2022-01-22

Perceptions 2023: Bukola Saraki
The journey started last week…seeking perspectives via objective perceptions of acts and trajectories of major and minor actors angling to foist on Nigerians their dreams to run for the position of the President. We ident...

Boat Mishap: HYPPADEC Begins Distribution Of 10,000 Life Jackets To 6 States
The Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) has commenced the distribution of 10,000 life jackets to riverine communities in the six hydro power-producing states of Niger, Kebbi, Kwara, Kogi,...

OPINION: APC chairmanship: Who is Saliu Mustapha? By Gidado Shuaib
At the moment, the most prevalent question on the lips of Nigerians is the 2023 presidential election. Analysis is being churned out about who will become the next president of Africa’s most populous country....

Women Activist, Mopelola takes charge in Kwara state Ministry of Women Affairs
The newly appointed Honourable Commissioner for Women Affairs in Kwara State , Mrs Mopelola Abdulmalik-Bashir has set what she described as a Progressive agenda for the ministry, upon assumption to office this week,e...

Gender inclusion: Kwara Gov bags National APC Women merit award
Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq came up for national applause in Abuja on Wednesday night as women of the ruling APC singled him out for recognition over his deliberate effort to mainstream gender inclusi...

100 Indigent Students Benefit From Free Uniforms In Kwara
No fewer than 100 students across several primary schools in Ilorin Central have benefited from free distribution of school uniforms in the state. The event, which was held across five schools involved 20 students ...

'Kwara Govt not interfering in community chieftaincy dispute'
Ayedun community in Oke-Ero local government area of Kwara state has absolved the state government of interference in the chieftaincy dispute rocking the community. A section of the community known as Iwoye Stakeh...

Street begging: Kwara govt evacuates beggars off Ilorin bridge
Less than 48 hours after the Kwara State government announced a ban on Street begging in Ilorin, the State Environmental Protection Agency has begun the evacuation of street beggars on the Gerin-Alimi bridge. The s...

2022-01-21

KwaraLEARN: Data driven Education Transformation
As a critical part of the kick-off for KwaraLEARN, the newly launched education transformation programme by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State, the Implementation Team will commence inspection visits to s...

Kwara Police's PCRC Honours Editor, Five Others
The Kwara State Police Command’s Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) on Thursday honored six distinguished Nigerians with Award of Excellence for their contributions to the sustenance of security, peace an...

Assets: Kwara vows to prosecute those indicted by govt white paper
The Kwara state government will not spare those indicted by its white paper report on the sales and illegal acquisition of government assets, the state’s Commissioner for Communication, Olabode Towoju, has stat...

143 roads in Kwara rehabilitated under 3 years, says Commissioner
The Kwara State Government has said that it has worked on the rehabilitation of 143 roads since the inception of the administration of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in the last two and half years, the state Commissioner...

Mixed Reactions Trail Shop Demolition For Road Construction By Kwara Govt
Traders whose shops were affected by the recent demolition exercise for the dualisation of the Yebumout/Al-Hikmah University/Adeta Roundabout/Oloje road in Ilorin by the Kwara State Government have expressed mixed feeli...

Can APC Afford an Elective Convention?
After a long season of indecision, perhaps, prompted by an attempt to see the direction of events before committing themselves, the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Con...

24-year-old undergraduate jailed over N74m Internet fraud in Kwara
A 24-year-old undergraduate of Kwara State University, Malete, Alonge Toyyib, was on Thursday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by Kwara State High Court over offences bordering on cybercrime and possession of fraudulent...

2022-01-20

APC Releases Schedule For February Convention, Chairman may emerge from North Central
Ahead of the February 26 national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), on Wednesday released a schedule of activities for the Conventi...

108 Beneficiaries Of NDE N10.8m Loan Undergo Orientation In Kwara
One hundred and eight beneficiaries of N10.8million loan of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Kwara State on Wednesday underwent a one-day orientation programme in Ilorin, the state capital. The...

Kwara youths unveil life class in leadership, entrepreneurship
• Raise will teach values, deepen social cohesion: convener, Abdullateef • Former APC scribe, Issa-Onilu emerges maiden speaker Kwara youths will on Saturday 22nd launch a mentorship programme o...

Fleeing Bandits: We've fortified all Kwara boundaries - Kwara Police
The Kwara State Police Command has said that it has fortified both local and international boundaries in Kwara State with security operatives to protect the state from invasion by bandits that may relocate from neigh...

2022-01-19

UNILORIN Students Renovate Public Toilets, Health Infrastructure In Kwara Rural Communities
Medical students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Kwara State studying in the area of Public and Community Health have carried out some health infrastructural facilities and provisions in some selected rural comm...

Opinion:How Kwara has become Nigeria's new investment haven, By Bashir Adigun
Kwara State has emerged as the new destination for investors and not an abode for criminals. The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, who has detailed reports of insecurity in the country, attested to the impre...

OPINION: AO Uthman: The celebration of an officer and gentleman on retirement. By Abubakar Imam
All roads would, today (Sunday, January 16, 2022), lead to the residence of Major-General Abdullahi Otta Uthman as colleagues, friends, relations and well-wishers converge on his simple but elegant abode to celebrate wi...

2023: Declare 2nd term ambition now, Kwara speaker, others beckon Abdulrazaq
Speaker of Kwara state House of Assembly, Engr Yakubu Danladi-Salihu, Monday, called on Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq to officially declare his ambition to run for second term in office. The speaker said the ...

NSCDC nabs four suspects during robbery in Kwara community
The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the wee wee hours of Monday arrested four robbery suspects while performing an operation with commuters on the Isanlu-Isin/Ijara road. ...