2016-12-03

Kwara Police Launch Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit
Kwara Police Launch Public Complaint Rapid Response UnitThe Kwara State Police Command, in an attempt to ensure that the officers comply with the change begins with me policy of the federal government has launched a unit ...

Illegal Recruitment: Kwara Govt To Sanction Indicted Officials
Five individuals indicted for the illegal recruitment of 971 workers into Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) are to face disciplinary action. Addressing journalists on Friday after the State Executive...

Kwara Govt To Commence Construction of KWASU Campuses in Osi, Ilesha-Baruba
The Kwara State government has approved the construction of two campuses for the Kwara State University in Osi and Ilesha-Baruba at a contract sum of N2.8billion. The Commissioner for Information and Communication, A...

Winners emerge in Kwara tax club quiz competition
Government Secondary School (GSS), Omu-Aran has won maiden edition of tax club quiz competition organized by Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) for secondary schools in the State. The school defeated five...

Kwara to spend N9.5bn on 78 km street-light, others
The Kwara State Government on Friday said it will spend the total sum of N6.7billion on street light project to cover 78km roads in the Ilorin metropolis. It added that the sum of N2.8 billion will also be expended on ...

Winners of Kwara community mini-marathon to get N.2m scholarship
The Skylarks' Club of Omu Aran, headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara, says it will award N200,000 scholarship to each winner of the community-organised mini-marathon. A member of the social club, Alhaji...

Saraki shows strength
Thursday's unveiling of former minister of youth and sports, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi as the new spokesman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC may have been programmed to fill the vacancy that existed since the minis...

Kwara discovers 971 illegal teachers
The Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Alhaji Musa Yeketi, on Friday disclosed that the state government had discovered 971 illegally employed teachers in the state. He also said ...

Kwara government approves return of outreach programmes into colleges
The Kwara State Executive Council has approved the return of outreach programmes into the State College of Education, Oro and Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS). Briefing newsmen on the...

2016-12-02

KWHA urges KWSG to fund Kaiama-Kishi road project through IF--K
The Kwara State Government has been urged to ensure that the N600m approved by the Federal Government on Kaiama-Kishi road Project is accessed to make the Contractor handling the road project returns to site immediately....

Extend KWARTMA services to other parts of the State, KWHA charges KWSG
The Kwara State Government has been urged to recruit more personnel for the State Road Traffic Management Agency, to enable it extend its Services to other major towns and Cities in the State. This is part of the resol...

Kwara Speaker Hails APC on Abdullahi's Appointment as Party's Spokesman
Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Dr. Ali Ahmad, has hailed the decision of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to select the former minister of sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, as its new Spokespers...

19 die, as buses ram into stationary trucks
A road accident claimed 13 lives at Otte, on the outskirt of Ilorin, along Ilorin-Ogbomosho Expressway, when a passenger bus ran into a stationary truck, Wednesday. Vanguard gathered that enraged members of the com...

ESSPIN spends N450m on basic education in Kwara
Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara has said that the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria has committed at least N450m to the development of basic education in the state. Ahmed made the disclosure on Frid...

Saraki congratulates Abdullahi on emergence as APC spokesman
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Thursday congratulated the newly-elected National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. Saraki, in a statement by his Spec...

Private varsities lack quality manpower to perform - Ex-VC
Former Vice-Chancellor of Uthman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, Prof. Riskuwa Shehu, says private universities in Nigeria lack qualified academic and non-academic staff to offer quality education. Shehu, in an intervi...

2017 Budget will be passed quickly and with ease - Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki has expressed optimism that the 2017 budget will be passed sooner than the 2016 budget was, and without rancour. He gave his assurance when he spoke with State House correspondents afte...

Niger govt hails Bolaji Abdullahi's emergence as APC spokesman
TRENDING Akwa Ibom Assembly confirms 18 nominees as commissioners Ebuehi's parents promise player will honour Eagles next call-up – Rohr NSCDC moves to prevent farmers, herdsmen conflict in Edo Despite criticism, Ogun...

NAFDAC destroys N30m counterfeit products
The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday in Ilorin destroyed counterfeit medicines and other unwholesome products worth N30 million. Speaking at the destruction site, the Acti...

Hoodlums who strangled widow to death over money, bags of rice nabbed in Kwara
A group of suspected robbers who strangled a widow to death in Kwara State and carted away money and bags of rice,has been nabbed. The suspects were employed by the rice farmer, Mrs. Florence Ede and they conspired...

2016-12-01

Bolaji Abdullahi is new APC Spokesman
A former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has been picked as the new spokesperson of Nigeria's governing All Progressives Congress, APC. Mr. Abdullahi succeeds Lai Mohammed who was appointed Minister of Informati...

