2017-04-11

How We Fund Projects Despite Recession - Ahmed
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed says the State Infrastructure Development Fund (IF-K) has strengthened the capacity of the government to meet its obligations despite the current economic challenges. The ...

Firm Promises Automatic Jobs For Best Graduating Unilorin Students
An indigenous steel manufacturing company, KAM Industries Nigeria Limited, has pledged to offer automatic employment to 10 best graduating students of the University of Ilorin as part of the partnership agreements between...

We missed examinations for aborted Tunis trip, players lament
Facts emerged yesterday that three of the 10-man team that missed the 2017 ITTF African Junior Championships holding in Tunis had to skip examinations to be part of the training in readiness for the tournament. The...

Igbo traders want adequate security in Kwara market
Traders under the auspices of Kwara Igbo Traders Association (KWAITA) on Monday demanded adequate security in all the markets in the state. The traders also want the provision of a standby fire service and firefigh...

ICAN commends KWARA Govt for ensuring transparency in its finances
Kwara State has been described as one of the states in the federation that is rendering its financial statements as at when due. The Chairman , Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Ilorin and District...

Tonile Alalupupu, the dutiful Radio Kwara staff is gone. By Tunde Akanbi
Tributes to Late Tonile Alalupupu Innalillahi wainnailayhi rajiun meaning that we are from Allah and to Him we shall return. Every human being has a final bus stop as death is inevitable. The final journey t...

Rafiu Ibrahim Visits Isiaka Ahmed of Ekiti LG
Kwara South Senator, Dr. Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim visited Mr. Isiaka Ahmed, Board Member, Teaching Service Commission, who sustained injuries due to an accident recently. Mr. Isiaka Ahmed who is currently a Board Membe...

Gov Ahmed Inaugurates Local Government Pension Board
The Kwara state Governor, Alhaji (Dr.) Abdulfatah Ahmed has inaugurated the Local Government Pension Board. Representing the Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed (Sai Maigida) at the inauguration was Hajia Sarat Adebayo, the C...

2017-04-10

Gov. Ahmed To Flag off KWASU Osi Campus Tuesday
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed will on Tuesday flag off construction of College of Social Sciences and Environmental Studies of the Kwara State University (KWASU) in Osi, EKiti local government area of ...

Ongoing Road Projects: Kwara Govt Paid N1b To Contractors in March
The Kwara State Government in March released over N1billion to about thirty-six contractors handling various road projects across the State. The State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Aro Yahaya made this...

Gov. Ahmed Inaugurates Implementation Committee For Kwara Health Insurance Scheme
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed on Monday inaugurated the Implementation Committee for the State's Health Insurance Law, with a charge on the committee to identify sustainable means of improving the scheme....

Kwara takes campaign against drug abuse to schools
CHAIRMAN, Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board, KWSUBEB, Alhaji Ladi Hassan, has expressed the readiness of the board to take the campaign against drug abuse to schools across the 16 local government areas. ...

Governor Ahmed Inaugurates Implementation Committee on Kwara State Health Insurance Scheme
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed on Monday inaugurated the Implementation Committee for the State's Health Insurance Law, with a charge on the committee to identify sustainable means of improving the scheme. ...

OPINION: What's up with Bukola Saraki? By Benjamin Akunna
If you listen to all the recent noise in the media about the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, all you will ever hear is the commotion of a sensationalized marketplace. However, if you choose to ...

My trial at CCT will collapse, Saraki says; pledges loyalty to Buhari
Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that the federal government’s case against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal is feeble and, as such, he is not seeking a political solution to stave off conviction....

INTERVIEW: Saraki speaks on Buhari, Magu, Paris Club funds, CCT trial, others
Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki is in the eye of the storm these days. Too many contentious issues on the national scene spiral towards this former governor of Kwara State. Saraki sat down exclusively wit...

INTERVIEW: Saraki opens up on suspension of Ali Ndume, possible forgiveness
Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki is in the eye of the storm these days. Too many contentious issues on the national scene spiral towards this former governor of Kwara State. Saraki sat down exclusively wit...

Nigerians paying for own sins, says Unilorin don
By Ahmed 'Lateef The Dean, Postgraduate School, University of Ilorin, Professor Badmas 'Lanre Yusuf, has ascribed the myriad of challenges bedeviling the country to catalogue of sins by Nigerians in their respectiv...

7 Things Saraki Wants Nigerians To Know
In Daily Trust newspaper​'s​​ Big Story on Sunday​'​, the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, sat down with veteran journalist, Ma...

Saraki Celebrates Dangote at 60
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has felicitated with the Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote on the occasion of his 60th birthday. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on...

Defection: Oniwa salutes Ndakene, others' courage
The Kwara North Senatorial Chairman, Alhaji Isiaka Oniwa has lauded the courage of Alhaji Abubakar Ndakene and others who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). While speaking with Pilot Politics, Oniwa s...

