2017-07-01

KWSG To Set Up Judicial Commission of Enquiry Into Ilofa/Odo-Owa Clash
The Kwara State government is to set up a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to find out the immediate and remote causes of the recent communal clash between Ilofa and Odo-Owa communities in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of t...

Committee reveals details of LG's salary payment for June
Details have emerged of the percentage of salaries each of the 16 local councils in Kwara State will pay its workers for the month of June. The payment is based on the amount of federal allocation accrued to each of ...

People taking advantage of Buhari's illness - Kwara APC
The Chairman, All Progressives Congress in Kwara State, Alhaji Ishola Balogun-Fulani, has raised the alarm that some people close to the Federal Government are taking advantage of the ill health of President Muhammadu Buh...

Why over 1,000 teachers protested in Kwara - NUT boss
The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers in Kwara State, Mr. Musa Abubakar, on Friday said that no fewer than 1,000 members of the union protested in Kwara State because they were against the inclusion of primary education...

2017-06-30

Saraki Mourns Ex-Governor Danbaba Suntai
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has expressed sorrow over the death of a former Governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, and said he was a man of peace. Saraki in a statement by his Special Advis...

I was forced to marry you, will return your dowry - Wife tells husband
A housewife, 33-year-old Seliat Abeeb, on Thursday in Omu-Aran, Kwara, offered to pay the bride price of N120, 000 demanded by her husband as a condition for dissolving their five-year-old barren marriage. Seliat, ...

Lamentation of users of collapsed Jebba/Mokwa bridge
Motorists plying Jebba/Mokwa road have expressed agonising experiences being suffered since the bridge linking parts of South West and the North collapsed few weeks ago at Tatabu in Niger State. Speaking with ...

UNILORIN: We've not Released Cut-off Marks for 2017/2018 Admission
The authorities of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has said that it has not released the cut-off marks for the 2017/2018 admission into various courses of the university. Making the assertion while speaking wit...

Saraki vs SaharaReporters: Nigerian Court Awards Damages for "Fake News" on US Based Tabloid
A Nigerian High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State presided over by Justice Adeyinka Oyinloye, has ruled that the publisher of online newspaper, Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore, should pay a sum of N4 billion ($11.1 Million...

Graduate, three others killed in Kwara yam dispute
Four people, including a graduate, were feared dead on Thursday in a clash between neighbouring Ilofa and Odo-Owa communities in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State. Scores of other victims with gunshot in...

Kwara Teachers Protest Over Payment Of Salaries
The Kwara State teachers are protesting against the continued funding and management of the primary school education by the Local Government Councils in the state. The teachers, led by the state chairman of th...

2017-06-29

250 golfers storm Ilorin for 6-day tourney
No fewer than 250 golfers are to converge in Ilorin for a 6-day tournament. The Captain of the Ilorin Golf Club, Layi Maliki, disclosed this at a news conference in Ilorin on Wednesday. He said the Kwara State Governm...

IITA, Kwara Poly Partner in Fabrication of Farm Tools
The management of the Institute of International Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo state and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin have concluded arrangement to partner on the adoption of 14 modern fabricated farm tools ...

Tragedy as Unilorin student drowns on Sallah day
Two hundred level student of the University of Ilorin, Olaitan Bolaji Samsudeen got drowned on Sunday, which was a Sallah day. Nigerian Pilot gathered that the deceased, a 200 level student of the Department of Arts Educa...

We'll ensure growth of Darts in Nigeria - VP, NDF
The Vice President of the Nigeria Darts Federation, Alhaji Amuda Alabi, has said the new executive will work assiduously to ensure the development of Darts in the country. Alabi stated this on Tuesday in Ilorin, Kwar...

Nigerian Senate orders 38 VCs over increase in tuition fees
The Nigerian Senate is set to order 38 Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities to court over tuition fees hike. On Tuesday, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Barau J...

2017-06-28

JAAC: Kwara LGs Share N314M, Teachers get N900M for June
The 16 local government councils in Kwara State are to share the sum of N314, 535, 115.40 from the allocation for the month of June 2017. The Chairman, Asa local government disclosed this on Wednesday after the Joint...

ABS to commission new Puma kits against Pillars
The Management of Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) FC has concluded arrangements to commission its new Puma kits against Kano Pillars today in Ilorin during their NPFL clash. The club's Director of Football, Alloy Chukwu...

We have not increased tuition fees - Unilorin
AUTHORITIES of the University of Ilorin have said that the institution is not among 38 Nigerian universities that have purportedly increased their tuition fees. It is recalled that media reports on Tuesday had...

Ex-LP guber candidate admonishes Muslims to sustain Ramadan lessons
A former Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the 2015 general elections in Kwara State, Dr Mike Omotosho, yesterday urged Muslim faithful to sustain good virtues exhibited during the just concluded holy month o...