2015-08-08

OPINION - Prof. Jamui Oyawoye: Celebrating Africa's 'Father of Geology'. By Hafsat Magaji
As has become the tradition over the past several years, the world will literally descend on Offa, Kwara state, in North Central Nigeria on August 12 to celebrate one of Africa’s greatest sons. Occasion is the bir...

Opinion: Divine Messages In Mother Tongues, By Sulaiman A. Osho
The three surviving heavenly religions are perhaps creating challenges of terrorism in the globe out of desperation for expansion, political gains, and economic adventurism. Perhaps, the Jewish religion is desperate to...

Petitions Against Ex-Govs, Families Flood EFCC
A huge number of damning petitions are currently being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), LEADERSHIP WEEKEND has learnt. According to senior operatives of the commission, some...

Hunchback's burial causes panic, apprehension in Kwara
Fear has gripped residents of Omu-Aran in Kwara following the reported burial of one Femi, a hunchback, who died in a motor accident on Aug. 3. According to claims, by the tradition, it is a taboo to bury a pe...

OPINION: Saraki and first coup in National Assembly. By Reuben Bojor
Now, the leadership of the National Assembly is in the hands of a new party, APC and the tussle for its leadership not different from what we had experienced from PDP from 1999 until date. The media is awash with the stor...

OPINION. Saraki's Visit to the IDP Camps and Matters Arising. By Wale Bakare
When the Senate President, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, touched down in Maiduguri the Borno State capital, not many envisaged that this will be more than the 'usual' visit with its characteristic political glamour o...

OPINION: 8th National Assembly Under Saraki; The Journey So Far. By Baba Idris
Since Nigeria got her independence in 1960, we have witnessed eras and reigns of different political titans and military dictators who have helped forge the Nigeria that we see today. The Nigeria that we see today, h...

OPINION: Emergence Of Change: Saraki And The 8th National Assembly. By Saka Olawale
Before the emergence of  Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki  as the President of the 8th National Assembly it was a strict contest  between Senator  Bukola Saraki and Senator Ahmad Lawa...

2015-08-07

Varsity teacher urges evolution of indigenous language policy
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, Atlanta, United States, Dr. Akinloye Ojo, has canvassed prompt revision, adequate development and better implementation of Nigeria's national ...

20-year-old slits niece's throat after stealing her school fees
A 20-year-old student of the College of Education, Special, in Oyo town, Oyo State, Olajide Ajayi, who attempted to murder his niece identified as Opeyemi Ajala by cutting her throat after stealing her school fees, is ...

Kwara Poly gets deputy rector
Former Director of Consultancy Services, Mrs. Olubunmi Olayinka Ajibade, has been appointed Deputy Rector (Academics) of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin. A statement signed by the Deputy Registrar (Establ...

'Petrol price may crash next week' - Association urges members to sell off available products
The price of petroleum products may crash in the coming week, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) said on Wednesday, August 8. The IPMAN Chairman, Alhaji Sulaiman O. Olanrewaju, disclose...

JSS 3 girl commits suicide over love affair
A 14 year-old girl yesterday committed suicide in Ilorin after a disagreement with her boyfriend who allegedly threatened to kill her over an affair with another lover. Aishat Oba, a Junior Secondary School (...

Kwara community denies death of OPC members
Agbamu community, a town in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State has debunked publications in some national dailies that three members of Odua People Congress(OPC) died during a fracas at the 10th anniversary ...

Dolphins Lose 2-1 At Kwara United
Dolphins lost again on the road despite taking an early lead against Kwara United in Ilorin on Wednesday. Omoh Johnson opened scores in the 21st minute when he took out two defenders on the run and shot from...

2015-08-06

Kwara Poly suspends students on criminal charges
The Principal Assistant Registrar (Academic), Mr. Ahmed Yahaya, said in a statement that the suspension followed a report received from Oke-Oyi Divisional Police Headquarters. One of the students, with regist...

Federation Cup - Teams Gear Up for Final Stages
All the 16 teams that will be involved in the quarter -final matches of this year's men and women Federation Cup competitions are looking forward to next week's games across the country. In the women's compet...

Opinion: Bukola Saraki in Maiduguri: Tentative first steps for 2019 presidency, By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu
ON Monday this week, Bukola Saraki led a team of his closest senate collaborators on a visit to Maiduguri. Any rookie political analyst could have seen through the stage-managed trip, given the near-presidential halo a...

11 remanded over Kwara NURTW, RTEAN clash
An Ilorin Magistrate's Court, yesterday, remanded 11 persons over the transport workers' clash at Offa, Kwara State, last Sunday, which claimed the life of one person and caused injuries to many. Police p...

Kwara House want federal prison relocated
The Kwara State House of Assembly has urged the Military and Prison authorities to stop harassing residents around Oke-Kura Area in Ilorin West Local Government Area with immediate effect to enable them go about their ...

Assembly advises Kwara on new parks
The Kwara State House of Assembly has enjoined the state government to as a matter of urgency either provide or make it possible for the construction of trailer parks through Public Private Partnership arrangement in t...

Kwara not owing WAEC, says Ahmed
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Sunday, said the state was not among the states owing the West African Examinations Council N4bn examination fees. The governor also said there was no pla...

