2022-05-12

1,406 Kwara pilgrims slated for Hajj
The Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Ahmed, has said that 1,406 pilgrims from the state will perform this year's holy pilgrimage to Mecca. AbduGaniyu, whi...

KWASU to partner Kwara Television in staff, students' development
The Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, says it will partner with Kwara State Television (KWTV) for staff development and deployment of students for internship training. The KWASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mus...

150 Kwara women benefit from NDE informal training
A total number of 150 women have benefitted from a five-day empowerment training scheme in informal skills acquisition organised by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kwara State. The training, don...

2023: Kwara lawmaker to challenge Abdulrazaq in gov race
One of the six members representing Kwara State in the House of Representatives, Abdulganiyu Cook-Olododo, has declared his intention to contest the Kwara State governorship seat in the 2023 election. Olododo, ...

ASUP strike: Federal Poly Offa will comply fully - Chairman, Atilola Idowu
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Federal Polytechnic, Offa chapter in Kwara State, has mapped out strategies to fully comply with the two weeks national warning strike declared on Wednesday. The ...

AbdulRazaq appoints new Kwara Attorney General
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq, has appointed Ibrahim Sulyman as the new Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice of the state. The governor in a minor cabinet reshuffle announced through a st...

2022-05-11

OPINION: 'Political Parties Should Prioritise Competency, Capacity to Achieve Desired Change'
A leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti Local Government Area, Kwara State, Ganiyu Gabriel, has cried out over an alleged plot by some members to destroy the party. Gabriel, who represents Ekiti Consti...

Hajj 2022: Kwara pilgrims board holds special prayers
The Kwara Welfare Board has announced the commencement of special prayers for the 2022 Hajj operations./p> The Executive Secretary of the board, Mr. Bashiru Hammed, told newsmen in Ilorin on Tuesday that the praye...

NGO empowers 100 females in Kwara in Web Devt, Graphics Design
In order to bridge the gender divide in the Tech Ecosystem in Nigeria and to empower women to be self-reliant and employable,100 selected females in Kwara state have completed three months of training in Web Developmen...

2023: Kwara South Senatorial Stakeholders Warn against Zoning
Stakeholders in the Kwara South Senatorial District were urged to allow fairness, justice, and equity to prevail in the choice of candidates that would represent the district in the next general elections and bring eve...

JAMB: 54,000 candidates registered for 2022 UTME from Kwara - Adio
About 54,000 candidates from Kwara State are involved in this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Chairman of the Kwara State Television Board, Ahmed Adio, disclosed this during a courtesy ...

2022-05-10

Kwara govt sponsors technical training at IVTEC, rolls out admission process
The Kwara State Government, in collaboration with the International Vocational Technical and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase Ipo, announces the commencement of admissions for the Second Batch of the 2021/2022 Y...

Prices Of Fertiliser, Bread Soar In Kwara, Yobe, Lagos, Kaduna
THE prices of fertiliser and bread have skyrocketed in Kwara, Yobe, Lagos, and Kaduna states, a report released by ActionAid has revealed. According to ActionAid, the unabated soaring prices of foodstuffs acros...

Kwara Govt Appeals To FG Over Damaged Bridges, Roads
Kwara State Government has made a passionate plea to the Federal Government to save the state from imminent disaster as a result of damaged Moro Bailey bridge and Ihan bridge both in the Moro Local Government Area of t...

ASUU Strike: Students to continue protests in Osun, Kwara, Edo, others
Following the extension of the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities by another 12 weeks, student groups have decided to continue their protests across the country. Students under the aegis ...

Kwara APC LG chairman suspended over alleged fund misappropriation, incompetence
The Ekiti Local Government Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, Wale Awelewa, has been suspended indefinitely. He was reportedly suspended by his Epe-Opin ward in the local government...

Outcry As Kwara LG Marks 29 Shops For Demolition
No fewer than 29 shops have been marked for demolition at the popular Oja- Tuntun market, Baboko area, Ilorin, Kwara State to forestall further fire outbreaks in the market. LEADERSHIP observed that the market ...

Kwara Community Laments 3-Month Blackout
A three-month electricity blackout has left residents and business owners at Gerewu community in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State in agony, our correspondent reports. Those who spoke with our co...

2022-05-09

Graduate stranded as Kwara poly, NYSC mobilise impostor for service
An accounting graduate of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State, Rukayat Akinola, has lamented being stranded after her student details were allegedly used to mobilise another person for the National Youth S...

Kwara govt, NUJ, others mourn veteran broadcaster, Yemi Ademokoya
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Kwara state NUJ Council and National League of Veteran Journalists, NALVEJ, have commiserated with the families and associates of veteran broadcaster Mrs. Yemi Ademokoya who died on Sat...

APC female Reps aspirant empowers market women in Kwara
A House of Representatives aspirant for Offa, Oyun, and Ifelodun Federal Constituency, Mrs. Yewande Mobolaji-Dauda, has empowered no fewer than 40 traders in Oro-Ago town of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara....