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2017-01-29
Stipends won't tackle abject poverty in Nigeria - Dons
A cross section of academics have faulted the Federal Government's poverty alleviation programmes. The academics, who spoke on Saturday, during the Mohammed Mustapha-Givit charity outreach at Nana Aishat Academy, S...
A cross section of academics have faulted the Federal Government's poverty alleviation programmes. The academics, who spoke on Saturday, during the Mohammed Mustapha-Givit charity outreach at Nana Aishat Academy, S...
President Buhari, Sultans to storm Ilorin for Quranic Competition
President Muhammadu Buhari, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, and the Chairman of Dangote Groups, Alhaji Aliko Dangote are scheduled to attend the 31st edi...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, and the Chairman of Dangote Groups, Alhaji Aliko Dangote are scheduled to attend the 31st edi...
Anger, apprehension as fuel scarcity resurfaces in Ilorin
TRANSPORTERS and private vehicle owners in Ilorin, Kwara State, have expressed apprehension and anger over the reappearance of fuel scarcity in the metropolis. The Saturday Tribune gathered among motorists in ...
TRANSPORTERS and private vehicle owners in Ilorin, Kwara State, have expressed apprehension and anger over the reappearance of fuel scarcity in the metropolis. The Saturday Tribune gathered among motorists in ...
Fire destroys property worth N10.2m in Kwara
A fire incident has destroyed property worth over N10 million at the Kwara Government-owned property, Patigi Regatta Motel in Patigi, Patigi Local Government Area of the state. The Managing Director of the Motel, Alhaji A...
A fire incident has destroyed property worth over N10 million at the Kwara Government-owned property, Patigi Regatta Motel in Patigi, Patigi Local Government Area of the state. The Managing Director of the Motel, Alhaji A...
2017-01-28
Pray for Buhari rather than wishing him dead, says expert
The Founder of Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI) Dr. Mike Omotosho, has canvassed more prayers for President Muhammadu Buhari, who at present undergoing check-up abroad, rather than using social media network as a chann...
The Founder of Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI) Dr. Mike Omotosho, has canvassed more prayers for President Muhammadu Buhari, who at present undergoing check-up abroad, rather than using social media network as a chann...
ABS, Remo, Wikki, Katsina Utd seek revival at home
Action recorded in the league match between ABS and FC IfeanyiUbah at the Ilorin Township stadium in the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League season. After suffering away losses in the midweek, four clubs, AB...
Action recorded in the league match between ABS and FC IfeanyiUbah at the Ilorin Township stadium in the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League season. After suffering away losses in the midweek, four clubs, AB...
Era of Depending on Federal Allocations is Over, Says Ahmed
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has disclosed that the era of depending on federal revenue allocations for developmental projects was over in the nation's art of governance. He therefore advocated th...
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has disclosed that the era of depending on federal revenue allocations for developmental projects was over in the nation's art of governance. He therefore advocated th...
Ilorin Golf Club Re-elects Malik as Captain
The Captain of Ilorin Golf Club, Layi Malik has called on the entire members of the club to give their unflinching support to the newly elected executives of the club. Malik made the call in Ilorin the Kwara state ca...
The Captain of Ilorin Golf Club, Layi Malik has called on the entire members of the club to give their unflinching support to the newly elected executives of the club. Malik made the call in Ilorin the Kwara state ca...
Kwara to implement federal government's alleviation programmes
The Kwara State Government says it will ensure the success of the people focused Social Intervention Programmes of the Federal government to alleviate the sufferings of the people. The State Governor, Alhaji Abdulf...
The Kwara State Government says it will ensure the success of the people focused Social Intervention Programmes of the Federal government to alleviate the sufferings of the people. The State Governor, Alhaji Abdulf...
'How I abducted, killed Kwara medical doctor'
AN ex-convict, Hammed Mohammed, has revealed how he masterminded the abduction of a medical doctor, Tunde Abdulrahman and shot him dead in July 2016. Abdulrahman, was until his death attached to the Omu -Aran Gener...
AN ex-convict, Hammed Mohammed, has revealed how he masterminded the abduction of a medical doctor, Tunde Abdulrahman and shot him dead in July 2016. Abdulrahman, was until his death attached to the Omu -Aran Gener...
2017-01-27
Kwara Govt. To Overhaul Town Planning Laws
The Kwara State House of Assembly, has said the House will deploy the appropriate legislative instrument for the overhauling of the state town planning laws, which earlier permitted indiscriminate construction of fil...
The Kwara State House of Assembly, has said the House will deploy the appropriate legislative instrument for the overhauling of the state town planning laws, which earlier permitted indiscriminate construction of fil...
