2015-02-12

Elections: Kwara sets up anti-thuggery task force
Kwara State government yesterday announced its readiness to establish a Special Task Force to tackle political thuggery in the state. This was sequel to the sudden upsurge in violent attacks, which mainly involve ...

Photo News: Gov. Ahmed Honoured in Ilorin
GOV. ABDULFATAH AHMED OF KWARA (L), RECEIVING A PLAQUE OF HONOUR FROM THE CHAIRMAN, RETIRED ARMY, NAVY AND AIRFORCE ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (RANAO), CAPT. IBR...

PVC Distribution: Voters React To Absence Of INEC Officials In Kwara
The announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to extend the collection of permanent voters cards in Kwara state seems not to take off yet as most of the polling centres and wards are empty. ...

Kwara Poly Resumes 23rd February
The management of Kwara State Polytechnic has released a notice highlighting the important dates in the 2014/2015 academic calendar. According to the notice,the resumption date for NDI, HND I & ND II SIWES ...

2015-02-11

Press Release - Victimised SURE-P Beneficiaries: APC hails Saraki's gesture
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Kwara State chapter has hailed the senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial district, Senator Bukola Saraki for paying salary arrears of victimised beneficiaries of SURE-P schem...

$58.4m debt: Kwara drags FG to Supreme Court
The Kwara State Government has finally dragged the Federal Government to Supreme Court over an alleged refusal to pay up a debt of $58,505,759 owed the state since 1993. The Federal Government was dragged before the a...

Police parade suspect, recovered arms and ammunition in Kwara
Kwara State police command has paraded a middle-aged graduate of Industrial Engineering from  Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Oyo State, for being in possessiion of some highly sophisticated arms and ammunition....

Kwara State Security Council calls for prosecution of political thugs
Kwara State Security Council has called on the police to prosecute all pending cases of thuggery to halt increasing incidence of political thuggery in the State. The council at its meeting headed by the state gove...

Saraki alleges plan to clamp down on opposition leaders
APC chieftain and former Kwara State governor,  Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday alleged that the federal government was planning to clamp down on opposition leaders in the country. Saraki, who is the Chairman, S...

Omotosho Pledges to Donate Pay to Aged, Less Privileged
KWARA State governorship candidate of Labour Party, Dr. Mike Omotosho, Tuesday said he would donate his salary to the aged and the less privileged if voted to power. Speaking during an interactive session with rep...

Kwara NSCDC seals illegal private guard company
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State command yesterday sealed up an illegal private security outfit, Interget Security Guard Ltd. Ilorin the Kwara State capital. The sealing of the company...

INEC Urges Women On PVCs Collection In Kwara
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday appealed to women to educate their husbands and children of voting age to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). The Resident Electoral Commis...

Kwara Police Confirms Use Of Firearms By Thugs
The commissioner of police in Kwara State, Mr. Salihu Garba yesterday confirmed that political thugs are making use of fire arms to perpetrate violence in the state. He also announced the recovery of two AK47, ...

2015-02-10

Kwara 2015: List of Contestants for House of Assembly
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Tunde Abdulrahman named Kwara United boss
The former Wikki Tourists and FC Taraba gaffer has been announced new handler of the Afonja Warriors The Kwara State Government has ratified the appointment of Tunde Abdulrahman as the new technical adviser of ...

In Kwara, APC Holds the Mother Rally
Hammed Shittu captures the All Progressives Congress presidential rally which left behind a strong message from the opposition The city of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital recently witnessed un...

Only serious cases should reach Supreme Court - Yusuf Ali
Malam Yusuf Olaolu Ali (SAN), was conferred with the prestigious title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 1997. In this interview with Adelanwa Bamgboye, he speaks on the postponement of the 2015 general...

Kwara FA fixes Feb. 24 for board elections
The Kwara Football Association (FA) has fixed Feb. 24 for the election of members of the board which will direct the affairs of the association for the next four years. This is contained in a statement by the S...

Polls Postponement: PDP afraid of defeat - Atunwa
The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly Mr Razak Atunwa has said   that the President Goodluck Jonathan- led administration came up with the postponement of the polls through the back door because th...

Kwara FRSC Blames Road Accidents On Bad Road Designs
Mr Akolo Olakunle, the Public Education Officer of the Kwara Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission, has blamed most road accidents in the country to bad road designs. Olakunle made the obs...

Sherif Sayaga's father to son: Protect our name
Father of the Peoples Democratic Party flag bearer for Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency, Alhaji Abdulganiyu Sagaya, on Friday, told his son, Sherif, to protect the name of the family if elected into the National...

2015: Belgore abandons Jonathan's project - Kwara PDP group
Indication has emerged that the Coordinator of the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organization in Kwara State, Barrister Mohammed Dele Belgore, SAN, has refused to participate in the campaign tour of the Peo...

2015-02-09

Kwara 2015: List of House of Representatives Candidates
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Kwara 2015: List of Senatorial Candidates
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Press Release: Postponement of Elections, An Obstruction of Democracy by President Jonathan - Saraki
While we recognise the severity of the security challenges facing Nigeria today, sadly, these challenges are not new. It has been almost a year since Boko Haram kidnapped 200 of our schoolgirls in Chibok. Thousands of m...

Ilorin.Info Polls: Who Would You Vote for as Kwara State Governor on 11th April?
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Kwara 2015: List of Kwara Governorship Aspirants
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APC, PDP trade words over rising wave of violence in Kwara
Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State and the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party ,are at logger heads over the increasing wave of political violence in the state, which led to the alleged killing of o...

Kwara Peace Accord in Tatters: Two feared dead as campaign goes bloody!
Since the journey to the February 2015 elections began, it has been crystal clear that the supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State are ...

PDP Will Run Transparent Govt In Kwara - Ajibola
The PDP governorship candidate in Kwara, Sen. Simeon Ajibola, has given an assurance that he would run a transparent administration. Ajibola gave the assurance on Saturday at the palace of the Emi...

50 youths benefit from skills acquisition programme in Ilorin
No fewer than 50 youths have benefitted from the entrepreneurial skills acquisition programme of the Mike Omotosho Foundation (MOF). Coordinator of the initiative, Mr Abdul Bala, said in Ilorin on Monday that the foun...

Minister urges security agencies to probe Ilorin killings
The Minister of National Planning Commission, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman; the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Chief Rex Olawoye; and the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in the...

PDP, APC decry rising wave of violence in Kwara
RULING All Progressives Party in Kwara State and the Peoples’ Democratic Party at the weekend pointed accusing fingers at each other over the rising wave of violence in the state.    Minister and D...