Sani blames Kwara United's poor run on late recruitment
Kwara United FC sweat merchant, Tunde Sani has blamed the team's poor runs in the league to poor recruitment at the start of the season. Sani took charge of the team following the sacking of former Technical ...

Amputee Soccer Day Holds In Kwara
Maiden edition of Kwara State Amputee Soccer competition will holding on Tuesday 18th August, at the main-bowl of the Kwara State Stadium in IIorin beginning from 10:00am. According to Sarafadeen Olalekan Oye...

Cultism, drug abuse throw Kwara into confusion
Sometime in August 2013, the Kwara State Police Command announced the arrest of 30 suspected cultists along Eiyenkorin, a suburb of Ilorin, the state capital. It was one arrest that shocked many residents and opinion l...

Kwara Assembly warns security operatives against harassing residents
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to relocate the Federal Prison at Oke-Kura in Ilorin to its permanent site at Mandala in Asa Local Government Area due the alleged haras...

2015-08-05

Kachikwu fires NNPC's group executive directors, appoints Isiaka Abdulrazak GED
The new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu, has commenced a shake-up of the organisation. Dr Kachikwu on Wednesday, August 5, announced a restruc...

Opinion: A Senate Of Fools, Blockheads, Ignoramuses And Idiots By Bayo Oluwasanmi
Nigerian Senate is a senate of fools, blockheads, Ignoramuses, and idiots. Yes, of course I know this description of Nigerian Senate by a Nigerian is offensive to some, may be more than some people. Nonethele...

DPR Closes Fuel Station for Operating Without License
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Kwara, on Tuesday said it had sealed a filling station in the state for operating without licence. The Controller of the department in the state, Mr Amos Jokodol...

UITH - Bringing Health to Ailing Hearts
Nothing could be more painful than watching life ebbing away from one's child withno help in sight. So, it was Alhaji Mohammed Jubril , father of a 15 year old girl, Aisha and Alhaji Olanrewaju Balogun, fathe...

EFCC Visit - Group Asks NASS Clerk to Withhold Allowance of Legislators
A civil society group, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), has petitioned the Clerk of the Senate, asking him to withhold the sitting allowance of all the 25 legislators that accompanied Mrs Toyin Saraki, wife o...

Opinion: Saraki - Caught Between and Betwixt
Late Oloye Olusola Saraki's grip on the politics of his state of origin was more like a stranglehold. It earned him the sobriquet of 'Strongman of Kwara politics.' No one amounted to anything without his say-so and no one...

Business Community Commends Banks Rejection Of Dollar Deposit
Stakeholders in the business sector in Kwara State have commended the rejection of dollar deposits by commercial banks in order to control its circulation in the country. The stakeholders, who spoke separatel...

Fish Production: NSPRI, Others Develop New Harvest Technologies
The Nigerian Stored Products Research Instiute (NSPRI), Ilorin, Kwara State, the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Lagos and the National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, (NI...

Business school to train Kwara civil servants
Kwara state Deputy Governor Elder Peter Kisra cutting the tape to commission the school, while the Secretary to the state government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold and some traditional rulers watched with interest. Newly establi...

N26bn debt: DISCOs threaten to disconnect Police, Military barracks, others
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, ANED, comprising of the 11 Distribution Companies, DISCOs, is set to cut power supply to military and police barracks as well as ministries, departments and agencie...

Women group tasks FG over gender-friendly agric policies
A NON-GOVERNMENTAL and human rights organisation, dedicated to the promotion and protection of women's rights and the rule of law, Women Advocates' Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) yesterday canvassed more gen...

Election Petition Tribunal Admits Three Exhibits Against Bukola Saraki
The Legislative Houses Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ilorin at the weekend admitted three exhibits in the petition filed by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate for Kwara Central Senatorial district, Alh...

Kwara United not giving up on continental ticket
Nigeria Professional Football League side Kwara United have insisted that they not giving up hope of qualifying for the Caf Champions League or Confederation Cup just yet. The Ilorin based side were somewhat ...

NCC confiscates N4m pirated works in Ilorin
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has confiscated pirated works valued at over N4 million during a raid on outlet stores selling videos and musical works in Ilorin. The Head, Ilorin Liaison Office of th...

Two brothers nabbed for robbery in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command has arrested two brothers for allegedly attempting to disposes people around the Irewolede area of Ilorin, the state capital of their belongings. The suspects identified as Damil...

2015 polls : I'm the happiest person in Nigeria - Jega
Prof. Attahiru Jega (right) and Ahmed 'Lateef when he visited Ilorin last Saturday. Erstwhile Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commissi...

Govt Urged to Support Orphanages.
Government at all levels have been urged strengthen their support and assistance towards the wellbeing of children in the orphanage homes to improve and guarantee their upbringing in the face porus economic status of th...

OPINION: Of Africa's Resistance To The West's Gay Agenda: Only A Matter Of Time, Or A Lost Cause. By Femi Tunde Okunlola
The LGBT discussion has in recent weeks been at the centre of the news globally. Recent events has seen the once discriminated against community in America score a big win, after the American supreme court judgemen...

Angry customers throng Ilorin IBEDC over electricity cables theft, vandalisation
By Ahmed 'Lateef Scores of aggrieved electricity consumers in Ilorin besieged the Baboko office of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company over persistent cases of cables pilfering and vandalisation of electrical ...