2016-05-22

Commissioner Urges FG To Reconstruct Ohan, Moro Bridges In Kwara
The Kwara State commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Aro Yahaya, has urged the federal government to reconstruct the Ohan-Bailey and Moro Bridges on llorin-lgbeti road to ease vehicular movement on the inter-...

High rate of unemployment worries Ahmed
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has expressed worry over the rise in the unemployment rate in Nigeria. Ahmed, who was represented by the Head of Service, Hajia Zahra Omar, spoke at this year...

ECWA challenges Buhari on state of the nation
The Chairman of ECWA District Church Council (IDCC) Ilorin, Rev. Sunday Stephen Ajise has challenged the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to deliver on his campaign promises for Nigerians. Ajise made the c...

KIDS SAVED MIRACULOUSLY: 'No more holes in their hearts'
Three kids: David Adeyemi, 5; Ibrahim Mohammed, 3; and Ibrahim Mohammed Sambo , 4, with holes in their hearts, can live following open heart surgeries performed on them at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UI...

Journalists Cautioned Against Sensational Reporting
The chairman of the Kwara State council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Abiodun Abdulkareem, has cautioned journalists in the country against sensationalism in the discharge of their duties. ...

Group Seeks Legislation On Use Of Local Languages In Kwara Schools
The Kwara State House of Assembly has been asked to enact relevant laws that would support and ensure implementation of the use of local languages in the early years of education of the children. The coordina...

Monitor Budget To Curb Corruption - Unilorin Don
A professor of mathematics at the University of Ilorin, Raphael Adeniyi, has called for proper monitoring of budget implementation to minimise the errors of corruption which have resulted in large scale embezzlement o...

Water Scarcity: Kwara To Drill 938 Boreholes
The Kwara State government is to drill 938 boreholes across the state, to boost water supply to all the nooks and crannyof the state. This is according to the special adviser to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on a...

2016-05-21

Strike in health sector, crime against humanity - UITH CMD
The Chief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Dr. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo has described industrial action by health workers as criminal. He maintained that strike in the health sector is ...

Kidnapped Kwara APC Chairman, Secretary Released
The governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has confirmed the release of Hon. Ishola Balogun Fulani and Chief Bode Adekanye by their abductors. Hon. Ishola Balogun, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (...

2016-05-20

INTERVIEW: I remain Kwara PDP chairman - Oyedepo
In this interview with HEAD POLITICS DESK, MUMINI ABDULKAREEM AND KAYODE ADEOTI, the embattled chairman of the Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo speaks on the late...

INTERVIEW: National leadership would decide authentic PDP chair in Kwara - Fagbemi
In this exclusive interview, the factional chairman of the Kwara State chapter of the Peoples democratic Party, PDP, Prince Sunday Adeniran Fagbemi discuss with NATIONAL PILOT'S HEAD, POLITICS DESK, MUMINI ABDU...

Ilorin court docks police officer one year after murder
A Police Officer, Samuel Akpomoshi, has been arraigned by an Ilorin Magistrate Court for alleged murder of Chairman of Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) , Ajase-Ipo chapter, Irepodun Local Government Are...

KWASU VC, Jawondo extol late Saad Omoiya's virtues *My dad detests cheating, says son
The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Abdulrasheed Na’Allah and a Senior lecturer in University of Ilorin, Dr Ibrahim Jawondo yesterday paid glowing tributes to the former Chairman of the Aca...

Kwara APC Chairman, Secretary Kidnapped
The Kwara State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Balogun Fulani-Ishola and the party's secretary Olabode Adekanye, have been kidnapped. The spokesman for the party in the state, Sulyman Buhari, conf...

Kwara PDP limps as Oyedepo, Fagbemi battle chairmanship
In the last seven days, the discordant tune within the fold of Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State had manifested ditto at the national level of the party leading to palpable anxiety in the political circle that the p...

NLC leaders meet Saraki, Dogara, say strike continues
The President, Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and his team met for about 40 minutes behind closed-doors on Thursday evening, with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to discuss the nationwide strike over t...

Shittu Tasks Muslims On Anti- Corruption War
The Minister of Communication, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has asked Nigerian Muslims to take active part in the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari . He said this is necessary to bring about posit...

Orphanage Foundation Chair Seeks Budgetary Allocation For Orphans
The chairman of Islamic Orphanage Foundation, Ilorin, Kwara State, Architect Seefiullahi Ahmed Alege has called on the National Assembly to enact laws that will make it mandatory for the federal government to make annu...

