2021-05-24

KWASU Management Visit new Commissioner for Tertiary Education
The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi SAN, led the Management staff of the University on May 19, 2021 to pay a courtesy visit to the newly appointed Commissioner for Tertiary Ed...

Kwara Gov felicitates statesman Chief Wole Oke
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated the Jagunmolu of Shao and top APC leader Chief Wole Oke on his 74th birthday anniversary, describing the celebrant as a quintessential statesman and consummate...

Nigeria partners Japan to assemble tractors
Federal Government may have concluded plans that would make Nigeria a ground for the assemblage of some relevant Japanese agricultural technologies. The development, which may be feasible before the end of this...

Dr Waheed Babatunde Lawal's Double Celebration
These are truly the best of times for notable Offa businessman, CEO of Turner Wright Group of companies, and prestigious philanthropist, Dr Waheed Babatunde Lawal. In a few months, the man will be stepping into the circle...

COAS death, a national tragedy — Governor AbdulRazaq
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has described the death of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others in a plane crash on Friday in Kano as national tragedy. AbdulRazaq in a condolence m...

48 disengaged teachers found in Kwara payroll - Committee
About 48 disengaged teachers had been found on the payroll of Kwara Government in March, a committee set up by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has revealed. The governor inaugurated a three-person committee to pr...

2021-05-23

NSCDC nabs truck driver for vandalism in Ilorin
The Kwara State Command of The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested a truck driver, Abdullahi Gbadamosi, for damaging some part of the newly constructed road while conveying a full lorry-load o...

2021-05-22

Kwara, Plateau top open defecation population - FG
The Federal Government has identified Kwara and Plateau as the states with the highest population in open defecation. The Director, Water Quality Control and Sanitation, Ministry of Water Resources, Mr Emmanuel A...

OPCI Absolves Itself From Ikire Crisis That Claimed Two Lives
The Oodua Progressive Care Initiative (OPCI) has stated that no member of its organisation was involved in the crisis that rocked Ikire town, Osun State, where two people lost their lives and scores sustained various de...

Nigeria's High Death Rate Worrisome - NASS
Members of the two chambers of the National Assembly have declared that the death rate in Nigeria is extremely high and called for more investment in the health sector. The lawmakers said the mortality indices re...

2021-05-21

Kwara Government To Engage Youth Through Sports
The Kwara State Government has reiterated its commitment to meaningfully engage the youth through sporting activities. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq stated this at the start of the Kwara School Football Challen...

Ayade's defection bold, courageous - Mustapha
A former governorship aspirant in Kwara State, Saliu Mustapha has hailed the Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade for joining the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Nation reports Ayade defected to t...

2023 Elections: Shina Peller trains 64 youths from 16 LGs in Kwara for leadership programme
A member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency of Oyo State, Hon Shina Peller, has rhetorically asked youths across Nigeria that if we all run away, w...

Two dead as Kwara community protests destruction of farms by cows
Two people have been reported killed in a clash between local youth and cattle herders in Kpada village in Edu Local Government of Kwara State. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the clash started after grazing cows des...

Kwara Governor Removes COED Ilorin Provost
Kwara Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has removed the Provost of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Prof. Abdulraheem Yusuf. He appointed the college's Deputy Provost, Dr. Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh as the acting Provo...