2014-12-25

Ahmed, Atunwa, Saraki, Olododo, Preach Peace
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji  Abdulfatah Ahmed has advised Christians to use the period of Christmas to preach national unity, love and understanding as ways of healing the pains and anguish in the land. Go...

2015: Minister Drums Support For Ajibola, Jonathan In Kwara
The minister of national planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, has urged supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State and the entire people of the state to rally round the party’s governorship candi...

Gbemisola Saraki Rejects Post of Deputy Governor
Former senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district at the National Assembly and governorship aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded governorship primary election of the party in Kwa...

Gov. Ahmed's Christmas Message
I advise Christians to use the period of the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ to preach national unity, love and understanding as ways of healing the pains and anguish in the land. I also advise that the perio...

Kwara PDP accuses chairman of working against party
The Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused its chairman, Akogun Iyiola Oyedepo of colluding with some party members to impose governorship flag bearer on the party other than the winner of 11th December...

Ajibola Felicitates with Kwara people on Xtmas; calls for peaceful co-existence
PDP Governorship flag bearer in Kwara, Sen. Simon Ajibola, has called on the people of the state to live in peace with one another and seek God’s face during the yuletide. Ajibola made the call on Wednesd...

2015: Youth disown Kwara PDP guber candidate
Youths of Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State have given reasons they would not go along with the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Simeon Ajibola in the 2015 gener...

OPINION: Bukola Saraki: Always clever by a half; By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu
To commemorate his 52nd birthday recently, the tin-god of Kwara politics, Bukola Saraki, announced to the flotsam and jetsam that follows him, that he would use some of his pension to start a scholarship programme for bri...

Kwara First Lady Distributes Christmas Packages to 500 Widows
Mrs Omolewa Ahmed, wife of Kwara Governor on Wednesday enjoined widows to use the Christmas period to pray for peace and unity of the country and success of the State Government. Ahmed made the call in her o...

FIRS gets tough with tax defaulters in Kwara, Osun, Oyo
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) enforcement (Team A), South West zone, comprising of tax controllers from Oyo, Ilorin, and Osogbo micro and small tax offices and the legal officers visited tax defaulters and ...

UNTH Acknowledges Toyin Saraki's Contributions to Maternal, Child Health
The University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital's Institute of Child Health, in Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, has acknowledged the wife of the erstwhile Kwara State Governor, Mrs. Toyin Saraki for her invaluable contribution ...

Promotion due to hard work, diligence - Kwara Utd boss
Kwara United manager Ali Zubair says his side's promotion to the elite Nigeria Premier League is due to the immense harword put in by his players and backroom staff throughout the NNL season. Speaking to Dail...

Court stalls Kwara PDP senatorial candidate's replacement
An Ilorin High Court has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop any move to replace a candidate for Kwara Central Senatorial District, Yinka Aluko, pending hearing on suit on it. Following alleged...

2014-12-24

Kwara PDP reaffirms Ajibola's candidacy
The controversy surrounding the election of Senator Simeon Sule Ajibola as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kwara state resonated on Tuesday with members of the state executives of the pa...

Bees' NPFL dream alive
Ranchers Bees management has said the side are not worried over the Nigeria National League (NNL) board decision to award the abandoned replay match day 30 clash to Kwara United. The Afonja Warriors were freed ...

Kwara Gov Commiserates with Otolorin Family
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has commiserated with the family of late Nigerian football star, Mr.  Moses Otolorin, who died on Monday at his Ilorin country home after a protracted illness. ...

Workers get salaries in Kwara
The hope of a joyous Christmas celebration was ignited for civil servants in Kwara State yesterday following the payment of their December salaries by the state government. Many civil servants had been apprehensively ...

2014-12-23

Breaking News - Kwara Guber 2015: Ajibola Confirmed by PDP NWC as Party Flagbearer
Senator Simeon Sule Ajibola has been confirmed by the Peoples Democratic Party's National Working Committee as the party's Kwara flag-bearer in the 2015 governorship polls Details shortly......

More Pips For The Legendary Oga Bello'
HABA, this man doesn't age at all. I have been watching him on screen since the 80's and he has not changed that much. Na wah ooo," said the dark skinned lady in her late 40's jocularly as she sighted the legendary act...

