2017-07-05

Top Players Commit to Kwara@50 Pro-Am Golf Championship
Elite golf players across the West African region have started sending in entries to be part of the Kwara @50 Pro-Am Championship billed to hold at the Ilorin Golf Club from July 11 to 16, 2017. Top on the bill is ...

NFF to construct football pitches in 6 states
Kwara State in North Central Nigeria is one of the Six States to benefit in the first phase of the Nigeria Football Federation [NFF] Football House to be built in Ilorin. Also, two football pitches are to be constr...

Rt. Hon. Ali Ahmad expressing his views on whether the state of House of Assemblies are rubber stamp of the Executive
If the truth must be said, it is true to a large extent that most of the Houses of Assembly are rubber stamps to the executive. We have seen it and that posture is not good. That is where we are in Nigeria today. Sometime...

KWASU MOURNS DOYEN OF AFRICAN STUDIES, ABIOLA IRELE
The Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has announced the passing away of its pioneer Provost, College of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, Professor Francis Abiola Irele. Aged 81, Professor Irele died in ...

FRSC Arrests 197 At Eid El-Fitr In Kwara
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kwara state yesterday said it arrested and prosecuted 197 motorists for violating traffic rules during the last Eid el-Fitr celebrations. Its Sector Commander in the state, Mr. Sund...

Police arrest 9 over Indian Hemp festival in Kwara
Kwara State Police Command arrested nine persons for organising Indian hemp (Igbo) festival in Ilorin over the weekend. Vanguard gathered that the suspects, whose names could not be ascertained at the press time, ...

PDP Not Dead in Kwara
Despite losing the state to the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 elections, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Chief Kehinde Bankole insists PDP remains the party to beat in the north-central...

2017-07-04

SPEECH DELIVERED BY RT. HON DR. ALI AHMAD, SPEAKER, KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON THE OCCASION OF COMMENCEMENT OF 3RD SESSION OF THE 8TH ASSEMBLY IN KWARA STATE ON TUESDAY, 4TH JULY, 2017
SPEECH DELIVERED BY RT. HON DR. ALI AHMAD, SPEAKER, KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON THE OCCASION OF COMMENCEMENT OF 3RD SESSION OF THE 8TH ASSEMBLY IN KWARA STATE ON TUESDAY, 4TH JULY, 2017. Hon. Colleagues, It is with...

PRESS STATEMENT: Emir of Ilorin mourn Yusuf Maitama Sule
The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman Kwara State Traditional Council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has described the death of the Danmasani'n Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule as a great loss not only the people of Kano but t...

Provide water and forget Cholera in Kwara, Oyin-Zubair tells KWSG
The Initiator of Goal-Getters Initiative, Kayode Oyin-Zubair has advised the Kwara State Government to step up effort on provision of potable water to residents of the state in a bid to stem the further spread of cholera ...

UK Company to develop $150million Solar Power Plant in KWASU
The Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, on Wednesday, July 3, 2017, signed a partnership agreement with Africa Growth and Energy Solutions (AGES), for a proposed Power Solution Initiative of 100Mega Watt, to the tune ...

2017-07-03

Windstorm destroys 65 houses in Kwara
NO FEWER than sixty- five residential buildings have been blown off by heavy windstorm, which accompanied rain at Obbo- Ayegunle town in Ekiti Local Government area of Kwara State. The windstorm was reported to have...

Foundation solicit supports for Orphans
The Chairman of the Islamic Orphanage Foundation, (IOF), Architect Seifullahi Alege, has lamented over the poor financial status of the foundation which has made it difficult for the completion of its Centre due to the...

CO Adebayo commends Gov Ahmed's initiative on revenue generation
A former civilian Governor of Kwara State and one time Senator, Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo has commended the state government for the arrangement put in place to improve its internally revenue drive. Accor...

2017-07-02

Police Quiz Warring Royal Fathers in Kwara Communal Clash
Kwara State Police Command have quizzed two royal fathers in the warring communities of Ilofa and Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero local government council of the state over the resumed communal clash which claimed at least four lives,...

Kwara APC DISCLAIMS FAKE SIGNPOST ON SARAKI
Recently, a fake and photoshopped banner of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki surfaced on the internet purporting to call on the Senate President to contest the 2019 Presidential election. We had initi...

CCT Victory: Oyun LG Organises Prayers for Bukola Saraki
The people of Oyun local government in a joint prayer session thanked God Almighty for the victory of the Senate President at the CCT on no case submission over his politically motivated trials. The Chairman League o...

Former Governor accuses lawmakers of not being sensitive to the plight of Nigerians
A former Nigerian Senator and one time Governor of KWARA State, Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo has criticized the present crop of members of the National Assembly accusing them of been insensitive to the plight of the c...