2017-12-07

Kwara Assembly Wades into Kwara Poly Tuition Fee lmbroglio
The Kwara State House of Assembly has waded into the rift between the Management and Students of Kwara State Polytechnic Ilorin, over disputation about increase in the tuition fees, for the 2017/2018 academic year. S...

Gov Ahmed approves N82m for reconstruction of Alagbado Bridge
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the release of N82million for the reconstruction of the collapsed Alagbado Bridge in Ilorin East Local Government Area of the State. The news of the approval...

KWSG debunks sales of liaison house in Kaduna
The Kwara State Government, yesterday, denied the reports of putting its Kaduna liaison house up for sale. It was reported that a case recently came up between the Kwara State Government and its Kaduna counterpart on...

Kwara Hotel for renovation January
The Manager, Kwara Hotels Limited, Hajia Afusat Funmilayo Abubakar has disclosed that the comprehensive renovation of the Kwara Hotel will begin in January, 2018. Speaking during a chat with Pilot Business in her off...

Kwara LG Poll: PDP, others fail to file petition as 14-day ultimatum lapsed
The election tribunal panel constituted by the Kwara State Government for the local government election held 18th November, 2017, has not received any petition from any political party, Pilot Politics learnt last night....

FEC orders NNPC to end fuel scarcity before weekend ...as DPR warns Kwara marketers against hoarding
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Petroleum Ministry to ensure the current fuel scarcity in some parts of the country do not last beyond weeke...

Esie/Iludun 77 set reunites, Dec 12
The 1977 set of Esie/Iludun Grammar School will celebrate 40 years of graduation and reunion on Tuesday, December 12 2017. The event tagged; Celebrating 40 years of undying friendship will take place 12pm at Foluso H...

Kwara Ethnix spends N2m on diesel monthly - Manager
The Factory Manager, Kwara Ethnix Design, Alhaji Abdulkadri Alanamu has disclosed that the company expend over N2m on diesel monthly due to epileptic power supply. In an interview with Pilot Business recently in I...

Al-Hikmah lecturer orders 300L Law students to go on knees
The lecturer simply identified as Barr. Onikosi at the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Monday morning ordered 300-level law students of the school out of his class to kneel down by the hallway....

Solar power connection excites Ogele community
The leadership of Ogele village in Ifelodun local government area of Kwara State was excited to receive the news that the community will as from the new week enjoy uninterrupted power supply. The news was unwrapped b...

REMEMBERING THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF EDUCATION IN OFFA. By Suraj Tunji Oyewale
In the 1930s, 8 men came together to think of establishing a community secondary school for their town, Offa. 4 of them were Muslims and 4 Christians. The 4 Muslims, Alhaji Aliyu Olatinwo, Alhaji Gbadamosi Ijaiy...

Assembly to legislate against ritual killings in Kwara
The Kwara House of Assembly is to pass a bill into law prohibiting ritual killings and exhumation of corpses in the state. The Speaker of the House, Dr Ali Ahmad, made this disclosure in Ilorin while receiving memb...

Fuel scarcity: Long queues of vehicles resurface in Ilorin
FUEL scarcity has crept into parts of Kwara State as many petroleum filling stations belonging to the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in the Ilorin metropolis do not open for business on Wed...

2017-12-06

Man who raped female Unilorin student escapes from police cell
The Kwara State police command has explained how an Instagram user who allegedly drugged and raped a female student of the University of Ilorin disappeared from police custody. Speaking to Punch in Ilorin, the Poli...

I will expose sponsors of crisis in Kwara PDP after convention - Chairman
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo, has said that he will expose sponsors and insider collaborators of externally induced schemes against the party in the state after the ...

2017-12-05

Kidnapping: KWASU vows to protect students
Following the kidnap and subsequent release of a 200 level female student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, the Institution has beefed up security within and outside the campus, just as it vowed to stop at no...

Ahmed Releases N378m to Tertiary Institutions
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed directs the release of N378,426,018.04 as fourth quarter allocation to Kwara State Colleges of Education, Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi, CAILS Ilorin, School of Midwifery and others...

Gov Ahmed Urges Kwara Poly to Reduce Fees by N5000
In recent days, our Government has become aware of complaints by students, parents and stakeholders regarding the alleged increase in Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, fees. For the avoidance of doubt, the Kwara Stat...

Unilorin laments non-inclusion in FG's payment of lecturers' allowance
...Sends SOS to Buhari, NASS Following almost two decades of non-participation in the activities of national leadership of Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, by the University of Ilorin, the former has finally hi...

Fuel crisis looms as IPMAN threatens to shutdown in Kwara
Members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has threatened to shut down all their filing stations in Kwara state if federal government did not caution private depot owners selling premium...

We'll aggressively address unsolicited messages - NCC
The Executive Vice-Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said that the commission will aggressively address unsolicited calls and messages being received by telecommunications consumers....

2017-12-04

Kwara Poly: Increase in Fees Must be Stopped - Saraki
Just this morning, students from my constituency sent me the details of the school fees that the Registrar of the Kwara State Polytechnic released for the 2017/2018 academic session through Whatsapp. After reviewing ...

Govt. has no business in business - Hajiya Maryam Yusuf
Hajiya Maryam Bolanle Yusuf FCEM FAIE, is the Vice Chief Executive Officer of KAM Groups Nigeria Limited. In this interview with ROYAL NEWS, she spoke on her business life and many more. Excerpts: No, doubt yo...

Adesoye's death, a colossal loss - KWHA Speaker
The death of the Asiwaju of Offa, Chief Emmanuel Adesoye, has been described as a collosal loss, to the People of Kwara State. The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly Dr. Ali Ahmad, made the observation, w...

OPINION: CHIEF EMMANUEL OLATUNJI ADESOYE (1938 - 2017). By Suraj Tunji Oyewale
I opened Facebook today to read about the passage of Chief Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye, Asiwaju of Offaland, Founder of Okin Group of Companies (Okin Biscuits, Okin Malt etc) and Proprietor of Adesoye College, Offa. Al...

How Instagram friend drugged, had sex and took my nude pictures - Unilorin student
A University of Ilorin female student (name withheld), has narrated how a man she met on Instagram drugged, had sex and took her nude pictures in a Lagos hotel. Crying profusely while speaking with newsmen on Sund...

UNILORIN releases 2017/2018 admission list
The University of Ilorin has finally released admission list of for undergraduates for the 2017 and 2018 academic session. According to insider, the university only accomodate 8,000 aspirants out of more than 100,0...

APC mourns Kwara monarch, industrialist
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mourned the Olomu of Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Charles Ibitoye. The monarch died last Saturday at 65. A statement by its National ...