World AIDS Day: Saraki seeks end to stigmatisation
SENATE President, Bukola Saraki, called for an end to all forms of discrimination and stigmatization against persons living with HIV/AIDS. Saraki spoke as World Health Organisation, WHO, declared yesterday that mo...

Pre-season Friendly: ABS beat Magate Academy
Newly promoted Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) side, Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC on Wednesday thrashed Magate Football Academy of Lagos 3-1 in a pre-season friendly. The visitors opened the s...

APC gets new spokesperson today
Barring any last minute changes, the All Progressives Congress will today (Thursday), hold a mini convention to elect a new National Publicity Secretary. A usually reliable source in the party told Punch correspond...

Saraki Congratulates Akeredolu, Says Ondo Could Not Have Made a Better Choice
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Sunday, congratulated the Governor-Elect of Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, over his victory in the Saturday governorship election in the State. Saraki in a ...

Gov Ahmed seeks KWHA approval to Access N1bn Agric Loan
The Kwara State Governor Alhaji Abdul Fatah Ahmed has sought the approval of the State House of Assembly to access N1b CBN Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme facility from the Union Bank PLC. In his message to th...

Gov. Ahmed calls for military at borders
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has called for the establishment of military formations in border communities across the state to strengthen security of lives and property. Ahmed made the call when he...

Kwara sets new date to begin implementation of Infrastructure fund
The implementation of the Kwara Infrastructure Development Fund, which was previously scheduled to commence on December 1, has now been postponed to December 8, 2016. According to a statement by Dr. Muyideen Akorede,...

ARMTI holds lecture today
The Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, will today hold its 19th Annual Lecture Programme entitled; 'Youth in Agriculture; Possibilities and Opportunities for Sustainable Agricultural Bus...

13 Die In Ogbomoso-Ilorin Express Road Auto Crash
Thirteen people, 12 males and one female on Wednesday lost their lives in an auto crash along Ogbomoso-Ilorin express road. The victims were said to have died on the spot before any medical attention could reach th...

Centre trains 60 women on agro-processing skills in Ilorin
The Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) has trained 60 farmers drawn across the 36 states of the federation on the use of agro-processing machines. The Acting Director of the Ilorin-based NCAM, Dr Yomi Kas...

Kwara to rate local councils' performance on payment of salaries
The Kwara State government would grade the performance of the Transition Implementation Committees (TICs) for the 16 local councils in the state strictly on the prompt payment of the councils' staff salaries. The g...

Summit University to feed Kwara
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Hussien Oloyede, of the newly licensed Summit University in Offa, Kwara State has declared that apart from imparting knowledge on their students, the institution will also engaged in mechani...

2016-11-30

Toyin Saraki, Gimbiya Dogara, Forums Of Senators and Representatives Wives Donate Towards Restoration And Rehabilitation Of IDPs Lives
In a uniquely unprecedented unity, the wives of Distinguished Senators of the 8th Senate and wives of Honorable Members of the House of Representatives led by Chair of the Forum of Senators' Wives; Her Excellency Mrs. Toy...

Sun Award: Nigeria Directors of sports forum congratulates Dikko
The forum of Nigeria Directors of Sports has congratulated the Chairman of the League Management Company (LMC), Malam Shehu Dikko over his award as the Sun Sports Personality of the year. The Forum in a statement o...

Reflections as Sunday Adeleke bows of service
Some 30 years ago, Sunday Joshua Adeleke, joined the service of Kwara State government as a teaching staff under the state Education Management Board before he later made his way into the mainstream civil service as an in...

KWHA urges KWSG to fund Kaiama-Kishi road project through IF-K
The Kwara State Government has been urged to ensure that the N600m approved by the Federal Government on Kaiama-Kishi road Project is accessed to make the Contractor handling the road project returns to site immediately. ...

Foundation organises English and Mathematics competition for students
No fewer than 250 students on Tuesday participated in an inter-schools Mathematics and English competition in Omu-Aran, Kwara, organised by SOK Foundation.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the annual compe...

Saraki: Poor Sports Funding Unacceptable
*Appointed National SWAN Patron Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday described as totally unacceptable and embarrassing the situation where teams travelling out of Nigeria to represent the country in global ...

DPR Registers 560 Fuel Stations In Kwara State
The Comptroller of the Department of Petroleum Resources, (DPR), in Kwara State, Mr Philip Salvation, has disclosed that about 560 filling stations are duly registered in the state. He also pledged that, the agency...

INTERVIEW: How we'll determine authentic PDP faction - INEC
In this exclusive interview with KAYODE ADEOTI, the Head of Voters' Education Publicity Department and Civil Society Organisation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kwara State, Barr. Jacob Iyanda ...