2012-12-11

Kwara LGs to Face Prosecution over Unauthorised Loans
Out of 16 local government areas of Kwara state, 10 would face prosecution for taking "unauthorised loans" to run their councils. The affected councils according to state government, in a letter to th...

Husband Begs Court to Dissolve 28 Years Marriage over wife's Disrepect
A man, Akibu Ibitoye, of Olulande Area, Ilorin, on Monday approached an Ilorin Area Court to dissolve his 28 years-old marriage, alleging wife's non-submissive and domineering attitude in the home. Ibitoye, 68,...

ABS FC to Battle Tornadoes in Ilorin
ABS FC will intensify their build-up to the upcoming Nigeria Premier League season with a friendly match with Niger Tornadoes on Sunday at the Ilorin Township stadium. ABS edged third-tier club 1-0 last S...

'Kwara United fans must be patient'
Kwara United new sign Taiwo Mayegun has appealed to supporters to be patience with the team next season. Kwara placed fifth last season and the club have carried out a major surgery ahead of the new season with...

Multi-Billion Naira Highway Collapses in Kwara
The multi-billion naira Ilesh Baruba- Okuta- Kosubosu Federal Road in Kwara State constructed in trust by the immediate past administration of former Governor Bukola Saraki has deteriorated,even as refund on constructi...

Engineers Laud NIGCOMSAT's Real Time Electronic Voting System
The Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) has lauded the online real-time Electronic Voting (e-voting) system manufactured locally by engineers at Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), describing it as a ...

Court Dissolves Marriage over Husband's Disrespect for Bride's Parents
An Ilorin Area Court on Monday dissolved the four-year-old marriage of a couple over the wife's claim of disrespect of her parents by her husband. The housewife and resident of Sango in Ilorin, Falilat Elepo, had told ...

Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa-Kabba Roads to Get Attention this Yuletide
As part of efforts to ensure that most federal roads are motorable, Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, has assured the people of Kwara State that major federal roads in the state, particularly Ilorin-Jebba-Mokwa an...

Why 82 Kwara Prospective Pilgrims Failed to Perform Hajj - Board
The Kwara State Muslim Welfare Board said on Tuesday that 82 prospective pilgrims from the state failed to perform this year's Hajj due to non issuance of visas by the Saudi authorities. Hajia Fatima Jimoh, th...

NNPC Shelves Plan to Reopen Ibadan, Ore, Ilorin Depots
An end may not be in sight for the traffic gridlock caused by petrol tankers in Apapa as the plan by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to reopen Ibadan, Ore and Ilorin Depots during the weekend was she...

NBA Cautions FG over Fuel Price Hike
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch, has warned the Federal Government not to increase the pump price of petroleum products, in order not to stir public outcry. Chairman of the NBA, Rafiu Balogun,...

2012-12-10

I remain a bonafide ACN member - Offa Chairman
Executive Chairman of Offa Local Government, Prince Saheed Popoola, has dismissed as misleading and untrue claims that he has defected to the PDP or pledged allegiance to former Governor Bukola Saraki. Popoola said ...

'Why We Defected to PDP'
It was a spell fair weather in the camp of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Offa Local Government Area with the dumping of ACN by executive aides of the chairman of Offa Local Government, Prince Saheed Popoola, ...

Teachers' Promotional Exam Result Out Today
The result of the promotional examination conducted on Saturday by the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission will be released today. The commission conducted the yearly promotional examination on Saturday f...

NSE Conference: Onolememen Advises Engineers on Infrastructure Maintenance
The Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, has urged the Nigerian Society of Engineers to come up with home-grown technologies and workable strategies that will guarantee sustainable maintenance of key national infras...

Kwara House Urges FERMA on Roads' Repair
The Kwara State House of Assembly last week urged the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to give urgent priority to repair of Federal roads in the state. The House said Kwara had allegedly been neglected f...

ACN Laments Nigeria's Anti-Graft Rating, ICPC Urges New Mindset
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has lamented the country's poor rating by Transparency International in its 2012 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), saying that it has shown as an empty boast the Goodluck Jonathan ...

N232b Subsidy Scam: Kwara NBA Calls for Trial
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch, has said the oil marketers involved in the alleged illegal collection of N232 billion fuel subsidy must not go unpunished. Minister of Finance and Coordinating ...

Kwara Burglary: Police Interrogate Officials
Following a purported burglary in the Kwara State Ministry of Finance in September, some top government officials of the ministry have been invited for interrogation by the office of Assistant Inspector General of Poli...

2012-12-09

Journalists Redeployed to Ministries by Kwara Govt Resume Work
Journalists and non editorial members of the Kwara state owned media organizations who were recently redeployed by the state government to ministries in the state have resumed work in the respective ministries they we...

KWARMA Plans Prompt Road Repairs from 2013
Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara State has directed the State Road Maintenance Agency (KWARMA) to begin simultaneous rehabilitation of damaged roads across the three senatorial districts of the state from January nex...

Kwara: Yoruba Indigenes Want Own State
Rep Warns On Confab, Referendum DESPITE the seeming uniformity among the people of the state in the area of language, their views on how the state should operate and structured are not similar....

Fire Destroys N1.67bln Properties Between January and December 2012 in kwara
Property estimated at over N1.67 billion were lost to 179 fire incidents recorded in Kwara between January and December 2012. Malam Raji Tiamiyu, the Director of the state Fire Service, made this known in an in...

Ilorin Central Mosque for Commissioning Friday, Saraki Satisfied with Project
As preparations reached advance stage towards the formal commissioning of Ilorin Central Mosque, a former Governor of Kwara State and Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki ha...

2012-12-08

KWSG Bans Degree Program at State Owned Colleges of Education
The Kwara State Government has directed its Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Oro and Lafiagi to discontinue all degree and outreach courses and focus on training teachers for basic education level, even as it has appro...

NACONS Urges the Authority of Unilorin to Upgrade the Faculty of Law to College of Law
Unilorin is one of the most reliable federal government universities in Nigeria, the students and the lecturers of the Unilorin have reasons to be proud of been part of the University popularly known as better by far. The...

Eko 2012: Sabi Pledges Improved Welfare for Kwara Athletes
Chairman of Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Sports, Alhaji Adamu Ibrahim Sabi says that the State House of Assembly will liaise with the State Government to ensure that there is improved welfare package for ...

Unauthorised Loans: Kwara House Probes 9 LGs
The Kwara State House of Assembly has ordered that nine local government chairmen accused to have obtained 'unauthorised loans' and mismanaged such should be investigated. Nine Local government chairmen in the state ha...

Tradition Rules our Fashion Choice - Hajiya Amina Sambo, Sarah Jibrin
Nigerian women like to go traditional when it comes to weddings, cultural or religious ceremonies. Some also prefer to cover up according to their religious beliefs. Whatever the choice a woman makes, she should kn...

E-Voting Possible in 2015 - NSE
The President, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Mr. Mustafa Shehu, has said that it is possible for the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct the 2015 elections by electronic voting. He spoke to jo...

Kerosene Scarcity Bites Harder in Kwara ... Sells for N135 Per Litre
A cute kerosene scarcity has hit parts of Kwara State, especially the Ilorin metropolis. Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in Ilorin on Friday, observed that many petrol stations were not selling k...