2015-09-13

Coomassie to Buhari: Probe religious organisations, others
Former Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Coomasie, yesterday backed President Muhammadu Buhari in his fight against corruption. Coomasie, who is the Sardaunan Katsina, urged the president to extend the cru...

Kwara Tertiary Institutions Give Ultimatum Over Unpaid Salaries
Staff of Tertiary Institutions in Kwara State have given an ultimatum to the state government to embark on an industrial strike by the 20th of this month if their five months salary arrears are not paid. The...

KWARA: Workers Still Undecided Over CPS
THE best way to effectively capture the condition of retirees in Kwara at the moment is captured by the Chairman of the state's chapter of Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria (ARPON), Yakubu Abdul CSP (rt...

2015-09-12

APC members murmur, grumble in Kwara
The delay in the appointment of commissioners in Kwara State has no doubt caused subdued apprehension among those who believe they actively worked for the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last gene...

NUJ Knocks Kwara Government Over Unpaid Salaries Of Journalists
The National League of Veteran Journalists (NALVEJ) and Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ)in Kwara State on Friday appealed to the state government to pay journalists in its employment their three months salary arrear...

Dearth Of Pharmacists Threatens Hospitals In Kwara
IF there was a project the Kwara state government ever got rightly in the past five years of the regime of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, then it must be a quality health system. Ahmed had ordered comprehensive r...

OPINION: Jonathan: One hundred days after. By Abdulrazaq Magaji
When last did you sit back to imagine another four years of a Jonathan presidency? Better still, how would it be if Nigerians were doomed to be marking a second one hundred days of Goodluck Jonathan? Well, I have! And, th...

COED Ilorin Releases Admission List
The Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin has released the 1st batch of the 2015/2016 admission list. Visit the college's website for more details. The c...

OPINION: Buhari: Between Political Affinity And National Rebirth. By Abdulqadir Ibrahim Abikan
When President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) was weeping for Nigeria shortly after the 2011 general elections, only a very few citizens appreciated the level of rot in the governance of the nation at that time and his benef...

107 die in crane crash at Makkah Haram
A massive construction crane crashed in the Grand Mosque in stormy weather on Friday evening, killing at least 107 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities said. The tragedy occurred as hundreds of thou...

OPINION: Still on the Buhari, Tinubu and Saraki Affair. By Chima Chime
I am an adopted 'Lagos boy', a self-styled 'Buharist', a fan of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and a believer in the notion that the APC is the best thing to happen to Nigeria ...

2015-09-11

Toyin Saraki canvasses better funding for midwifery education
Wife of the President of the Senate, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, on Thursday, canvassed for adequate funding of midwifery education in the country to afford nurses and midwives the opportunity for further professional developme...

Inferno: Gov. Ahmed sympathises with shop owners
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has sympathized with shop owners at Oko-Olowo in Ilorin South local government area, whose shops were gutted by fire. Governor Ahmed in a statement signed by his Chief ...

Press Release: Our Interventions on Kwara Issues are the Whole Truth - Kwars APC Caucus
We aware of the newest slide into brazen threat and intimidation by those in authorities in our dear state - Kwara to stop what they described as 'Attacks' on the leader and the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadershi...

NSCDC To Partner Community Leaders On Security Challenges
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Thursday said that security agencies in the country had concluded arrangement to collaborate with community leaders in their efforts to tackle security challenges...

5 high profile figures interrogated by EFCC since Buhari's inauguration
Since May 29, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seemingly awoken from the slumber of the past few years. Immediately President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in, the anti-graft agency got to work,...

Don seeks relief package for livestock industry
As the livestock industry faces a critical situation with many farms nearing bankruptcy, a former Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Prof Abiodun Adeloye, has called for increased government'' financia...

Labour Unions Support Buhari's Anti-corruption Crusade
Labour leaders under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Kwara State on Thursday carried out a peaceful anti-corruption rally in Ilorin, the state capital. ...

LAKAJI, Linking Agricultural Products To Ready Markets
Nigerian farmers are constantly faced with the challenges of losing as high as 50 per cent of their total products to post harvest losses caused by inadequate processing and markets for their products. The LAKAJI corri...

BOOK: Akande's story of life and love
'In our Place', brings to reality some of the evils plaguing the Nigerian society. With 'In Our Place', one gets the impression that it is one of those works, begging for attention from the ubiquitous but eme...

Recruitment: Police Warn Public Against Fraudsters
The Police in Kwara on Thursday warned members of the public to beware of online fraudsters who may take advantage of presidential directive to recruit 10, 000 police officers to defraud them. This is contain...

Ahmed Commends Labour Unions For Supporting Anti-corruption War
The Kwara State governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has commended workers in the state and their trade unions, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for ensuring industrial harmony in the state; de...

Akanbi Drums Support For PMB's Anti- Graft War
The pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Mustapha Akanbi on Thursday urged Nigerians to pray for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari's anti- ...

KWARA UTD TIE: Groin injury stops Salami
Warri Wolves will be without the services of their utility striker Gbolahan Salami when they confront Kwara United in week 29 Glo Premier League clash on Sunday in Warri. SportingLife reports that the ganglin...

Ilorin Fire Accident: Atunwa Commiserates With Traders
In a fire accident at Okolowo market in Ilorin, Kwara state, where goods and infrastructure worth N8.5million were destroyed, the lawmaker representing Asa/Ilorin West Federal Constituency at the House of Representativ...

2015-09-10

'Forgery', 'Falsehood' and crisis of legitimacy in the Senate
For now, the more you look at issues at the Nigerian Senate, the less you understand them. This situation, perhaps, explains the events unfolding at the Senate since the emergence of the new leadership. It a...

Kwara NURTW members regain freedom
Eleven members of the Kwara State branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) recently arraigned in court in connection with the clash between members of the union and the Road Transport Employers As...

Driver dies, DSS official escapes death in Kwara robbery
A gang of armed robbers on Tuesday night shot dead a commercial driver identified as Elijah at Onipanu, between Saki East Council and Baruten Council of Oyo State and Kwara respectively. An eyewitness account...

IBEDC Requires N10bn to Boost Steady Power Generation
Seventh months after the take-off of the transitional electricity companies in the country, the management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has said the company required about N10billion to purchase p...

Opinion: Haba, Mr. Senate President! By Taofeeq Nasir & Bakare Idris
SIR: Ordinarily, it would not be out of place to commend the gesture of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki in awarding N1million scholarship to two first class law graduates from University of Ilorin, but no! The subt...

Nigeria's Forgotten Children
The Nigerian government continues to pay lip service to funding malnutrition programmes, but the dire consequence has been the underdevelopment and death of many children around the country. Solomon Elusoji writes ...

Gambari: Buhari Should not Throw Away Confab Reports
Former Foreign Affairs Minister and Nigeria's ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, was among the 20 prominent Nigerians honoured with Lifetime Achievement Awards during the 20th...

Chibok Girls and Unanswered Questions, 1,5 Year Later (Pt 2)
Editor's note: In his recent interview to BBC Hausa, President Muhammadu Buhari reworded his concern about the still-missing Chibok girls, revealing the army's official assessment of the girls' destinies. Naij.com cont...

I did not spend Kobo from my Kwara pension - Saraki
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said that he has not spent a Kobo from his pension as former governor of Kwara State. Speaking when he presented scholarships to two Nigeria Law School st...