2019-10-20

13 teams commence battle for NBA-FIBA Basketball League in Ilorin
13 teams will be participating in the 2019 NBBF organised National Championship tagged President Cup. The championship taking place in Ilorin, Kwara state have seen teams divided into 2 groups with matches to be ...

Bacita: Kwara community where sugar factory brings bitterness
Sugar plantation like this has since become history in Bacita, a community previsously addressed as Bacita Sugar Nothing often brings bitterness to residents of Bacita in Kwara State than remembering the glorious days of...

Unilorin win 3rd JAMB tertiary institutions football tourney
University of Ilorin on Saturday beat Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic of Zaria 1-0 to win the third edition of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board-sponsored tertiary institutions football competition. In t...

2019-10-19

Woman remanded for burning housemaids with hot knife
A Kwara State Chief Magistrates' Court sitting in Ilorin has remanded a 48-year-old housewife, Bilikis Mohammed, in the Federal Correctional Centre, Ilorin, for allegedly inflicting injuries on two housemaids with a h...

Kwara receives N3.5 billion as federal allocation
Kwara State received a total of N3,516,975,521.40 as its federal allocation for the month of October, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The Permanent Secretary in the state Ministry of Finance, Be...

We will build on Late Bamigboye's legacy in Kwara - Gov Abdulrazaq
Gov. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara on Saturday said his administration would build upon the legacies and achievements recorded by the first governor of the state, late Gen. David Bamigboye. Abdu...

2019-10-18

Breast cancer: NMA, MWAN join NGO to screen women in Kwara
The Kwara branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), on Thursday, collaborated with an NGO, Quinta Health to screen 50 female service personnel in Ilorin. ...

Kwara govt. queries 200 civil servants for dereliction of duties
The Kwara State government, on Thursday, said that more than 200 civil servants in the had been issued queries for dereliction of duties. Mr Murtala Atoyebi, the Chief Press Secretary to the state Head of Serv...

Man gets death sentence in Kwara
A Kwara state High Court has sentenced one Ogundele David, killer of an MTN telecommunication staff, Abiola Tosin Ashinwo, to death by hanging. Delivering the judgement Justice Adebayo Yusuf, said Ogundele was co...

Kwara Pays N60m Counterpart Fund for Community Projects
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved N60 million counterpart funds to key into the World Bank-funded Community and Social Development Projects (CSDP) that will help attract development to r...

Kwara to spend N100m on state library, e-learning
Kwara State Government will spend about N100m to renovate the state library complex and use it as a launchpad for e-learning and temporary headquarters for the state's innovation hub, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has...

FBI wanted suspect jailed one year for fraud
Joseph Oyediran, one of the Nigerians on the wanted list of the American Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for wire-fraud, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for fraud. Justice Mahmood Abd...

2019-10-17

Embrace peace to attract progress Gov Abdulrazaq urges Kwarans
...government will not condone indiscipline. Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has called on the people of Kwara State to embrace peace to attract development to the State. Governor Abdulrazaq made the cal...

Re: Gov AbdulRazaq and the Niggling Worries of Misappropriation
The approved 2019 budget is online at the Kwara State Government website for verification by anybody. As far as the 2019 Appropriation Law is concerned, there is no illegality or misappropriation in the implement...

Nigeria Must Look Beyond Oil, Says Kwara Gov
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has called for urgent measures to diversify the Nigerian economy and reduce the country's reliance on crude oil. He, however, stressed the need to increas...

Redefining Kwara's Health Sector for Rural Populace
Hammed Shittu chronicles the healthcare programmes of the Kwara State government, and how it is redefining medical services for residents, especially rural dwellers The importance of health in the socio-econo...

Kwara Assembly Approves N130,380,403,956 Revised Budget For the State
The Kwara State House of Assembly has approved N130,380,403,956 as the new revised total budget size of the State as against the initial N157,802,032,561 with a decrease of N27,421,628,605, representing 17.4 per cent....

Kwara Govt inaugurates rehabilitated leprosy settlement
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasak of Kwara says his administration is fully committed to the development of health facilities for effective healthcare delivery to people in the state. AbdulRasak made the commitment o...

Tinubu, Mohammed, Abdulrazaq, Oyedepo, others for Omu-Aran Day 2019
The National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, will be the chief launcher at the upcoming Omu-Aran Day 2019 scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 19 in Omu-Aran, Kwara State. Maj.-Gen. Yemi A...