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2019-03-08
Sustain Peaceful Conduct on Election Day - Ilorin Emirate Youth tasks Kwarans
The Ilorin Emirate Youth Development Association (IEYDA) has tasked Kwarans, particularly the good people of Ilorin Emirate to sustain the peaceful conduct of the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the st...
2019 ELECTION: Let us work hard towards the victory and earn it - Professor Oba
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state have urged party supporters not to be carried away by the victory of the party in the last presidential and National Assembly elections. Speaking at a mega rally of ...
EFCC Arraigns Internet Fraudster in Ilorin
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on March 7, 2019 arraigned a suspected yahoo boy, Muhammad Umar Faruk, before Justice Babagana Ashigar of a Federal High Court, sitting in...
338 candidates jostle for 24 assembly seats in Kwara
The INEC in Kwara State, yesterday, disclosed that 338 candidates fielded by 19 political parties will tomorrow contest for the 24 seats in the Kwara State House of Assembly. Speaking with journalists in Ilor...
Guber poll: Vote candidates of your choice - Kwara gov
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Abdulfatahi Ahmed has called on all residents of the state to turn out tomorrow to elect leaders of their choice. The governor said the security agencies, in partnership with the...
Kwara Guber poll: Issa Aremu directs LP supporters to vote for APC Abdulrazaq
The gubernatorial candidate of Labour party, LP, in Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has directed his supporters to vote for the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Saturday's el...
Kwara: Court gives APC guber candidate, Abdulrazaq ultimatum to defend WAEC certificate
A Kwara State High Court has given the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq 30 days to defend the authenticity of his West African Examination Council (WAEC...
INEC replaces collation officers in Kwara
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said 373 candidates will participate in Saturday's governorship and House of Assembly elections in Kwara State. It also said it would change some collation...

2019-03-07
Kwara PDP unveils deputy governorship candidate
With about 72 hours to the election, the Peoples Democratic Party has unveiled its deputy governorship candidate in Kwara State. He is Gbenga Makanjuola, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of the Senate...
BREAKING: Kwara Governorship Election: Labour Party withdraws from race, endorses APC candidate
The Labour Party on Thursday endorsed AbdulRahman Abdulrazaq, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Saturday's governorship election in Kwara State. Labour Party's governorship candidate, C...
Right of Reply: Adeniyi's Mischievous Gloating. By Olu Onemola
There is no doubt that Olusegun Adeniyi is a popular columnist. That is why one will expect that a writer of his caliber will not rush to join a mob in giving an opinion on an issue without proper investigation and fu...
Kwara pays February salary
The Kwara State Government has commenced the payment of February salary to state civil servants. The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, who made the announcement in Ilorin On Wednesday, said civi...
Elections: Kwara declares holiday
A statement by the State Head of Service, Susan Modupe Oluwole, explained that this was to enable Kwarans prepare adequately for the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections coming up on Saturday....
Stay Away From Kwara State, Governor Ahmed Warns Trouble-Makers
Stay Away From Kwara State, Governor Ahmed Warns Trouble-Makers Kwara State Security Council, Kwara State Government, KWSG, Alhaji Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, THE Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has warned...
Lai Mohammed alleges plans by opposition to attack Kwara voters
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has implored Kwara electorate to ignore alleged threat by the opposition to attack them during the Saturday governorship and State Assembly elections. The mi...
Four to die by hanging in Kwara
A Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital has sentenced a notorious criminal, Olatunji Ibrahim Ariyo and four others to death. Others include Ganiyu Sulyman Yaro, Timothy Oyebanji, Lukman Ol...
Issues As Kwara Goes Into Two-Horse Electoral Battle
The presidential and National Assembly election held, penultimate Saturday, has created an upset in the political arrangement of Kwara State. As declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the ...
Outcome of Feb 23 Polls, Manifestation of Dream for New Leaders, Says Kwara APC Senator-Elect
Senator-elect of All Progressives Congress (APC) for Kwara South senatorial district, Hon. Lola Ashiru, has said that the outcome of February 23 presidential and national assembly polls in the state was a manif...

2019-03-06
Myth, Reality and Lessons From Saraki's Fall. By Kayode Abdulazeez
It is no longer news that the incumbent Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who has been tipped as a potential President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria due to his strategic political calculation, network and ...
Three horses race in Kwara guber poll. By Ahmed 'Lateef
Kwarans will on Saturday (March 9, 2019) file out to their various polling units across the 16 local government areas of the state to elect next Governor among contenders for the plum job, of which three of them a...
Kwarans, lest we forget. By Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo
Human memory is short. Tyrannical regimes thrive or endure on the shortness of human memory. When Jesus Christ wanted to enter Jerusalem, it was through loud ovation of hosanna; but shortly after, the opportunity availe...
Kwara PDP in aggressive door to door campaign to reclaim Sarakis dynasty
The ruling party in Kwara state, Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) was no doubt hit by the devastating result of the last week Saturday national assembly election where it lost all the three senatorial and six houses of repr...
Guber Poll: 35 political parties adopt APC in Kwara
No fewer than 35 political parties out of 55 for Saturday's governorship and state assembly elections in Kwara have adopted candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq. The sp...
Ash Wednesday: Churches offer prayers for Nigeria in Kwara
Christians in Ilorin on Wednesday joined their counterparts around the world to mark this year's Ash Wednesday. Newsmen reports that the day is to mark the commencement of the Lenten season by Christians. During the L...
How Kwara Hotel laid off workers without benefits
CALL it man's inhumanity to man, you may not be far from the truth. The story of the workers that were thrown out of their jobs by the management of Kwara State- owned Kwara Hotel, KH, over 20 months ago without ev...
Kwara: PDP, APC in last minute calculations
As the electorate in Kwara State get set to elect their governor and members of the state House of Assembly, the political players in the state have embarked on last minute contacts and changing their strategies afte...
'Ahmed out to destroy LG pensioners in Kwara'
Retirees under the aegis of Local Government Pensioners Association of Nigeria have accused the Kwara state government of planning to totally annihilating local government pensioners. The association condemne...

2019-03-05
Accord Party candidate promises new direction in Kwara
The governorship candidate of Accord Party (AP) in Saturday's election in Kwara State, Prince Ayorinde Adedoyin, has urged the electorate in the state to support him in his move to chat a new direction towards social ...
Kwara APC gov candidate alleges victimisation of workers
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Kwara State governorship election on Saturday, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on Monday told the state government to stop victimising civil servants. But the st...
OPINION: Inside Kwara's Crumbling Dynasty By Bayonle Abdulkadir
The leader of Kwara's crumbling dynasty has reportedly conceded defeat even as he urged his party to fight to the finish, apparently hoping for a political miracle in the gubernatorial and state assembly elections thi...
APC will win Saturday polls in Kwara with higher margin - Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says All Progressives Congress (APC) will win the Saturday's Governorship and State Assembly elections in Kwara with higher margin than the Presidential and Na...
Ilorin Airport Records 85,826 Passengers, 2,628 Aircraft Movement in 2018
The management of llorin International Airport, says it recorded a total number of 85,826 passengers and 2,628 aircraft movement in 2018. Alhaji lbrahim AbdulAzeez, the Airport Manager, gave the figure while sp...

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