Crime Rate: 104 Cases Prosecuted By Police In Kwara In Six Months
The Kwara State Police Command says it has prosecuted 104 criminal cases in the last six months. The State Commissioner of Police, Olushola Amore, gave the breakdown while giving a statistics of crime rate in...
The Kwara State Police Command says it has prosecuted 104 criminal cases in the last six months. The State Commissioner of Police, Olushola Amore, gave the breakdown while giving a statistics of crime rate in...
Tax matters: As Kwara bends rules for non-indigenes
Nigerians have been made to understand that tax administration, collection and applications are inevitable to ensure effective growth and development of the country. With the reality of the present harsh soci...
Nigerians have been made to understand that tax administration, collection and applications are inevitable to ensure effective growth and development of the country. With the reality of the present harsh soci...
Tributes as ex-Minister, Saka Saadu is laid to rest
Former Minister of State for Education, Alhaji Saka Saadu, breathed his last in the early hours of Monday and was buried in his Ilorin country home amidst eulogies. AHMED 'LATEEF was at the interment attended by eminent N...
Former Minister of State for Education, Alhaji Saka Saadu, breathed his last in the early hours of Monday and was buried in his Ilorin country home amidst eulogies. AHMED 'LATEEF was at the interment attended by eminent N...
Kwara tackles poverty among women
The lingering cash squeeze has taken heavy tolls on some existing businesses while others willing to venture are also discouraged. The situation appears more prevalent among women. Against this background, the Kwara State...
The lingering cash squeeze has taken heavy tolls on some existing businesses while others willing to venture are also discouraged. The situation appears more prevalent among women. Against this background, the Kwara State...
Leave Me Out of the Baseless Rumours, Says Saraki
My attention has been drawn to a speculation on some online media about supposed meeting of some Governors who held Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to ransom and sought for Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to tak...
My attention has been drawn to a speculation on some online media about supposed meeting of some Governors who held Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to ransom and sought for Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to tak...
"Unilorin Mass Comm Students 'Market Ready"
The Head of Department of Mass Communication, University of Ilorin, Dr. Mrs. Saudat Abdulbaqi, on Thursday said the department had groomed professional that are "market ready". She noted that the department had mov...
The Head of Department of Mass Communication, University of Ilorin, Dr. Mrs. Saudat Abdulbaqi, on Thursday said the department had groomed professional that are "market ready". She noted that the department had mov...
Geri Alimi under pass: JAACK faults choice of alternative routes
The Joint Action Against Corruption in Kwara (JAACK) has faulted the decision of the Kwara State Ministry of Works to divert vehicular movement to roads that are impassable and equally due for construction in the first pl...
The Joint Action Against Corruption in Kwara (JAACK) has faulted the decision of the Kwara State Ministry of Works to divert vehicular movement to roads that are impassable and equally due for construction in the first pl...
Final prayer for late ex-minister holds on Saturday
The final fidau prayer for former Minister of State for Education, Alhaji Saka Saadu, is scheduled for Saturday in Ilorin, according to his eldest son, Alhaji Bolaji Saadu. The late ex-minister died Monday after a...
The final fidau prayer for former Minister of State for Education, Alhaji Saka Saadu, is scheduled for Saturday in Ilorin, according to his eldest son, Alhaji Bolaji Saadu. The late ex-minister died Monday after a...
Quranic Recitation Competition to Hold in Kwara
Arrangements have been concluded by the Centre for Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto in collaboration with the Kwara State Musabaqah Committee to host the 31st edition of the National Quranic Recitation...
Arrangements have been concluded by the Centre for Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto in collaboration with the Kwara State Musabaqah Committee to host the 31st edition of the National Quranic Recitation...
Kwara LGs Share N236m as Teachers Get N900m for January
The sixteen local government councils in Kwara State are to share the sum of N236, 610, 159.87 for the month of January, 2017. This figure includes the 10 per cent of the State government's Internally Generated Reven...
The sixteen local government councils in Kwara State are to share the sum of N236, 610, 159.87 for the month of January, 2017. This figure includes the 10 per cent of the State government's Internally Generated Reven...
Court remands driver, accomplice over theft of 25 goats in Kwara
A 31-year-old driver, Abdulrasak Kasali, was on Thursday ordered to be remanded in prison by an Omu-Aran Upper Area Court over the alleged theft of 25 goats. Kasali, a resident of Sapati area in Ilorin, is standing...
A 31-year-old driver, Abdulrasak Kasali, was on Thursday ordered to be remanded in prison by an Omu-Aran Upper Area Court over the alleged theft of 25 goats. Kasali, a resident of Sapati area in Ilorin, is standing...
