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2020-05-22
Contact Tracing: Ekiti to partner Kwara on dead COVID -19 patient
The Ekiti State government on Friday said it will contact the government of Kwara state to exchange ideas on the medical history of the patient who died of the underlining complication of COVID -19 in Ekiti, on Wednesday....
FG vs ASUU: Will Gambari broker a lasting truce?
With the appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as Chief of Staff to Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari last week, effectively replacing the late Mallam Abba Kyari who died of the novel coronavirus, so many ...
Kwara government, CSOs meet over 2020 budget review
The Kwara State Government on Friday held a stakeholders' meeting with various civil society organisations on budget processes and implementation as part of the ongoing review of the 2020 appropriation law to cope with ...

2020-05-20
GAMBARI'S APPOINTMENT GREAT ASSET TO NIGERIA, AFRICA, FORMER UN SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has described the appointment of Prof Ibrahim Gambari as Chief of Staff to President Buhari as a great asset to Nigeria and Africa ''in a broader sense.'' In a letter of c...
Abdulrazaq mourns death of Kwara FCC commissioner-designate, James Kolo
A Commissioner Designate of Federal Character Commission (FCC) from Kwara state Mr James Kolo died Tuesday morning in his Ilorin home. His remains had since been deposited at the mortuary of University of Ilorin ...
'We are in darkness', Kwara communities cry
Residents of Ogidi ward in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara have called on the state government to rescue them from perennial darkness occasioned by a faulty transformer servicing three communities in the area...

2020-05-19
Kwara Speaker mourns Kolo, describes his death as colossal
Speaker, Kwara state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Salihu Yakubu Danladi has sympathized with the good people of Patigi Emirate, family, friends and associates of Mr. James Kolo, Kwara state FCC Commissioner designate, ...
Kwara flags off 2020 cropping season Wednesday
The 2020 cropping season will begin in Kwara State on Wednesday, May 20th, with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development deploying tractors, planters, boom sprayers and harvesters to create awareness about me...
Kwara FCC Nominee is Dead
Mr. James Kolo is dead. He died after a brief illness. He was recently nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as a commissioner of the Federal Character Commission. Kolo, who is an indigene of Patigi, Kwara State, rec...
Unilorin NASU distributes N8m to retired members
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) University of Ilorin Chapter, has distributed N8 million to 40 retired staff members as retirement welfare package from the union. Mr Ibrahim Suberu, Chairman ...
COVID-19: Kwara Govt Fumigates Unilorin
In its bid to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 in Kwara, the state government has fumigated the campus of the University of Ilorin. The Chairman, Sub-Committee on Fumigation of the Kwara State Technical Comm...
One Killed in Cult Clash in Kwara
The supremacy tussle between two rival cult gangs in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, at the weekend claimed the life of yet-to-be identified man. Already, the state police command has commenced full investigation in...
Kwara govt to ensure adequate water supply
Kwara state government says it has put adequate provisions in place to put an end to the perennial water scarcity in some parts of the state. The State Commissioner for Water Resources, Mrs Ariola Lawal, said the...

2020-05-18
COVID-19: Rep Donates Face Shields, Others To Kwara Govt
Rep. Tunji Ajuloopin, representing Ekiti, Isin, Irepodun and Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara, has donated face shields, goggles and surgical eyeglasses to the state government to boost the fight against novel cor...
FAAC: Kwara gets N3.1b for May 2020
The Kwara State Government has received N3,163,836,769:46 (net) as the state's Federal Allocation for May , 2020. The allocation to the state government is lower by 304,379,840:55 compared with the receip...

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