2019-02-28

The Message from Kwara. By Olusegun Adeniyi
The Message from Kwara The Verdit By Olusegun Adeniyi By the time I left Ilorin, capital of my beloved Kwara State on the 6pm Arik flight last Friday to vote in Abuja the next day, the sense of excitement was ...

APC vs PDP: Monarchs state position on Kwara governorship election
Traditional rulers in Irepodun local government area of Kwara State have endorsed the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq ahead of the March 9th governorship and stat...

Why Kwara People 'Buried Saraki' Politically - Oshiomhole
National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has insinuated that Senate President Bukola Saraki lost in the National Assembly elections because he was "extremely arrogant." The...

Why Saraki lost election - Kwara senator-elect
Mallam Sadiq Umar, the senator-elect for Kwara North Senatorial District, says Senate President Bukola Saraki lost his senatorial seat because he was no longer connected with the electorate. Mr Umar said this in ...

Aremu denies stepping down from Kwara governorship race
The Labour Party governorship candidate in Kwara state, Comrade Issa Aremu, has denied stepping down for any candidate in the coming gubernatorial election saying his party only supported presidential candidate o...

2019-02-27

EFCC detains Kwara finance commissioner, accountant general
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Kwara state Commissioner of Finance and the Accountant General of the State, over investigations into alleged slush funds for 2019 elections. ...

2019-02-26

Despite inadequacies in Kwara polls, I wish those who emerged best of luck -Saraki
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that in spite of the reported inadequacies that attended last Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections in Kwara State, he is wishing the candidates...

Nigeria election result: Saraki's Campaign DG speaks after loss to APC
Director-General of the Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, has described as outright falsehood a report credited to him that the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukol...

Kwara senator, 17 others docked over pre-election violence
Eighteen persons, including Rafiu Ibrahim, the senator representing Kwara South, were on Monday docked before an Ilorin Chief Magistrates' Court over the February 19 pre-election violence in Ojoku, Kwara in which one pers...

Buhari wins in Kwara with 308,984 votes
The Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari, has won the presidential election result in Kwara State, having scored 308,984 votes, as announced by the Independent National Ele...

Feb 23 will be declared Kwara Liberation Day - Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Monday said that February 23 will be declared as Kwara Liberation Day immediately the new government comes to power in the state. Mohammed disclosed thi...

Victory for Kwarans - Gobir
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state who is also the Wazirin Hausa , Alhaji Yakubu Gobir has described the outcome of last Saturday's election as a victory for the party and all true lovers...

2019-02-25

Election: APC speaks on Kwara elections
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its appreciation to the people of Kwara State for their support in the presidential and National Assembly elections. The party made this known in a statem...

Ex-Kwara APC guber aspirant backs abolition of multi-party system
A former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Mallam Saliu Mustapha, has thrown his weight behind the proponents of abrogation of multi-party system in the country. ...