2017-08-13

Kwara: Empowering Youths for Development and Peace Building
Today, the world marks the 2017 International Youth Day (IYD), and the theme for this year's celebration is, "Youth Building Peace". Clearly, the theme underscores the contributions of young people towards building peace ...

Ilorin West Women Caucus Empowers Widows Across Kwara State
The Ilorin West Women Caucus under the All Progressives Congress (APC) today empowered hundreds of widows across the State to support the Leadership of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki as well as to...

Kwara sets aside about N16m for fistula, said Commisioner
The commissioner for health in Kwara State, Dr Sulaiman Alege, said about N16million was budgeted and already partly released in a bid to eradicate obstetric fistula in the state. The Commissioner announced this du...

Basketball: Kaduna, Ilorin set for Conference 6 play-offs
With the conclusion of the regular season in the 2017 Kwese Premier Basketball League, action now shifts to the Conference Six scheduled to hold in two cities, Kaduna and Ilorin for the Savannah and Atlantic Conferences r...

2017-08-12

Kwara Monarchs to champion advocacy against fistula
The Emir of Ilorin, Alh. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has promised to champion advocacy against actions and attitude that can make women to develop fistula in Kwara State. Alh. Sulu-Gambari made the promise in his palace ...

I Think Success, Positive, Follow What's In Vogue - Hafsat
A LIFE IN BRIEF Hafsat Bola Abdulsalam is a 26-year-old woman from Ilorin, Kwara State. She attended Ansarul Islam Primary School and Ansarul Islam Secondary School,Ilorin. She studied primary education in Kwara St...

Kwara won't use card readers for November council polls - KWASEIC
The Kwara lndependent Electoral Commission on Friday said it would not use card readers for the forthcoming council polls in the state. The commission's Chairman, Dr AbdukRahman Ajidagba, announced this at a meetin...

Kwara denies mystery deaths from alleged disease outbreak
The Kwara State government has denied reports of an alleged outbreak of a mystery illness that claimed 70 lives in Oro-Ago community in Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state. The state's Commissioner for Health, ...

2017-08-11

Kwara LG Polls: Police Pledge Adequate Security
The Police in Kwara on Thursday assured that adequate security would be provided during the councils elections in the state slated for Nov. 4. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Alhaji Ado Lawan, gave the assur...

Release approvals on drainage de-silting, Kwara assembly tells gov
KWARA State House of Assembly has urged the state government to direct the Ministry of Finance to release all financial approvals on de-silting of drainages in the state to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to aver...

Cultism: IEDPU, Police seek solution to a festering sore. By AHMED 'LATEEF
Ilorin, the Kwara State capital ensnared in an usual tension following the resurgence of cult mayhem and attendant maiming and brutal killings perpetrated by the agents of death. Miffed by the ugly trend in the city rever...

Stop attacking Saraki, Kwara youths tell Falana
A socio-political group, Kwara Agenda has cautioned Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) against attacking Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki allegedly for no just cause. The group, comprising mainly youths i...

NGO decries poor access to agric funds in Kwara
ActionAid Nigeria, an NGO says the access of smallholder farmers to agriculture financing in Kwara since 1973 has been low. ActionAid said this in a report which was presented to officials of the state Ministry of ...

Confusion as strange illness allegedly kills 70 in Kwara community
There is confusion in Oro-Ago community, in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State as leaders and members say no fewer than 70 persons have died of a strange illness. They told our one of Punch correspon...

Why I sacked my aides - Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki said he sacked 98 aides to reposition his office. Daily Trust had exclusively reported yesterday that Saraki sacked 98 of his aides including the director of protocol, and head of ad...

Ahmed Explains Why Kwara Established Aviation College
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has explained that the state government established the International Aviation College (IAC), Ilorin, primarily to help the country save its hard earned foreign exchange, empo...

Kwara Assembly Calls For Anti-Ritual Security Outfit
The Kwara House of Assembly on Thursday called on the state government to establish an anti-ritual security outfit to check rising cases of ritual killings in the state. Worried by the incessant ritual killings acros...

2017-08-10

Kwara Assembly to Pass "Not Too Young Run Bill"
Kwara State House of Assembly has pledged to pass the "Not Too Young To Run Bill" once the Constitution Amendment process gets to the State Houses of Assembly level. The Speaker of the State of Assembly,Dr Ali Ahma...

Kwara Speaker calls for sanctioning of lawyers with "frivolous cases"
Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad has suggested that Nigerian Justice System should introduce sanctions to deal with lawyers that usually approach courts with "frivolous appeals", which waste a lot of...

Kwara: All Pension Money Paid to Saraki Has Been Returned
The Kwara state government has said that all pension money paid to the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, as a former governor of the state had been returned to the coffers of the state government. A statement sig...

KWHA summons hoteliers over stripper clubs in Ilorin
The Kwara State House of Assembly has summoned managements of some Hotels and other Hospitality Centers in Ilorin , the state capital to appear before it next Tuesday, over allegations that they run stripper clubs within ...

Kwara rice ready for harvest in November - Commissioner
The Kwara Government said on Thursday that by November it would begin to harvest the rice cultivated by its small holder farmers under CBN's Anchor Borrowers' Programme. Mr. Adegoke Bamidele, the state's Commission...