2019-08-21

Kwara PDP Rejects Illegal Dissolution of Statutory Commissions by KWSG
The Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejects in totality the purported dissolution of three statutory commissions by the Kwara State House of Assembly. The affected commissions are the Kwara...

Full List of Ministers And Their Portfolios
1 - Uchechukwu Ogah - Abia - Minister of state mine and development2 - Mohammed Bello - Adamawa - Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)3 - Godswill Akpabio - Akwa Ibom - Minister for Niger Delta...

Gbemisola Saraki to man Ministry of Transportation
Senator Gbemisola Rukayat Saraki is now Minster of State for Transportation...

Lai Mohammed Retains Information Ministry
Lai Mohammed is still in charge of Information and Culture ministry... More to follow...

Retired police officers in Kwara lament underpayment of gratuities
A group of retired police officers in Kwara has cried out over alleged discrimination and underpayment of their gratuities by the Police Pension Administrator. At a press briefing on Tuesday in Ilorin, the re...

NYSC deploys 2,000 to Kwara, as Batch 'B' Stream II orientation begins
The National Youth Service Corps has deployed 2,000 prospective corps members to Kwara for the one-year mandatory national service. The deployment is coming on the heels of the Batch 'B' Stream II orientation cam...

2019-08-20

Kwara to replicate FG's social investment programmes - Abdulazaq
Kwara State governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq has said that his administration is planning to replicate the Federal Government's social investment programmes to fight poverty and youth unemployment in the state. ...

Kwara Oba Docked for Alleged Threat to Life
The Kwara state police command on Tuesday arraigned a second class monarch from Odo-Owa, Oke-Ero local government area, Oba Joshua Adeyemi Adimula for alleged trespass to land and threat to life. In the case ...

Gov. AbdulRazaq appoints new board for Kwara United
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday dissolved the board of the state football club -- Kwara United. He has also approved the appointment of a new seven-member board, with Kunbi Titiloye as the C...

Poverty in Kwara: Gov AbdulRazaq to send bill to assembly
The Governor of Kwara, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, says he will send a Bill to replicate the Federal Government's anti-poverty Social Investment Programmes to the State House of Assembly in order to tackle poverty in the St...

Kwara agency begins immunisation for children
A 6-day immunisation programme for children from 0 to 59 months has begun in Ilorin, the Kwara capital on Sunday. A visit to Yusjib Industrial Medicare, along Ajase Ipo Road, Ilorin, one of the accredited centres f...

Kwara gov locks out workers for late coming
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq waits for an office to be opened after resumption time at the state secretariat, during his unscheduled visit to the old secretariat in Ilorin, Kwara State yesterday, where...

NGO laments high rate of illiteracy, out-of-school children in Kwara
Brain Builders International (BBI), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to youth development, has lamented the high rate of illiteracy and out-of-school children in Kwara state. This was made known in...

No more godfatherism in Kwara, says AbdulRazaq
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said that the dislodgement of Saraki dynasty in the last general elections put an end to godfatherism in the state's politics. The governor said this in Ilorin at...

KWHA Approves Dissolution of Boards of 3 Commissions
The Kwara Ste House of Assembly today passed a resolution approving the dissolution of the boards of the following commissions: 1. Kwara State Civil Service Commission 2. Kwara State Independent Electoral Comm...

2019-08-19

Vote out old politicians, AbdulRazaq urges youths
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq, has challenged the Nigerian youths to use their knowledge and permanent voter card to wrest power from old politicians. The governor, who was represented by the...

Ilorin amusement park: Mrs Saraki demands apology from Kwara govt, APC, others
The wife of a former Senate President, Mrs Toyin Saraki, has given Kwara State Government, Kwara state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) and others 24 hours to retract publication on her ownership of Ilorin Amus...

Government warns residents in six Kwara LGAs prone to flood to relocate
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agencies (NIHSA) has listed six local government areas in Kwara that are very prone to flood in 2019. The permanent secretary in the state Ministry Environment, Amosa Al-Amin, ma...

2019-08-18

Looted property: Kwara ex-gov, others may be charged
Former Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed and many of those who served in his government in Kwara State may be dragged to court for their role in the alleged looting of the government property. Those fingered and rec...

Kwara boxers shine in interstate tourney
Kwara boxers have emerged overall winners of the interstate boxing tournament concluded at the Indoor Sports Hall on Saturday after winning six of the 10 bouts in the final of the three-day tournament. Th...

Ilorin Durbar: Celebrating royalty, culture with pride at Sallah
This year's sallah celebration in Ilorin had a royal touch with the Emir taking a horse-ride around his domain alonside other royalties. Last week Monday, Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital went in to a frenzy for...