2020-06-25

KWSG INAUGURATES STATE LONG LASTING INSECTICIDE NETS CAMPAIGN CORDINATION COMMITTEE
The Kwara state Governor Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq today inaugurated the long lasting insecticide nets campaign cordination committee for the smooth sailing of the oncoming insecticide net campaign in kwara state. ...

Diplomatic appointments: Kwara State Governor applauds President Buhari
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq The governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing two indigenes of the state as Ambassador and Consul-General desig...

Herder raped to death in Kwara
A 20-year-old boy, Nasiru Sarki, is currently in Mandala Custodial Centre, Ilorin, for allegedly raping a cattle rearer (name withheld) in Lade, Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State, to death. It was ...

Drama as father disappears with alleged raped daughter in Kwara court
By NAN There was a mild drama at an Ilorin Magistrate Court, Kwara on Wednesday as the father of the alleged gang-raped 17-year-old teenager ran away with his daughter. The father was said to have brought the gir...

Alleged SUBEB Fraud: NUT suspends Kwara chairman, secretary, others
The Nigeria Union of Teachers NUT, National Headquarters has indefinitely suspended the state Chairman, Secretary, and account clerk of the Kwara State wing of the union over alleged financial fraud. The suspen...

Kwara North APC gov'ship campaign D-G debunks alleged embezzlement of funds
Alhaji Muhammad Kudus, Kwara North campaign Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Malam Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq in the 2019 general elections has debunked alleged embezzlement ...

Immigration Service unveils new office complex in Kwara State
The Minister for Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has disclosed that the newly commissioned office building of the Nigerian Immigration Service, (NIS) in Ilorin, Kwara State is part of the achievement of the current adm...

2020-06-24

2020 UTME: UNILORIN tops list of admission seekers' choice
For the seventh year running, the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has maintained its position as applicants' university of first choice. With not less than 103,582 applications representing 5.31 percent of all app...

Kwara resuscitates NYSC Governing Board meeting
The Kwara Governing Board of the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) held its meeting after about six years such meeting was held last. The NYSC spokesman in thd state, Mr Oladipo Morakinyo, said in a stateme...

School projects: Kwara threatens to revoke contracts
Kwara state government has warned contractors executing various school rehabilitation projects across the state against delivering poor jobs. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday, the state's commissi...

Kwara records 17 fresh cases of Coronavirus, discharges 6 patients
Kwara Government says 17 more people have tested positive to coronavirus while six patients have twice tested negative and discharged. The Chief Press Secretary to the state governor and Spokesman of the ...

2020-06-23

OPINION: Danladi - A year of probity, service and pan-Kwaranism. By Ibrahim Sheriff
On the 11th of June, 2019, Kwara State was among four of the thirty-six states of the federation to make striking history, one that reposes confidence in the quality leadership capability of the Nigerian youth, to not ...

OPINION: Governance Beyond COVID-19: Back to Kwara. BY REUBEN ABATI
This year, there was some feeling of nostalgia about May 29 as Nigeria's Democracy Day. When a few persons called me to ask if there were special plans for Democracy Day on May 29, I had to remind them that Democracy Da...

Patigi/Lafiagi Crisis - Kwara Gov Sets Up 14-Man Committee
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has set up a 14-member committee to look into the communal clashes in Patigi and Lafiagi area of the state. The committee, chaired by former Speaker of the Kwara State H...

FG boosts farmers planting in Kwara with inputs
In order to ensure mass food productions, the Federal Government has commenced funding of the agricultural sector, as 114 Maize growers in Kwara State were given farming inputs by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on loan t...

2020-06-22

Suicide: KWASU condoles with student's family
The management of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has condoled with the family of one of its students, Fatima Abdullah, who allegedly committed suicide in Abuja on June 18. This is contained in a statement...

Kwara APC Leaders Declare Support For AbdulRazaq, Recognise Party's Chair
All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders, elders, leaders and office holders in Ilorin East local government area of Kwara state declared their total support for Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as the leader of the ...

Rainstorm: NEMA distributes relief materials to 655 households in Kwara
National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has distributed relief materials to about 655 households in Kwara State affected by rainstorm. The beneficiaries, according to a statement made available to our correspondent...

Women getting more involved in Tramadol sale in Kwara, says NDLEA
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the weekend raised the alarm on the rising involvement of women in the sale of Tramadol and other illicit drugs in Kwara state. The agency added that had this year...

KWARA GOV SETS UP 14-MAN COMMITTEE ON PATIGI/LAFIAGI CRISIS
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has constituted a 14-person committee to look into the recent civil disturbances in Patigi and Lafiagi area of the state. The committee, which is chaired by former ...

Kwara APC Leadership Accuses AbdulRazaq of Fueling Crisis
The simmering crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State at the weekend got messier as the party leadership in the state accused the state Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, of allegedly fueling t...