2021-08-31

FG'll amend all extant labour laws to conform with new challenges - Festus Keyamo
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has hinted at the Federal Government plans to amend all the extant laws on labour matters including that of the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour S...

Offa community to train 60,000 youth under smart city project
Indigenes of Offa town in the Offa local government area of Kwara State, under the aegis of Offa Descendants Union (ODU), have commissioned a technology innovation hub to meet its smart city project by 2030. Spea...

COVID-19: Kwara records 3,513 cases, 57 deaths from inception - Commissioner
Dr Raji Razaq, the Commissioner for Health, Kwara, on Monday in Ilorin said that the state had so far recorded 3,513 cases and 57 deaths since inception of the COVID-19 pandemic. Razaq, who stated this during the ...

KWARA STATE GOVERNMENT FLAGS OFF EMPOWERMENT FOR WOMEN ACROSS 16 LGAs
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq says empowered women are vital to arresting social vices and resolving the nation's economic challenges. Governor AbdulRazaq made this statement at the flag off of t...

AbdulRazaq launches 100 tricycles as Kwara extends health insurance to operators
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday launched 100 tricycles to ease transportation challenges, stimulate macroeconomic economic activities, and reduce poverty. The government also officially enroll...

2021-08-30

Kwara Gov mourns politician Alhaji Atanda Zoro
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commiserated with the family of the late prominent politician Alhaji Atanda Zoro who died on Saturday. In a statement on Sunday morning, the Governor said: "Al...

2021-08-29

Kwara PDP releases guidelines for ward, local government congresses
Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has released the guidelines for its wards and local government areas congresses slated to hold across the State. A statement by the state party Chairman, ...

Na'Allah Unveils Three Books
Scholars and lovers of Arts were recently held spellbound when one of their own, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, unveiled three books; two plays and a literary review of Dadak...

Change MINILS to Imoudu varsity of labour studies - Gov Abdulrazaq tells govt
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State, has called for the change of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies to Michael Imoudu University of Labour Studies. He made the call when the Minister...

Group asks Kwara govt to create specific budget line for adolescents
.Girls use hanger to abort, group raises the alarm A network of civil society organisations promoting adolescent and youth reproductive health rights in Kwara State has urged the state government to create a speci...

Police rescue kidnapped KWASU 300L student, arrest 6 suspects in Kwara
Operatives of Kwara State Police Command on Saturday rescued a 300 level Mass Communications' student of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Khadijat Isiaq. Khadijat was kidnapped last Sunday at Okoru village...

Saraki congratulates Obasanjo on AU appointment
A former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has congratulated a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on his recent appointment by the Chairperson of the African Union to serve as the AU High Representative for t...

2021-08-28

Rising incident of kidnapping in Kwara. By Oba Abdulkadir La'aro (PhD)
The reality of kidnapping is closing on Kwara communities. From the incident at Ekiti Kwara, the kidnap that happened at Oke Onigbin which led to the death of one of the victims, now today Kwasu reported the kidnap of...

Speech of His Excellency, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the meeting of Commissioners of Health and Executive Secretaries of Primary Healthcare Agencies of APC Controlled States at the Banquet Hall, Ilorin on 25th August, 2021
Protocols: I welcome everyone to this important event, which is designed to chart a way forward for our Primary Health Care system. At the World Health Organisation conference in Alma-Ata in 1978, the concept o...

A Year After: Life Isn't That Rosy For Kwara Blue-Eyed Woman, Husband Abulwasiu and his wife
Last year, the story of Kwara State born Blue-eyed woman Risqot and her husband, Abdulwasiu, became a global issue following reports that Abdulwasiu sent his wife packing for bearing him blue-eyed children. The iss...

Court Convicts Undergraduate for Lottery Scam in Kwara
A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin yesterday convicted a 300 level student of the University of Ilorin, Mr. Udoh Sunday Okon, over offences bordering on Facebook lottery scam. The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Econ...

Kwara Police rescue three kidnapped victims
The Kwara Police Command on Thursday said it rescued three persons recently kidnapped in the state. The command named the rescued persons as Devine Favour, Tosin Arogundade and Mariam Salihu, saying that the victim...