2019-11-01

Kwara Assembly confirms 16 Commissioner-nominees
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Thursday confirmed the appointment of 16 Commissioner nominees presented to it by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. All the 16 Commissioner-nominees among whom were nine fe...

Alleged N4bn Misappropriation: 16 Kwara LG Chairmen Released By EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the 16 Local Government Chairmen of Kwara State invited for questioning into the alleged misappropriation of N4bn loan and ten percent of Internally Gener...

EFCC detains 16 Kwara LG chairmen over misappropriation
The Embattled Sixteen Local Government Chairmen of Kwara State are presently being interrogated by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged misappropriation of part of...

2019-10-31

NUT hails Kwara Gov for picking two teachers as commissioners
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has praised the Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for selecting two classroom teachers as commissioner nominees. The teachers, who are both women, are Deborah Bosede...

AbdulRazaq's female nominees impress Kwara Assembly
Screening for Kwara State commissioner-nominees entered day two on Wednesday, with the cabinet picks wowing the lawmakers with their eloquence and clear roadmaps of how they thought the government could deliver basic am...

2019-10-30

Govt Urged to Unlock Nigeria's Tourism Potential
The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Housing and Procurement, Senator Oyelola Ashiru, has advised the federal government to take steps towards unlocking the country's tourism potential so as to boost revenue generation ...

Court remands Offa poly lecturer over employment scam
A Kwara State High Court Sitting in Ilorin has remanded one Mustapha Ilyas Abdulwasiu, a suspended lecturer with the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State on offences bordering on employment scam and obtaining money und...

Police arrest journalist for report against ex-CBN gov's firm
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a journalist with NewsDigest, Adebowale Adekoya, over a report which seemed to be targeted against a company owned by a former acting governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr...

2019-10-29

Kwara Govt. begins distribution of 40 million anti malaria items across 16 LGAs
The Kwara government says it has started the training of healthcare workers on malaria treatment and the distribution of over 40 million malaria commodities across the 16 local government areas of the state. ...

Remove obstructions on waterways ~ Kwara residents urge government
Residents of Ilorin, the Kwara capital, have called on the state government to urgently remove buildings and other obstructions along waterways to avert disaster in the state. Some residents, who spoke with n...

Kwara charges VIO to play active role on road safety
Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) have been charged to refocus their operations by reporting bad road infrastructures in various parts of the country to relevant authorities rather than concentrating on arrest of motori...

Man in court for vandalising streetlight cables
An Ilorin Magistrates' Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of a man, Abdullahi Ibrahim, in prison custody for alleged vandalism of streetlight cables. Ibrahim, who resides behind GTB Bank, G.R.A., Ilorin is fac...