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2017-11-19
Council Poll: KWHA Speaker Commends Kwarans... Calls for Investigation of Involvement of Cultists in the Election
The People of Kwara State have been commended for demonstrating high sense of maturity, decorum and peaceful conduct in the weekend's Local Government election in the State. The Speaker of the Kwara State Hou...
Kwara LG Councillorship Elections: APC Wins 184, PDP 9
Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission, KWASIEC, has announced candidates of the All Progressive Congress, APC, as the winner of 184 councillorship seats in the just concluded local government election in Kwara Stat...
Updated: KWASIEC declares APC winner of all 16 chairmanship seats in yesterday's election
The Chairman of Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASIEC), Dr Uthman Ajidagba, has declared All Progressive Congress, APC, winner of all 16 chairmanship seats in yesterday's election. KWASIEC also announ...
Saraki will not run against Buhari in 2019 'out of respect'
Senate President Bukola Saraki will not run against President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election, his chief of staff has said. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed said as long as Buhari seeks re-election, "Saraki will not ...
LG Elections: KWSG Urges Calm, Vows to Deal With Troublemakers
The Kwara State Government has called on all citizens and residents of the state to remain calm and law abiding. In a statement by the secretary to the state government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, the state government commen...
PRESS RELEASE RE: UNLAWFUL PROTEST BY MISCREANTS.
It has come to the notice of the Kwara State Police Command, the unlawful gatherings and processions of some miscreants and political thugs in some parts of Ilorin Metropolis over the Local government elections in the s...
Protests mar Kwara LG polls
Many members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state locked down Ilorin, state capital on Sunday to protest allegations of electoral frauds perpetrated  by the ruling All Pr...

2017-11-18
Kwara LG election shows era of money politics is over, says Deputy Gov
Deputy Governor of Kwara Peter Kishira on Saturday said that the era of money politics had come to an end with the way local government election was conducted in the state. Kishira, while speaking with in Ilesha-Baru...
Three die as youths set Shaaba's house ablaze
No fewer than three people have been confirmed dead, while six people sustained varying degrees of injuries in Lafiagi, Kwara State as irate youths burnt down a part of the house of a former governor of Kwara State, ...
Kwara LGA Polls: APC Satisfied With Conduct, PDP Alleges Electoral Fraud
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of perpetrating massive rigging and other electoral frauds during the Saturday local government elections in the state. A...
INTERVIEW: Conducting tutorials with my mates helped me greatly - Alabi, UNILORIN best graduate
Apart from emerging as the best graduate of the University of Ilorin in the 2016/2017 academic session, Dr. Rasheedat Alabi, a graduate of Medicine, also went home with 26 prizes. In this interview with SUCCESS NWOGU...
Kwara LGA Elections Hold Today
All is now set in Kwara State   Saturday  to conduct election of chairmen and councilors into the 16 local government councils areas of the state as the state Independent Electoral Commission (KWASEIC) has distribute...
KWASU Lecturer Allegedly Commits Suicide
A lecturer at the Department of Crop Production, College of Agriculture, Kwara State University, Malete, Dr. Solomon Osunlola, has allegedly committed suicide, close sources said yesterday. The sources...
LG election: Voters turnout in their numbers to vote in Ilorin
Residents of Ilorin turned out in their numbers on Saturday for the local government election held across Kwara. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that voting started by 9 a.m. after voters were accred...

2017-11-17
KWIRS generates N17.4bn in 10 months
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has generated a total sum of N17.4bn from January to October this year. The Executive Chairman of the Service, Dr. Muritala Awodun disclosed this while speaking with...
Kwara CJ Pardons 16 Prisoners In Ilorin
Chief Judge of Kwara State, Justice Suleiman Kawu, has granted pardon to 16 convicted prisoners and awaiting trial inmates of Oke Kura and Mandala prisons in Ilorin. The CJ granted the pardon after reviewing ...
LG Polls: Kwara APC urges large turnout
Ahead of Saturday's local government elections in Kwara State, the All Progressives Congress has urged residents and all eligible voters to come out en masse and cast their votes for the APC. This was contained in a...

2017-11-16
Zulu community promises to vote APC
The members of the Zulu Emirate in Kwara state yesterday stormed the Mandate Constituency Office of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to register their supports for the All Progressives Congress (APC). ...
LG Poll: 500 PDP decampees in Asa pledge support to Saraki, Atunwa
No fewer than 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, yesterday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors joined the APC durin...
Olupo, Oloro, others charge candidates on electoral promises
Ahead of the local government election scheduled for Saturday November 18, in Kwara State, politicians have been implored to be committed to their electoral promises and guide against violence. The Olupo of Ajase-I...
Kwara state generates N17.4billion in ten months
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has generated a sum of seventeen point four billion Naira from January to October this year. The Executive Chairman of the Service, Doctor Murtala Awodun disclosed t...
Kwara Speaker rallies support for Gov Ahmed
Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad has rallied support for the ruling All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming local government election in the state scheduled for Saturday. The Speaker who wa...
Communal clash: Normalcy returns to Kwara communities
Normalcy has returned to neighbouring Osi and Etan communities in the Ekiti local government area of Kwara state after an occurrence of a communal clash at the weekend. This development followed a peace meetin...
Kwara records 64% pass in WASSCE
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has said that 55 percent and 64 percent of candidates who sat for the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in 2016 and 64 percent of those who sat in 2017 in t...
UNILORIN VC warns youths against abuse of social media
VICE Chancellor, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Professor Sulyman Abdulkareem Age, has advised secondary school students to use cell phones for knowledge acquisition rather than pay attention to social media platforms....

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