2021-02-10

PDP Will Spring Surprises In 2023 - Baraje
In this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN, former acting national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh Abubakar Kawu Baraje bares his mind on topical national issues. Relationship with the Presid...

Laws Of The Game: ABS Takes Players To Class On New Amendments
A Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), referee, Maruf Afolabi, on Tuesday lectured players and officials of Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC, on the new amendments to the laws of the game ahead of the 2020...

Fire guts market, destroys nine shops in Kwara
Early morning inferno Tuesday destroyed no fewer than nine shops at the popular Bode-Saadun Market located along Bode-Saadu-Jebba road, Moro local government area of Kwara state. The cause of the fire outbreak ...

At last, Kwara Assembly swears in only PDP member
AFTER 14 months of legal battle, Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday bowed to pressure by swearing in Raheem Agboola as the only Peoples Democratic Party member in the 24-member Assembly. The All Progressi...

Kidnappers abduct 46-yr-old tipper lorry owner in Ilorin, demand N30m ransom
Kidnapping has resumed in Kwara State, as a 46-year-old tipper lorry owner in Ilorin, Alhaji Musa Garba Atere, was kidnapped on Tuesday. The abductors have demanded N30 million ransom from the family and relative...

Kwara records 54 new COVID-19 infections
Kwara has recorded 54 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the state to 2,362. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and spokesman for the state techn...

2021-02-09

UNILORIN researchers develop new maize breed
Researchers in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin have developed a new breed of maize, named ILOMAZ-1. Prof. Gbolagade Adesiji, a former Ag. Dean of the Faculty announced the new development to news...

DSS arrests, releases SSANU, NASU officials over ongoing strike
Seven officials of the Non Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, were on Monday interrogated in connection with the ongoing nationwide str...

Frequent abortions may cause excessive production of breast milk - Experts
Some medical experts at the University of Ilorin have cautioned women against frequent abortions as it will make them susceptible to a medical condition called galactorrhea. Frequent abortions may cause excessive...

African Beach Soccer Union Approves Kwara's U-17 Tourney -LOC
The Kwara Beach Soccer Association says its plans to organise a maiden edition of a female U-17 Beach Soccer Tournament in Ilorin, the state capital, had reached advanced stages, having received approval from the Women's ...

Kwara united can maintain current form till the end of the season - Gata
Kwara united and former Flying Eagles player Adeshina Gata has boasted that Kwara united can maintain their current form and position till the end of the season after the team moved up to second on the league table foll...

Kwara APC crisis deepens as party scribe rejects registration officials
Samuel Isa, the Organising Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, says the selection of the 5,000 registration officials for the membership registration exercise in the sta...

Kwara Assembly to swear in only PDP lawmaker, 14 months after court orders
The Kwara State House of Assembly says it will on Tuesday swear in Jimoh Agboola, the member-elect for Ilorin South, 14 months after the Court of Appeal declared him duly elected. This was conveyed in a February 5 ...

Kwara lecturer remanded in EFCC custody over romance scam
A lecturer of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Opashola Abdullahi, has been remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for attempting to cheat by personation, spoke...

2021-02-08

Prof. Ademola Olugbenga Awoyemi Bows out of the University of Ilorin. By Mubarak Oladosu
On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, one of the most experienced hands in mass healthcare in the country, Prof. Ademola Olugbenga Awoyemi, bowed out of the University of Ilorin where he has been a Professor of Epidemiology a...

Kwara APC will sanction unruly members if found culpable - Caretaker Chairman, Samari
Chairman of the Kwara State All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Samari Abubakar, has said that sanctions will be applied on members bent on destabilizing the party in the state. Addressing newsmen at the NUJ p...

Principle of 'no work no pay' should apply to lecturers,others in Nigeria - COPCSUN Chairman
The Chairman, Council of Pro Chancellor of State Universities in Nigeria(COPCSUN), Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali(SAN) has tasked stakeholders in Nigerian education system to stop paying workers salaries while on strike,as being...

Nigerian firm partners Brazilian institute on animal production
A Nigerian firm, Rabelat Limited, in partnership with Instituto Daniel Franco, Brazil has set up a centre for animal husbandry in Kwara State as part of measures to resolve herdsmen and farmers clashes in parts of the c...

Kwara APC Crisis: Governor AbdulRazaq talks tough says dissidents risk suspension
Ahead of the Tuesday commencement of nationwide membership registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said in Ilorin on Sunday that those fanning ember of disaffection in the Kw...

NPFL ROUNDUP: Kwara United up to second place after win at Sunshine Stars, Heartland out of relegation zone
Kwara United today shot to second place on the NPFL table after they won 2-1 at Sunshine Stars, while Heartland put behind their money problems to move out of the relegation zone courtesy of a 2-1 win at MFM FC. ...

BUA boss asks FG to boost rice production
Group Executive Director of BUA Group, Kabiru Rabiu, has asked the Federal Government to replicate the the success of the sugar industry in the rice sub-sector as well as other food industry sectors with growth potentia...

Umaru Saro: A Telescopic Illustration of Generous Philanthropy. By Prof Katibi Ibraheem Adeola
Let me, from the outset seek forgiveness from Almighty God who commanded that charity and goodness should be done discreetly such that only the beneficiary knows what has been done. This is explicably preached ...

2021-02-07

KWHA RESUMES PLENARY
This is to inform the General Public that the Kwara State House of Assembly will reconvene for Plenary on Tuesday, 9th February, 2021, at 10 : O' Clock in the morning instead of , 23rd March, 2021 as earlier Adjourned....

Kwara sets up Technical Working Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction
Kwara State Government has set up a Technical Working Group (TWG) as part of the national response to Covid 19 vaccine introduction. The TWG would serve as an advisory body to the State as part of its strategies to s...

Glitz, glamour as Omu-Aran social club marks Golden Jubilee in style
Ancient Igbomina town of Omu-Aran in Kwara State was agog with festivities from January 29 to January 31, this year, as the premier socio-cultural group in the community, The Omu-Aran Social Club, rolled out the dru...

I exposed Yoruba, Fulani kidnappers -Igangan Seriki Fulani, sacked from Oyo by Sunday Igboho
...Says 'I've all the time been a wealthy man' ...I gave Oba of Igangan a automobile to make use of till he purchased one in 1994 ...I misplaced eight automobiles, a home, 207 cows, poultry and so forth ...

Abdullahi Biffo's Kwara United aims to improve record against Sunshine Stars
Kwara United will be aiming to continue their impressive run of form in the Nigerian Professional Football League when they take on Sunshine Stars of Akure on Sunday. Kwara United are going into the g...

Truck crushes three to death in Kwara
Truck on Saturday crushed three occupants of tricycle aka Keke NAPEP to death in Ilorin, Kwara state capital. The accident occurred at the old Ilorin-Jebba road, Oke-Oyi, Ilorin East local government area. ...

Five APC Party Chieftains Hospitalised in Ilorin from Kwara Violence
Five chieftains of the Kwara State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) that sustained serious injuries during the recent violent attack at the stakeholders meeting of the party have been hospitalised at undis...