2022-01-15

PDP Can't Return in Kwara After 16 Years of Misrule
A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State and President General, Orisun Igbomina in Kwara South Senatorial District, Chief Gbenga Awoyale talks to select journalists in Ilorin about the crisis rocking ...

NSCDC Arrests Serial POS Fraudster In Ilorin
Operatives of the Kwara state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested one Victor Adebayo, 24, suspected to be a serial POS fraudster and fake alert scammer. Speaking while para...

Consultant Differs With Kwara Revenue Boss On Operations
Chairman, Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS), Mrs Shade Omoniyi and the principal partner of the consulting firm that set up the state revenue agency, Dr Yemi Sanni, have differed on the operations and efficienc...

Why I sold colleague's missing gun to DJ -Sgt Yusuf
The Osun State Police Command recently paraded Sergeant Haruna Yusuf, attached to the traffic department of the Omu-Aran Division, Kwara State, for theft of firearm. The suspect tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA the story behind his a...

Dad seeks help for daughter forced out of school by broken leg
Her sorrowful mien is palpable. Firdaus Apo is lost in pensive mood every day, watching her peers leaving home happily for school in the morning and returning to meet her almost on the same spot. That has been the ...

2022-01-14

Kidney Transplant: Kwara Man Who Terminated Wife's 5 Pregnancies Cries For Help
For Mr Abdullahi Yusuf, a retired Kwara secondary school teacher, this is really a difficult period for him and his 34-year-old wife, Rukayat who needs a kidney transplant. Narrating his plight to North Central T...

Abraysports FC Ilorin, set to unveil new jersey
Abraysports FC of Ilorin has announced it will unveil New Jersey during a friendly game against Crown FC of Ogbomosho Saturday at the Kwara Stadium Complex. The Abray Boys would trade tackle with the Nigeria N...

EFCC arrests suspected fake lawyer for alleged forgery, impersonation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspected fake lawyer, Adekola Adekeye, in Lagos on charges of impersonation and forgery, a statement by the commission said on Thursday. The anti-...

Ishaq Oloyede: An Unusual Public Administrator
WHILE some people see public office as means of feathering their nests, that is not the case with 67-year-old Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence and the Chief Executive Officer/ Reg...

Twitter ban reversal: Continue to pursue your legitimate business - Saraki tells Youths
Former President of Nigerian Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki has urged the young people to continue to pursue their legitimate business and exercise their rights to freedom of speech on the twitter platform. Saraki w...

Court remands two men over attack on Kwara Police Station
A magistrate court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Thursday, remanded two men who allegedly attacked a police station to free their friends detained in custody at Share, headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area o...

Six killed in multiple auto crash in Kwara
Six people were reportedly killed while two others sustained serious injuries in a fatal accident that occurred at Falokun on Ilorin-Offa express road on Thursday afternoon. The multiple accidents, according to the...

2023: Ex Kwara Deputy Speaker Dumps PDP
The immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon Matthew Okedare has, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Okedare, a former staunch supporter of the party and loyalist of former Se...

2022-01-13

Kwara Gov tours Isin, Ile-Ire District, reassures residents of more devt
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday made a working visit to communities in Ifelodun and Isin local government areas, reassuring them of his administration's commitment to infrastructural and human cap...

Petrol subsidy: Kwara NLC raises mobilisation committee for planned nationwide protest
The Kwara state Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised a six-man committee to mobilise members across affiliate unions for the organized labour planned nationwide protest against removal of subsidy o...

OPINION: How Far With The Offa Robbery's Matters Arising? By Fred Nwaozor
I almost concluded that bank cum highway robbery had become a thing of the past in every facet of Nigeria not until the second quarter of 2018 when my likes were proven wrong. In the period in review – ...

Kwara Restates Commitment To Peaceful Co-existence By Muslims, Christians
Kwara State government has pledged to continue to do everything within its power to sustain the existing harmonious co-existence by Muslims and Christians in the state. The Secretary to the State Government (...

FG To Launch School Feeding Programme In Kwara
The federal government has said it will launch the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme for primary school pupils in Kwara State this month. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social...

Pro-Osinbajo Group Seeks Emir Of Ilorin's Support
Members of the National Coalition Group (NCG) on Wednesday visited the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, to seek his support for the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. NCG&rsquo...

APC BOB's faction berates Senator Adamu's remarks on reconciliation trip
A factional group of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State has kicked against remarks made by the Chairman of the party’s reconciliation team Senator Abdullahi Adamu, during his assignment in the s...

Kwara Area Command of Nigeria Customs intercepts ammunition worth N1.4M, rakes N9.8B in 12months
The Kwara State Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service among other seizures intercepted Twenty-five packs of ammunition, with twenty-five rounds each, worth N1.4M, meant to be in wrongs round, while it als...

2022-01-12

Kwara Mortality Rate, Second Highest In 2019 - Elelu
Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KPHCDA) Dr. Nusirat Elelu has said Kwara had only recently reversed the grim maternal mortality issues of the previous years, attributing i...

Residents commend Kwara Government for prioritising people's health
...say prompt evacuation of refuse, illegal dumpsites guide against epidemic Residents of Ilorin, Kwara State capital have lauded the efforts of the state government over the evacuation of illegal dumpsites at differe...

PDP Ticket: Kwara Ex-Lawmakers Endorse Saraki, Group Backs Tambuwal
Former lawmakers of the Kwara State House of Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have said former Senate president, Dr Bukola Saraki, remains the best choice for the party in the quest for president come 202...

Kwara Kicks-off Education Transformation
Basic education in Kwara State is currently undergoing a revolution following the introduction of KwaraLEARN (Leading Education Achievement and Reform Now) by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s administration....

Communications Ministry Charges Agencies on Dedication in the New Year
The Kwara State Commissioner of Communications, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh, has called on workers of the ministry and its agencies to stay dedicated and committed to their duties in the new year in order to bring to...

Ex-PDP Assembly members condemn KKHA over suspension of Agboola
The forum of former lawmakers in the Kwara State House of Assembly has condemned the All Progressives Congress dominated Assembly for asking the lone member of the party in the legislative arm, Jimoh Raheem Agboola, to...

Don urges catchment areas indigenes to patronize UNILORIN Preliminary school
The outgoing Director, School of Preliminary Studies, University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Prof. Abdulqadir Abikan, has appealed to indigenes of the citadel catchment area to take advantage of different programmes of the s...

In Kwara, 'Immigration Officers Only Issue Passports to Those Willing to Pay Bribes'
A civil servant based in Kwara has accused the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) office in Apata Yakuba, Ilorin, Kwara State, of being corrupt and deliberately creating hurdles for citizens looking to acquir...

Abdulrazaq appoints Special Assistants Political for Central, South
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed Prince Suleiman Abubakar (Sai Kayi), an All Progressives Congress stalwart, as Special Assistant Political for Central Senatorial District. He also named Olumi...