2017-04-03

Kwara APC warns National party leaders, PDP faction over renewed plot to remove Senate President
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Kwara State chapter has warned some National leaders of the party and a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in the State over the renewed media onslaught against the President of th...

SON To Partner Kwara Agro Mall To Enhance Agricultural Production
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) says it will collaborate with Kwara State Agro Mall to enhance agricultural production in the state. The state Coordinator of SON, Mr Sunday Yashim, said this ...

Erubu-Asunnara Community Association seeks partnership for devt
The Erubu-Asunnara Community Association in Ilorin South local government area of Kwara on Sunday advocated for partnership from individuals and other progressive association for the development of the area. Alhaji ...

'Maternity Monday' In Ilorin General Hospital
25-year-old Amudalat Ambali, is heavily pregnant and cannot walk on her own without support. She would have to go through a caesarean session to be delivered of her baby, Blueprint gathered. It was also gathered that...

APC Meets Senate Caucus Tuesday
Following the All Progressives Congress (APC) resolve to intervene in the on-going rift between the Executive and the National Assembly, the APC National Working Committee (NWC) will on Tuesday, April 4, meet with the Par...

We will resist any attempt to undermine Saraki, Senate - APC Young Patriots
A group of Young Professionals in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to resist and mobilize against any attempt to undermine the independence of the Senate and malign the person of Dr Bukola Saraki, the Pr...

Feud over: Kunle Afolayan reconciles veteran Yoruba actors
In what appears like a first step at reconciling top members of the Yoruba film sector who have been divided along professional association line, notable filmmaker Kunle Afolayan is making good is promise by casting ...

DSS clears Saraki, says stolen N310m not his
Hours after Senate President Bukola Saraki denied the ownership of N310million said to have been stolen from his Maitama, Abuja home in 2015, the department of State Security Service (DSS) has collaborated his claim....

Sterling Bank Trains 17,000 Students on Financial Management Nationwide
In line with its enriching lives proposition and renewed commitment to promoting financial literacy among students, Sterling Bank Plc last week, trained over 17,000 secondary school students across the country on the...

Saraki: The many controversies of a Senate president
Senator Abubakar Bukola Sarki’s emergence as the president of the senate was birthed in controversy and his sojourn on the Number Three seat of the federation has been marred by one controversy after another....

N310m was never stolen from me - Saraki
SENATE President Bukola Saraki Sunday denied that the sum of N310million allegedly stolen from a Bureau de Change operator in November 2015, by suspected operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and some ...

2017-04-02

JAMB/Tertiary Institutions Football Championship 'Kwara 2017' holds August
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has agreed to sponsor a football competition among all the tertiary institutions in Nigeria, tagged JAMB/Tertiary Institutions Football Championship. The first editi...

Igbomina: We are known for enterprise - Oba Charles Oladele Ibitoye, The Olomu of Omu-Aran
The Igbomina people are hunters, renowned agriculturalists, proficient wood carvers and expert leather artists. They are one of the Yoruba-speaking groups that make up the larger Yoruba ethnic people of West Africa, parti...

Saudi groups take free eye surgery to Ilorin
THE International Islamic Relief Organisation (IIRO)-sponsored free cataract operation and other eye treatments, organised by the Albasar International Foundation, begin today in Ilorin, at the Kwara State Specialist Hosp...

Don't patronise illegal medicine stores, Kwara Govt warns public
The Kwara Government on Saturday warned members of the public against patronising the operators of illegal medicine stores, saying their activities pose health danger. Alhaja Risikat Lawal, the Director, Pharmaceut...

Fire razes 40 shops at llorin Baboko market
Goods and cash worth millions of naira were destroyed by fire on Saturday when more than 40 shops were razed at Baboko market in llorin, the Kwara capital. The eye witness account revealed that the inferno started in one...

Kwara 2019: Time Not Ripe For Campaigns, Baraje Tells Politicians
As various stakeholders in Kwara State politics strategise ahead of 2019 governorship polls, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje on Saturday counseled those nursi...