FG sacks 106 staff of varsity staff schools
At least 106 workers of University Staff schools in the country have been allegedly sacked by the Federal Government, while another 76 members from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Osun State were also said to be o...

Coalition urges Kwara to access N220bn MSME fund
The Kwara State Coalition of Business and Professional Associations has urged the Kwara State Government to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central Bank of Nigeria to enable it to access the N220bn Micro, ...

UNILORIN Students Shine At Qur'an Memorisation Competition
Three students of the University of Ilorin have emerged as winners of Inter-Universities Qur'an Memorisation Competition organised by Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin. The winners are Sodiq Olabanji Abdul-Fattah,...

Kwara urged to set aside one per cent of budget
Business owners under the aegis of Kwara State Coalition of Business and Professional Associations (KWACOBPA) have urged the government to set aside one per cent of its annual budget to support entrepreneurs. ...

Offices, Schools Remain Closed in Kwara
As the strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) over the petrol price hike entered its second day yesterday, workers, including teachers and public service, in Kwara State stayed at home in compliance w...

Abductors of Kwara APC chiefs demand N50m ransom
Abductors of the Chairman of the APC in Kwara, Hon. Ishola Balogun-Fulani and Secretary, Chief Bode Adekanye, have demanded for N50 million ransom. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the kidnappers ...

2016-05-19

Campus writers get new members
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) chapter of the Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ) has inducted new members at the Lecture Room II of the Faculty of Law. Its president, Olayide Olayiwola, said it was the second i...

How we uncovered Saraki's N375m London property - Witness
The first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Mr. Michael Wetkas, continued his testimony on Wednesday, giving details of how his in...

Nigeria's broke - Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government has said it increased the price of petrol to raise money to run the system, since the country was broke. Government said Nigeria's foreign earnings had drastically reduced in recent times and tha...

A tale of two UNILORIN-ASUU factions
The past still haunts the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), which is perceived as the most preferred university in Nigeria. The sacking of 49 teachers by then Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem in 2001 fo...

Why We Won't Honor Ilorin Banishment - Giwa
Giwa FC will not honor the decision of the Nigeria Football Federation Disciplinary Committee banishing it to Ilorin because the verdict was not only reached by a body it considers illegal but also because the club's a...

Giwa FC risk relegation, after third no-show at Ilorin
Giwa Football Club of Jos on Wednesday in Ilorin failed to show up against Enyimba International FC of Aba for a 2015/2016 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) fixture. The Match Day 18 fixture was the...

Suspect In Murder Of MTN Staff Seized By Kwara Police In Osun
David Ogungbele, who is suspected to have killed his girlfriend in Kwara State when she rebuffed his proposal of marriage, has been arrested in Osun State. He was caught on Saturday morning in Oba-Ile, near I...

FEC okays Dangote for Lokoja-Ilorin road construction
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the proposal for business mogul, Aliko Dangote, to construct Lokoja-Obajana-Ilorin Road. Dangote Cement's Obajana factory is located along that axis. In retur...

Kwara varsity withdraws from Osundare festival over anti-Saraki poem
The decision of the Kwara State University, Malete, to withdraw from hosting the Osundare International Poetry Festival has caused disquiet among literary enthusiasts. The institution had, since about three m...

OPINION: Dr Saad Yusuf Omoiya: Veni, Vedi, Vici! By Peter Moses
"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." -William Shakesp...

Kwara Polytechnic resuscitates Radio Poly
The Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has resuscitated its Radio Polytechnic to serve as source of information to the Institution’s communities. The Rector of the Institution, Alhaji Masud Elelu who disclo...

Kwara Assembly calls for periodical Ilorin Master Plan review
In view of persistent flooding of Mandate along New Yidi Road in Ilorin Metropolis, the Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the state Ministry of Works and Transport to inspect the drainage along the New Yidi road wit...

Photo News: Justice Moradeyo Adesiyun 9th biennial memorial lecture
Alhaji Jani Ibrahim, Chairman Lubcon and Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, Guest Lecturer ...

OPINION: Last Word On The PMS Price Hike. By Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia
Some public intellectuals became unnecessarily emotional on the PMS price hike without first looking at the facts on the ground. Some of them were misleading others within their social circle about what really happened wh...

Empowerment: Deputy Speaker doles out N1.4m to Constituency
The Deputy Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Mathew Okedare said that the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government was not done to add more pains to sufferings of the citizens. Rather, he...