2012-06-03

Gov Ahmed presents staff of office to 5 fourth-class trad. rulers
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State, on Saturday pledged that his administration would continue to accord traditional rulers due recognition, honour and respect. He gave this assurance in Owu-Isin when he pre...

Ahmed prays for victims of plane crash, bomb blast
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has described Sunday's twin tragedy of a commercial flight crash in Lagos State and the Church bomb blast in Bauchi as unfortunate and national disaster of monumental pro...

Players' welfare, our priority - Kwara Utd boss
The newly appointed chairman of Kwara United FC board, Barr. Saliu Bamidele Aluko has hinted that players' welfare will be the board's priority, even as he assured fans of securing a continental ticket at the end of this ...

Nigerian police confirm release of abducted Italian
The police in Ilorin, Kwara State on Sunday confirmed the release of an abducted Italian national who was kidnapped in the state. The Italian, Digi Modesto, working with Borini Prono Construction Company was kidnapp...

Kwara Constructs Drainages To Forestall Flooding
As parts of measures to forestal the occurrence of flooding in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the Kwara Road Maintenance Agency (KWARMA) has commenced the opening and evacuation of blockages in drainages within the metr...

Yusuf Ali and ANA take literary campaign to 16 states
Part of the problems the country is experiencing is hinged on its lack of intellectual leaders who are rich in imagination, critics have said. "20 years ago, Dubai was a mirage. Today, it's reality," one of the ...

ACN tasks INEC, security agents over sacked Kwara PDP lawmaker. Says PDP a lawless party
Kwara ACN has urged the security agents at the state House of Assembly to henceforth prevent the sacked PDP lawmaker, Mr Salman Abdulfattah (Ilorin North/West constituency), from further appearance on the floor of the H...

2012-06-02

Akwa Utd 1-0 Kwara Utd
Akwa United defeated Kwara United by a lone goal. The goal was via a penalty that was awarded at the last minute of an eight minute extra time. Kwara United's goalkeeper saved the first kick but the referee ordered a repl...

ABS 2-1 Wikki Tourists
Week 30 Nigeria Premier League. ABS beat Wikki Tourists 2-1. Goals by Muktari Salihu (Wikki) 68 minute; Bashir Rahman (ABS) 71 minute and Audu Akeem (ABS) 79 minute....

Kidnapped Italian Freed
Italian officials say that an Italian engineer kidnapped in Ilorin, Kwara state has been freed. Details of the release are not yet available, except for the statement by Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi Friday ni...

Victim overpowers 3 robbery suspects
A victim overpowered three suspected robbers who attacked him and others two Fridays ago at the Omowunmi area of Offa in Kwara State. Eyewitnesses said that in what was clearly a daring move, the victim had knocke...

2012-06-01

Visitation Panels Constituted for Kwara COEs
The Kwara State Governor Alh. AbdulFatah Ahmed has approved the constitution of visitation panels to the three Colleges of Education in the state. The institutions are the Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Lafiagi ...

Toyin Saraki's Foundation rescues Ilorin babies
TRULY acting in line with the foundation's motto "Committed to Caring," President and Founder of the Wellbeing Foundation (WBF) Africa, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, on Wednesday personally saw to the trans-national p...

ANA meets in Ilorin. Yusuf Ali gives 3m grant
The 2011/13 EXCO of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), led by its President, Prof. Remi Raji, over the weekend at Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, disbursed the sum of N2, 400,000 (Two million, four hundred thousa...

Igbomina leader faults Clarke on Northern economy
The President of Orisun Igbomina, a socio-political group at the Kwara South Senatorial district, Chief Gbenga Awoyale has faulted Chief Edwin Clarke that the Northern states did not contribute anything to the developme...

Request for Submission of Expression of Interest for Works and Consultancy at Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI)
Interested consultants are requested to submit detailed proposals for conducting the Impact Evaluation of ARMTI over the past 32 years. ...

Judiciary, last hope of common man - Gov Ahmed
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has described the judiciary as the last hope of the common man with great potentials of sustaining the rule of law and purposeful governance in the country.   ...

Insecurity hampering growth of industry, commerce - KWACCIMA
The Kwara State Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture has said that insecurity has paralysed commercial and industrial activities in the Nigeria, especially in the northern part of country. The Pres...

Kwara govt: Name stadium after Yekini
AFTER a decade and a half of searching for a capable replacement for the legendary footballer -Teslim Balogun, came Rasidi Yekini — "The goal father". He was spotted by coach Jubril while playing for UNTL, Kaduna. He was...

