2021-06-14

APC membership registration panel submits report, lists troubled states
The All Progressives Congress Membership Registration and Revalidation Appeal Committee has identified Imo, Ogun, Kwara, and Rivers states as states where the exercise recorded the highest number of challenges. T...

Ex-Kwara United keeper held me hostage for two hours, collected N.2m - Badawiy
General Manager, Kwara United FC, Bashir Badawiy, in this interview with EBENEZER BAJELA, recounts his ordeal after he was held hostage in Nnewi by a former player of the club over owed salaries What actually tra...

NSCDC arrests two rustlers, recovers five cows in Kwara
THE Agro Rangers Unit of the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has recovered five cows and arrested two cattle rustlers in Gwanara, Baruten Local Government Area of the state. ...

Herdsmen attack angry Kwara rice farmers, chop off hand
Suspected herdsmen have reportedly cut off the right hand of a rice farmer, Saheed Zakariyau, in Bindofu village, Lafiagi Emirate, in the Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. The farmer, according to sources...

Security Guard Falls Into Kwara River, Dies
Tragedy struck in Kaiama local government area of Kwara State on Sunday as a security guard simply known as Malam Babangida fell from a bridge into Moshe River and got drown. Babangida, a security gua...

Foundation empowers 53
A philanthropic foundation of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church, Ilorin district headquarters has empowered 53 youths with items worth over a N20million. Speaking at the seventh edition of the empowerme...

KWACCIMA Tasks Kwara Govt On Ease Of Doing Business
President of the Kwara Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (KWACCIMA), Mr Ayodimeji Fatai, has urged the state government to hasten the process of ease of doing business which it initiated. ...

Insecurity: NANS urges IGP to establish student-police committee
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alkali Baba, to establish a student-police relations committee to address prevalent insecurity on the nation's campuses. ...

2021-06-13

Kwara Utd end MFM 6-game unbeaten run with 1-0 win in Ilorin
Kwara United FC of Ilorin on Sunday defeated Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministry (MFM) FC 1-0 to end the Lagos based Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) side's six-game unbeaten run. The News Agency o...

NSCDC recovers corpse of woman allegedly killed by suspected ritualists in Kwara
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kwara State has recovered the corpse of a woman who was allegedly killed by suspected ritualists in the Kanikoko area of Kaiama in Kwara North Senatorial District. ...

Our multimillion naira investments gone, we don't know where to start from - Kwara traders who lost goods to fire
Traders at Ipata market in the Ilorin East local Government Area of Kwara State are over the losses they suffered after fire gutted the market’s animal section, killing about 70 cattle on Thursday, June 3, 2021. ...

No protests in Ilorin as people go about their businesses
It is business as usual on the street of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital as there are no signs of protesters. Vehicular and human movements go on unhindered while security operatives are stationed at strategic...

Ex-PDP council chairmen, councillors, others defect to APC in Kwara
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmen, their vice, supervisory councillors and councillors between November 2017 and November 2020 Saturday officially defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara s...

2021-06-12

Offa poly convenes academic board meeting over suspension of ASUP strike
The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, has called for an emergency academic board meeting on Friday, June 11, 2021, in response to the suspension of the strike action by the national body of the A...

Court grants three suspected cow thieves conditional bail in Kwara
Magistrate Lukman Adamu of Gwanara Area Court in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara State, has granted three suspected cow thieves conditional bail pending resumption of work by striking judiciary workers. ...

KWARA FIRST LADY RECIEVES WIVES OF TRANSITION IMPLEMENTATION CHAIRMEN IN HER OFFICE
On Thursday, 10th June 2021, the First Lady of Kwara State and the Founder Ajike People Support Centre, Her Excellency, Ambassador, Dr. Mrs. Olufolake Abdulrazaq hosted the Forum of the Kwara State Wives of TIC Chair...

June 12: Nigeria moving forward despite odds - Abdulrazaq
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated Nigerians on the commemoration of another June 12 democracy day, saying the country continues to grow on all fronts despite the challenges of nation building, ...

Abdulrazaq Hails NANS for suspending June 12 protest, Says bursary process underway
The Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has commended the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for suspending the nationwide protest earlier planned for June 12, calling the step “very patriot...

AbdulRazaq swears-in Jawondo as Kwara AG and Commissioner for Justice
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday inaugurated Barrister Salman Jawondo as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice with a charge on him and other public officers to keep to their oaths of offi...

2021-06-11

Toyin Saraki , 11 others get chieftaincy titles
The Oniru of Iruland, Lagos, Omogbolahan Lawal, on Thursday conferred chieftaincy titles on the wife of former Senate President, Toyin Saraki, and 11 others "for their contributions to the development of the kingdom". ...

Kwara Awards Contract For Garment Factory
The Kwara State Government has approved the award of a contract for the establishment of a garment production factory. The factory will provide job opportunities for thousands of Kwarans, particularly youths and wo...

Kwara chapter kicks as JUSUN suspends strike
Ibrahim Sambo, the Chairman, Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, Kwara State Chapter, says the suspension of the three-month strike by the union would affect the morale of judicial workers in the country. Sambo tol...

Kwara Assembly passes 14 bills
Kwara State House of Assembly says it has passed a total of 14 bills in the last two legislative years. The House under the same period also said that it considered 29 reports while 32 motions were moved with r...

Vandals destroy transformer in Ilorin
Thieves on Wednesday vandalised an electric transformer and cables near the late Justice Mustapha Akanbi Library in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The transformer is owned by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Com...

Kwara, UBEC train school monitoring officers
The Kwara State Government has distributed 40 Ipads to the Quality Assurance Officers in the state as part of its effort to improve the quality of school monitoring and evaluation. The Chairman, Kwara State Univ...

Kwara sets up committee on transport sector security
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has constituted a four-person transport sanitation committee to coordinate the activities of the sector for public safety and harmonisation of revenue collection to curb le...

Insecurity: Traditional ruler laments porous borders in Kwara
The Emir of Yashikeira in Baruten Local Government area of Kwara state, Dr Umaru Usman has said the borders between his community and Benin Republic is currently very porous and has become a hideout for bandits, kidnapp...