2020-06-07

Kwara discharges eight COVID-19 patients
*Records five new cases Kwara State Government on Sunday discharged eight COVID-19 patients after they have twice tested negative to the virus. That brings to 52 the total number of discharged patients in...

Kwara Gov mourns New Telegraph Editor Waheed Bakare
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend commiserated with the family of Mr Waheed Bakare, Saturday Editor of the New Telegraph newspaper, who died recently after a brief illness. "On behalf of...

Minister urges Govs to emulate AbdulRazaq over RoW charges
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has urged Nigerian governors to emulate their Kwara State counterpart AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq over the recent reduction of the Right of Way (RoW...

How Kwara govt, Ilorin Emirate oppress our people – Jimoh, Moro Concerned Elders Movement President
President of Moro Concerned Elders Movement, Alhaji Isiaka Jimoh, speaks with TUNDE OYEKOLA on the alleged oppression of some Yoruba monarchs in Kwara State by the Ilorin Emirate How did Moro become part of Il...

2020-06-06

KWSG charges Tractor Agents not to collect more than N10,000 per operation from farmers
Press Release: Kwara State Government through its Taskforce on Tractorization today held an orientation for shortlisted Tractor Agents under the Farmers Support Programme in Bode-Sadu, headquarters of Moro local ...

KWHA Wants EFCC To Probe Light-Up Kwara Project
Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the state government to hand over the former government of the state, Alhaji AbdulFafah Ahmed and the Director General, KP3, Yomi Ogunsola to the Economic and Financial Crimes Com...

Nobody defected from APC to PDP in Kwara - Spokesman
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara has dismissed a report that 10, 000 members of the party defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). APC State Publicity Secretary in Kwara, Alhaji T...

KWARA 2023: Nobody can stop Gov Abdulrazaq's second term - APC Chieftain, Kunle Sulyman
74-year-old Barrister-at-law, Kunle Sulyman, a native of Ilorin, has surely paid his dues in Kwara politics considering his political adventures which spanned well over forty years. Speaking with Saturday Vanguard at hi...

COVID-19: Muslims shun Jumat service in Kwara, unable to meet govt conditions
Muslim communities in Kwara State on Friday shunned Jumat services as they said conditions rolled out by the government on re-opening of worship centres in the state are difficult for them to adhere to. Business...

80 Kwara RRT members test negative for COVID-19
All the 80 members of the Kwara State Rapid Response Team (RRT) have tested negative for COVID-19 despite their active involvement in the movement of active cases, according to a statement by Commissioner for Health Dr ...

2020-06-05

Assembly asks Kwara to hand over ex-gov, aide for prosecution
Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the state Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to hand over his predecessor, Abdulfattah Ahmed, and the Director General, KP3, Yomi Ogunsola, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Com...

Kwara APC members join PDP
Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State have defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Those who defected were from Kwara North Senatorial District, stro...

Kwara council of Ulama rejects govt's conditions for mosques reopening
The Council of Ulama in Ilorin, Kwara State, has rejected the conditions by the state government for the reopening of mosques in the state. The council in a statement by its secretary, Justice Salihu Olohuntoy...

2020-06-04

Kwara lawmaker faces certificate forgery charge, gets N5m bail
A House of Representative member from Kwara state, Ahmed Abubakar Ndakene, was on Wednesday brought before an Abuja Area Court in Karmo over allegation of certificate forgery. Ndakene, who was not arraigned ...

Coronavirus: 16 more people test positive, 7 discharged in Kwara State
Kwara State Government says 16 more people have tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19), while seven patients have tested negative twice and been discharged. Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Stat...