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2014-12-21
Kwara PDP Guber Candidate Assures Of Better Life
The governorship candidate under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, Senator Simeon Ajibola, has promised to work for a new glorious dawn for the people of the state. He stated ...
States to face hard times from February - Kwara Speaker
The Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly, Mr. Razak Atunwa, on Saturday said most of the states in Nigeria would suffer economic crunch from February 2015, if urgent preventive measures were not embarked upon. ...
Group empowers Kwara squash players
Thirteen Kwara squash players on Tuesday benefitted from the special intervention programme of Gbenga Power Foundation (GP), aimed at assisting their rapid development in the sport. The programme, which was i...
Angry fans beats up referee during Kwara United vs Ranchers Bees game
Suspected fans of Ranchers bees pounced on referee Charles Ozigbo and beat him to a coma, during their match against Kwara United on Friday morning. The first game between the two clubs was abandoned in the 6...

2014-12-20
PDP not ready for governance - Saraki
Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that the attitude of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State shows seriousness on its part to give the All Progressives Congre...
Youth Golfer, Olaniyi, Dreams Woods, Mcllroy
A youth golfer with Rosani Golf and Recreation Centre, Adeyinka Olaniyi, has set his sight on reaching the mark attained by the likes of Tiger Woods and Rory Mcllroy in his golf career. Olaniyi, a student of ...
Tinubu to Deliver Lecture On Sardauna Leadership Legacies
FORMER Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, is slated to deliver a special lecture on the enduring leadership footprints of late Premier of Northern Nigeria and Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello. ...
Group Lauds Buhari, Osibanjo Ticket, Predicts Victory
A GROUP, Muhammadu Buhari Legacy Foundation (MBLF), has said the choice of Prof. Yemi Osibanjo as the running mate to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, will secure victory for APC in 2015 general elections. Mr Bode Towo...
Kwara 2015: PDP Cannot Wrestle Power from APC, Says Saraki
Former governor of Kwara State and chairman, Senate committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, has foreclosed any threat from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party of wrestling power from the rulin...
Kwara 2015 Appropriation Bill scales through 2nd reading
The Kwara State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the state's 2015 appropriation bill of N119.840 billion for second reading. The bill scaled through second reading after a thorough deliberation by the members. Gover...
Kwara to create jobs for 5000 youths in 2015
The Kwara State Government is to engage 5,000 youths across the state in its empowerment and employment initiative through public workforce participation, Conditional Cash Transfer as well as skill acquisition in colla...

2014-12-19
Kwara seeks N4bn refund on FG road projects
The Kwara State government has appealed to the federal government to refund N4 billion outstanding from its intervention in the Kosubosu road project in Baruten LGA by the previous state administration. The c...
Photo News: Bukola Saraki at 52
Picture of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki in the wee hours of his 52nd birthday. (19 Dec 2014) Celebrating, after praying with well wisher...
9 years after Sheikh Muhammad Kamalud-deen's death, Ilorin people count their loss
Ilorin Emirate, Kwara State and the entire Muslim world, exactly nine years ago, lost to the cold hands of death, a revered and widely respected Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Habeebullahi Kamalud-deen Al-Adabiy. ...
OPINION - Bukola Saraki: Celebrating a trailblazer @ 52. By Peter Moses
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are leader.” John Quincy Adams, an American statesman and the sixth President of the United States of America (USA) wa...
Press Release: Kwara PDP is remote-controlled from Abuja - APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has warned the state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to allow its internal lingering crises snowball to political unrest in Kwara State. In a statem...
Ilorin Overland Mishap: Accident Investigation Bureau faults hydraulic system
The recent Overland Airways mishap at the Ilorin International Airport was caused by a faulty hydraulic system, a preliminary report into the incident has revealed. The ATR 72, which belonged to Overland Ai...
Kwara State not in bondage - APC tells PDP
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state has said the Executive Governor of Kwara State and its Governorship Candidate, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has delivered economic freedom and prosperity for the people of Kwa...
No results yet on Kwara PDP governorship primary - Oyedepo
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo and his executive members have disagreed over the status of Senator Simeon Ajibola as the party’s governorship candidate. ...
Atunwa tasks leaders on recession
SPEAKER of Kwara State House of Assembly, Rasak Atunwa, has warned of harsh effects of a continued global economic recession on the Nigerian economy. Atunwa told newsmen in Ilorin on Wednesday after the present...
OPINION - Kwara PDP: Total Freedom or Slavery in Disguise? By Gbenga Awoyale
It is no longer news that during the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Kwara State some months ago, he promised the people of the state total freedom from all forms of oppression and imposition from the hands of ...
OPINION: Isapa Road, Ajibola and KWSG. By Gbenga Awoyale
I read with utmost sense of amazement and disappointment a statement credited to the Kwara State Government on the construction of Isapa road and the wasteful 12 years of Ajibola in the Senate. How could any responsible g...

2014-12-18
Club organises lecture on Sardauna legacies
In demonstration of its commitment to the imperative and sustenance of all-inclusive exemplary and inspiring leadership qualities of the late first Premier of Northern Nigeria and Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Gam...
Kwara 2015: Ajibola remains PDP guber candidate in Kwara - Olanrewaju
SEN. Simeon Ajibola, who won the PDP governorship ticket for the 2015 elections in Kwara, remains the flagbearer of the party, his campaign outfit has said. The Director General of the Ajibola for Governor Campaign Or...
Tension as Kwara PDP leaders contemplate fall out of primaries
There was heavy security presence at the secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, as executives of the party met this week to discuss the botched primary in...
Ahmed: How Saraki and I Have Survived
The Gubernatorial Interview “He is not a dictator; he is an inclusive person and approaches governance from a good and functional business angle,” says the Kwara State Governo...
Press Release: Our position on the Governorship Primaries election and outcome - Kwara PDP EXCOs
TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE BY THE KWARA STATE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON 17TH WEDNESDAY DECEMBER, 2014 The Peoples Democratic Party State Executive Committee Kwara State Chapter rose from our ...
Ahmed Presents N119b Budget Proposal for 2015
Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara on Wednesday presented a sum of N 119,850,892,747 as 2015 budget of the state before the state House of Assembly for consideration and passage into law. The budget which was tagge...
Kwara PDP reiterates Ajibola as guber winner
Kwara State Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, late yesterday evening rose from an emergency meeting to reiterate a collective position of the generality of members to stand by the result of the Decem...
'FG's transformation not benefitting local farmers'
Despite claims of massive support to farmers by the federal government under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA), peasant farmers are being short-changed in the intervention scheme. This observation ...
Kwara First Lady Advocates Better Life for Nigerian widows
Mrs Omolewa Ahmed, the wife of Kwara State Governor, on Wednesday, advocated for better life for Nigerian widows. She made the call at an empowerment programme for widows organised by Gbenga Power Foundation ...
Kwara budgets N119.85bn for 2015
Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, yesterday presented an appropriation bill of N119, 850,892,747 to the state House of Assembly representing an increase of N4,249,620,473 which is 3.7 percent above that of 2014 b...

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