Kwara First Lady celebrate with Covenant Harvest Ministry
COVENANT Harvest International Ministry recently marked its 7th anniversary with guests thanking God for His grace and goodness since the ministry opened its doors to the first worshippers. The three-day celebratio...

2017-04-01

OPINION: Kwara 2019: The Lola Ashiru phenomenon! By Abdulrazaq Magaji
With crude legislative malpractices in the upper house of the National Assembly on the increase, Nigerians have mounted a frantic search to identify credible and competent candidates to be sent to the National Assembly in...

American Chemical Society honours Kam Industries, others
In recognition of their outstanding and giant strides in chemical sector, the Nigeria chapter of American Chemical Society honoured an Ilorin-based industrialist, Alhaji Kamorudeen Ibitoye Yusuf, and many others who disti...

Nigerians In US Commend Senate For Passing Diaspora Commission Bill
Nigerians in the United States have commended the 8th National Assembly for keeping to its promise by passing the Diaspora Commission Bill. Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had vowed during a courtesy v...

Seni Saraki inaugurates 12-man Committee for late Yekini U-13 soccer competition
The Chairman of Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC, Mr. Seni Saraki, on Wednesday inaugurated a 12-man Committee to organise an U-13 football competition in honour of late Rasheed Yekini. Saraki while inaugurat...

2017-03-31

Herdsmen/Farmers' Clash: KWSG To Strengthen LG Security Structure
The Kwara State Government is to strengthen existing security and peace committees in all 16 local government areas in the State as a way of forestalling clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers. This was one of ...

Court sentences three to death by hanging for armed robbery in Kwara
An Ilorin High Court, Kwara state, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempt to commit culpable homicide against a professor in the University of Ilorin, Abdullahi Onimisi. ...

Diamond Bank seeks sale of Princess Luxury hotel over alleged loan default
The management of Diamond Bank has sought leave of an Ilorin High Court to sell a popular hotel, Princess Luxury, located along Pipeline road, in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, over alleged failure to pay an outstandin...

Kwara Youth Farmers Seek Land For Farming
More than 3, 200 youth farmers, under the aegis of Kwara Youth Integrated Farmers Organisation of Nigeria, on Thursday urged the state government to open up new lands for farming. The farmers also appealed to the g...

Table tennis player slumps to death while playing in Kwara
A Kwara table tennis player, Timothy Abiara, on Thursday in Ilorin slumped and died while training at the table tennis hall of the State Stadium Complex. Newsmen report that Abiara represented the state at both th...

OPINION: Attention Ilorin General Hospital. By Joke Adeniyi
What brings more joy to a family than the birth of a child? The new parents will be by themselves with delight and excitement at the thought of welcoming the newest member of their family to the world. Having endured the ...

Ahmed, the action Governor
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed last week showed that he's not an 'armchair' administrator, which he proved by abandoning comfort of his office and defied the scorching sun for on-the-spot inspection of ongo...

London/Paris Club Refund: Why Kwara, others yet to get fresh disbursement - Finance Ministry
For Kwara State Government and indigenes, the anxiety that had characterised the wait over release second tranche of the London/Paris loan refund to the state may linger further, following feelers from the Federal Ministr...

NEITI: Kwara 26 on debt log, owes N45.38bn
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said that the debt burden of the 36 states of the federation rose to over N3.342 trillion as of 2016. On the debt log of the 36 states in the co...

N-Power: Kwara Assembly grills Gov's aides over selective payment allegation
The Kwara State House of Assembly will today, grill some aides of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed over discrepancies in the payment of beneficiaries of the N-Power scheme. According to a top source in the House who is co...

Unilorin and ASUU's 'sanctions'
An another desperate attempt to truncate the steady academic progress being recorded at the University of Ilorin, the National Secretariat of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has unilaterally imposed what c...