2015-05-07

Two die in ilorin road accident
Two persons died yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, in a road accident. The accident, which occurred in Irewolede on New Yidi road, involved a Siena space bus, a tricycle belonging to a fast food c...

OPINION - Ilorin: A People and a City in Transition. By Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia
Ilorin, a city situated in the northernmost part of Yorubaland and the southwesternmost Emirate in the Sokoto Caliphate, has been continuously inhabited since the late 18th century. Ilorin emirate itself came into...

OPINION: Ilorin in the Grip of Self Abnegation and Stakeholders' Lethargy. By Oba Abdukadir Laaro
Suddenly, Ilorin's culture of Islamic scholarship, pursuit of excellence and associated culture of productive life are fast receding and a depressing culture of material consciousness is emerging leading to self abnegati...

Kwara Utd Coach targets total victory in Umuahia
Kwara United FC of Ilorin, Technical Adviser, Tunde Abdulrahman, has said that his wards are in high spirits to take the three points in Umuahia on Sunday, when his team square up with Abia Warriors. Abdulrahman, ...

OPINION: Bleed Not My City. By Idris Abubakar Abdulkadir
The news of a bleeding town hit me like the earthquake in Nepal which has so far recorded about 6,000 deaths with thousands unaccounted for. While our case (Ilorin) may not have recorded a figure as high as Nepals', it ...

OPINION: Ilorin to Lagos by road. By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu
I AM typing these lines  somewhere in Ikeja, Lagos. I arrived on Sunday to attend the funeral ceremony of Funke’s mother. Funke is Yombo Aderinto’s wife; and Yombo is my friend, from our days at...

The crisis in Agbarere must stop - National Pilot's Editorial
Media reports have it that the Agbarere community in Ilorin was attacked by hoodlums last weekend. They were said to have stormed the area in a Gestapo style unleashing mayhem and destruction, leaving in its wake sorro...

OPINION: The Next Senate President Of The 8th National Assembly And The Future Of Nigeria. By Ishowo Lateef
The fall of the most giant political party in the black world came to its members like a blow in the face. However, the reality of losing their firm grip on the polity is now staring the party’s faithfuls in the...

Kwara 2015: How PDP worked against itself.
Just like in some other states, President Goodluck Jonathan lost his re-election bid in Kwara State in the just concluded general election. AROWONA ABDULAZEEZ writes on how the Peoples Democratic Party worked against i...

2015-05-06

Senate presidency: Kwara APC canvasses retention of zoning formula
All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has appealed to the national leadership of the party to retain the zoning arrangement, which zoned the position of the Senate president to the North-Central. Thi...

APFON wants Yekini immortalised
President of the Association of Professional Footballers of Nigeria, Dahiru Sadi has called on the federal government through the Nigeria Football Federation to immediately immortalise late Super Eagles striker, Rashid...

The many battles of Nigeria's investment promoter
The change of baton in May 2014 at the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) witnessed some cooling down of acceleration in the drive for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to allow for acclimatization by the new...

Ahmed tasks journalists on nation building
Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has charged stakeholders in the media to remain agents of change by holding tenaciously to the ideals of the profession while upholding human dignity and decency. Ahmed ...

Justice Fati Abubakar to Address Governors' Wives' Awards
Justice Fati Abubakar, former First Lady of Nigeria and Chief Justice of Niger State will deliver the keynote address at the 2015 edition of the Most Valuable Governors' Wives Awards [MVGWA] ceremony scheduled to take ...

NFF, Kanu Pay Tribute to Yekini
The Nigeria Football Federation and former Eagles striker Nwankwo Kanu have paid tribute to Nigeria's highest goal scorer of all time late, Rashidi Yekini two years to the day he died in 2012. The Kwara State...

Senate presidency: PDP plots to return Mark
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is plotting to return Senate President David Mark to his position in the next Assembly, Daily Trust gathered in Abuja yesterday. Sources in the PDP told Daily Trust that the...

'Oil, Gas Business Top Others in Premium Generation'
The Managing Director of Mansard Insurance Plc, Mrs. Yetunde Ilorin has said that out of the N17.40 billion gross premium written by the company in 2014, oil and gas business remained the strongest contributor in t...

Fuel scarcity worsens in Ilorin
Traffic wardens in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, went on partial vacation yesterday as the number of vehicles on the roads reduced drastically due to fuel scarcity that got worse over the weekend. Commuters, m...