Unilorin students hold photo exhibition today
Students from the Mass Communication Department of University of Ilorin would today display their photography artistry through a photo exhibition. The exhibition themed, "Photography is life" will be attended by se...
Students from the Mass Communication Department of University of Ilorin would today display their photography artistry through a photo exhibition. The exhibition themed, "Photography is life" will be attended by se...
THE LIBYA KILLINGS AND FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN. By Tunde Akanbi
When the pictures went viral on the social media, some see it as real while others watch the video as the usual social media fabrication. But not until the Nigerian Government reacted through the Special Assistant t...
When the pictures went viral on the social media, some see it as real while others watch the video as the usual social media fabrication. But not until the Nigerian Government reacted through the Special Assistant t...
Reps Deputy Speaker for Kwara NUJ media parley
By Ahmed 'Lateef The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff, is billed to deliver a lecture at the 17th edition of the Media Parliament of Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of J...
By Ahmed 'Lateef The Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff, is billed to deliver a lecture at the 17th edition of the Media Parliament of Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of J...
2017-01-26
A SPEECH DELIVERED BY RT. HON. DR. ALI AHMAD, SPEAKER, KWARA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON RESUMPTION FROM END-OF-YEAR RECESS ON TUESDAY, 24TH JANUARY, 2017
Hon. Colleagues, I give gratitude to the Almighty for His mercies and for giving us life and good health to witness beginning of another new year 2017. I hereby congratulate you all for the successes recor...
Hon. Colleagues, I give gratitude to the Almighty for His mercies and for giving us life and good health to witness beginning of another new year 2017. I hereby congratulate you all for the successes recor...
Photo News: Launch of MSME clinics at Aso Rock
Abia State Governor, Mr. O Ikpeazu, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and Information Minister, Alhaji Lai M...
Abia State Governor, Mr. O Ikpeazu, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and Information Minister, Alhaji Lai M...
Nigeria has lost a great man with the death of Alhaji Saka Saadu -Bolaji Abdullahi
I received the news of the death of Alhaji Saka Saadu, one of the most illustrious Kwara sons, with great shock and sadness. I met the late Alhaji Saadu some years back in Ilorin, and for all the years that I knew ...
I received the news of the death of Alhaji Saka Saadu, one of the most illustrious Kwara sons, with great shock and sadness. I met the late Alhaji Saadu some years back in Ilorin, and for all the years that I knew ...
Geri-Alimi Underpass: KWSG gives 7-day ultimatum to property owners to vacate premises
The Kwara State Government has issued a seven-day ultimatum to all landlords and property owners whose properties fall within the right-of-way of the Geri-Alimi underpass project on both sides of the road to remove such f...
The Kwara State Government has issued a seven-day ultimatum to all landlords and property owners whose properties fall within the right-of-way of the Geri-Alimi underpass project on both sides of the road to remove such f...
Ilorin/Moro History: Oniwa blasts Wole Oke, AbdulRaheem Adisa, others
Senatorial chairman of Kwara North Senatorial district, Alhaji Isiaka Oniwa, has chided a one-time former chairman of Board of College of Education, Oro, Elder Wole Oke and a former commissioner in the state, Alhaji Rahee...
Senatorial chairman of Kwara North Senatorial district, Alhaji Isiaka Oniwa, has chided a one-time former chairman of Board of College of Education, Oro, Elder Wole Oke and a former commissioner in the state, Alhaji Rahee...
Kwara Assembly Orders Probe of State Accounts
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday declared that all overdue accounts of the state must be audited and presented to the legislature by March this year. This, according to the Speaker, Dr. Ali Ahmad, was to...
The Kwara State House of Assembly yesterday declared that all overdue accounts of the state must be audited and presented to the legislature by March this year. This, according to the Speaker, Dr. Ali Ahmad, was to...
GrandKhadi: Kwara Assembly Confirms Justice AbdulKadir
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Justice Mohammed Ola-AbdulKadir as the substantive GrandKhadi for the Kwara Sharia Court of Appeal. AbdulKadir, who is the sixth substanti...
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Justice Mohammed Ola-AbdulKadir as the substantive GrandKhadi for the Kwara Sharia Court of Appeal. AbdulKadir, who is the sixth substanti...
Charcoal price up 40% in Kwara as kerosene, gas scarcity continues
The price of charcoal in Omu-Aran in Kwara has gone up by 40 per cent as scarcity of kerosene and gas remains unabated, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN's check on Wednesday showed that a standard bag of cha...
The price of charcoal in Omu-Aran in Kwara has gone up by 40 per cent as scarcity of kerosene and gas remains unabated, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. NAN's check on Wednesday showed that a standard bag of cha...
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