2017-09-24

Alleged exclusion: PDP candidates threaten to stop Kwara LG polls
FEW weeks to conduct of local government election in Kwara State, a group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates has threatened to stop the polls over alleged ploy by the state Independent Electoral Commission (KWAS...

OPINION: Unveiling UNILORIN's VC-designate. By Kunle Akogun
IN the run-up to the August 28, 2017 appointment of a new Vice-Chancellor, members of the University of Ilorin community waited with bated breath and palpable anxiety as news filtered through the campus that the Governing...

Flood submerges 450 rice farms in Kwara
Four hundred and fifty eight farms under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) anchor borrowers' scheme have been submerged by flood in parts of Kwara State. The farms are situated on the 3, 200 hectares federal government's...

Kwara yellow fever patients medically stable
The two patients diagnosed with yellow fever in Oro-Ago in Ifelodun Local government area of Kwara state are now medically stable. Dr Khadeejah Kamaldeen of the Kwara State Epidemiology Unit made the confirmation i...

Power play, religious card and Offa APC debacle. By AHMED 'LATEEF
Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State seemed to have declared a war against one another on account of political calculation for 2019 general elections, which had be...

2017-09-23

Rugby Federation takes talent hunt programme to Ilorin
The board of the Nigeria Rugby Football Federation (NRFF) says it has embarked on a talent hunt that will take it to all the corners of the country. Rugby debuted at the just concluded National Youth Sports Festiva...

Kwara To Host Lagos, Abuja, Niger Clubs In 2-Day Inter-Club Badminton Championship
As many as 120 veteran badminton players from Lagos, Niger and the FCT are expected to participate in a two-day championship tagged "Ilorin 2017" from Sept. 29 to Sept. 30. Chairman of the championship's Local Organi...

Drama as Ilorin cemetery rejects corpse of civil servant killed by lightening
The management of llorin Muslim Cemetery, on Friday, rejected the corpse of a 47-year-old civil servant, Mr. Salami Adekunle, who was killed by lightening in Oro, lrepodun Local Government Area of Kwara. Dr. A...

2017-09-22

Malaria: Relief service distributes 64,000 insecticidal nets in Kwara
Offa Local Government Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has says it will distribute 64,000 Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets to residents of the community. The CRS Social Mobilisation Officer, Mrs Jemilat Yusuf told Our ...

When Abuja was shutdown for Ali Ahmad. By AHMED 'LATEEF
Activities were literally halted last Thursday when movers and shakers of Nigeria converged on Shehu Musa Yar'adua Centre in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory to grace the public presentation of a book written in honou...

Ilorin Youth Games Feat Excites Gov. Emmanuel
Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Monday Ebong Uko, has expressed appreciations to Governor Udom Emmanuel for making it possible for the state to emerge second out of the 34 states and Abuja that particip...

Govt donates 6 wheelchairs to special sports basketball team
The Kwara State Government has donated six wheelchairs to the state Special Sports Basketball team. The Captain of the team, Felix Oyediran, in a statement on Thursday in Ilorin, said that Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed appro...

National Youth Games: Kwara Begins Preparations For 2018
Kwara State's Director of Sports, Tunde Kazeem, on Thursday in Ilorin said they have started preparations for the 4th edition of the National Youth Games (NYG), which will hold in 2018. Kazeem, while speaking with ...

Lightning kills civil servant in Kwara
A 47-year-old civil servant, Salami Adekunle, was on Thursday struck to death by lightning in Oro, Kwara State, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN gathered that the deceased was, until his demise, a staff of t...

Kwara govt partners NGO on free cancer screening for women
The Kwara State government, in partnership with a non-Governmental Organisation, LEAH Foundation, has flagged off free health check and cancer screening for 4000 female civil servants in the state. The Commissioner f...

2017-09-21

Health workers declare indefinite strike nationwide
The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) on Wednesday declared a nationwide indefinite strike. Chairman of the Union, Mr. Biobelemoye Josiah, who made the disclosure during a media briefing in Ilorin, the Kwara State...

Kwara governor calls for Human Capital development
Kwara State Governor, AbdulFatah Ahmed has said human capital development with education as its catalyst will engender development for Nigeria. The Governor stated this while hosting the advisory council of the Sir A...

NANS commends government, ASUU over decision to suspend strike
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has applauded the decision made by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its indefinite strike and the Federal Government's promise to meet part of...

LG election: Kwara PDP protests alleged exclusion
No fewer than 100 leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Wednesday thronged the headquarters of Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission in Ilorin . ...

IPAC elects new excos in Kwara
Secretary of the Kwara State chapter of Labour Party, Comrade AbdulKareem Onagun has emerged the state chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC). IPAC, an umbrella body for all political parties in the state,...

Resumption: Mixed reactions trail turn-out in Kwara schools
As both private and public schools resumed for the 2017/18 academic session in Kwara State, last week, mixed feelings have continued to trail the level of turnout of pupils and students. In some schools visited in ...