2018-03-23

Orphans, Juveniles Counselled On Good Moral Upbringing
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, has advised children to live purpose-driven lives and focus on their educational pursuits in order to excel in life. Abdulkareem gave the advice...

Farmers- Herdsmen Attacks:Kwara Assembly urges FG to consider Cattle Routes across Nigeria
As part of efforts at addressing the menace of incessant herdsmen attack in the country, the Federal Government has been urged to as a matter of urgency commence the concrete movement and mapping of 500km cattle routes ac...

Rainstorm: Kwara Assembly urges KWSG, Councils to Resuscitate Tree Planting Policy
As part of measures to avert incessant rainstorms in Kwara state, the State House of Assembly has called on both State and Local Government Councils in the state to resuscitate tree planting policy. The call was se...

Kwara State Farm Produce Commodity Board Bill: Lawmakers Express Divergent Views
Members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have expressed divergent views on the passage of a bill for a law to establish the State Farm Produce Commodity Board during the debate on the general principles of the bill....

Kwara DOS appointed 19th NSF organizing committee member
Kwara State Director of Sports, Mallam Tunde Kazeem, who also doubles as the Chairman, Directors' of Sports Forum in Nigeria has been appointed as a member of the Main Organising Committee (MOC) of the forthcoming 19th Na...

Expert decries pupils' lack of competence in Nigerian languages
The General-Secretary, Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association, Nigeria, Dr. Biola Adimula, has described as sad the inability of many pupils to read and write in indigenous Nigerian languages. Speakin...

Nigeria is 9th in global mango production, says NIHORT
Nigeria is currently ranked ninth position in the world production of mango fruit, the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) has declared. With the placement in the global record, the institute said Ni...

2018-03-22

Nigeria has raw materials to produce pharmaceutical drugs - Expert
The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Ahmed Yakasai, says the country has enough human resources and raw materials to produce pharmaceutical drugs locally as seventy percent of drugs are imported into the cou...

NAF Commission Welfare Facilities in Ilorin
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), has commissioned a Joint Airmen/Airwomen's Mess and a 6 x one bedroom residential accommodation for airmen/airwomen serving at 303 Medium Airlift Group (MAG), NAF Base Ilorin, Kwara State. Ot...

Kwara To Stop Indiscriminate Deforestation
Kwara State Government is to put in place a law that will checkmate the activities of charcoal dealers in the state in order to guide against deforestation. The state governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed who dropped the hin...

Kwara Assembly Seeks Succour For Rainstorm Victims
The Kwara House of Assembly on Wednesday, urged the state government to urgently provide succour to victims of last Saturday rainstorm that rendered many of them homeless in some parts of the state. The House gave...

2018-03-21

Labour Party denies meeting with Obasanjo
The Labour Party (LP) yesterday dissociated itself from holding any meeting along side 35 other political parties, with former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. According to the National Publicity Secretary of the LP, ...

FoodPro celebrates female factory workers on IWD
March 8th 2018, may have come and gone but the experience and felicitation of the day will linger in the minds of various women especially for the female factory workers at FoodPro Limited, a leading cashew processing com...

70% of drugs used in Nigeria are imported - PSN
The President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Ahmed Yakasai, on Tuesday said that about 70 per cent of drugs used in Nigeria are imported. Speaking during a briefing held in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital,Yak...

Educators Seek Resuscitation of Grade Two Teacher Certificate Scheme
The North-central Coordinator of the National Teachers' ...

Association seeks government assistance on empowerment
Kwara State Water Tanker Owners Association (KWTOS) has debunked rumour that it is supplying Kwarans with contaminated water. The association equally called on the state government to empower its members to be able t...

Kwara Gov calls on FG to declare state of emergency on drug abuse
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on drug and substance abuse in the country. Speaking during a courtesy call by the National President o...

Buhari, Saraki, others for centenary honouring Markaz founder, El-Ilory
President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Hon. Justice M. A. Belgore, among others, are expected at the week-long centenary celebrations of the life, times and works of Sheik Adam Abdullahi El-Ilory...

Suspected Herdsmen Wreak Havoc Along Oyo-Kwara Highway
Economic activities between Kwara and Oyo States have been paralysed following the invasion of Ilorin-Igbeti highway by suspected herdsmen. Already, newspaper distribution from Ilorin, Kwara State, to communities s...

Toyin Saraki named as special advisor to World Health Organization
Toyin Saraki continues to break new grounds in her efforts at helping vulnerable people across Africa . She has been named as special advisor to the Independent Advisory Group of the World Health Organisation AFRO ...

Kwara Speaker felicitates With Toyin Saraki As Special Advisor to WHO
The Wife of the Senate President and Founder/ President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Barrister Toyin Saraki, has been urged to use her new appointment as the Special Advisor of the World Health Organisation (WHO), to ...

Herdsmen/Farmers Clashes In Kwara Due To Lack Of Accurate Data - Lawmaker
Alhaji Ahmed lbn-Mohamned, the Chairman, Kwara House of Assembly, Committee on Health and Environment, has attributed incessant clashes between Herdsmen and Farmers in Kwara to lack of accurate data of the two groups....

2018-03-20

OPINION: Kwara: Who takes over from Ahmed in 2019? By AHMED 'LATEEF
The climate of politics in Kwara State is taking a new shape with horde of heavyweight politicians literally battle ready to slug it out and take over the mantle of reign of Ahmadu Bello Way Government House, Ilorin come ...

Participate In Politics To Liberate Nigeria - PDP Chieftain Tells Youth
A People's Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Kwara, Alhaji Mohammed Ajia-Ibrahim, has charged Nigerian youths to get actively involved in politics to safeguard the country from collapse. Ajia-Ibrahim told News Ag...

Growing rate of suicides in Nigeria. By Luke Onyekakeyah
The death by suicide of one madam Uzoaku (66) over the weekend in Anambra State has brought to the fore the growing rate of suicide in Nigeria. Suddenly, death by suicide has become one of the leading causes of death in t...

ANALYSIS: How Saraki is commanding loyalty, maintaining vice-hold grip on Senate
While his emergence as senate president proved a mastery of political manoeuvrings and cunningness, his manner of control of Nigeria's upper legislative chamber appears clearly Machiavellian, one that broods no opposition...

Avoid excessive intake of local herbs, expert warns
A medical expert, Dr Stephen Aderemi of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), has warned people against excessive consumption of locally prepared herbs to avoid causing serious damage to their health. ...

13 vie for Kwara college provost's job
The tenure of the current Provost of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Dr Saka Opobiyi expires this April. Dr Opobiyi's five years trajectory has been with a lot of vicissitudes. This is no thanks t...

Kwara Fire Service records 100 incidents, saves 28 lives
The Kwara State Fire Service said on Monday that it recorded 100 fire incidents, saved 28 lives and property worth about N6.8 million in the state between January and December 2017. Alhaji Abdulwaheed Yakub, the He...