2017-01-09

Presidency: How We Selected Beneficiaries of N5000 Stipend to Poorest Nigerians
The Presidency sunday said that it used the World Bank's Community Based Targeting (CBT) model, established two years ago, to select the beneficiaries of its N5000 monthly stipends to the poorest Nigerians. Th...

Expert tells government to strengthen Primary Health-care
A medical expert, Dr Kolawole Joshua has called on the government to strengthen the Primary Health-care system through the provision of adequate expertise and necessary facilities. This, he said, would reduce the b...

Makinwa warns ABS' NPFL rivals
ABS' head coach, Henry Makinwa has asserted that the Ilorin side can be dangerous than they have shown in their last two friendly matches. He stated that what they have done with the two friendly matches and others...

Adeboye's stepping down: We are indifferent to FRC regulation, says ex-NSCIA Sec-Gen
The immediate past Secretary-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said that NSCIA was indifferent to the Financial Regulation Council Act which stipulated a maximum period...

OPINION: Saraki And The Made in Nigeria Defi. By Cynthia Ferdinand
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose"- Lyndon Johnson The word ''defi'' in French parlance means ''challenge.'' The distinguished Senate President Bukola Saraki, first threw the ...

Aremu Asks Ajaero, Others to Return to NLC
Former Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and now Vice President of Industrial Global Union, Issa Aremu, yesterday asked the aggrieved labour leaders that formed the United Labour Congress (ULC) to retr...

Physical inactivity responsible for 1.9m deaths globally - Expert
A pharmacist at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Lanre Alege, says physical inactivity is responsible for an estimated 1.9 million deaths worldwide. Alege, who was quoting World Health Organisation statist...

UNILORIN Masscom students display photography artistry Jan 26
As a practical demonstration of their artistry in story telling via photography, photo-journalism students of department of mass communication, university of Ilorin will on Friday January 26, 2017 stage the first ever pho...

TICs: Kwara PDP heads to court
The PDP will challenge the legality of the inauguration of Transition Implementation Committees (TICs) in the 16 local government councils in Kwara. The Chairman of PDP in the state, Mr Iyiola Oyedepo, ...

JAMB registrar commends Kwara govt. over stadium's maintenance
The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has commended the Kwara government for its utilisation and maintenance of facilities at the state Stadium Complex in Ilorin. ...

2017-01-08

Forex scarcity responsible for kerosene price hike -IPMAN
Olanrewaju Okanlawon, a factional Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), in Kwara has ascribed the recurring hike in the price of kerosene to the unstable foreign exchange occasion...

Black Stars in heavy defeat against ABS FC
Taiye Ayinde came off the Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC's bench to break stubborn Black Stars of Lokoja in a 4-0 win on Saturday in a Preseason friendly match played at the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja. I...

Governor Ahmed Urges Support For Fallen Soldiers' Families
Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called on wealthy Nigerians not to forget the supreme sacrifice offered by dead soldiers, in a bid to maintain Nigeria's territorial integrity. Governor Ahmed appeal...

OPINION: Another Initiative Against the Economic Recession. By Bamikole Omisore
On Monday, the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, announced the "Made-in-Nigeria Challenge" - an offshoot of his campaign to stimulate the public's appeal for Nigerian-made goods. Basically, the aim of...

Paris Club: We Didn't Receive N9b-KWSG
Kwara State Government has described as outright falsehood media reports that it received N9b as its share of the London-Paris Loan Club refund from the federal government. Reacting on behalf of the government, the...

2017-01-07

OPINION: Middle East: Of Trump and nuclear buttons! By Abdulrazaq Magaji
Incoming US president, Donald Trump, thinks he has a cure all for the ills of the country he is about to inherit. Respect for the United States, he believes, is top on America's problems and this will not come without the...

GROUP EXPLAINS MM'S OPEN-DOOR POLICY FOR THE POOR
The attention of the MM Support Group (MMG) – the group responsible for the advocacy and socio-economic programmes of Hon. Moshood Mustapha (the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Inter-Parliamentary Special Dut...

OPINION: Turning Electoral Victory into a Governing Agenda by Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia
The 2015 common-sense revolution in Nigeria has been hijacked. You really don't need me to tell you this; the evidence is all around us. What we need to stop doing is lamenting our situation endlessly but instead, we shou...

Recession: Gynaecologist advises Nigerians to embrace family planning
Prof. Suleiman Adeniran of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, has advised couples to embrace family planning to ease the effects of economic recession. Adeniran ...

Excess Intake Of Salt Is Dangerious To Health - Experts
A medical expert, Dr Bola Idowu of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) has warned Nigerians against the high consumption of salt, saying that it is dangerous to health. Idowu gave the warning in Ilorin...

ABS Players Undergo Medicals Ahead New Season Kickoff
Newly promoted ABS of Ilorin put all their registered players through a medical screening exercise ahead of the 2016/2017 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season which kicks off on January 14, Completesportsnig...

Pains over kerosene price surge
The astronomical increase in the price of kerosene popularly referred to as domestic cooking facility in the country has spilled to Ilorin, capital city of Kwara State. AHMED 'LATEEF writes on the negative effects of the ...

The alleged lopsidedness in Buhari's anti-corruption war is blackmail -80-yr-old Kwara Reformed Movement leader Amuda Aluko
Octogenarian medical doctor and Tafida of Ilorin, Dr Amuda Aluko, believes the nation's current economic predicament is a result of greed and selfishness on the part of the country's leaders. The proprietor of Geri-Alimi...

Kwara Asphalt plant not shutdown
Some residents of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital were recently apprehensive when reports spread on social media that the state Asphalt Plant had been shutdown indefinitely and purportedly halted rehabilitation of roads w...

NSCDC nabs 3 suspected hoodlums with arms in Kwara
The suspected hoodlums paraded with arms recovered fro them by men of the NSCDC in Kwara State. THE operation harmony team of the Kwara State command of the Nigeria security and civil defence corps (NSCDC) has arrest...

2017-01-06

Kwara Women In "Leaps And Bounds"; Happy Over Political Appointments
Women in Kwara have expressed their appreciation to the political Leader of the state, the Distinguished Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and the Executive Governor of Kwara ...

Trekking help to shed unwanted fat, water weight - Dr Olufemi
A medical expert, Dr. Bunmi Olufemi of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, has disclosed that trekking is good for health. Olufemi said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ilorin...

Ilorin: Patients flee hospitals due to lack of money, doctors blame police
Patients on road to full recovery have begun to flee hospitals in Ilorin, refusing to pay for the treatment enjoyed, medical authorities in the Kwara State capital have said. Many of the patients flee due to their ...

Kwara Govt Compensates Relocated Land Owners
Kwara State government says it has paid compensation to the customary land owners of the new site at Asa River Bank in Ilorin where fish farmers are to be relocated. The government has also allotted the land at Yid...

Recession: Engage in SMEs, Nigerians urged
Nigerians have been tasked to embrace Small and Medium scales Enterprises (SMEs) to ameliorate effect of the economic recession in the country. A Pastor of Christ Apostolic Church, Osere area of Ilorin, Kwara State, ...