2018-10-12

65-yr-old remanded in Ilorin over sexual assault on teenager
The Magistrate court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital has remanded one Zaka Alao for sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl. The case was on Tuesday transferred to Criminal Investigation and Intellige...

Flooding - Senate Urges Water Ministry to Rehabilitate Dams, Dredge Waterways
The Senate has called on the Ministry of Water Resources to rehabilitate Nigerian dams and dredge waterways to be able to take in flood waters. The call was sequel to a motion on the recent flooding across the co...

Armti Trains 200 Value Chain Developers
The Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara state, has trained over 200 agricultural officials on value addition to farm produce in the six geopolitical zones of the country....

NBA cautions judges against granting injunctions that will truncate democracy
The chairman of the Ilorin branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr. Idowu Akande has advised Nigerian Judges not to grant injunctions that will truncate the democratic process of the country. Mr. Akande gav...

Late lawmaker will be sorely missed by colleagues - Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that late Hon. Funke Adedoyin, who passed on recently will be sorely missed by her colleagues. The speaker said this while signing the condolence regis...

Another Set Of LG Pensioners Receive Gratuity In Kwara
One hundred Kwara State Local Government pensioners on Wednesday received their gratuity at the Local Government Pension Board, Ilorin. Presenting the cheques, the Chairman Local Government Pension Board, who dou...

Payment Of LG Gratuity Not Political - Kwara
Wednesday's payment of gratuity to 100 Local Government pensioners following approval by the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, is an ongoing process and is not political. The Senior Special Assistant t...

Customs Seizes Contraband Worth N142m
Kassim told the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Thursday that the command supervises Niger, Kogi and Kwara state offices of the service. He said 189 live ammunition worth N63 million was intercepted along Baba...

FG asked to protect girl-child
The Federal Government has been advised to take issue of protection of girl-child serious and ensure that laws prohibiting early child marriage are adequately monitored and implemented. The advice was given yes...

Thugs assault journalist in Kwara
Some suspected political thugs on Thursday allegedly assaulted a correspondent of the Daily Trust Newspaper in Ilorin, Mrs Romoke Ahmad. The journalist had gone to cover a protest at the secretariat of the All ...

Protest over Kwara APC gov'ship contest
Supporters of Alhaji Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi, one of the governorship aspirants of the APC in Kwara State, yesterday, staged a protest in Ilorin on the grounds that the outcome of the gubernatorial primary election conduc...

2018-10-11

Kwara poly Rector calls for vocational and technical education towards sustainable building
Rector, Kwara State Polytechnic, Alhaji Mashood Elelu has called for vocational and Technical Education for the girl child towards building a sustainable economy for the Nation. Speaking at the opening of Women i...

Kwara APC youths frown at conduct of primaries
A youth group in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kwara state, under the aegis of the Concerned Youth Stakeholders of the APC, has condemned the conduct of the just-concluded party's primaries in the state, saying tha...

Kwara gov'ship crisis: I won't defect from APC - Mustapha
Despite the controversies that characterised the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Kwara state, one of the front line aspirants, Alhaji Lukman Mustapha, says he won't defect from the part...

Kwara PDP Blasts APC over Comments on Saraki
The Kwara State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) wednesday, blasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) over what it described as the party's latest reckless and undesirable comments on the Senate President, ...

CCT: FG disburses N2bn to indigent people in Kwara
Federal Government says it has disbursed about N2 billion to more than 14, 000 poor people in Kwara since 2016 under its National Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. Hajia Aminah Yahaya, the Unit Head of the programme in ...

I'll liberate Kwara from modern colonisers - APC gov candidate
The Kwara State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, on Wednesday said he would liberate the residents of Kwara State from what he called modern colonisers. ...

2018-10-10

Kwara PDP asks INEC to copy convention process
Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to learn from a process of the just-concluded presidential primary of the party as the electora...

