2018-11-06

Saraki Assures Of Atiku's Victory...Inspects Campaign Council's Headquaters
The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council and Senate President Bukola Saraki has assured that, given the mounting support by Nigerians, the PDP Presidential candidate, At...

Unilorin, KWASU shun ASUU strike
IN line with the reputation of the University of Ilorin and the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, on their stable academic calendar, academic activities were on in the institutions on Monday. It was ga...

ULTRAMODERN SECRETARIAT: KWARA MARKETERS LAUDS SARAKI FOR N5M DONATION
The umbrella body of the Kwara State Marketers Association of Nigeria have lauded the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki for donating N5 million towards construction of their permanent Secretariat. The market leade...

Kwara Advertisement Agency Removes 50 Campaign Billboards
The Kwara State Signage and Advertisement Agency (KWASA) Monday said it had removed over 50 campaign billboards across the state for non compliance with laid down rules. The campaign billboards removed accordin...

Leah Sharibu reechoes at Kwara church centenary
The ancient town of Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State was a beehive of activities last week. The sleepy town attracted dignitaries from far and near as St Andrew Catholic Church celebrated 100 years of ...

APC, PDP Pick Candidates for Kwara By-election
Ahead of the November 17 bye-election to fill the vacant position of late Hon. Funke Adedoyin, who represented Ekiti/Isin/Oke-Ero/Ifelodun federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Kwara State All Progres...

Minimum Wage: NLC suspends planned nationwide strike
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called off the nationwide industrial action initially scheduled to commence on November 6 to further press for workers' demand for new national minimum wage. The President o...

Saraki receives 3000 APC defectors in Kwara
About 3000 members of the All Progressives Change (APC) in Kwara state have left the party and joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The decampees gave the internal wrangling among their leaders and l...

Saraki, Akiolu Appeal to Labour to Shelve Planned Strike over minimum wage
The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, have appealed to the organised labour to shelve its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Tuesday over the new minimum wage. T...

Kwara UDP governorship candidate to tackle acute poverty
Mr Adetunji Oyabambi, the governorship candidate of the United Democratic Party (UDP) in Kwara has pledged to fight high rate of poverty in the state if elected in the 2019 general election. Oyabambi made the p...

2018-11-05

Labour strike: Why we won't join NLC nationwide action -Kwara NMA
The Kwara branch of the Nigeria Medical Association has distanced itself from the nationwide strike proposed by the Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday. The state chairman of the association, Dr. Mohammed Ko...

Group Charges Kwara Govt on Basic Education
A Kwara state-based Civil Society Organization, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), has again called on the Kwara State Government to prioritize funding of Education in the State even at the period of...

By-election: Balogun-Fulani Led APC Elects Tinuoye Kehinde As House Of Reps Candidate
Tinuoye Olatayo Kehinde has emerged as the All Progressives Congress(APC) candidate for the bye election of the House of Representatives seat for Irepodun/Ekiti/Oke- Ero/ Isin federal constituency in Kwara state. ...

Kwara Utd begin camping in Abuja, Nov. 5
Kwara United FC is to commence their preparations for the next Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season with a closed camping in Abuja on Nov. 5. The Coach of the club, Abubakar Bala, made the disclo...

Kwara 2019: I Remain Only APC Legal Guber Candidate- AbdulWahab
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state, Hon. Kayode AbdulWahab, yesterday said he remains the party's only gubernatorial candidate recognised by law. AbdulWahab, during...

Kwara PDP names Alatise as consensus candidate for HoR by-election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has named Alhaji Jimoh Saheed Damilare Alatise as its consensus candidate for the November 17 Ekiti/Oke-Ero/Isin/Irepodun Federal Constituency by-election. Acco...

INEC to display Kwara voters' register Nov 6-12
The Independent National Electoral Commission is to display register of voters in all the 1,872 polling units of Kwara State from Tuesday, November 6 to Monday, November 12, 2018. This was contained in a statemen...

Hard work, competence gave Bamigboye Kwara Governorship position - Gowon
Gen. Yakubu Gowon, a former Military Head of State, said loyalty, hard work and competence exhibited by late Brig.-Gen. David Bamigboye earned him the first Kwara Governorship position in 1967. Yakubu Gowon Gowon made th...

2018-11-04

Tribute :Glorious exit of an Icon By Ahmed Ajiboye
On Friday, September 28, 2018, death, like a thief in the night, stole into the family of late General David Bamigboye of Omu-Aran, headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. On that fateful day, ...

Kwara 2019: Intrigues over APC's search for Abdulrasaq's running mate
The governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State for the next year's general elections is now settled with the emergence of Alhaji Abdulraham Abdulrasaq as the gubernatorial candidate o...

UNILORIN increases tuition fee by 'over 100%'
The University of Ilorin has increased its tuition fee by over 100 per cent, students and a university official confirmed. The students union president, Seyi Animasaun, first confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES i...

Gowon, Saraki, Ahmed others eulogise Bamigboye
The youngest and longest serving first military Governor of Kwara State, the late Brig.-Gen. David Bamigboye, was buried on Saturday at Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The event was a...

2018-11-03

Kwara community urges Muhammadu Buhari
The Omuaran Community near Ilorin in Kwara on Friday urged President Muhammadu Buhari, to give a deserving honour that would immortalise the late retired Gen. David Bamigboye. Oba Abdulraheem Adeoti, the Olomu of O...

Kwara APC youth want deputy gov'ship slot
The Youth Leader of APC in Kwara State, Oyinloye Oyelere, has said that the best way to secure votes of the teeming youths in the state is to make one of them the running mate to the party's candidate. Oyinloye m...

Alleged Improper Dressing: Kwara teacher cuts studen's body with blade
For allegedly not properly dressed, Yisa Suleiman, a Senior Secondary School 2 student of Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Odo-Okun, Ilorin was on Tuesday inflicted with razor blade injuries, by his teacher sim...

Kwara tippers union debunks allegation of revenue diversion
  The Kwara State chapter of the Union of Tippers and Quarry Employers of Nigeria have debunked allegation that members are conniving with top staff of the Ministry of Industry and Solid Minerals to divert revenue gene...

'Kwara MFBs record  40% loan default'
The Micro Finance Bank sub sector of Kwara State economy has over the years recorded about 40 per cent of loan default. The Managing Director of Citizens Trust Microfinance Bank, Ganiyu Adebayo Mustapha discl...

Archbishop raises alarm over occultism in church, politics
ARCHBISHOP of Kwara Province of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Olusegun Adeyemi, has raised the alarm over the influence of occultism in church and political circle in Nigeria. Speaking at the commenda...

Let's join the moving train, Abdulrazaq tells Kwara people
*Visits flood victims, residents hail him For residents of Patigi in Patigi local government of kwara state,the havoc the flood from the river Niger visited on them has left devastating effects. ...