2020-02-22

Residents uncover suspected kidnappers camp in llorin
Residents of Okoerin community in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara on Friday uncovered a camp where suspected kidnappers camped some children. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the camp, ...

Police deny report of 13 kidnapped children in Ilorin
Kwara State police command has debunked a report of 13 kidnapped children and arrest of two suspects at a kidnappers den in the Ilorin metropolis at the weekend. It is recalled that 13 kidnapped children were r...

Traders lament as fire razes 12 shops in Kwara
Property estimated at millions of naira was on Friday destroyed by fire which razed about 12 shops along a railway station at Post Office, Ilorin, Kwara State. It was gathered that the quick intervention of the...

Kwara gives new operational vehicles to security agencies
Kwara State government has handed new Toyota Hilux vans to security agencies in the state as part of its approach to further secure the lives and property of the people. This comes barely two weeks after Govern...

Midnight fire razes shops in Ilorin
Properties estimated at several millions of Naira was on Friday destroyed by a midnight fire that razed over 12 shops at Railway Station area opposite the General Post Office in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. T...

2020-02-20

Customs generates N4.7bn in Kwara
The Kwara state command of the Nigeria Customs service (NCS) says it has made 47 seizures comprising of various contraband items with a total duty value of 448.4Million naira between August last year and January this ye...

Ex – Olympian to Establish National Weighlifting Centre in Kwara
Ruth Ogbeifo – Balofin Community Project (ROBCOP) are on the verge of reaching an agreement with the Kwara state government – which will see the organisation (ROBCOP) collaborate in establishing a national weighliftin...

Minimum wage: Labour shelves proposed strike in Kwara
The Joint Labour Congress in Kwara state has shelved it's proposed strike action over the negotiations of the payment of the 30,000 naira minimum wage by the Kwara State Government. The latest action of t...

Fake News: NUJ Denies Online Media Report On Kwara Gov
National president of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ ), Chief Chris Isiguzo has come hard on purveyors of fake news, saying that his administration will not hesitate to hand over to security agencies any member of the ...

Why we key into FG's School Feeding Programme - Kwara Gov
Governor Abdulrazaq Abdulrahman of kwara state has said that the state is joining the national home grown school feeding programme to tackle school age malnutrition, boost school enrolment, and strengthen local economy th...

Court orders Kwara contractor to be remanded in EFCC custody over N31M fraud
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of an Ilorin high court on Thursday ordered a sixty-six-year-old Contractor, Chief Joseph Oluwole Komolafe to be remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC)...

FG Approves water project of N10. 18bn in Kwara
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved the augmentation and variation for Tada Shonga Irrigation Project in Kwara State, raising the total cost to N10.18bn. The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Ad...

Kwara gov sacks heads of state-owned media houses
Kwara state governor, Abdulrahaman Abdulrasaq, has approved the removal of all heads of the three media houses owned by the state. The Media organisations involved in the shake-up included The Herald newspaper, ...

Kwara Customs Seizes 3,593Kg of Marijuana Worth N448M
Kwara state command of Nigerian Customs Service(NCS) has seized forty weight sacks of 3,593kg of Cannabis Saliva popularly called Marijuana worth N448M and other illegal items along with Bukuru town in Baruten local g...

2020-02-19

Kwara to revoke 5,000 plots of land
The Kwara State Government says it will revoke over 5,000 plots of land sold illegally by the last administration. The Director-General of Kwara Bureau of Lands, Bolaji Edun, in an interview yesterday with the N...

Step-Up Foundation visits orphanage home
Non- governmental organization, Step-Up Foundation, over the weekend visited the Islamic Orphanage Home, Adewole in Ilorin to celebrate Valentine with the less privileged to donate foods and other relief items. ...

Agric institute trains corps members on entrepreneurship in Kwara
Serving corps members in Kwara State have been trained on post-harvest handling and value addition of agricultural commodities towards addressing high youth unemployment rate in the country. Speaking at the open...

NUJ President Warns Kwara Council Against Isolationism
Mr Chris Isiguzo, the President, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has advised the leadership of the Kwara council of the union against working in isolation from other councils and the national body. Isiguzo g...

2020-02-18

FRSC 32nd Anniversary: Don advocates inclusion of road safety in university curriculum
The Dean of Students Affairs, University of Ilorin, Prof. Tajudeen Ajibade, says there is need to incorporate the study of road safety into the Nigerian university academic curriculum. Ajibade, who spoke as gu...

Court remands 3 over alleged N166m fraud
An Ilorin Magistrates' Court on Tuesday remanded three suspects–Jahswill Iwe, William Eziyi and Friday Akpometaye– over alleged N166million fraud. Magistrate Mohammed Ndakene ordered the defendant to be remanded at M...

Appeal Court President, Justice Bulkachuwa set to bow out
The President of Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa will on March 6, 2020 bow out of the Bench as she clocks the statutory mandatory retirement age of 70 years for Justices of Appeal Court. In a programm...