2020-11-25

Two corps members get N4 million FG agric grant
Two corps members selected from Abia and Oyo states have received N4 million Federal Government grants to practice agribusiness and value addition in agriculture. Speaking at a training programme on value addit...

Monarch seeks unity among Igbomina
A first class monarch in Osun State, the Orangun of Ila, Oba Wahab Oyedotun, has urged the Igbomina communities across Kwara, Oyo and Osun states to unite so as to bring the desired growth and development to the areas. ...

PDP names Saraki reconciliation committee chairman
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced a former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as the Chairman of its national reconciliation committee. This was disclosed by the party's national publicity secretary,...

Kwara Assembly passes Residents Registration Agency Bill
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the state Residents Registration Agency Bill, 2020. The Kwara Residents Registration Agency Bill is an executive bill sent to the House by Gov. AbdulRahman Ab...

Kwara: 78 students write exam for foundation's free JAMB forms
No fewer than 78 students in Asa and Ilorin west local government area of Kwara state Sunday sat for screening examination to qualify them for free JAMB forms being offered by Serve Africa foundation in collaboration...

Kwara records three new cases of COVID-19, discharges 11 patients
The Kwara State Government has recorded three more COVID-19 cases, while 11 patients, who tested negative twice, have been discharged. Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and spokesman for the ...

Kwara PDP kicks against "caretaker appointment" for LGs
As the tenure of the suspended council chairmen in Kwara State expires this week, the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to immediately kick start proces...

Kwara Governor hosts NANS as students body plans annual week
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday called on young people to shun drugs and other vices, saying his administration would continue to work with them and other stakeholders to rebuild the state. ...

Kwara Gov celebrates CoS Prof. Gambari at 76
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday congratulated the Chief of Staff to the President Prof. Ibrahim Gambari (CFR), describing him as a pride of the state and the country whose strides will always res...

LG Election: KWSG shift poll to next year as council tenures expires, Thursday
The Kwara State Government has said the local government election can only be conduct realistically next year even as the tenures of the suspended council chairmen expires Thursday this week. The State Attorney-G...

2020-11-24

Kwara Speaker Felicitates with Ex-Speaker, Ahmad on 55th Birthday
Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu has congratulated the Speaker of the 8th Kwara legislature, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ali Babatunde Ahmad as he clocks 55 years. Danladi-Salihu desc...

Traditional institutions, enablers of peace: Kwara Gov
· Presents staffs of office to new Olupako, Olusin Traditional institutions are great enablers of cohesion, peace, and socioeconomic and political development in the society, Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman Abd...

Kwara NUJ Raises Seven-man Anti-quackery Team
Piqued by the activities of quacks in the journalism profession, the Kwara State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin yesterday inaugurated a seven-man committee to stem down the menace in the state. ...

#EndSARS: Absence of witnesses, petitioners stalls hearing in Kwara
The Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating cases of police brutality and human rights violations in Kwara State, in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests could not go ahead with the hearing of the additional petitions...

KWSG Appoints New Governing Council for COED Ilorin
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the appointment of the following persons as Chairman and board members of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin Governing Council: 1. Elder Reuben Iye (Ekiti) C...

2020-11-23

UniAbuja VC, Prof Na'Allah Bags Nation Builders Achievers Award
The vice-chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah, has been nominated for the Nation Builders Achievers Award (NBAA). A statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday in Abuja, signed by t...

Court remands three suspected human part dealers
An Ilorin magistrates' court has ordered the remand of two herbalists, Jamiu Agbomola and Abiodun Lekan, and a bricklayer, Wasiu Kareem, in the Federal Correctional Service Centre, Ilorin, Kwara State. The three ac...

2020-11-22

Unveiling Governor AbdulRazaq's health care gift for Kwara
AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara state is not taking the provision of effective health care delivery for the residents of the state lightly. The Health Insurance Scheme which the governor put in place to cover all the 3.2m...

I bought govt car for N70,000, Kwara ex-commissioner tells panel
A former commissioner in Kwara State, Alhaji Kayode Yusuf, has narrated before Justice Olabanji Orilonishe-led judicial panel of inquiry on the sales of the state assets, that he bought a chalet which he occupied...

Ex-Guber Aspirant Cautions FG against Fuel Price Regulation
A former governorship aspirant in Kwara State, Mr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has cautioned the federal government against act of fixing the pump price of fuel. He said market forces should determine the approp...

Customs Seizes 1,643 Bags Of Foreign Rice, Others
The Nigeria Customs Service Joint Border Operations Drill (JBOD) Sector 3 (North central) has seized about 1,643 bags of foreign rice, four single barrel of riffle and 373 jerry cans containing petroleum in the last fiv...

Fed Poly Bida commences degree programmes - Rector
The Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Dr. Abubakar A. Dzukogi said the institution has commenced degree programmes in both sciences and managements courses. He stated this yesterday, while fielding questions fro...

OPINION: Dissecting Senator Bukola Saraki's homecoming to Kwara. By Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak
? Former Senate President Bukola Saraki breezed into Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara State, on Saturday November 14. The day coincided with the eight-year anniversary of the death of his father, Senator Olusola Sarak...

ABS FC Outclass Gombe Utd In 5-goal Thriller To Clinch Ogunjobi Gold
ABS Ilorin FC have emerged champions of the 8th edition of the Ogunjobi Gold Cup Pre-season Tournament after they outclassed Gombe United in a 5-goal thriller at the Kwara State Sports Complex in Ilorin. The Sa...