Ex-Shooting Stars mid fielder, Moses Otolorin, dies at 67
Former mid fielder with IICC Shooting Stars of Ibadan now christened, Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) Moses Otolorin, has died at 67. Otolorin, who was reported to have been critically ill for sometime gave ...

KWARA 2015: Market women endorse Governor Ahmed
Market women and men in kwara state under the auspices of the Kwara State Association of Marketers (KWAM) have adopted the State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed as their governorship candidate in the next year gubernator...

Mass Communication should not be an all-comers' affair – Prof. Okoye
The Provost, College of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Professor Innocent Okoye, has stated that Mass Communication as a discipline should not be an all-comers' ...

ACCIDENT: Okada Crushes Man In Ilorin
An unidentified middle-aged man was at the weekend crushed to death by a commercial motorcycle operator along Ajase-Ipo road, Ilorin, Kwara State. According to an eyewitness who did not want his name in print...

Pioneer CJ's son becomes Kwara CJ
Justice Sulaiman Kawu, son of the pioneer Chief Judge of Kwara State and one-time Justice of the Supreme Court, late Justice Saidu Kawu, has stepped into the shoes of his late father as he was sworn-in as the new chief ju...

Court stalls Kwara PDP senatorial candidate's replacement
An Ilorin High Court has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stop any move to replace a candidate for Kwara Central Senatorial District, Yinka Aluko, pending hearing on suit on it. Following alleged move to ...

Furore in Kwara PDP over Ajibola
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State, Senator Simeon Ajibola faces a tough time as he battles stiff opposition within. Hammed Shittu writes Political watche...

Kwara Utd Promoted to Glo Premier League
Kwara United Football Club of Ilorin has returned to the elite class of Nigerian professional football league following the three points and three goals the Nigeria National League (NNL) awarded it monday from the repl...

2014-12-22

We'll Be Fair to All Parties, Inyama Assures
OFFICIALS of the Nigerian National League (NNL) say they are waiting for the match commissioner's report on the twice-abandoned match between Ranchers Bees of Kaduna and Kwara United before deciding the fate of the tea...

Saraki to use pension for scholarships
The Senator representing Kwara Central and former governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is to fund a scholarship scheme for indigent students in tertiary institutions in the state from his pension. Saka...

Incumbent president can be defeated - Saraki
Former Governor of Kwara State and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bukola Saraki has urged Nigerians to vote out President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election, dismissing fears that an incumben...

PDP no threat to us in Kwara South - Ibrahim
The Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara South Senatorial District for the 2015 general elections, Dr Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, said yesterday that the presence of opposition Peoples Democr...

I remain candidate of Kwara Central PDP -Yinka Aluko
Former Security Adviser in Kwara State, Mr Yinka Ahmed Aluko, has reacted to media reports, that his candidacy as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Kwara Central has been reversed. He no...

'KWSG to rehabilitate 5 Technical Colleges, 30 schools'
The Kwara State Government is to rehabilitate five Technical Colleges in the state to serve as incubation centres for the International Vocational Centre at Ajasse-Ipo. Similarly, 30 schools across the state ...

Pomp at Omolewa's LEAH empowerment grand finale
Wife of the Kwara State governor and founder of LEAH Charity Foundation, Mrs. Omolewa Ahmed, yesterday, organized the grand finale of her special empowerment programme for women in the state. The empowerment ...

OPINION: The Morning After: How the Gang-Up Against Gbemi Saraki Fell Like a Pack of Cards. By Rotimi Atere
They all ganged up against this woman. First they refused her the plumb ministerial ticket despite an overwhelming majority of Kwarans then favoured her for the ministerial post, but they all rallied against her and pi...

Kwara 2015: APC, PDP test might with Ahmed, Ajibola
The 2015 governorship election in Kwara State has been zeroed to Kwara South where the incumbent governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his main challenger, Senator Simon Ajibola of th...

Ranchers vs Kwara United fracas: NFF vows to deal with culprits
The Nigeria Football Federation  (NFF) has vowed to apply the necessary punishment to the erring club in the rescheduled Nigeria National League (NNL) match between host Ranchers Bees of Kaduna and Kwara United of...

PDP Kwara Central Senatorial ticket gets messier...as Aluko secures Court order against Abdulrahman
The tussle for the Kwara Central Senatorial ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between Yinka Aluko and Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq got messier yesterday as the former described the latter as “a confused man&...