2016-04-18

Let Senate sit while Saraki faces his trial - CCT
The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, declared on Monday that he would not suspend the trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in defiance to the sitting of the Senate. About 13 ...

Saraki's wife denied link to husband's firms - Witness
The Federal Government’s first prosecution witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, on Monday ended his three days testimony in the ongoing trial of the the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on 13 counts of false asset de...

CCT Adjourns, Saraki's Trial Continues Tomorrow
The Code of Conduct Tribunal has adjourned the trial of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to 12 noon tomorrow (Tuesday). Details shortly...

OPINION: Why Buhari appointed Gbemi Saraki as a Pro-Chancellor. By Mohammed Abdulkareem
It was on a fateful Friday, and it was supposed to be just like any other. But in the life of Sen. Gbemisola Saraki and her larger political family, it was a Friday that they would never forget in a hurry. It was a day ...

Saraki faces day-to-day trial, as protesters besiege CCT
The Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja has ordered a day-to-day hearing on the 13-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Justice Danladi Umar who made the ...

Kwara begins Chief of Naval Staff U-14 campaign
Kwara U-14 team has been drawn in Group C alongside Enugu, Kaduna and Navy team for the 15th edition of the Chief of Naval Staff U-14 Boys Soccer Championship which kicked off in Abuja today. Kwara team, made...

Kwara accords monarchs their pride of place
Saturday ,April 16,2016 will remain evergreen in the minds of the people of Irepodun, Isin and Ekiti Local Government Areas Of Kwara state. It was a day set aside by the state government to present four...

KWSG yet to access bond - Gov Ahmed
Against the widely spread rumour that Kwara State Government has accessed a bond as earlier proposed, the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah has dismissed the rumour. He further explained that the government had just g...

G-20 Kwara youth association kicks against Saraki's trial at CCT
Irked by what it described as persecution of Kwara political leader, the G-20 Kwara Youth Association has berated the process of trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (C...

Crisis looms at Offa Poly over selection of rector - lecturers
Some lecturers of the Federal Polytechnic Offa, in Kwara State on Sunday raised the alarm that crisis was looming in the institution over the selection or appointment of the next Rector of the Polytechnic. But ...

INTERVIEW: Why I chose acting over law - Femi Adebayo
Yoruba movie actor, Femi Adebayo, has been around for some time now, but, according to him, his love for movies is fuelled by a desire to uphold an ailing culture. This became even more pronounced when the ...

2015 IGR: Kwara Tops Poor Performers
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has identified the eleven states of Ogun, Anambra, Borno, Edo, Bauchi, Abia, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Taraba and Sokoto as the only states that recorded improvement in their 2014 reco...

Budget delay negatively affecting economy - Ali Ahmad
The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad, on Friday said that the non-signing of the 2016 budget has negatively affected the country's "already ailing" economy. Stating that the delay was unfavourab...

KWSG to sponsor 800 candidates for NBAIS exams
No fewer than 2, 000 candidates across Kwara State at the weekend sat for the the 2016 Mock Examination conducted by the state government for Arabic schools. The Examination which was held simultaneously in Ilorin,...

Anti-Saraki Forces Mobilise Ex-Student Leaders for Protest March
Some politicians opposed to Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki have at the weekend intensified their plots to put pressure on the former Governor of Kwara State and compelled him to resign from office. Sou...

OPINION: Amendment of CCB/CCT Law Will Enhance Neutrality - NNPCG
As events unfold in the political scene ,Nigerians and indeed the whole world are getting better educated and well informed about the hypocritical ?stance of our ruling elites as the day pass by. ?The call for t...

OPINION: Saraki: Between Nemesis and the Leader. By Saka Salawu
Dr. Bukola Saraki is an important, well-known political actor in contemporary Nigerian democratic political dispensation. A two-term governor of Kwara State, and now the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...

Saraki vs FG: Trial Resumes at CCT Today
The trial of the President of the Senate, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, for alleged false declaration of assets at the Code of Conduct Tribunal resumes today. The case was adjourned after the prosecution led two wit...

2016-04-17

INTERVIEW: People think actresses can't be loyal to their husbands - Annes Anaekwe
Annes Anaekwe, fondly known as Finest is a Nollywood super screen diva. She was born and bred in Ilorin, Kwara State. She attended University of Ilorin and today, she is an actress. In this interview with ADAEZE AM...

CCT: Saraki's camp in disarray as Senators seek end to crises
Hours after the refusal of the fundamental rights application by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stop his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) by a Federal High Court in Abuja, there were...

Saraki: Timi Frank Disagrees with Oyegun on Trial
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi Frank, has described the position of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, endorsing the Code of Conduct Tribunal (...

ANALYSIS: Nigeria's ruling party at war with itself
In less than one year of its ascension to power, the ruling All Progressives Congress is bedevilled with internal crises. Unless these crises are contained early enough, the party’s chances of returning to power ...

Saraki's trial: Nigeria Labour Congress, civic groups advise Senate not to amend anti-corruption law
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has c alled on the Nigerian Senate to jettison its ongoing effort to change the country’s anti-corruption laws. A civil society group, Transition Monitoring Group, also push...

