2021-01-21

KWARA STATE CHESS ASSOCIATION GETS ROYAL BLESSING FROM OLOFA OF OFFA
Preparatory to the forthcoming second edition of Governor Abdulrahaman Abdulrazaq Open Chess competition tagged, "Governor's Challenge; season 2" which is billed to hold in the ancient town of Offa between on 6th and 8th ...

Tribute to an Iconic Legend at 80: Alhaji Abdulkarim Abefe Oyekanmi Arowosaiye
Today is not a celebration of naira and kobo nor silver and gold BUT a celebration of a unique nature captured in the structure of our culture. May I have the privilege and honour to celebrate a cerebral heavywei...

'Yahoo-boy' bags one-year imprisonment in Ilorin
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court on Wednesday convicted a 29-year-old internet fraudster, Ademola Adebukola alias "Holy Ghost" to one-year imprisonment on four counts of cheating and attempt to che...

Kwara Police Arrest Organiser Of Strip Party
Kwara state police have paraded one Akinsola Babatunde (a.k.a Mr White), a member of a gang that planned to organise a strip/naked party in Ilorin, the state capital. The state police commissioner, Mo...

Kwara Utd Pip Enyimba 1-0 In Rescheduled NPFL Match
Kwara United Wednesday defeated visiting Enyimba FC 1-0 to secure the maximum points in the rescheduled Match Day 2 of the ongoing 2020/21 Nigeria Professional Football League. Desperate to leave the drop zone, t...

Controversy Trails Sack of Kwara Teachers
The recent sack of 2,414 teachers under the ara State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has continued to cause disaffection among stakeholders in theate. The sacked teachers were employed during the immedia...

Kwara Police Parade Two over Abduction of Four Turkish Nationals
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command yesterday paraded two Fulani herdsmen over their alleged involvement in the 2019 abduction of four Turkish nationals in Gbugbu village in Edu Local Government Area of the s...

2021-01-20

Kwara united ready for NPFL favourite Enyimba - Biffo
Coach of Nigeria Professional Football League side Kwara united Abdullahi Biffo has stated that the Ilorin based club are ready for the challenge against Enyimba ahead of today's rescheduled NPFL matchday 2 fixture in I...

Kwara supports 2300 victims of Ilorin rainstorm
Kwara State Government will on Wednesday begin the disbursement of funds to 2,300 victims of recent rainstorm in Ilorin, the state capital. "His Excellency Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq recently set up a committ...

"Unlike APC, Saraki operated democratic, inclusive govt as Kwara Gov"
A group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara PDP Youth Alliance has warned Chief Iyiola Oyedepo not to compare the "divisive government" of Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq with that of the former senate President Dr ...

Kwara Beach Soccer Association partners ABSU on women develolment programmes
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Oyo undermining completion of Ibadan-Ilorin Road construction, says FG
The Federal Government has flayed Oyo State for the approval of illegal mining and construction on the Ibadan-Ilorin Section 2 of Oyo-Ogbomoso Road project. Speaking during the inspection of the 56 km green fi...

Kwara basketball honours Onishola with posthumous Merit award
The Kwara basketball fraternity has recognised the contributions of late Steve Onishola to the game, with a posthumous Merit Award, as well as a championship, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports from Ilorin. ...

Bolarinwa shouldn't head Kwara APC caretaker committee twice - Olusona, spokesperson for group loyal to governor Abdulrazaq
The spokesperson for the Elders Caucus of the Kwara State All Progressives Congress loyal to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Revd Olubunmi Olusona, tells Tunde Oyekola why the APC chairman in the state, Bashir Bolarinw...

Kwara 2023: How AbdulRazaq's second term quest reopened old wounds in APC
THE political battle between Governor Abdul Rahman AbdulRazaq and members of the opposition within the same ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, did not start today. In other words its not a crisis tha...

2021-01-19

UNILORIN researchers recommend pineapple in COVID-19 management
By NAN A team of researchers at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) have established the capacity of Bromelain derivable from pineapple fruits in the management of COVID-19 cases. According to the Univers...

Kwara Utd Coach Abdullahi Biffo praises officiating in NPFL
Kwara United boss Abdullahi Biffo says he is satisfied with the level officiating so far in the NPFL. After match week 5 in the league, Kwara United have the third best record away record among teams that ha...

We'll Resolve Kwara APC Crisis - Gov Bello
Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has said stakeholders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will resolve the crisis bedevilling the Kwara State chapter of the party. Speaking with newsmen on ...

Speaker, 28 other lawmakers back Kwara APC Chair removal
As the crisis in Kwara State All Progressives Congress, APC, deepens, the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, 21 other lawmakers and seven of the nine members of the National Assembly, NASS, from the state backed th...

In spite of strides made, Kwara governor AbdulRazaq faces internal opposition
Two basic issues are currently tearing Kwara State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) apart. They are the desire by Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazak to change the style of governance for the better, on one side,...

Students with no face mask turned back from Ilorin schools
Schools in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, on Monday turned back their students who were not wearing face masks. The PUNCH Correspondent observed that though the students' population was low on the first day of resu...

2021-01-18

2018 audit query: oAUGF indicts NSITF, others over N41.857bn contracts, irregular payments
• Uncovers $68,875,902 illegal fund disbursement to distressed Nigerian Missions The office of the Auditor General of the Federation (oAuGF) in its 2018 audit query indicted Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (N...

Ilorin-ldofian road: Residents protest non completion of 1km portion
Some of residents of the ldofian community in lfelodun local government area of Kwara on Saturday embarked on a protest over non completions of one kilometer excavated portion of the ongoing rehabilitation of Ilorin-l...

Gov Bello warns newly commissioned 441 Police against actions that can jeopardize security, safety
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has warned the newly commissioned 441 Special Police Constabulary personnel against actions that can jeopardize security and safety in the state. The 441 Special Constab...

Experts counsels against multiple sexual partners to forestall Hepatitis B infection
Dr Sherifat Sulaiman, a Consultant Microbiologist, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has advised people against having multiple sexual partners, in order to guard against Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infec...

Kwara records 27 new cases of COVID-19
Kwara Government says 27 more people have tested positive to COVID-19, bringing the total confirmed cases in the state to 1,677. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Spokesman of the Tech...

Kwara APC crisis: Senator Ashiru sues for peace
The senator representing Kwara south enatorial district,in the National assembly, Senator Oyelola Ashiru has urged stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State to "shelve their swords" amidst the r...

Kwara APC youths hold prayer session over party crisis
Supporters of the Kwara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of Concerned APC Youth Stakeholders, on Sunday, held a joint prayer session to seek divine intervention to end the crisis bedevil...