2021-09-08

Kwara Residents Lament High Cooking Gas Price, NNPC Blames Low Supply
Residents in Kwara State have lamented the continuous price of cooking gas with a 12.5 kilogramme cylinder selling for over N6,000. Some dealers who also spoke about this, blamed the hike in the product across the ...

Kwara College of Education organises free medical programme for staff, students, community
Management of the Kwara State College of Education, Oro has concluded arrangements to organise a free medical programme as part of activities for its Health Week. Among the programmes lined up for Health Week is, ...

Nigeria, South Africa reach youth, sports development agreement
*Ministry warns states against age cheats Nigeria has reached an agreement with South Africa to explore areas of mutual benefits in youth, sports, culture and educational development, Sports Minister, Sunday Dare has...

LG congress in Kwara a huge success, no parallel congress anywhere - Abdullahi Samari
Kwara State Chairman of Caretaker Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)Alhaji Abdullahi Samari has described the Local Government Congress of the party at the weekend, a huge success, stressing that ther...

KWARA STATE SPORTS COMMISSION SPONSORS AIYELABEGAN SUKURAT TO THE WORLD TABLE TENNIS TRAINING CAMP IN TUNIS, TUNISIA
PRESS RELEASE Aiyelabegan Sukurat is number eleventh (11) ranking with 938 points. 2. Aiyelabegan Sukurat was invited along twelve (12) other countries to compete in this year Youth training camp in Tunis, Tunis...

KWARA STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION COMMENCES RELEASE OF PROMOTION LETTERS
The Kwara State Civil Service Commission has commenced the release of promotion letters to successful Civil Servants who sat for the 2020 promotion examination and oral interview. The Chairman of the Commission, Haj...

2021-09-07

NAFDAC Shuts 25 Water Factories In Kwara
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday sealed 25 water producing factories in Kwara. Kwara State Coordinator of NAFDAC disclosed this via a statement obtained by Channe...

Tanker driver, attendant injured in Kwara gas explosion
A gas tanker driver and an attendant have sustained injuries while discharging product into a dispensing outlet at a filling station in ljagbo, Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The explosion occurred when...

How 300L student of KWASU, Ibraheem Abdullateef is touching lives, raising future leaders
The maverick Ibraheem Abdullateef, a native of Ilorin in his 20s is a writer and SDGs advocate with over 100 opinion articles on national and international platforms on Gender equality, Youths development, education, Huma...

2021-09-06

Public Institutions Tasked on Transparency, Equity to Strengthen Service Delivery
Former National President, Committee for Development of Human Right (CDHR), Malachy Ugwummadu Esq, has urged public institutions to institutionalise the core values of transparency, equity, impartiality and legality to s...

'You're an extraordinary woman' - Saraki hails wife on 57th birthday
Bukola Saraki, former senate president, has celebrated Toyin Saraki, his wife, on the occasion of her 57th birthday. The two-time Kwara state governor took to his Instagram handle on Monday to pen a short bu...

Unilorin remains Nigeria's most subscribed university
The University of Ilorin has emerged as the most preferred University by admission seekers in the country for the eighth consecutive year. In a statement by the university's directorate of information, the 2021 JAM...

Group Seeks Repair Of Ilorin-Jebba Road
Foremost socio-cultural association in Kwara State, Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), has urged the federal government to urgently repair the damaged portion of the new Ilorin-Jebba road. The un...

APC, ADC members defect to PDP in Kwara
No fewer than 700 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the African Democratic Congress across wards in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State on Saturday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party....

Asa River Dredging/Channelisation: FG Contractor To Begin Work Mid-September
The Federal Government is set to commence dredging and channelisation project of Asa River in Ilorin, Kwara State by the middle of September. This is coming after the Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on behalf of...

Meet specifications or risk contract revocation, Kwara SUBEB boss tells contractors
•Commends 'excellent jobs' by some contractors Contractors who fail to meet project specifications and quality in the ongoing UBEC/SUBEB jobs risk revocation of their contracts and possible blacklist, chairman of t...

AbdulRazaq picks finance wonk as Kwara's accountant general
•Swears in two commissioners Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the appointment of AbdulGaniyu Sani as the new accountant general of the state. The appointment followed the conclusion of a...

Kwara Moves To End Water Scarcity
The Kwara State government has restated its commitment to put an end to water scarcity in the state. To achieve this, the state government expressed it preparedness to collaborate with Ground Water Development Asso...

2021-09-05

Kwara Marketers visit KW-IRS
The Executive Chairman, KW-IRS, Shade Omoniyi received in audience the representatives of the Kwara State Association of Marketers (KWAM),led by the Vice Iyaloja General, Alhaja Muibat Abdulraheem Olumo, who represent...

UNILORIN don discovers use of eggshell to tackle pollution
Professor Omodele Eletta of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ilorin, has discovered the use of eggshell, coconut shell, sawdust and croaker fish scales for the prevention of environmental pollution. ...

Final year UNILORIN student convicted for internet fraud, forfeits Lexus car, others
Adigun Oladapo Oludele, a final year student of the University of Ilorin, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin who ...

NiMet tells residents of Bayelsa, Oyo, twelve others to brace for rain from Sunday
From the afternoon and evening hours of Sunday, rains are expected over parts of Enugu, Ondo, Imo, Osun, Abia, Anambra, Ogun, Delta, Edo, Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Oyo and Ekiti states, the Nigerian Meteoro...

Ex-Minster Tasks Scholars On Archiving, Documentation
Former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Olanrewaju Sulaiman, has tasked Islamic clerics in Ilorin, Kwara State, to strive towards documenting their teachings and contributions to knowledge. He advised ...

Queen Elizabeth School Ilorin: Challenges, triumphs of a colonial legacy
At inception, the idea was for Queen Elizabeth School (QES) Ilorin, one of the surviving British legacies, to be the best in the country for the education and moral training of the girl child. Subsequently, machine...

JOHESU-Ilorin varsity Teaching Hospital suspends strike
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) Chapter, on Friday suspended its two weeks strike action. Mr Olutunde Oluwawumi, the Chairman of the union, who disclosed this d...

NSCDC intercepts 33,000 litres of PMS from suspected vandals in Kwara
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has intercepted 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from suspected vandals. The vandals were arrested at Afon, Laduba village of Asa Local Government Are...

Flood: Kwara Govt evacuates debris on Asa River
The Kwara Government has commenced the clearing and evacuation of debris on Asa River to prevent flood in Ilorin and environs. Mrs Oluwatobi Banigbe, the state Commissioner for Environment, said this during the com...

Kwara APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, Abdullah preaches peaceful conduct as LG congress gets underway
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Caretaker Committee in Kwara state, Alh Abdullahi Samari has urged members of the party to be peaceful as the ongoing local government Congress gets frenzied with fanfare acr...