With 18 children and 15 grandchildren, I regret polygamy - Adebayo Salami
"I was so much in love with my wife, you can imagine that my life was such a predictable one, I mean from the house to the office and when I close at work, I will go to Zaad Supermarket where I will pick some items for...

Kwara NSCDC declares war on illegal miners
THE Kwara State command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has declared war on illegal miners and unauthorised mining activities in the state. Speaking during the inauguration of a 100-ma...

UITH boss opposes 11-year course duration for medical students
The Chief Medical Director of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, has cautioned against panic measures that could lead to alterations of the current modules of medical education i...

2016-04-16

Court Dismisses Ajibola's Suit Against Gov. Ahmed's Victory
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed the suit filed by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Simeon Ajibola challenging the election of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed as the governor of ...

My candid letter to Saraki, By Dele Momodu
Your Excellency, I’m convinced the time has come to write you this letter despite the fact that I have some measure of access to you. I decided to do this in order to tackle the mischief makers who believe I&rs...

INTERVIEW: Why Saraki's Corruption Trial Must Continue - APC Chairman Oyegun
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, in this brief chat with PREMIUM TIMES’ Festus Owete and Hassan Adebayo, speaks on the state of t...

Unilorin students shine at Mathematics competition
Students of the Department of Mathematics, University of Ilorin have once again made the institution proud at the 8th edition of the National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS 2016), held recently...

Kwara Government to revive Ambulance points
The Kwara State Government is to revive Ambulance points in major highways across the state to assist accident victims during emergency. Similarly, the government is to take delivery of an Asphalt plant withi...

Emir of Ilorin applauds Kwarans for prevailing peace
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari has acknowledged and applauded the prevailing peace and harmony in the state. Alhaji Sulu-Gambari, who expressed this view in his message to mark the commenceme...

2016-04-15

I was not behind power outage at Saraki's CCT trial - Zakari Mohammed
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Services, Zakari Mohammed has described a report linking him with power outage at the ongoing trial of the Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Cod...

OPINION: 10 Lies and Facts About Bukola Saraki. By OpenHouse
10 Lies & Facts about Bukola Saraki Everything you need to know about the Senate President and his Trials DID DR. BUKOLA SARAKI ACTUALLY DECLARE A N17 TRILLION WORTH OF PERSON...

OPINION: Mr President please sign the budget, Nigerians are suffering. By Hussain Obaro
It is on record that the APC and its campaign team branded the immediate past PDP administration, led by former President Jonathan as “Clueless” and one having no solution to the array of problems bedeviling t...

OPINION: Corruption trial: Day of reckoning for Saraki? By Femi Yusuf
The Friday 5th of February, 2016 Supreme Court judgment on the issue of Senate President, Bukola Saraki's case at Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) got me thinking about the hey days of his administration as the executive go...

Kwara Arabic Board to conduct mock examination for Arabic schools on Saturday
?The Kwara State Arabic Education Board has said that the 2016 Mock Examinations for Arabic schools ?across the state will come up on Saturday 16 April 2016 at the College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies Ilorin. ...

Senate Intervenes on Debts Owed GENCOs by FG
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has mandated the Senate Committee on Power to liaise with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Federal Ministry of Finance on how to address the debts owed to the Electricity Gen...

Court dismisses Saraki's application, says he must face trial at CCT
A Federal High Court in Abuja has again dismissed the application by Senate President Bukola Saraki seeking nullification of his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. Mr. Saraki is standing tria...

Poverty ravages 112m Nigerians
Over 112 million Nigerians live below poverty line, a group, Brain Builders International said in Ilorin yesterday. The group, which copiously alluded to a World Bank report, also disclosed that a mere 28 per cent of ...

Respite underway for Kwarans - Gov Ahmed
Respite will soon come the way of Kwara residents who are yet to access basic amenities across the state, as the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed vowed to deploy certain amenities across the state at the beginni...

Kwara LGs get N1.2b for salaries, pension
Succour came yesterday to local government workers and pensioners as the 16 local government areas in Kwara state received N1.6billion monthly allocation to pay salary and pension. Similarly, the 16 loc...

Saraki, Dogara block Buhari's move to change 2016 budget
The controversy over 2016 budget is far from over as Senate president, Bukola Saraki has moved against attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to doctor the 2016 budget. According to a report by Signal, Dr Sara...

Provost makes case for technical education... commends Gov Ahmed for his entrepreneurship drive
The need for state and federal governments to prioritize technical education in the country's quest for technological breakthrough has been stressed. The Provost, Kwara State College of Education Technical, L...

Kwara Assembly summons Environment Commissioner over indiscriminate felling of trees
The Kwara House of Assembly on Thursday summoned the state Commissioner for Environment and Forestry, Otunba Taiwo Joseph over indiscriminate felling of trees in various parts of the state. The House in a res...

Kwara proposes 14-yr jail term for cultists
Kwara State government, yesterday said an executive bill pending in the state House of Assembly, had a 14-year jail term for convicted cultists when signed into law. The Bill, a part of the efforts of the government to...