North Central must produce Senate Presidency - Kwara APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state on Tuesday appealed to the national leadership of the party not to distort the zoning arrangement which ceded the position of the senate president to the North-Central...

Buhari - Lagos-Maiduguri Trekker Arrives Ilorin
Hassan Umar, a 36-year old Nigerian trekking from Lagos to Maiduguri in celebration of the victory of General Mohammadu Buhari, the President-elect, arrived Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Tuesday to continue his jo...

2015-05-05

Why Saraki Should Be Senate President - Saheed Popoola
Prince Saheed Popoola is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State. He spoke with KEHINDE AKINPELU on national issues. Excerpts: How do you see the recent general election w...

Senate Presidency: Benue Muslim Clerics Call On Saraki, Others To Step Down For Akume
As the national leadership of All Progressives Congress deliberates on zoning of political offices, the Benue State Forum of Imams and Ulamas yesterday appealed to Senator Bukola Saraki and other senators eyeing the po...

Saraki, Akume And The Race For Senate Presidency
By next month, precisely June 6, the National Assembly is billed to change its leadership. MUYIWA OYINLOLA examines the likely successor of the Senate President, David Mark who has been piloting the affairs of the Red ...

Agbarere Fracas: Saraki Donates N3million To Affected Families
The chairman Senate committee on Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki has donated N3million to heads of five families whose residential buildings were torched during the recent fracas that broke out...

Persistent scarcity: Petrol marketer calls for repair of refineries
An independent petroleum marketer in Kwara, Alhaji Kunle Sanni, has called on the incoming government to repair the nation's refineries, to resolve the lingering fuel scarcity. He made the call in llorin on M...

Senior Advocate Sets Agenda For Buhari
Alegal luminary, Malam Yusuf Ali (SAN) has stressed the need for the incoming administration of Gen. Muammadu Buhari to summon the political will to tackle the problems of corruption in the country. Ali spoke...

Unilever Appreciates Consumers' Loyalty With 'Alarambara' Programme
As part of efforts aimed at deepening penetration and sales of Unilver products, especially Sunlight pink variant, the Unilever Nigeria Plc has introduced a weekly radio drama series tagged "Alarambara Radio Show" to e...

Don Proposes Compulsion Of Geography Study In Schools
A don at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Ilorin, Professor Raphael Abiodun Olawepo, has proposed compulsionof geography study at the secondary school level, to facilitate develop...

Intensive lobby for political posts begins in Kwara
AS Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State, newly-elected for second term of four years, continues to savour his victory in office, the population of members of his All Progressives Congress (APC) jostling for politic...

Task force arrests 22 hoodlums in Ilorin
The Kwara State Anti-Thuggery Task Force yesterday said it has arrested 22 suspected hoodlums at various locations in Adeta and Pakata areas of Ilorin, the state capital. Alhaji Suleiman Abdulsalam, the Senio...

NAFDAC boss issues deadline on authentication of antibiotics
MANUFACTURERS of anti malaria and antibiotics drugs in the country have been given up to July this year to emboss on their products scratch and text mobile authentication signs. According to the Director Gene...

Opinion: Attention, Kwara govt By Adebayo Adewumi
The people of Ero-omo, Offa Garage, Ilorin have been in total blackout for the past three weeks as the transformer that supplies electricity for the whole community got spoilt. This is drastically affecting b...

2015-05-04

Petrol sells at N300 per litre in Kwara
Despite the suspension of strike by petrol tankers in the country, fuel scarcity has worsened in Kwara State with a litre of petrol selling at N300 per litre at the weekend, Daily Trust findings have shown. The scarci...

NAFDAC DG Visits Ilorin Emir
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed fake drugs, unwholesome foods and other substandard regulated products valued at N30 billion in the last six and half years. ...

Zenith Basketball: Ilorin, Asaba, chase Phase 2 rights
The Technical Committee of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) yesterday presented Ilorin and Asaba as the two cities bidding for the hosting rights of the 2nd phase of the 2015 Zenith Bank Women Basketball League...

Offa Poly Student Drowns in Well
A student, Akojede Sodeeq, and a man who tried to rescue him have both died inside a well at Igbawere village, Offa LGA of Kwara state. Sodeeq, a National Diploma 1 s...

Dwindling Allocations Affecting Kwara - Gov Ahmed
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed yesterday reviewed the financial position of the state in the past few months and concluded that the dwindling monthly allocations from the federation account had put Kwara...

Photo News: Gbemisola Saraki's 50th Birthday
Gbemi Saraki was 50 on Sunday. ...