2019-02-16

Atiku/Obi DG condemns elections cancellation
...says Atiku poised for victory The Director-General, Atiku/Obi Presidential Campaign in Kwara State, Dr. Ali Ahmad, has condemned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC's) decision to postpone t...

INEC POSTPONES SARAKI'S POLITICAL END BY A WEEK
The Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq campaign organisation (AACO) has described the one week postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled for today, February 16 to 23rd as nothing but a one w...

Read INEC's full report on postponement of Nigeria's election
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has postponed to February 23rd, the General election earlier scheduled for Saturday, February 16th, 2019. INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu,while bri...

Nigeria Decides: Political 'thugs' arrested in Kwara - INEC
Garba Madami, Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kwara State has said youths suspected to be political thugs have been arrested ahead of Saturday elections...

PVC collection: INEC records 82% success in Kwara
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kwara, Malam Attahiru-Madami has disclosed that the commission recorded 82 per cent success in the collection of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in the state. A...

A Trip to Ilorin with Author, Ladies Calling The Shots
Yinka Olatunbosun reports on the Lagos to Ilorin road trip with Niran Adedokun, the author of Ladies Calling The Shots to Kwara State University Destination was Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete- a converg...

Kwara police deploy 5,000 personnel for election
The Kwara State Police Command said it has deployed 5000 officers and men to ensure violence free election in the state. According to a statement issued in Ilorin, Commissioner of Police, Kayode Egbetokun said: "No...

2019-02-15

2019 polls: Don charges INEC, security agencies, electoral to be neutral
An Associate Professor of Guidance and Counseling at the University of Ilorin, Doctor Abdulrasaq Olayinka Oniye, has tasked security agencies to be proactive and uncompromising in the discharge of their mandate of s...

Kwara hotels staff beg Saraki, Ahmed to pay outstanding salaries
No fewer than 200 workers of Kwara State-owned hotel, Kwara Hotels, Ilorin said to have been sacked illegally, have appealed to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, and Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, to come to their ai...

2019-02-14

7th Magaji of Erubu turbanned amidst pomp and pagentry
Erubu in the ancient town of Ilorin, Kwara State capital, was agog on Friday as Dr. Shuaib Folorunsho Erubu was turbanned as the 7th Magaji of the community. All roads led to the locality for the coronation which had ...

Grassroots Football devt in Kwara has evolved - FA Chairman
Busari Ishola, the current chairman of Kwara Football Association in this interview with MIKE ADEYEMI speaks on the pace of Grassroots soccer developments in Kwara and his readiness to steer Kwara FA beyond. What...

2019 presidency: What Buhari govt is planning to do to Saraki, his loyalists in Kwara - PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised alarm over plot to use soldiers to cordon off the personal residence of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in Kwara State, ahead of Saturday's elections. This was as...

Kwara Sets Up Minimum Wage Implementation C'tee
Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the establishment of a committee on the implementation of N30,000 minimum wage in the state. At the inauguration of the 10-member committee yesterday at...

Kwara retirees, pensioners restate commitment APC's victory
...Pledge 100,000 votes Pensioners and retirees in Kwara state have said they are irrevocably committed to the success of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in this week Saturday's and March 2nd general elections....

PDP's reign must end in Kwara - AbdulRazaq
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State on Thursday rounded off its rallies ahead of Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections in a grand style. The last set of the rally, which held at various ...

2019 Elections: Kwara PDP Rounds Off Campaign
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State on Thursday rounded off its rallies ahead of Saturday's presidential and National Assembly elections in a grand style. The last set of the rally, which held at variou...

Ex-Labour Party guber candidate urges Kwarans to vote for Buhari
A former governorship candidate of Labour Party in Kwara State, Dr Mike Omotosho, has urged the people of the state to exercise their franchise in the first round of general elections on Saturday devoid of fear or...

It's over for Saraki - APC reacts to Appeal Court ruling on Kwara guber ticket
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday hailed the ruling of the Court of Appeal affirming the Kwara State APC governorship candidate, Abdul-Rahman AbdulRazaq, and setting aside an earlier state High Court ruling...

Appeal Court Upholds Abdulrasaq's Election as Kwara APC Guber Candidate
Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday upheld the candidature of Kwara State All Progressives Congress governorship flagbearer, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, as the authentic candidate and all other candidates of ...

Disrupt elections at your own peril, police warn political thugs
Police in Kwara State yesterday vowed to deal decisively with potential troublemakers hatching plot to disrupt the forthcoming general elections in the state. The force said any thug caught for polls disruption...

Polls: Planned Deployment Of 3 Police Commissioners, 12 Deputies,lOthers To Kwara Outrageous - Baraje
A former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), Alh Abubakar Kawu Baraje has described as outrageous plans by the All Progressives Congress(APC) led federal government to deploy three commissioners...

2019-02-13

INEC procures 193 generators for Saturday's election in Kwara
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kwara State, Garba Attahiru-Madami, has disclosed that the Commission has procured 193 new generators for use during Saturday's elections in the state. The News Agency of ...

Kwara APC Gov candidate lauds appeal court verdict affirming his candidacy
The Kwara All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Mr. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has described the Appeal Court judgment affirming his candidature as a victory for the people of the state. AbdulRazaq, in...

2019 Election: Court declares Senator Ibrahim Kwara South PDP candidate, tells INEC what to do
A Federal High Court sitting in ilorin, Kwara State on Tuesday affirmed Senator Rafiu Ibrahim as PDP senatorial Candidate for Kwara south district election. Justice Babagana Ashigar in his ruling directed the...

Kwara Is No Go Area For Buhari - Saraki
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has told President Muhammadu Buhari that Kwara state is a no-go area for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in this coming elections. Addressing Peoples Democratic Part...

Kwara APC hails Appeal Court judgment
All Progressives Congress ( APC ) Field Operations Directorate (FOD) of the Presidential Campaign Council in Kwara state has hailed the Appeal Court judgement recognising the Hon Bashir Bolarinwa executives. By...

We won't give up on anti-graft war, says Buhari
By Ahmed 'Lateef President Muhammadu Buhari has assured of his administration's commitment to sustain the ongoing fight against corruption in the country. He said the All Progressives Congress (APC) led gove...