2020-05-17

Agro firm assists Kwara government on COVID-19
HillCrest Agro-Allied Industries has assisted Kwara State Government with bags of rice, to ameliorate the hardship caused by the lockdown in the state. Managing Director of the organisation, Mr. Ayodele Alade, w...

Kwara: Some COVID-19 patients attempted to escape from isolation centre
The Kwara government says it arrested some COVID-19 patients who attempted to escape from the isolation centre in the state. In a statement on Friday, Rafiu Ajakaye, chief press secretary to AbdulRahman AbdulRas...

Move Moro out of Ilorin Emirate, group begs Kwara govt
Elders of Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State have asked to quit the Ilorin Emirate Council. Reacting to a statement attributed to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, in which he alleged...

COVID-19: Ambulance incident, unfortunate exception - Kwara govt
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday attended a second round of refresher training for health workers in the state amid assurances that the state is not dropping the ball in the fight against the COVID-...

2020-05-15

Emir Sulu-Gambari mourns late Tafida of Ilorin, Dr. Amuda Aluko
The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara State Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has expressed shock over the demise of the Tafida of Ilorin, Dr. Amuda Aluko. Alhaji Sulu-Gambari in his condolence ...

Buhari mourns Dr Amuda Aluko
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the demise of elder statesman and the Tafida of Ilorin, Dr Amuda Aluko. In a message of condolence to the bereaved family, the Ilorin Emirate Council, the gov...

GOBIR CONGRATULATES PROF IBRAHIM GAMBARI ON HIS APPOINTMENT AS THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE PRESIDENT
Prominent son of Ilorin and Waziri Hausa, Waziri Yakubu Gobir has congratulated Prof. Ibrahim Gambari on his appointment as the Chief of Staff to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In a statemen...

ILORIN EMIRATE YOUTHS CONGRATULATES THE NEW CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE PRESIDENT; PROF. IBRAHIM AGBOOLA GAMBARI, CFR
The Ilorin Emirate Youth Development Association (IEYDA) has congratulated Prof. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR on his appointment as the Chief of Staff to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; President Muham...

Saraki Congratulates Gambari on Appointment as President's Chief of Staff
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has congratulated the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement Wednesday, Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State where Gambari hails from, describe...

Kwara COVID-19 Committee Donates Palliatives to Paralympic Teams
The Kwara State Technical Committee on Covid -19 Thursday donated 50 bags of rice to the state's Paralympic teams as part of palliative effort to alleviate and bring succour to the special athletes. The items were ...

Kwara records 3 new cases of COVID-19
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three more positive cases of COVID-19 in Kwara. The NCDC on its verified website stated that this brings the total number of confirmed cases to 56, with...

Kwara elders call for upgrade of traditional rulers of Jebba, Shao
Community elders in Moro local government area of Kwara state have called on the state government to immediately restore the Oba of Jebba and Ohoro of Shao to their pre-1984 status. The elders, under the umbrel...

2020-05-14

OPINION: Farooq Kperogi: An Insolent Character from the Fringes of Kwara By Dr. Muhammad Thanni Al Ilory
The character under reference is an insolent charlatan who despite possessing a Ph.D. is not well schooled in the ancient African tradition of respect for elders and community. As a Bariba man, he betrays a shocking l...

Ahmed Commends President Buhari for Prof. Gambari's 'timely and merited' appointment as Chief of Staff
Former Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for naming former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari (CFR) as Chief of Staff. Ahmed...

Kwara: 10 new Perm Secs Appointed
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the appointment of 10 new permanent secretaries (PS) to head various ministries, departments, and agencies of the government — barely two weeks after a crop of eigh...

COVID-19: Perm Sec Suspended Over Evacuation
Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 pandemic has asked the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health Dr Ayinla Abubakar to proceed on indefinite suspension. The decision followed the mishandling of the...

2020-05-13

Atiku, Yahaya Bello Congratulate Buhari's New CoS
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, have congratulated Ibrahim Agboola Gambari on his appointment as Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Muhammadu Buhari. Gambari, a ren...

Gambari: Tinubu, Inuwa, Gbajabiamila others congratulate Buhari's new Chief of Staff
A leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has lauded the appointment of Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Tinubu described him as a renowned d...

Kwara Gov congratulates Gambari on his appointment as CoS
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari on his appointment as the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, calling it a befitting development that is rooted i...

Gambari: What Nigerians should expect from me as Buhari's Chief of Staff
The new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, has spoken on his appointment. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Gambari's appointment was confirmed at Wednesday's Federal Executive Co...

Customs command in Kwara generates N1.6bn in 3 months
The Kwara Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Wednesday said it generated N1.69 billion in three months. The figure was released in a statement signed by Mr Zakari Chado, the Public Relations Office...

OPINION: Lest I Forget: History And Gambari
In this discourse, Badejo Nurudeen, a public affairs analyst, offers kudos and knocks in a critical review of the recently published memoirs of Ambassador Oladapo Fafowora, Lest I forget: Memoirs of a Nigerian Career Di...

KWARA GOV ORDERS SACK,QUERY OF COVID-19 TEAM OVER MISHANDLING OF CASE
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday directed the sack of a government driver that unilaterally attended to an unkempt person who was evacuated with a COVID-19 ambulance in Ilorin. He also dir...

Profile of President Buhari's new Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim A. Gambari:
Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR, OCORT, a scholar-diplomat, is the Founder/Chairman of the Board of Directors of Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, a non-governmental think-tank on research, ...

BREAKING: Buhari Appoints Ibrahim Gambari As Chief Of Staff
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed renowned diplomat and former Minister of External Affairs, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as his new Chief of Staff. The Secretary to the Government of the Federati...