2021-07-18

Eid-el-Kabir: Don't hoard Sallah meat, cleric tells Muslims
Chief Imam of Uthman Bn Affan Mosque in Ilorin, Malam Yusuf Al-Fulani, has cautioned muslims against hoarding Sallah meat, saying Islam encourages sharing of the meat with friends and family. Al-Fulani, who...

Firm launches cashless centres in Kwara, Oyo
In a bid to create more efficient and agile branches, which are closer to the financially excluded members of society, Advans Nigeria has launched two new cashless centres in Offa, Kwara State, and Iseyin, Oyo State....

Kwara APC Crisis: Gov AbdulRasaq as party leader not in dispute - Opposition group
The opposition groups within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State have not stopped attacking their governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq since late last month when the governor at a book launch on...

It's improper for Lai Mohammed to factionalise Kwara APC - AbdulRazaq supporter
Prince Sunday Fagbemi is one of the leaders of the four groups that formed the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State in August 2018 and belongs to AA, a pro-Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq group in the state APC. He ...

Police deploy 2,000 personnel in Kwara for hitch-free Sallah celebration
The Police Command in Kwara has deployed 2,000 of its personnel across the state to ensure that the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir celebration is hitch-free. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Ajayi Okasanmi...

Kwara: Police recover dead body of Fulani herdsman allegedly murdered by suspected ritualists
Unknown persons, suspected to be ritualists, have allegedly murdered a 20-year-old Fulani herder, identified as Usman Audu, in Igosun, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara state. DAILY POST learnt that the incid...

52-year-old man arrested for alleged cow theft in Kwara
A 52-year-old man, Rauf Babatunde of Dogo village, Igbeti in Oyo State has been arrested for allegedly stealing two cows belonging to one Abdulrahman Umar. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesman of ...

2021-07-17

10 killed, many injured in Kwara auto crash
About 10 people have lost their lives in a fatal road accident in Kambi village along Ilorin-Jebba Express in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. The incident which occurred in the early hours of ...

APC Caretaker Committee Chairman confirms suspension of 11 members for anti-party activities
Chairman of the Kwara State Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Abubakar Samari, on Thursday, confirmed the suspension of 11 members of the party in the state for anti-party activities. ...

28-year-old pickpocket jailed eight months in Kaiama, Kwara
A 28-year-old man, Mohammed Abubakar, has been jailed for eight months over theft. The suspect, a native of Tambuwal in Sokoto State, was handed over by the Nigerian Army after he stole N70,000 at the cattle ma...

Suspected Kidnappers Conceal 12-yr-old Boy Inside Coffin In Kwara
Security operatives of the Joint Border Patrol of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and the Police in Kwara State have rescued a 12-year-old boy from suspected K...

Sports Directors approve 33 events for 6th National Youth Games
The Joint Technical Meeting of the National Youth Games, attended by no fewer than 32 state Directors of Sports from across the country, has approved 33 sporting events for the 6th edition of the games billed for I...

2021-07-16

VC to varsities: lay emphasis on practical skills acquisition
Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Prof. Noah Yusuf, has urged university administrators to de-emphasise paper certification. Instead, Yusuf canvassed practical skill acquisition and all-round university ...

Kwara has 900 doctors attending to 3.5m people - Expert
A Public Health Physician, Dr Bosede Rotimi, said on Thursday that for Kwara Government to achieve Universal Health Coverage for its masses, the current 900 doctors to 3.5 million people must be addressed. R...

Kwara APC suspends 11 Lai Mohammed loyalists
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended eleven party members of the party believed to be loyalists of the Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed for allegedly indulging in anti-party activ...

Ilorin ram sellers lament low patronage
Barely few days to Eid-el-Kabir celebration, ram sellers of rams are lamenting low patronage in several parts of Ilorin, the Kwara capital. A NAN correspondent who visited some ram markets in various parts o...

Nigerians are exploiters, selfish, says Kwara cleric
The Venerable Julius Abejide has said primitive accumulation of wealth is leading Nigeria to doom. "The penchant to outwit the other person and has preoccupied the minds of vast majority of Nigerians," he sai...

Kwara presents cash donations to people living with HIV/AIDS
Kwara state government has donated cash to selected 80 beneficiaries among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the state. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Thursday during the presentation of cheques ...

2021-07-15

Protests Rock Offa over Overzealousness of Security Agents
Scores of indigenes of Offa in Kwara State yesterday staged a protest against alleged overzealousness of security agents deployed in the community. The state government had in March this year imposed curfew on ...

Insecurity: Buhari ignored 2 reports of security submitted by 8th Senate -Saraki
Former Senate pesident, Bukola Saraki, yesterday, tackled the Presidency over a statement credited to it that the eighth Senate vis-a-vis the National Assembly, did not collaborate with President Muhammadu Buhari in add...

Eid-el-Kabir: FRSC Flags off Special Patrol in Kwara
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it will flag off the 2021 Eid-el-Kabir Special Patrol National Mega Rally in Kwara on July 15. The special patrol, themed "Achieving Zero Road Fatality Through Public Enl...

213 patients in Ija-Isin community benefit from Kwara State NMA free medical outreach
At least 213 patients from the rural communities in Kwara State have benefited from the annual free medical consultations and lab investigations carried out by the members of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Kwar...

Three family members die of suspected food poisoning in Kwara
Another tragedy struck in the Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State on Tuesday as three members of the same family reportedly died of suspected food poisoning. Though details of the incident were sk...

APC resumes membership registration in Kwara, Imo, others
The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress has directed the immediate resumption of membership registration in six states. The affected states are, Kwara, Ogun, Riv...

Why we're setting up Kwara Education Trust Fund, by AbdulRazaq
Kwara is establishing an education trust fund to mobilise resources for school infrastructure, provide affordable and qualitative education, and boost human capital development Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said on We...

NSCDC averts bloodbath over death of Fulani in Kaiama
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State Command, on Wednesday, averted what could have resulted into a bloodbath in a Fulani family in Ikoroku area of Kaiama Local Government Area of the state....

PDP kicks over suspension of member in Kwara Assembly
The Kwara State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the suspension of Raheem Agboola by the state House of Assembly, describing the move as unlawful and an affront to parliamentary ethics. Agbool...

MINILS sets to promote gender studies
Micheal Imoudu Nationak Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) Ilorin is set to mainstream gender and women studies in its training curriculum as part of the innovations to reposition itself for better educational s...

2021 Volleyball League: NSCDC spank Customs as Immigration whip Police
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) female team Tuesday continued their impressive display at the ongoing Nigeria Volleyball League with a convincing victory over Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). ...