2019-12-24

Our suspension illegal - Kwara LG chiefs
Vice-chairmen and councilors in the 16 local governments of Kwara have described their suspension from office by the state government as illegal. The vice-chairmen and councilors stated this at a news briefing i...

Kwara people must own, benefit from Harmony Holdings - New GMD
The Group Managing Director of the Harmony Holdings Limited, Abdullahi AbdulMajeed, on Monday said the investment firm is being repositioned to truly benefit and be accountable to the people of Kwara State whose assets ...

Fraudster bags 6 months imprisonment in Ilorin
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Monday sentenced one Enoch Oluyode to six months imprisonment for offences bordering on internet fraud and other related crimes. The trial judge, Mahmood Abdulg...

16 suspended council vice chairmen, councillors sue Kwara
Sixteen suspended local government council vice chairmen and councilors in Kwara State on Monday said they have sued the state government for extending their suspension for another six months. The elected council...

Suspended Kwara LG bosses go spiritual for reinstatement
Suspended vice chairmen and councillors in the 16 local government councils in Kwara State have declared January 2nd, 2020 as fasting and prayer day in preparation for fighting for their rights allegedly violated by the...

2019-12-23

NPFL - Nasarawa, Kwara Utd Secure First League Wins
The wait for a league win for both Nasarawa United and Kwara United ended yesterday as both teams defeated Heartland and Enugu Rangers respectively during the Match Day 10 of the Nigeria Professional Football League. ...

7th Kwara sports festival postponed
The seventh edition of Kwara Sports Festival, earlier scheduled to hold between Jan. 5 and Jan. 12, has now been rescheduled to hold from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1. Abdulquadir Akanbi, Chairman of the competition's Mai...

NGO empowers less privileged with vocational skills in Kwara
A Non-Governmental Organisation in Kwara State, Threshold of Hope Foundation, has empowered more than 70 less privileged in the area with vocational skills. The beneficiaries of the scheme were empowered wi...

Kwara, firms partner to create 10,000 jobs
Kwara State Government is partnering two private firms, Libra Capital Skypower Limited and Almakaz Global industrial in Nigeria to create 10,000 jobs and generate 5,000 megawatts of electricity. The partner...

Why lone Kwara Assembly PDP member is yet to be sworn
The story of the only Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Abdulraheem Agboola, started when the election tribunal ordered fresh election in Ilorin South constituency. Thi...

Police bans use of fireworks in Kwara
Police ban use of fireworks in Kwara • 3,00 personnel deployed Kwara State Police Command has banned the use of fireworks and low explosives during the Christmas festivities. It said that it had deployed 3,000...

38-year-old man's corpse recovered from Kwara river
Men of the Kwara State Fire Service, on Sunday, recovered the corpse of a 38-year-old man from the Asa River in Ilorin. The corpse was recovered around the Obbo Road end of the river, off the Wahab Folawiyo ...

Couching is on the high side in Ilorin, Eye specialist raises alarm
An Opthalmologist, Doctor Taoheed Ayodeji Abdullahi has raised alarm on the rate of couching in Ilorin metropolis. Doctor Abdullahi while featuring on a Radio Kwara Personality interview Programme "Playing Ho...

2019-12-22

Police arrest farm labourer who hacked boss to death
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a farm worker simply identified as Waheed for allegedly hacking his 65-year-old master, Ibrahim Ajayi-Allah, to death on his farm in Oke-Oyi in the Ilorin East Local Governm...

2019-12-21

Unilorin lecturer invents rice harvesters, locust bean processors
The lecturer, Prof Joshua Olaoye teaches in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the University. Prof. Joshua Olaoye of the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Ilorin ...