2017-07-18

Kwara Boosts Farmers With N360m Farm Inputs
The Kwara State government has subsidized farm input to farmers across the state to the tune of N360 million to enable massive food production this season as part of the N1b Agriculture intervention scheme. T...

Nigeria: Red Alert for Cholera, Hepatitis E Outbreaks
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised red alert for acute outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis E in Nigeria. The WHO blamed the cholera outbreaks on lack of access to clean drinking wat...

Why CS is becoming popular among Nigerian women - Experts
The Caesarean Section (CS)  option  in birth delivery is becoming popular among some Nigerian women,  a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey has revealed. Respondents told NAN i...

Appeal Court dispenses 232 special cases, commences annual vacation
The judges of the Court of Appeal Court on Monday began a two-month annual vacation, which will end on September 11, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. A statement signed by Sa’adatu Kachalla, media officer to the...

150 pupils for basketball clinic in Ilorin
No fewer than 150 pupils from age six to nine are to participate in the seventh Droplets Basketball Clinic in Ilorin. The Kwara Director of Sports, Mallam Tunde Kazeem who made this known to newsmen in Ilorin o...

Ahmed urges MFBs to be customer-friendly
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has urged microfinance banks in the state to render suitable and customer friendly services. He said this becomes expedient as current banking activities now demand more flexible s...

Pregnant, Nursing Mothers Warned Against Consuming Food Supplements
A Kwara-based paediatrician, Dr Opeyemi Akinwande, has warned pregnant and nursing mothers against the consumption of food supplements not prescribed by a physician. Akinwande gave the warning in an interview...

FG Renovates Ilorin Airport
Renovations and upgrading of facilities have commenced at the llorin International Airport which was commissioned on Feb. 16, 1978. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Correspondent, AbdulFatai Beki, who was at ...

UNILORIN Mass Comm Dept immortalises Mahmud
The Head, Department of Mass Communication, University of Ilorin, Dr. Saudat Abdulbaqi, has unfolded plans by the department to establish a printing press that will be named after her predecessor, late Doyin Mahmud, in...

Budget row: Fashola can't dictate to National Assembly - Rafiu Ibrahim
By Ahmed 'Lateef The last may not have been heard on the blame game trailing the passage of the 2017 budget by the National Assembly as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial I...

Aiyedun's death saddens me, says Bolaji Abdullahi
By Ahmed 'Lateef The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has described the death of a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara Sta...

KWASU VC Calls on FG to Support Research
The Vice Chancellor of the Kwara State University, Malete, Professor AbdulRosheed Na'Allah, has called on the federal government to support researches in the Nigerian Universities to tackle myriad of challenges in the cou...

2017-07-17

Abolarin Condoles Aiyedun's family
Today, former Speaker Ekiti Local Government and present Board Member Kwara State Teaching Service Commission, Alhaji Ishiaq Hamed Abolarin with his followers paid a condolence visit to former Hon. representing Ekiti, Oke...

Alhaji Aiyedun is Dead
Alhaji Yusuf Aiyedun, a former Kwara PDP chairman, is dead. More shortly....

Gov Ahmed Advocates Regulatory Body For Religious Preaching
Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has advocated proper regulatory system on religious preachings to avoid extremism, intolerance and misguidance of the nation’s youths. The governor made the c...

Police arrest 11 suspected cultists in Ilorin
The police in Kwara State have arrested 11 suspected cult members who have been terrorising residents in Ilorin, the state capital. Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Lawan Ado, while briefing journalists on t...

Kwara To Build Golf, Table Tennis Academies
The Kwara State Government is to establish Golf and Table Tennis Academies to train youth to become top players and champions in national and international competitions. The State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed dis...

Group seeking Saraki's recall not from Kwara - APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in llorin West Local Government Area of Kwara on Sunday dissociated itself from those calling for the recall of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, from the senate. Suleiman...

Police question two monarchs as new yam war kills four in Kwara
The two feuding monarchs of Iloffa and Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero local government areas of Kwara State, now under surveillance of security agencies, would not have engaged in avoidable acrimony over who has the right to firs...

Kwara : Education key to curbing crime - Deputy gov
Kwara State Deputy Governor, Elder Peter Kisira  has said eduction is a veritable tool to curb the increasing crime rate in the state as well as the country Nigeria. “...

2017-07-16

Nursing: UITH 2017/2018 Admission Form on Sale
Sales of forms for admission into the School of Nursing, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Ilorin Kwara State. Interested applicants my visit the hospital we...

Those calling for Saraki's recall faceless, unscrupulous - Balogun
The Kwara State Central Senatorial District has reacted to the purported call for the recall of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, describing those involved as unpatriotic and enemies of progress. Addres...

Kayode Olawepo was one of the pillars of APC in Kwara State
The former Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), late Prince Kayode Olawepo has been described as a major contributor to the evolution of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State and its succ...

Threat to recall Saraki laughable, says group
By Ahmed 'Lateef Against the backdrop of the threat to recall the President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, from the upper chamber, a forum , the Kwara Consensus Group in Ilorin ...

2017-07-15

Solid minerals: Kwara governor seeks states' control of royalties
KWARA State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has called on the Federal Government to increase state governments’ participation in the solid mineral sector through royalties, fees, fines and taxes collection from solid...

Rivers Hoopers, Kwara Falcons Set Atlantic Conference Pace In Nigerian Premier Basketball League
Nigerian Premier Basketball League action hits the home stretch with seven games of the regular season to be played, before the commencement of the playoffs. In the Atlantic Conference, table topping Rivers H...

Kwara NUT decries four months' salary arrears
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers in Kwara State, Alhaji Musa Abubakar, on Friday said that primary and junior secondary school teachers in the state were being owed a total of four months’ salary a...

Kwara earmarks N69m to curtail spread of HIV/AIDS
The Kwara State Government has earmarked N69 million to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Sulyman Alege, announced the amount at a stakeholders’ meeti...

Suspected Cultists Kill Member Of Rival Group In Ilorin
Suspected cult members on Friday night in Ilorin, killed an alleged member of a rivalry group, Owolabi Opepe, popularly called 'Owo' Owolabi is said to be a member of the 'Eiye' confraternity, while the assailants a...

Moro Community Reiterates Support for Emir of Ilorin
Members of Lanwa community in the Moro Local Government area of Kwara State on Thursday reiterated their total support and loyalty to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, in solidarity to the alleged rancor...