2020-10-10

Kwara Assembly rejects PDP member declared by court nearly a year ago
The appeal court has given two judgements on the case. ByAlfred Olufemi October 9, 2020 2 min read The Kwara State Assembly has continued to ignore multiple court judgements as it is yet to swear in Jimoh Agboola, th...

Women Engineers take over education of girl-mechanic in Kwara
Women Engineers take over education of girl-mechanic in Kwara The Association of Professional Women Engineers, Kwara State Chapter has taken over the educational sponsorship of Atoyebi Abiodun, an SS1 girl-mechanic in Il...

Khaleel: We've lost a freedom fighter - Kwara NULGE
The Kwara state chapter of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has expressed shock over the death of its national president, Comrade Ibrahim Khaleel Abdulkadir, saying that the union had lost a freedom f...

OPINION: A Tribute to My Father, Imam Shuaib Agaka, By Yushau A. Shuaib
Dr. Abdulhameed Shuaib, our very dear patriarch, an honourable father, friend, and community leader, is an exemplar of good conduct, a reliable confidant, moral teacher, spiritual healer and my superhero. He is not only...

Infrastructural deficit bane of Kwara schools
Facilities in public primary and secondary schools in Kwara State have seen better days. ADEKUNLE JIMOH of The Nation  reports on the effect on education service delivery in a state that last accessed Unive...

2020-10-09

Kwara youths protest, call for scrapping of SARS
Some youths in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, have staged a peaceful protest in order to put an end to what they called an extrajudicial killing and other activities of the operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad...

Women account for only 16.1% legislators in West Africa - ECOWAS Parliament
The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has condemned the low level of women representation in country-specific parliaments across the region. The Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliam...

Kwara urged to make inquiries on Olupako
The Ajikanje lineage of Dada ruling house in Share, Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, has urged the government to make inquiries from people of the community so that it will be well guided in picking a new ...

Kwara Governor greets APC chieftain Seriki on birthday anniversary
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday congratulated top APC leader in the state and businessman Alhaji Yahya Seriki on his birthday anniversary, calling him a preeminent party leader and grassroots mo...

Kwara Gov congratulates new Emir of Zazzau
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated Alhaji Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, a distinguished diplomat and technocrat, on his appointment as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. Bamalli was announced the new Emir o...

Two students crushed to death in Kwara crash
Two Junior Secondary School students were crushed to death in an auto accident in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Wednesday. Five persons also sustained injuries in the accident which happened around 2pm in the Gas Odot...

Policeman arrested for defiling 11-year-old girl in Kwara
A policeman attached to Ijagbo Police Post in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State has been arrested by the state command for allegedly defiling an 11- year-old girl. The suspect, Monday Folorunsho, ...

Internet fraud: Student changes plea to 'not guilty'
University of Ilorin student, Itanola Abdulsamad will on 29 October face fresh trial before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin for alleged internet fraud. This followed the suspect&rs...

OPINION: A conversation on the Kwara minimum wage. By Dr Salihu Ajibola Ajia
This is the moment for hard truth and sober reflection. On Tuesday morning, October 6, 2020, a local blog published a screenshot of a story it had published on May 20, 2019, accompanied with video footage of protesting...

2020-10-08

Staff audit not a precondition for minimum wage -KWSG
·Says govt will pay minimum wage.·Negotiations continue Thursday Kwara State Government on Wednesday said staff audit and verification of workers are part of its efforts to reposition the public ser...

Saraki Bankrolls Medical Expenses Of Ailing Ex-photo Editor
Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has bankrolled the medical expenses of an Ilorin- based veteran journalist, Alh Ibrahim Salami.Salami, a former photo journalist with The Herald and later photo ed...

KWSG to end era of information falsification -Commissioner
The Kwara State Government has restated its determination to entrench a system that would eliminate attitude of information falsification for selfish interest without recourse to facts and figures. The State C...

Labour rejects fresh workers' screening ordered by Kwara
THE organised labour in Kwara State has rejected the ongoing verification/auditing of the state government as condition for the payment of minimum wage to the workers as demanded. The labour leaders, therefore, ...

Kwara Assembly calls for public hearing on revenue bill
The Kwara State House of Assembly has invited stakeholders and general public to the public hearing of a bill titled "Kwara State Consolidated Revenue Codes and Rates Bill, 2020." The bill proposed by the state gov...

2020-10-07

Secondary School Teachers Pull Out of NUT in Kwara
Some secondary school teachers in Kwara say they are pulling out of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) due to the difference in their aspirations. The teachers, under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Seconda...

SARS: Kwara CP warns officers against harassment, intimidation of innocent citizens
The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, on Tuesday, warned that he will deal decisively with any police officer that intimidates or harasses innocent citizens in the state. A statement by the...

Kwara: Labour, govt disagree over conditions for minimum wage
The organised labour in Kwara state has rejected the ongoing verification/auditing exercise of the state government as a condition for payment of minimum wage to the workers as demanded. The labour leaders, there...