2017-02-22

Kwara: Students protest non-payment of bursary, scholarship awards
On Wednesday, students of Kwara state origin congregated in their scores from various tertiary institutions (universities, polytechnics and colleges of education) in the country to stage a peaceful protest over the failur...

Osinbajo to launch the MSME in Ilorin on Thursday.
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo is to launch the Micros, Small and Medium Enterprises in Ilorin on Thursday. The Chief Operating Officer, Kwara State Bureau of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Mr. O...

Kwara Assembly make case for State untapped resources
The Kwara State House of Assembly has restated its determination in ensuring that,the state government explores its vast mineral and agricultural resources,as means of making the state self- sustaining. To this end, i...

Imam Gambari is Dead
The Imam Gambari of Ilorin is dead. Details later....

FAAC: KWSG Receives N2.510b, LGs Get N1.837 as February allocation
The Kwara State government received a total of N2, 510, 848, 023.62 from the Federation Account as allocation for the month of February, 2017, against the N1, 882, 645, 016.4 it received in January. The State Commiss...

Omotosho to KWSG: Pay LG pensioners from Paris club refunds
The Governorship flag-bearer of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2015 general elections in Kwara State, Dr Mike Omotosho, has bemoaned the devastated condition of local government pensioners in the state owed N7billion in pen...

2017-02-21

UN International Mother Language Day - Toyin Saraki Urges Governments, Citizens, To Embrace Respectful Relationships In Yoruba
Yoruba is a pluricentric language spoken in West Africa, mainly in Nigeria. The number of speakers of Yoruba is estimated at over 30 million principally in Nigeria and Benin Republic. With communities in other parts of Af...

Ali Ahmad: A Quintessential Lawmaker With Many Honours. By Shuaib Abdulkadir
Dr. Ali Ahmad, the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, since his foray into active politics some years back has spent the last six years in the task of making laws for good governance of Nigeria. Four of t...

KWSG Donates N1m To Student With Spinal Cord Injury
Kwara State Government yesterday donated a sum of one million naira to the family of a student of Cherubim and Seraphim College, Ilorin, Ibrahim Garba who has a tspinal cord injury. The State Commissioner for Educati...

Doctors in public hospitals shouldn't be allowed to run private clinics – NMA President
Mike Ogirima, a professor of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, is the President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and President of Nigeria Orthopaedic Association. In this interview he speaks on critical issues in ...

Gov Ahmed proposes N1B for student bursaries, scholarship
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has expressed his administration's preparedness to prioritize bursary and scholarship awards to students in the 2017 fiscal year. Governor Ahmed said this commitment...

Unilorin don emerges 17th Olola of Olla Kingdom
Dr. Stephen Olajide, an Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Arts Education at the University of Ilorin, has been installed the 17th Olola of Olla Kingdom in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara St...

Osinbajo to open MSMEs clinic in Ilorin
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will on Thursday in Ilorin declare open a-three day Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Clinic for viable enterprises. The Chief Operating Officer, Kwara State MSMEs Burea...

Ekiti community agog as KWASU Professor is interred
Last Friday, the Ilupeju-Ekiti, a sleepy town in Ekiti State was agog when eminent Nigerians converged to bid late Professor Francis Sunday Oyewole Otokiti of Kwara State University an usual but final farewell. AHMED 'LAT...

MEDICINAL RICE: Unilorin and 1 other Nigerian university works on the production of this rice
Nigerians are about to experience a positive change that will change the lives of everyone around. Some scientists at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) and Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti are working on producing s...

Redundant LG staff to be flushed out- Sarat Adebayo
Hajia Sarat Adebayo is Chairman, Kwara State Local Government Service Commission. In this interview with AHMED 'LATEEF, she spoke on local government administration, policy thrust and ongoing reform within the workforce o...

2017-02-20

Press Release: Kwara PDP Must Stop This Politics of Calumny
Our attention has been drawn to the latest claims from the Kwara State Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, alleging that the State Government has abandoned some projects because of Light Up Kwara, LUK, and the Geri-Alimi Unde...

Trump may be impeached if... Prof. Dokubo
An International Affairs Expert, Prof. Charles Dokubo has predicted that the United States President, Donald Trump may be impeached unless he changes his approaches to American ideals. He spoke at roundtable organis...

