2012-04-24

UNILORIN Donates Tricycle To Challenged Student
Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, prof. Ishaq O. Oloyede, recently presented a motorised tricycle to a physically challenged 100 level computer science student of the university, Mr. Ogunremi Rahaman Bolaji....

Gov Ahmed proffers ways to boost Nigeria\'s agric sector
Kwara State governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has proffered solutions on how to boost agricultural production in Nigeria insisting that only a multi-dimensional approach with the federal government playing the leading...

Why I sponsored bill to stop gas flaring in Nigeria - Saraki
Chairman, Senate Committee On Ecology and Environment, Dr. Bukola Saraki, in this interview with some select journalists in Ilorin, Kwara State, says security and unemployment challenges, facing the country constitute...

Only Righteousness Can Save Nigeria - Clergy
Pastor Sam Aweda, a Nigerian-born American Preacher and President for the World Revival Mission, says that only righteousness will bring the nation back to the path of sanity and prosperity. Aweda, who spoke ...

Zenith Bank League: Aderemi Vows To Beat Deepwater In Ilorin
Having recorded victory in their first match against Plateau Rocks at the on-going 2nd Phase of Zenith Bank - sponsored Nigeria Female Basketball league holding in Ilorin, Coach of First Bank Club of Lagos, Adewunmi Ad...

N7.5bn loan: Again, Saraki shuns police invitation
Former Governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki yesterday refused to honour the invitation of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigerian Police over the controversial N7.5bn loan write-off granted to some of h...

Kwara lawmakers okay family planning
The Kwara State House of Assembly has promised support for safe family planning and child-spacing. It said family planning and child spacing projects would be given priority in the next budget. Its Speak...

Senate committed to tackling erosion - Saraki
The Senate has reiterated its commitment to tackling perennial flooding across the country. Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Sen. Bukola Saraki, gave this assurance, at the weekend, while ...

Flooding: Kwara begins demolition of illegal structures
The Kwara State Ministry of Environment and Forestry will soon commence demolition of illegal structures along the banks of River Niger. In a statement signed  by the state Commissioner for Environment an...

Saraki and subsidy probe
The need to look into the books of subsidy payments was first raised at the National Assembly by Senator  Bukola Saraki. The senator last year initiated a motion in the Senate, seeking an investigation into the...

Saraki fails to show up at SFU
Former governor of Kwara State and serving senator, Bukola Saraki, failed to honour an invitation by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Lagos on Monday to answer allegations of an N11bn loan scam l...

2012-04-23

Fuel Subsidy: Group Warns Against Victimisation of Senator Saraki
The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations for Transparency in Governance ((CSOTG)) has warned that it will lead Nigerians to resist attempts to punish the wrong people for the fraud in the management of fuel subsid...

Kwara politics: The legal hurdles scaled by Saraki
The internal crisis and power play in the Kwara state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) over the 2011 election for the Kwara-central senatorial district, may have gradually grinded to a halt wi...

SFU to quiz Saraki today
Former Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki is expected at the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Lagos on Monday (today) following allegations of an N11bn loan scam preferred against him. Saraki was inv...

Kwara Flooding: National Assembly promises to tackle erosion problem
The National Assembly has given its commitment to tackling the perennial flooding across the country to forestall further loss of lives and property. The Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment and Ecolo...

Kwara ACN condoles Ekiti Gov over mother's death
Kwara State Chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its governorship candidate in the April 2011 polls, Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN), has condoled with the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi over the death of ...

Much ado about Kwara’s tax regime
If there is anything that is bothering the minds of civil servants in Kwara State today, it is the issue of the controversial tax regime being operated by the state government. UMAR BAYO ABDULWAHAB probes t...

N11b Loan Scam: Saraki Keeps Detectives Waiting
Immediate past governor of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, and now a serving Senator, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki was expected to report this morning at the Police Special Fraud Unit, Milverson Road, Ikoyi, Lagos i...

Ilorin: Northern states lack caring govts, says Ex-ambassador
Former Nigeria's ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Professor Salihu Suleiman, has lamented what he called the absence of caring governments in the 19 northern states of the country. Professor Sul...

Subsidy probe: House to approve panel’s recommendations
The House of Representatives will approve the recommendations of the fuel subsidy probe panel this week, the Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Ali Ahmad, has said. A member of the Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel...

Belgore: How Nigeria Can Rank among 5 World Economies
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),  Justice Alfa Modibbo Belgore (rtd), Sunday said Nigeria could become one of the five economies of the world if all the human and material resources were well managed. ...

Sambo, Govs Pay Condolence Visit To Belgore
Vice-President Namadi Sambo yesterday led a Presidential delegation to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to commiserate with the Belgore family over the death of the wife of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Jus...

Mubo Road: Ask contractor back on site, residents appeal to KWSG
Residents of Mubo community in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State have appealed to the state government to order the contractor handling the construction of road, drainage and bridge in the community back...

2012-04-22

Senator Saraki Commiserate With Belgore Family
Chairman Senate committee of environment and ecology, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has commiserated with the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore over the death of his wife, Hajiya Fatima Belgore, who ...

N11Billion loan scam: Saraki pleads with police for a Monday date
Detectives in Lagos said yesterday that when Mr. Saraki reports tomorrow, they hope he will explain how he secured loans to purchase choice properties in the up-scale markets of Ikoyi and Victoria Island in Lagos, that en...

Saraki's troubles traced to fuel subsidy probe
Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, and a former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki may have got into trouble as a result of the probe of the fuel subsidy regime embarked upon by an ad-hoc...

Footbal: Gwar opts for Kwara United
Niger Tornadoes seven-goal striker Sibi Gwar has rejoined Kwara United after transfer talks with Kano Pillars collapsed. Gwar, who blasted seven goals in the first round of the campaign, was set to move to Pillars d...

Telecoms operators want socio-economic problems addressed
Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria, Mr. Gbenga Adebayo, has said solving Nigeria's economic problems was more important and urgent than convening a national conference. He, therefore...

2012-04-21

FG urged to invest in Jatropha plant for bio-fuel
The Managing Director, Green Technologies, Mr. Temitope Olagija, has urged governments at all levels to invest in Jatropha plant to empower Nigerians economically. Olagija made the call while delivering his pap...

Police investigate Saraki, Lai Alabi
The Police Special Fraud Unit has begun investigation into a controversial fund waiver involving Intercontinental Bank Plc and companies allegedly promoted by former Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State. ...

Well digger dies in well
A digger, known simply as Mallam Suleiman, died in a well at the Adewole Housing Estate in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, on Thursday. Suleiman, who was a native of Kebbi State, was said to have died s...

Ilorin NW House of Assembly Seat: ACN floors PDP at Appeal Court
The court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin this morning declared the 2011 House of Assembly election of Ilorin North West Constituency inconclusive. The court set aside the judgement of the second tribunal that heard the matte...

Kwara CJ pardons 7 prison inmates in Ilorin
The Chief Judge of Kwara, Justice Raliat Elelu-Habeeb, on Friday pardoned seven awaiting trial inmates of the Federal Prison in Ilorin. Elelu-Habeeb discharged the inmates when she led other members o...

A credible electoral system for Nigeria - Dele Belgore
I contested for office of governor of Kwara State at the last election under the banner of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). My party and I challenged the results of that election all the way to the Supreme Cou...