2018-01-20

Ayo Adedoyin joins Kwara guber race
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Kwara big boy, Prince Ayo Adedoyin, will be joining the race for the governorship seat of Kwara State come 2019. Indications are that the one-time chairman of Peacegate Group, a c...

2018-01-19

2019 - How to Obtain and Check Your Voters Registration Status
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has made it easy for Nigerian voters to obtain permanent voter's cards and check their voters' registration status. INEC started the continuous registration proce...

Kwarans least tax payers in Nigeria – KWIRS...Individual pay N125, private sector N1,000 per month
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) said its target is to reach the threshold of over N38 billion as revenue to be generated internally in 2018 even as it noted that Kwarans are the least taxpayers in the cou...

Oyeyipo: Kwara's longest serving CJ who transformed judiciary
Apparently, the history of the Kwara State judiciary will not be complete without referencing enormous impact of the retired Justice Timothy Oyeyipo who served as Chief Judge of the state from 1984 to 2005. During hi...

A.B Ahmed, Media Aide to late Chuba Okadigbo dies at 74
A one-time Editor of the Sunday New Nigerian Newspapers, Kaduna, Alhaji Aliu Babatunde Ahmed popularly called A. B Ahmed is dead. He died in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of seventy four during a brief il...

Era of over relying on Federation Accounts gone for good - LG boss
The Oke-Ero Local Government Area (LGA)of Kwara said on Thursday that the era of relying solely on funds from Federation Account was gone for good. Mr Joseph Oni, the Chairman of the council said this in Iloffa, wh...

Saraki: Passage of PIGB By National Assembly 'll Help Curb Future Fuel Scarcity
President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has stated that the passage of the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB) by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, following the Senate's passage of the B...

2018-01-18

Kwara tertiary institutions get N288.5m as first quarter allocation
The Kwara State Government has released the sum of N288.5million as 2018 first quarter allocation to state-owned tertiary institutions. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed gave the approval for the release of the funds on W...

Gov Ahmed Sacks Commissioners, Advisers and Assistants
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has dissolved the state executive council with effect from 18th January 2018. Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, who made the announcement in a...

Gov. Ahmed signs IVTEC bill, two others into law
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has signed into law the bill establishing the International Vocational, Technical and Entrepreneurship Development College (IVTEC), Ajase-Ipo. The State House of Ass...

Herdsmen/Farmers Clash: Kwara Directs Police to Ensure Compliance with Compensation Mechanism
The Kwara State government has directed the State Police Command to ensure compliance with the compensation mechanism earlier put in place by the State Security Council as an instrument to maintain peace between farmers...

Rawlings, Kwara's Gov wife, others for Thinkation 2018
Former Ghana president, Jerry Rawlings, wife of the Kwara State, Deaconess Omolewa Ahmed, ace comedian, Alibaba, Ini Abimbola, and a host of others have been billed to speak on the Nigerian youths at the maiden edition of...

Kwara Speaker Commends Gov Ahmed Over Assent To Town Planning Law
The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad, has commended the State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, for signing the State Urban and Regional Planning Bill 2017 into Law, saying that the prompt assent to t...

ARMTI trains 40 youths in Kwara on cassava value chain development
No fewer than 40 youths in Ilofa, Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara, have benefitted from a training programme in cassava value chain development. The one-week agripreneurship training was organised by Agric...

Herdsmen burn ex-naval chief farm in Kwara
A former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral Samuel Afolayan (retd), claimed on Wednesday that herdsmen burnt 20 hectares of orange plantation, 20 hectares of cassava farm and five hectares of palm plantation in his farm....

UNILORIN wins maiden West African debate competition
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Debate Team has won the maiden edition of the Genesis Debate tournament held at the University of Ghana, Legon. The competition, which held between January 4 and 7, is an internati...

MFM 1 KWARA UNITED 0: ADEBAYO WAHEED SECURES OLUKOYA BOYS' FIRST WIN
MFM secured their first win of the season as they defeated Kwara United 1-0 at the Agege Stadium in Wednesday's Nigeria Professional Football League encounter. Although the Olukoya Boys reeled out an unusual perfor...

PDP set to receive APC stalwarts in Kwara
Richard Babatunde, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart in Kwara State has said that the party is set to receive stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their supporters in Kwara South Senatorial Distric...

2018-01-17

Kwara Rolls Out Water Support Scheme
To reduce the hardship experienced by residents of Ilorin metropolis pending the completion of ongoing water projects in the state, the Kwara State government has unveiled a palliative scheme to provide water to residen...

It's too early for politicking, Saraki warns
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has urged members of the National Assembly, the executive and politicians to focus on governance in 2018 and not on campaigns towards the 2019 general elections. The S...

KWIRS targets N38bn for 2018
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) yesterday announced that its projection for the year 2018 stands at N38 billion. This means that the service has resolved to adopt PRAISE revenue strategy to shore up...

Taxpayers now critical of govt projects - Kwara official
Executive Chairman of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS), Mr Muritala Awodun, has said that there has been a drastic improvement in payment of tax by people of the state since the agency came on board in 2...

Group demands immediate Call-To-Bar of Firdaos Amasa
The Kwara state chapter of the Council of Muslim Organisations (CMO) on Tuesday demanded that Firdaus Amasa who was denied induction by the Nigerian Law School be called to bar without further delay. The religiou...

Group Calls for Federal College of Education in Kwara
The umbrella body of all socio-cultural organisations in Ilorin emirate, Kwara State, the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), has called on the federal government to without further delay provide the peo...

Unmasking the Contenders for Kwara Govt House
Shola Oyeyipo reviews the chances of those angling to takeover Kwara's number one seat from Abdufatah Ahmed The 2019 general election is almost here. It seemed just like yesterday when the All Progressives Congress...