Kwara Speaker address at the official investiture of KWACCIMA's President
AN ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER OF THE KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, RT. HON. (DR) ALI AHMAD AT THE OFFICIAL INVESTITURE OF ALHAJI (DR) AHMED ADEOYE RAJI AS THE PRESIDENT OF KWARA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, MINE...

Mystery tales trail commercial tricyclist's death in Ilorin
Commercial tricyclists plying Gaa-Akanbi-Agbabiaka route in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital were thrown into confusion following the mystery surrounding the death of a colleague, Raheem Adeniyi, penultimate Monday. ...

3 -yr-old suffers burns in Ilorin, hospitalised
A three year old boy, Abdulsalam AbdulMalik has reportedly suffered severe burns from hot water at his residence in Ilorin, yesterday. Abdulsalam who is currently under admission at the Ilorin General Hospital sustai...

Educationist calls for scrapping of early Child Education
An educationist and management consultant, Mallam Aliyu Badmus has advocated for the scrapping of early child education in the country. He is of the view that parents should take care of their children till the age o...

Management Consultant calls for full autonomy of LG's
A Local Government management consultant and Educationist, Mallam Aliyu Badmus has called for the granting of full autonomy to local governments in the country to make them more efficient and accountable to the electorat...

Civil Engineer stresses need for Govt to encourage indigenization
A Nigerian civil engineer, Bashir Lawal has again stressed the need for the government to encourage indigenization to boost local production and local contents in the productive sector. The Engineer, who is the Chief...

UNILORIN: Rejected 711 candidates paraded fake results - VC
VICE Chancellor of University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, Professor Abdulganiyu Ambali, weekend explained why the university refused admission to 711 candidates after collecting their money, saying they uploaded excellent result...

NUC accredits Unilorin's vet medicine
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, on Sunday, said the National Universities Commission had accorded full accreditation to Unilorin's Veterinary Medicine. Ambali stated that ...

Kwara Police Record Breakthroughs
The Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusola Amore, has recorded breakthroughs in combating crimes in the state through his community policing strategy, writes Hammed Shittu Upon assumption of office last ye...

Follow Due Process, Kwara APC Chair Tells Defectors
Worried by the influx of some members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other parties into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the country, the Kwara State Chairman of APC, Alhaji Ishola Balog...

Belgore, ex-minister never stole any campaign fund, says Kwara PDP chief
Kwara PDP chairman Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo has described as unfounded and malicious claims that former governorship aspirant Mohamed Dele Belgore (SAN) and former minister Prof Abubakar Suleiman diverted the party's 2015 ca...

OPINION: The 2017 Budget Process: Change in the Right Direction. By 'Demola Adeyeye
Without doubt, the 2017 Appropriation Process has so far been without the several controversies that trailed the 2016 Process. This can be attributed to no less than the better rapport between the Presidency led by Presid...

OPINION: Will the 'Arab Spring' ever drift southward? By Abdulrazaq Magaji
It is one of the ironies of life while people in comparatively affluent countries demand more accountability from their governments, the reverse has been the case in the backwaters of the world. Long before the peripateti...

2017-02-19

Toyin Saraki Speaks on Importance of Girl-Child Education at the Women and Girls Summit in Abuja
The Wife of the Senate President and Chair of the Forum of Senators' Wives Mrs. Toyin Saraki, has commended the National Centre for Women Development, the Office of the Wife of the President of the Federal Republic of Nig...

2017 Budget, Buhari's Letters Dominate Senate's Resumption of Plenary
The 8th Senate returns to regular business on Tuesday as it continues work on the 2017 budget and several economic priority bills which are at different stages of their passage. Its President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki w...

Pilgrimage Beneficiaries Pray For Rafiu Ibrahim
Pilgrimage beneficiaries from among Kwara South constituents have today, December 8, 2016, organized a special prayer for Senator Rafiu Ibrahim for his act of godliness. The lawmaker, who represents the Senatorial d...

Kwara House lauds Ahmed on community health
AS the Kwara State House of Assembly works to ensure quick passage of 2017 budget, it says the N200m just released by Governor Abdul Fatah Ahmed as counterpart funding for Community Health Insurance Scheme will go a long ...