Monetary inducement may decide governor battle for Kwara. By Abiodun Fagbemi
Now that the die is cast, financial muscles rather than political jingoism may eventually be the deciding factor for the likely winner of the 2019 Governorship polls in Kwara state. It is one battle that the poli...

Where does your loyalty lie? By Anifowoshe Titilope LegalEagle
loy·al·ty ?loi?lt?/ noun 1 the quality of being loyal to someone or something."her loyalty to her husband of 34 years"? ? a strong feeling of support or allegiance. The past days have seen m...

Opinion:Kwara 2019: The shape of things to come. By Femi Olabisi
Not so many saw it coming. Weeks before October 1st, observers and the general public had their eyes fixated elsewhere. None had thought the Kwara State PDP governorship pendulum would swing to the direction of the yo...

Infertility preventable, treatable - Oguntoyinbo, Unilorin don
A Professor of Clinical Radiology at the University of Ilorin, Adewale Oguntoyinbo, has said that many of the causes of infertility are either preventable or treatable if appropriately investigated. Delive...

STATEMENT BY IS'HAQ MODIBBO KAWU ON THE KWARA APC GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARIES
After the troubling silence of the previous couple of days, the APC Electoral team and the party leadership have finally announced Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq winner of the governorship primaries in Kwara state. We accept ...

KWARA APC PRIMARIES FALLOUT
It is a testy time for the APC leadership in Kwara State. The handling of the election of the party's candidates for the 2019 elections has been controversial. * The guber primary has produced Alh. Abdulrahman ...

Why I Joined Kwara Guber Race, Says Ex-Magistrate
 Yahaya Kale Saadu, a former magistrate in Kwara State, has explained reasons he is seeking to administer the state as the next governor. Saadu said he wants to be governor so that he can restore glory of the state...

2018-10-09

Don't Be Used as Political Thugs, NURTW Warns Members
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) has warned it's members across the federation and Federal Capital Territory(Abuja) to resist any attempt to use them as polit...

3,629 benefit from foundation's medical outreach
No fewer than 3,629 people have benefited from the medical outreach organised by Ask the Paediatrician Foundation. The CEO of Ask The Paediatrician Foundation, Dr Gbemisola Boyede said the aim of the medical outr...

Kwese Super 8 final: Gombe bulls hit Kwara Falcons 81-67 to win league
Savannah Conference champions, Gombe Bulls Basketball Club on Monday in Kano defeated Kwara Falcons 81-67 to win the 2018 Kwese Premier Basketball League finals. The Final 8 which concludes the 2018 season was pl...

Kwara government organises service of songs for late lawmaker
The service of songs for late Hon Adedoyin will take place on Tuesday, 9th October, 2018 at the State Banquet Hall, Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin at 4pm. The Kwara State government is organising a service of song...

Former civil servant emerges Kwara APA governorship candidate
APAAN indigenous Offa businessman, Kolawole Sarafadeen, has emerged governorship flagbearer of the Africa Peoples Alliance (APA) in Kwara state. The businessman turned politician was chosen through consen...

Rector lauds NCAA's re-certification of Ilorin aviation college
Mr Benedict Adeyelika, Rector, International Aviation College, Ilorin in Kwara, has lauded the recertification of the college's Approved Training Organisation (ATO) by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The New...

Accord Party Guber Candidate Seeks to Restore Kwara Glory
Prince Ayorinde Adedoyin, Kwara State gubernatorial candidate of Accord Party(AP) in the 2019 election, has enjoined the people of the state to partner with him to restore the glory of the state. Adedoyin stated ...

2019: APC candidate, Ajulo-Opin, upbeat over party's victory, thanks supporters
Hon. Tunji Ajulo-Opin Olawuyi, a Rep candidate under the All Progressive Congress party (APC) in Kwara State, has expressed optimism that the party would come out victorious in the coming 2019 general elections....

Teachers applaud planned recruitment in Kwara
Teachers applaud planned recruitment in Kwara Primary and secondary school teachers in Kwara State have called on the state government to go ahead with implementation of its planned recruitment of 1,888 teachers, sayi...