2020-01-30

Internet Fraudster Bags 6-Month Jail Term
A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced one Agwu Goodness (aka Shemmy) to six months in prison for internet fraud. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye convicted the defendant after he pleaded guilty to a one count charge lev...

UNIFEMGA honours 20 members in Ilorin
The Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates Association (UNIFEMGA) will on February 8, honour 20 of its members for their achievements and contributions to the development of the association in 2019. In a s...

Kwara Assembly Passes 2020 Budget, Increases It N427m
Kwara State House of Assembly has approved N162,487,666,170 as the 2020 Fiscal Appropriation for the state. This is against the sum of N162, 060,661,985 presented to the House on 18th December, 2019 by the state...

Kwara PDP petitions Malami on illegal dissolution, suspension of council officials
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state has sent a written petition to the attorney general and minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, on what it called illegal dissolution and or suspension of the duly elected lo...

Kwara Chamber of Commerce justifies border closure
The Kwara Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KWACCIMA) says the decision of the Federal Government to shut the nation's borders has effected a turn round in the nation's economy. Dr Adeoye Raji...

Court remands Kwara ex-finance commissioner for alleged money laundering
A Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has remanded the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State, Mr. Ademola Banu, in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) custody. The Ilorin Zonal ...

2020-01-29

Minimum Wage: Kwara Govt Debunks Deadlock Claims In Negotiations
The Kwara State Government has debunked claims circulating on social media platforms that the tripartite meeting involving State Government, Nigeria Labour Congress, National Union of Local Government Employees, Nige...

Yoruba actor, Juwon Awe, shot dead
A fast-rising Yoruba actor, Juwon Awe, was killed by armed bandits in Ote, Kwara State, on Monday, police said. His colleague, Ibrahim Chatta broke the news on Instagram on Monday night. According to Chat...

Water Commissioner assures Kwarans of portable water
The Commissioner of Water Resources in Kwara State, Hajia Arinola Lawal, has assured citizens of Kwara that the administration of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq is doing everything possible to address the problem of wate...

Internet fraudster bags 6-month jail term
A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced one Agwu Goodness (aka Shemmy) to six months in prison for internet fraud. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye convicted the defendant after he pleaded guilty to a one count charge lev...

WAEC sanctions 165 schools for cheating in Kwara
The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has sanctioned 165 private and public schools in Kwara State for various forms of cheating in the 2019 senior secondary certificate examination. The schools, which h...

Wife of Kwara Governor advocates Universal Health Coverage
The Wife of the Kwara State Governor, Dr Olufolake Abdulrazaq has advocated a Universal health coverage system in the state. Dr Abdulrazaq says "the programme is aimed at steming the tide of neonatal and materna...

Kwara govt. promises pupils nutritious meals
The Kwara Government has expressed its readiness to ensure that nutritious and hygienic meals are prepared for pupils when its Home Grown School Feeding Programme is unveiled. The Commissioner for Education and ...

Kwara Gov, Foreign Minister Meet on Human Trafficking, FDI
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq yesterday met with the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama in Abuja to discuss how to repatriate indigenes of Kwara State trapped in Lebanon and elsewhere, ...

Kwara: Ex-Finance Commissioner Remanded For Money Laundering
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ilorin zonal office has arraigned immediate past commissioner for Finance in Kwara state, Engineer Ademola Banu, before a Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin on c...

2020-01-28

Offa bank robbery: Absence of witnesses stalls trial
The absence of prosecution witnesses in court on Tuesday stalled the continuation of hearing in the April 5, 2018, Offa bank robbery trial of five suspects allegedly involved at a Kwara State High Court sitting in ...

Lassa Fever: Kwara Govt. sets up isolation centre, begins border screening
Kwara Government on Monday says it has begun intensive surveillance and screening at its land borders and the Ilorin International Airport to check the spread of Lassa fever into the state. The state's Commiss...

Call me Mr - Kwara deputy governor
The Deputy Governor of Kwara State, Mr Kayode Alabi, has asked members of the public to simply address him as "Mr". According to a statement signed on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Modupe Joel, the deput...

2020-01-27

Border closure: 'We seized over 10,000 bags of rice, vehicles, drugs, intercepted migrants'
The Nigeria Customs Service Coordinator, of Joint Border Operations Drill, for North Central, states, Comptroller Mohammed Garba, has said that over 10,000 bags of imported rice have been intercepted while 204 illegal m...

Rural Electrification: AbdulRazaq meets TCN for critical review
Governor of Kwara state, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has met with the Managing Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Gur Mohammed, in a bid to boost power transmission to the state. Accompanying the...

'Ahmed, ex-Kwara gov, didn't pay us 11-month pensions'
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners in Kwara State, Alhaji Saidu Oladimeji, has said the former governor of the state, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, owed local government pensioners 11 months' pensions amounting to...

Birthday: Kwara Gov. says no celebration, adverts
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara has stopped any celebration and advertisements to mark his 60th birthday. The governor gave the order on Sunday in Ilorin in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary...