2017-02-02

Kwara State Government Signs Technical Agreement for Light Up Kwara
The Kwara State Government has signed a technical agreement with two firms, Riccofortezza Steven Energy Limited and Rubited Power Limited for the implementation of operation Light-Up Kwara (LUK), an innovative solar-power...

For economic independence embrace SMEs, CAC boss tells students
The Manager of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Ilorin Office, Mrs. Temilade Oladipo has charged Kwara youths to engage Small and Medium scale Enterprises to enhance their standard of living as the white collar job limi...

Tax Collection: Kwarans should expect stiffer enforcement - KWIRS
Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has said that it would go extra mile in the enforcement of rules and polices guiding tax collection in 2017. Executive Chairman of KWIRS, Muritala Awodun, who stated this ...

Saraki appoints Makanjuola Chief of Staff
Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has appointed Hon. Gbenga Makanjuola as the acting chief of staff to the office of the Senate President. Until his appointment, Makanjuola was the Deputy Chief of Staff and...

Quality Education: FG to renovate police children school in Ilorin
The Federal Government is to commence massive rehabilitation of police children school to ensure qualitative education to children of security officers and the public. The deputy Commissioner of Police who is also th...

World Hijab Day: Muslim women condemn discrimination over hijab
A coalition of women groups, Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative yesterday condemned what they termed continuous discrimination of women in hijab, calling on the National Assembly to make laws against harassment of women in ...

Call Centre Empowers 1,200 Youths In Ilorin
A new modern call centre built by Africa's Businss processing and Outsoucing (BPO) company, iSON, has empowered 1,200 youths in Ilorin, Kwara Sate. The commissioning of the call centre in Ilorin, according to a sta...

New hostel for UNILORIN medical students
The University of Ilorin has inaugurated a new 128-bed male hostel for students of its College of Health Sciences. The facility is part of the efforts of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, towards provi...

Land speculator poses as lawyer for 10 years in Kwara
A land speculator posing as lawyer and standing trial before an Ilorin Magistrate Court has allegedly practiced law for about 10 years in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The fake lawyer named Peter Itopa Adogun, ac...

Army recruitment: Kwara uncovers 67 fake citizens - SSG
The Kwara Government on Wednesday said it has so far discovered 67 persons recruited into the Nigerian Army with fake citizenship certificates of the state between 2010 and 2016. The Secretary to the State Governmen...

2017-02-01

Governor Ahmed Approves Appointment of Rector for IVTEC, Ajase-Ipo
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the appointment of Dr. Wendy Kay Daeges as the pioneer Rector of the International Vocational, Training and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase-Ipo. This ...

Scandal: Ex-Kwara councillor's wife nabbed for allegedly stealing 30 goats
Mrs Roseline Aremu, wife of a former councillor in the state, Hon Samuel Olanrewaju Aremu, has been arrested by men of the Kwara State Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Omu-Aran for allegedly...

10,000 Oniwa's castigation, slandering can't stop my political appointment - Wole Oke
The diatribes between the Senatorial chairman of Kwara North, Alhaji Isiaka Oniwa and some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Moro Local Government continued last night. In a statement he personal...

Ilorin residents scramble for fairly used materials
Thousands of people including widows in llorin, the Kwara capital, yesterday, struggled to purchase fairly used clothes and other assorted materials provided by a charity initiative foundation at reduced prices. Although...

Recession: Ifelodun to lay-off 51 casual staff
Sequel to the recession ongoing across the country with attendant toll in the state, Ifelodun Local Government council, has decided to lay-off fifty one (51) casual staff that were initially employed by the past council b...

We're yet to get any paid from Backlogs - Ex-councillors
The association of ex-councillors in Kwara State on Sunday said they are yet to receive any payment from the backlogs promised them in the state. According to the chairman of the forum, Kwara State chapter, Opeyemi Adeoj...

Sleep deprivation hurts immune system - Expert
An Ilorin-based medical practitioner, Dr Olawale Bello, says lack of sleep could hurt the immune system. Bello, a staff of Healing Grace Hospital, Ilorin, told newsmen on Tuesday in Ilorin that sleep deprivation l...

We will no longer relax in tax collection - KWIRS
Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has said that it will not be as relaxed as it did in the enforcement of rules and polices guiding collection of tax in the state this year as it did in 2016. Executive cha...

N-Power: Ahmed Lauds Scheme, Engages 5,553 In Kwara
The Federal Government has engaged about 5,553 graduates through its N-Power job creation scheme in Kwara State. The state governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, disclosed this in Ilorin, at the stakeholders' forum on th...

Military Recruitments: Kwara Assembly Summons SSG, Revenue Board Chair
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday summoned the secretary to the state government, Alh Isiaka Gold and the chairman of the state internal revenue service, Dr Murtala Awodun over alleged shortchanging of K...

2017-01-31

"Criminality has no religion colouration" - Gov Ahmed
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed (Sai Maigida) of Kwara State has called on Nigerians to desist from attaching religious and ethnic colourations to criminalities in Nigeria, pointing out that such sentiment portends a great dang...

Corruption: Deputy Speaker absolves National Assembly
Men of pen fraternity and others converged on the mini-hall of the Kwara State council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin on Saturday to partake in the 17th edition of Media Parliament of the union, which fea...

"Anti-democratic elements plotting against Unilorin"
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyuAmbali (OON), has disclosed that some anti-democratic elements recently attempted to disrupt the age long peace and harmony on the university campus, sayin...

IGP Appoints Jimoh Moshood As New Police PRO
IGP Appoints Jimoh Moshood As New Police PROThe Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has appointed CSP Jimoh Olohundare Moshood as the substantive Force Public Relations Officer, taking over from Ag. CP. Don N. Awu...

Kwara LG Owes Sweepers 8 Months Salary Arrears
The llorin West local government area of Kwara State is owing over 600 Sweepers in its employment eight months salaries. The sweepers, mostly women and widows were engaged by the council to maintain clean environme...

Kwara implores citizens to take tax payment seriously
To further improve on socio-economic and infrastructural development in Kwara State, citizens have been implored to take tax payment serious and compulsory. Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed stated this in Ilor...

Kwara to implement 'no certificate, no promotion' rule
Teachers in public schools in Kwara have until the end of February to submit originals of their academic certificates as a condition to writing the 2017 promotion examinations, the state government has said. The S...

2017-01-30

FCDA Did Not Pay Us Any Money as Rent, Says NASS Leadership
The leadership of the National Assembly yesterday dismissed as outright falsehood a claim in a report credited to a group known as Citizen Action to Take Back Nigeria (CATBAN) and published by an online medium, Sahara Rep...

Creative Industry to witness turn around in months - Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said that the nation's creative industry will witness dramatic turn-around in few months. He stated this on Sunday evening in Lagos at the stage perf...

Ahmed, House speaker pay last respect to late ex-minister
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon Ali Ahmad were among dignitaries that attended the fidau prayer for the late Minister of State for Education, Alhaji Saka ...

BELGORE: Salute to a distinguished jurist at 80
IF one says Kwara State is the pride of Legal Profession in Nigeria, factually, one will not be exaggerating because it was the State that produced the first Nigerian lawyer from the whole of the Northern Nigeria in perso...

Nigerians advised against living in overcrowded houses
Nigerians have been advised to guide against staying in overcrowded houses during the period of change In weather particularly during this heat period. Mothers were also cautioned to avoid putting their underage chil...

Kwara Governor Tasks MDAs On Revenue Drive
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has charged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the state to embark on prompt collection of taxes to boost its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The governor gave ...

Kwara: Pay our bursary now, students tells Gov Ahmed
KWARA State students under the aegis of Ilorin Emirate Students' Union have called on Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to pay their bursary which was stopped about five years ago. The students, who described bursary as t...

2017 budget to create more employment opportunities - KWHA
The Kwara State House of Assembly says it will tailor 2017 budget towards ensuring the realisation of the vision of the State Governor of creating more employment opportunities, increased Internally Generated Revenue and ...

KWACCIMA Seeks Partnership With Kwara Govt To Enhance State Economy
The President of the Kwara State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture(KWACCIMA), Dr Ahmed Raji, on Sunday called for more synergy between the council and the Kwara State Government, in order to improve the...

Kwara releases N1.1b for teachers', ex-councillors' pay
The Kwara State government has released N900 million for the payment of secondary school teacher's January salary. Another N100 million was released to pay part of the severance allowance of former councillors....

OPINION: Najimu Yasin: Reminiscences of an admirer! By Abdulrazaq Magaji
Were the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, registered as a political party, chances are that it will have little or no problem in getting its president, Alhaji Najimudeen Usman Yasin, elected with a comfort...

IGR: Housing Ministry emerges best in 2016
As a token appreciation for the performance of Kwara State Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and its allied agencies, the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) last week presented an award to the ministry i...

Emirate Youth Empowers Women and Students in Hundreds
The Ilorin Emirate Youth Development Association (IEYDA) in their usual way empowered hundreds of youth and women across the five LG areas of the Ilorin Emirate community to reduce poverty and unemployment within the Emir...