2017-01-21

Buhari sending wrong signal by not sacking SGF - Yusuf Ali
Mr. Yusuf Ali, SAN is a former Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association Anti-Corruption Commission. In this interview with Success Nwogu, he talks about corruption and how the Buhari government could win the war against graft...

iSON BPO Launches Ilorin Call Centre as Kwara Governor praises outsourcing centre
iSON, Africa's leading IT and ITeS company, has further expanded its footprints in Nigeria with the commissioning of another state-of-art call centre in Ilorin, Kwara State as part of its efforts to develop the Nigerian o...

Fake police officer, dupes 17 victims over SARS jobs *Student snatches jeep to pay school fees
A baker, Kabiru Oladipupo, an Osun State indigene, who claimed to hail from Osun State has revealed how he and an accomplice, Hassan Olayiwola, invited 17 job seekers in a job recruitment scam for the Federal Special Anti...

Despite Recession, 14 States Earned Higher IGR in 2016
No fewer than 14 states earned higher Internally Generated Revenue (IGRs) in 2016,when dis-aggregated by states, despite economic recession, a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. T...

OPS Urges KWSG To Prioritise Infrastructure
Members of the Organized Private Sector (OPS) in Kwara State on Thursday told the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed that revenues generated should not only be used to pay salaries to the detriment of other sectors o...

Kwara Govt Releases January Allocation Figures
The Kwara State Government has released federal allocation figures for the month of January, 2017. According to figures released on Friday by the Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, the State government got...

2017-01-20

Kwara To Review Discriminatory School Fees
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfattah Ahmed pledged Thursday to review the discriminatory fee charged non-indigenes of the state by state-owned educational institutions. Ahmed made the pledge while addressing a ...

Insecurity: Gov. Ahmed blames unemployment
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has identified youth unemployment, poverty and inequality as part of the reasons responsible for insecurity and restiveness in parts of the country. Ahmed gave these ...

University Of Ilorin : Management Moves To Ease Students Transport Problem
The Management of the University of Ilorin and Road Transport Association of Nigeria have agreed that more commercial buses will be provided to meet needs of the growing population of students. The institution and th...

Assembly insists on demolition of 2 filling stations in llorin
The Kwara House of Assembly on Thursday said it had not rescinded its resolution to demolish the two remaining illegal petrol filling stations out of four constructed in a densely populated areas in some parts of llorin....

Kwara's IGR collection hits N17.4bn
The Executive Director, Kwara State Internal Revenue Service, Dr. Muritala Awodun, on Thursday disclosed that the agency collected N17.4bn as Internally Generated Revenue in 2016. He stated that this was a significant ...

Kwara Govt. says no outbreak of Lassa fever, earmarks N222m for disease prevention
The Kwara Government on Thursday confirmed that there was no outbreak of Lassa fever in all its 16 local government areas. The state Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Atolagbe Alege, made the confirmation in llorin i...

Kwara introduces community mobile clinic
The Kwara Government has introduced a bi-monthly Health Outreach programme called Igbomina Mobile Clinic Project. The government announced that the programme would commence on Saturday, Jan. 21, in six communities of...

Recession: Go back to farming, Kwara gov's aide urges citizens
Prince Tunji Moronfoye, Special Adviser to Kwara State Governor on Communications and Strategy, on Thursday advised Nigerians to engage in farming so as to overcome the effects of the current economic recession. Mor...

2017-01-19

NPFL: Tornadoes 1-1 ABS: Makinwa blames draw on fatigue
Niger Tornadoes of Minna on Wednesday in Lokoja came from a goal down to force Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC to a one all draw in a Match Day 2 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) encounter. The...

Shop owners in Ilorin lament high tax charges as KWIRS sets for firmness
Shop owners Ilorin, the kwara state capital have called on the Management of Kwara State Internal Revenue Service KWIRS to reverse the Personal Income Tax and Trade permit fee which was recently charged them. A cro...

