2019-01-30

Kwara North Youths Embrace PDP/Stakeholders Pact On 2023 Power Shift
YOUTHS from the Kwara North senatorial district of Kwara state have embraced recent pact by stakeholders from the zone with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the state on power shift to the zone in 2023....

2019: PDP will dimistify opposition parties in Kwara - Otunola
A grassroot political mobiliser, Chief Otuola Adebayo Awoniyi, has urged the people of Kwara State to massively vote for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Barrister Razak Atunwa, in th...

2019-01-28

Diplomat solicits support of Nigerians for Buhari in the fight against corruption
The Nigerian High Commissioner to Malaysia, Alhaji Nurudeen Mohammed has described corruption in Nigeria has a big problem that has deterred the country from moving forward. According to him, unless all Nige...

2019-01-26

No substitute for Saraki in Kwara - Suleiman
Former Minster of National Planning, Professor Abubakar Olanrewaju Suleiman, is the Director-General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council for this year’s general elections in Kwara state. Pr...

Buhari's Visit: Kwara PDP Raises Alarm Over Plot To Arrest Its Leaders
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state has raised an alarm over alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to implicate some of its members before a campaign rally by President Muhammad Buhar...

Is Kwara slipping from Saraki?
By Emmanuel Aziken, It could be a potentially deadly faceoff that interestingly has two medical doctors as the central characters. Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, the All Progressives Congress, APC Senate candidate in K...

Elections: INEC to deploy 15, 545 personnel in Kwara
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will deploy 15, 545 staff for the 2019 general elections in Kwara State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Garba Attaihiru-Ma...

2019 polls and brewing political unrest in Kwara. By AHMED 'LATEEF
About 23 days to the commencement of this year's general elections, the atmosphere has become tense with upsurge in violence in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, heightening fear that the scenarios that ch...

2019-01-25

FG Files Charges against Modibbo Kawu, Others over Alleged N2.5bn Fraud
The federal government has dragged the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu, Pinnacle Communications Limited; its founder, Lucky Omonuwa; and its Managing Director, Dipo Onifad...

APC Kwara Central Senate candidate vows to retire Saraki
...He is a joker - Saraki All Progressives Congress, APC candidate in Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr. Ibrahim Oloriegbe has predicted what he on Thursday said is the end of the Saraki political dynasty with ...

Police to ban vigilance groups on election days in Kwara
The Commissioner of Police in Kwara, Bashir Makama, says no vigilance group would be allowed on the streets on election days. The commissioner made this known on Thursday in Ilorin while speaking at a stakeholde...

Lassa fever outbreak: Kwara health workers suspend indefinite strike
The Congress of the Coalition of Health Sector Unions (COHESU), Kwara branch, has suspended its indefinite strike due to the outbreak of Lassa fever, Yellow fever and Polio in some parts of the state. This was ...

PDP Remains The Party To Beat In Kwara, Says Ahmed
Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has achieved much in the delivery of dividends of democracy in the state. According to him, this will make it easy for the par...

INEC bars food vendors, phones, cars from Kwara polling centres
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said no one will be allowed to bring food, phones or cars to polling centres in Kwara State to check any act capable of encouraging electoral fraud during the f...

Diezani's N264m bribe: Kwara state INEC official convicted
Justice Mohammed Idris, sitting at a Federal High Court in Lagos, on Thursday, convicted a former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Administrative Secretary in Kwara state, Mr. Christian Nwosu, after he...