication and Intravenous (IV) Fluid Manufacturing complex worth $15 million. An indigenous firm, HMA Medical Ltd, establishe...

NYSC deploys 1,000 prospective corps members to Kwara
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has deployed 1, 000 prospective corps members to Kwara for the 2022 Batch B, Stream One, orientation course. In a statement on Tuesday, Dipo Morakinyo, NYSC Spokesman in...

Kwara United's Ex-Players Protest Unpaid Wages
Kwara United ex-players have taken to the streets of Ilorin, Kwara state capital to protest and express their displeasure over their unpaid wages. The players finished the peaceful protest walk in front of the ...

2022 Hajj: Kwara To Airlift 1st Batch Of Pilgrims Thursday
The Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has announced that the airlift of the first batch of 500 pilgrims for the 2022 Hajj will commence on Thursday, June 16, 2022. The Chairman of the b...

Abducted Kwara Anglican Bishop, wife regain freedom
The abducted Anglican Bishop of Jebba Diocese in Kwara State, Rt. Rev Oluwaseun Aderogba, has regained his freedom. The cleric was abducted with his wife and driver along the Oyo-Ogbomoso Expressway in Oyo Stat...

Sundry Foods unveils two branches in Ilorin
Food services giant in Nigeria, Sundry Foods Limited (SFL) has expanded its footprint across the country with the opening of two branches in Ilorin Kwara State. Deputy Governor of Kwara State, Kayode Alabi, whi...

Kwara govt., PDP in war of words on Democracy Day
The Kwara State Government has faulted accusations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state that it has nothing to show after three year in office. In a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES, the ...

2022-06-14

Democracy Day: MINILS DG, Issa Aremu worries over military incursion in governments in West Africa
The Director General of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS)Ilorin, Comrade Issa Aremu has expressed concern over disturbing developments in West Africa as a result of increasing military incur...

Strengthen worship centres' security, Kwara police tell clerics
Following the recent attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State by gunmen, the Kwara State Police Command has advised the leadership of religious bodies in the state to beef up security arrangements in vari...

Hijab crisis: Kwara Muslims want schools' names changed
Kwara State Muslim Community has suggested that the names of all schools formerly owned by Muslim and Christian proprietors in the state should be changed as part of solutions to the lingering hijab crisis in the state...

2022-06-13

My Administration Has Restored Dignity of Kwarans, Says Abdulrazaq
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said there is no doubt that the 'O To Ge' (enough is enough) administration has restored the dignity of the average person, and placed the state on the path of ...

Kwara students drum support for AbdulRazaq's second term bid
Hundreds of Kwara students on Sunday in Ilorin staged a rally in appreciation of Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq's education sector reforms and investments. The students said the reforms and investments would off...

2023: Kwara aspirants commit to work for PDP guber candidate, Yaman Abdullahi
Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirants, in the primary election held in Ilorin, which produced Yaman Shuaib Abdullahi, have pledged to work for the party's victory in the 2023 general elections in...

AbdulRazaq pledges support for entrepreneurship as Kwara youth fair ends
Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend pledged continuous support for young people, including those involved in various enterprises. The Governor spoke in Ilorin at the Grand Finale of the 2nd K...

Kwara APC Reps Rerun: Olawuyi Gets Ticket As Other Aspirants Step Down
Honourable Tunji Olawuyi, the incumbent House of Representatives member, representing, Ekiti, Irepodun, Isin and Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara has emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

2022-06-12

Saraki, Kwara PDP governorship aspirants unite for 2023
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki and all the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in Kwara State at the weekend united to work for the victory of the party's flag bearer, Alhaji Shuaib Abdullahi i...

Kwara Customs command takes anti-smuggling campaign to border communities
In a bid to combat small arms and light weapons smuggling into the country, the Kwara State Customs command has solicited the assistance of traditional rulers in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara North Senatorial ...

'I saw death several times,' Adeyanju speaks on London-2-Lagos bike trip
Mr Kunle Adeyanju, the Nigerian who travelled 12,000km from London to Lagos traversing 13 countries in 41-days narrates his experience in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State on Saturday. He spoke on the sideli...

Tension in APC, PDP, SDP for soul of Kwara
The candidates that have emerged from recent senatorial primary elections in the two leading political parties in Kwara State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP) can shape the outco...