Remanded defendant worked his way out of prison - Lawyer
A lawyer, Mr. Abiodun Dada, on Tuesday told an Upper Area Court 3 at Pake, Ganmo in Ilorin, Kwara State, that the defendant in a case he was prosecuting, Mr. Yinka Adebiyi, had escaped from the Oke-Kura Prisons, where he ...

Foreign Account Linked To Saraki Belongs To AESL - Witness
A witness in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki on alleged false assets declaration, Mr. Amazu Nwachukwu, has insisted that the foreign bank account being linked to Saraki actually belonged to th...

Kwara Varsity Teachers Seek Better Funding For Institution
Lecturers at the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, have cried out to the state government to approve allocation of more funds to the institution to meet accreditation requirements. This was as they said that ...

Backlogs: Disquiet in Kwara LGs over Ahmed's N100m approval
There was discontent in local government councils across Kwara State following release of N100m for payment of arrears of political office holders, National Pilot learnt, last night. According to multiple sources f...

ALGON applauds Gov Ahmed on peace promotion, welfare
The leadership of Kwara State, ALGON, on behalf of the entire Transition Implementation Committees (TIC) of the 16 councils has commended the security and peace-building efforts of the state government. Kwara ALGON...

Street children, rising menace in Ilorin
The scruffy looking children moved in groups of fours and fives or even more. Their dishevelled appearance gave them away as street children. They hopped from one end to the other with their eyes roving impatiently like a...

Boundary Commission boss expresses hope of peaceful resolution of Kwara crisis
The Director General of the National Boundary Commission, Dr. Muhammed Ahmad, has expressed the believe that the conflict over boundary issues between Share and Tsaragi in Kwara State will be resolved soon as the two comm...

NERC indicts Ibadan DisCo over electrocution of man in Kwara
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has indicted Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for allegedly violating installation guidelines, health and safety regulations that resulted in the electrocution of a ma...

2017-01-18

GTB Manager Denies Knowledge of EFFC Document
Nwachukwu Amazu, head of the fund transfer unit of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), on Wednesday denied knowledge of the documents his bank sent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Senate President Buk...

Saraki Condoles with Victims of IDP Camp Accident
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has conveyed his deep regret over the accidental bombing of the Rann Community in Borno State. Saraki, in a statement on his social media handles said: ...

No religion allows killing of innocent people - Sultan
Sultan of Sokoto and President of Jama'at Nasril Islam(JNI), Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, has said no religion condones killing of innocent people. He declared that, among the "two main religions, there is no whe...

Insurgents Killed More Muslims Than Non-Muslims - Sultan
Sultan of Sokoto and President, Jama'at Nasril Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar 111, yesterday declared that there was a growing animosity between Muslims and non-Muslims in the country. He also disclos...

Soldier collapses as Ahmed, others pay tributes to fallen troops
In keeping alive the memory of fallen men of the Nigerian Armed Forces, yesterday was not different in the book of history. AHMED 'LATEEF filed this report on the remembrance of the departed soldiers held Amusement Park, ...

How Saraki transferred millions of dollars to own foreign accounts while serving as Kwara Governor - GTBank Official
A witness in the ongoing trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki has told the Code of Conduct Tribunal that Mr. Saraki made foreign funds transfer of over $3 million while he was governor of Kwara State. The Nigerian...

Kwara State opposition parties in limbo as factionalisation cripples PDP
Kwara is perhaps one of the few states in the country where the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) is enjoying 100 percent control of the elective posts. These include: three Senatorial districts, six Federal Co...

University don wins N5m research grant on heart burn
An Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Dr Abdullahi Olokoba, has been awarded the Astra Zeneca Research Grant, worth about N5million. Olokoba told newsmen on Tuesda...

Maiduguri blast : Kwara State University to intensify security measures
The Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete said that it would intensify security measures in the school to ensure the safety of lives and property of members of staff and students. The institution's Director of Un...

Kwara's Governor Ahmed Bemoans State Of Nigeria's Prisons
The Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has decried the conditions of prisons in Nigeria where hundreds of inmates are crammed into a prison meant for a quarter of that number. He also expressed concerns t...