Herdsman attacks farmer, cuts off hand in Kaiama
25-year-old Olaide Yahya, left his home with his wife, Balikis Saturday afternoon; hurriedly for his farm located at Oke-Odo in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State with no inkling he was to lose part of his body t...

Miyetti Allah: 3 farmers arrested in Kwara, whisked to Abuja
Three farmers whose identities are yet to be ascertained, have been arrested by the police for allegedly killing cows belonging to a member of the Miyetti Allah cattle rearers in Kwara State. National Pilot gathere...

How we'll utilise next Paris Club refund - Gov. Ahmed
The Kwara State government has said it will use its share of the second tranche of the Paris Club refund to assist local government councils to offset part of their outstanding salary arrears and on critical infrastructur...

Tension as Kwara communities clash over masquerade festival
Tension reportedly broke out last week in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State as about five communities engaged themselves in a communal clash following disagreement over celebration of a masquerade festival....

Count me out of 2019 campaigns - Ajape
Special Adviser on Political Matters to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Alhaji Usman Bibire Ajape has dissociated himself from the political campaigns about 2019 elections in the state. Speaking with Pilot Politics over...

Kwara group wants legislation against illegal grazing
A group, The Concerned Citizen of Kwara State Yoruba (TCCKSY, has called on the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed send a bill to the House of Assembly against illegal grazing of cattle by the Fulanis in the state. The ...

NARD urges Kwara to raise awareness on CSM
A medical practitioner, Dr Ige Kolawole, has urged the Kwara Government to raise awareness on the causes, symptoms and prevention of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM). Kolawole, who is the President of the National As...

Why we postponed LG polls in Kwara - Ahmed
The Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has said that the state cannot afford to conduct local government elections now because of lack of resources. He said the extension of the initial three months te...

Nigeria 'Going Out of Recession' - Minister
Nigeria is slowly getting out of economic recession, Mustapha Shehuri, the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, said Sunday. Mr. Shehuri spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, while on an inspection t...

2017-04-09

KWSG moves to establish fire stations in Oja-Tuntun, others
Consequent upon recurring fire outbreak at the Baboko market, popularly known as Oja- Tuntun in Ilorin, Kwara State, there are efforts by the State Government to establish fire service station in markets across the 16 loc...

2 Police officers, driver arraigned for robbery in Ilorin
Two officers of the Kwara State Police Command, Sergeant Okuta Efeiri, Corporal Olarewaju Olayinka and one driver, Enoch Agbo were on Tuesday arraigned before Ilorin High Court for alleged armed robbery. The trio were na...

Taxation, Panacea To Infrastructural Deficiency - Ahmed
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara says taxation remains the panacea to the challenge of infrastructure in the country. Ahmed stated this in Ilorin on Saturday in his address at the 2017 Annual Tax Awards of the Il...

Mixed reactions trail '8keys, no mouse' policy in Ilorin
Applicants of the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation examination (UTME) in Ilorin, Kwara State have denied knowledge of the new policy of '8 keys, no mouse' for the Joint Admission Matriculation Board examination (JAMB) ...

Stakeholders okay Bilqees Oladimeji for NAWOJ Presidency
Stakeholders under the aegis of Kwara State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have adopted Hajia Bilqees Modupe Oladimeji as presidential candidate in the forthcoming election of National Association of Women ...

Kwara Governor says entertainment moulds society
Entertainment is crucial in moulding the society as it serves as a platform for information dissemination to the public. Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed made the remark when he played host to Nollywood actor...

2017-04-08

Pay attention to depression, Kwara NMA tells govt
The Kwara State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association has called on the federal and state governments to pay close attention to cases of depression in their areas as failure to do so could result in more deaths....

World Health Day: Withdrawal of HIV/AIDS funding spells doom – Saraki
The President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki has raised the alarm over the withdrawal of international funding for HIV/AIDS. Saraki, a medical doctor raised the alarm on Friday while commemorating the World Health ...

Youth Games: Ministry to punish states with overage athletes
Ademola Are, Director, Grassroots Sports Development, Ministry of Youth and Sports, says that states that will feature overage athletes at the National Youth Games (NYG) will be fined N50, 000 per athlete. Are, w...

Lack of cultural value, skilled manpower responsible for economic quagmire, says Expert
A Consultant Engineer, Mr. Bashir Atunde lawal has attributed the current economic wobble in the country to lack of cultural value and skilled manpower to manage and utilize the available resources. Enginee...

Buhari reconstitutes governing councils of UNILORIN, UNILAG, UNIBEN, 20 others
Buhari reconstitutes governing councils of ABU, UNILAG, UNIBEN, 20 others President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved the appointments of Wale Babalakin, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and AVM Muktar Mohammed as chairmen, gov...