KWSG commissions Eruku-Koro, Landmark varsity roads
...cautions against reckless driving As part activities marking its one year in Loffice, the Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration in Kwara State weekend commissioned Omu-Aran Township/Landmark Univers...

Students\' protest: Govt to provide transformer for Kwara Poly community
Apparently as a fall-out of Friday\'s protest by residents of Elekoyangan, the neighboring community of Kwara State Polytechnic and some students of the institution over lack of power supply caused by a damaged...

Ahmed, Saraki, Baraje are heroes of democracy - PDP Chair
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Kaiama Local Government Area, Kwara State, Alhaji Nasiru Aliyu Al-hassan, has described the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed; Senator Bukola Saraki and the immediate ...

Gov Ahmed condoles with Oniwasi Agbaye's family
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has commiserated with the Emir of Ilorin, His Royal Majesty, Alhaji Zulkarnaini Ibrahim Gambari and the family of Late Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Abdulraheem Aminullahi On...

Why we kept mute on Oil discovery in Kwara - Monarch
... expresses fear over border disputes with Osun Contrary to claims in some quarter that there was no oil discovery in Aran-Orin, Irepodun Local Area of Kwara State, the Alaran of Aran-Orin, Oba Jo...

Saraki to Ahmed: I am very proud of your achievements
In what appears a vote of confidence on the Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration in Kwara State within the last one year, his predecessor and Senator representing Kwara Central in the National Assembly, Dr Abub...

SMEs: Kwara to access N750m from BoI
The Kwara State Government has said that it plans to access N750m loan from the Bank of Industry to  boost Small and Medium Enterprises in the state. The state Commissioner for Commerce and Co-operatives, ...

2015: PDP moves to reconcile aggrieved members, decampees
In order to ensure a comfortable win in 2015 elections, the leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has begun moves to reconcile members aggrieved over the last convention and the primaries held across the states ...

2012-05-31

Abstain from alcohol, cigarettes to live long - Prof Fakunle
THE Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research, Technology and Innovation), University of Ilorin, Prof. Yisa Fakunle has urged Nigerians to refrain from alcohol intake in order to save their liver a major organ of the body, wh...

Photo News - Bike Accident
Two female students seriously injured in a bike accident opposite University of Ilorin bus terminal just after noon today. ...

Unilorin Post-UTME Details Out
2012/2013 PRE-ADMISSION SCREENING EXERCISE The University of Ilorin invites candidates who have applied for admission into the undergraduate degree programmes of the University for the 2012/2013 academic ...

Corrupt ex-governors block return of feared anti-corruption operative to EFCC
Indicted former governors are believed to be behind the refusal of the police IG to release feared anti-corrption officer to the EFCC. In what appears to be payback time, top politicians indicted for corru...

New Chairmen and Board Members Appointed for 19 Boards and Parastatals
Kwara State Governor, Alahji Abdulfatah Ahmed has approved the appointments of Chairmen and members of Nineteen (19) State owned Boards and Parastatals. The lists are as follows: KWARA STATE PR...

Saraki Accused Of Plotting Media War Against SFU
Former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, who is being investigated for alleged N21 billion scam involving Intercontinental Bank, has been accused of waging a media war against the Special Fraud Unit of the ...

Court condemns attempt to arrest Saraki
A Federal High Court in Abuja has condemned, in strong terms, the issuance of a warrant of arrest for former governor of Kwara State, ... Dr. Bukola Saraki. Ruling on Wednesday on Saraki\'s app...

Kwara to build 10,000 houses
Provision of decent shelter, which has long been a major national challenge, may soon become a thing of the past in Kwara State as the state government is to partner with Stylotec Concrete Industries, Netherlands, for ...

Kwara To Sanction Erring Councils
Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara has vowed to sanction any local government chairman performing below expectation. Ahmed said this while inaugurating the second phase of Moro Local Government Headquarters S...

Quadruplets: Second baby dies, father requests prayers
One of the three babies left among the quadruplets born to Mr. Samuel and Joy Chukwukaelo, died on Monday. This makes it two babies that have died among the quadruplets. One ...

A new Kwara is born, says Gov. Ahmed
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has assured the people of the state of his continuous efforts towards ensuring that the dividends of democracy gets to the nooks and crannies of the state. Ahmed said th...

Kwara Poly students set to form off-campus SUG
As a result of  what they termed the inactiveness of the incumbent Student Union leaders of the Kwara State Polytechnic (Kwara Poly), Ilorin, students  who stay off campus are now joining forces together to e...

Italian engineer kidnapped in Ilorin
An elderly Italian construction engineer was on Monday kidnapped in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State as he was monitoring a road drainage contract by the state government along Bishop Smith Street at about 5:30pm. ...