2012-03-17

NAFDAC Okays Local Malaria Drug, Ajadilopea
TWENTY-SIX years after its existence, Ajadilopea  an anti-malaria spice invented by a retired University of Ilorin lecturer, Dr. Gabriel Ajadi, has finally received the blessings of the National Agency For Food an...

75% of 1m Nigerians should not have been blind - Prof. Mahmoud
An Ophthalmologist, Prof Abdulraheem Mahmoud  says 75 percent of the one million Nigerians with blindness should not have been blind. Mahmoud, said the causes of the blindness were either preventable or curable, and noted...

Ahmed Condole Jonathan, AIG
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji AbdulFatah Ahmed, on behalf of Government and people of the State has commiserated with the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Acting Inspector General of Police, officers and men of the force ...

Police Arraign 37 Recruits Over Fake Documents
The police high command has arraigned 37 recruits undergoing training at the Police College, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital for presenting fake certificates. The suspects, who include eight women, had spent ...

I Am Fulfilled Forming Bukola Babes -Abdul Adama
Founder of Bukola Babes FC now Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) FC of Ilorin, Alhaji Abdul Adama spoke on the exploits of the club in this interview. With the transformation of Bukola Babes FC to ABS FC, w...

Court jails deposed Kwara Oba
The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has sentenced the deposed monarch of Etan town in Ekiti Local Government Area of the state, Joshua Aina, to three months imprisonment. Aina was said to be parad...

2012-03-16

Ghastly accident at Police Road
An out-of-control truck ran into shops on Police Road this afternoon. The truck which was hauling cement lost control when the driver tried to negotiate the junction of Onikanga/Police Road. Fortunately no fatalities were...

Kwara Govt. makes new appointments
The Kwara State Government today appointed new chairmen for the governing councils of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin and Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS). Alhaji Musa Yeketi wa...

Kwara United Coach Says Home Draw's A Good Result
In spite of securing a 2-2 draw with visiting Niger Tornadoes FC on Wednesday in Abuja, Kwara United’s coach Tunde Sanni still had cause to be happy with the result. The week 14 match in the 2011/2012 N...

NYSC trains corps members on entrepreneurial skill
To reduce graduate unemployment and boost self reliance, the National Youth Service Corps has commenced exposing over 2,300 corps members in Kwara State to skill development ventures. The programme, according t...

Ilorin LG offers N1.29m for 41 Law students
About 41 indigent students of Nigeria Law School and two students pursuing their Masters Degree in Law, will benefit from a grant of N1.29 million presented to them by the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara Sta...

Magical Gwar haunts Kwara Utd again
Kwara United have started to pay for the sins of their fans as Niger Tornadoes became the first beneficiary of their banishment to the nation's capital, Abuja on Wednesday. Both teams have since remained rivals...

Lack of maintenance culture, bane of rural projects
Lack of maintenance culture of development projects in rural areas has been identified as the bane of sustainability of such projects in most rural communities of Nigeria. Speaking at a two-day sensitisation wo...

Kwara Assembly intervenes in Budo-Egba's erratic power supply
Following erratic power supply in Budo-Egba community in Ilorin, Kwara State, the state House of Assembly has urged Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, to direct the state Ministry of Energy, to supply appropriate transformer t...

2012-03-15

Bode-Saadu/Jebba road: LG chair, lawmakers solicit govt assistance
Chairman, Moro local government area of Kwara state, Alhaji Shuaib Baba Jimoh, and two lawmakers from the area, Hon. Raliat Aremu Adifa, and Hon. Iliasu Ibrahim, have appealed to the federal government to repair the dam...

Gombe United 1-1 ABS FC
Gombe United this evening payed a 1-1 draw with Abubakar Bukola Saraki Football Club in a Nigerian Premier League match. ...

Keep Environment Healthy, Govt Urges Kwarans
The Kwara State Government has called on people of the state to always make their environment clean and tidy, so as to prevent outbreak of diseases in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Abdul ...

Opinion: M. D. Belgore and the unfinished work in Kwara State by Is'haq Modibo Kawu
by IS'HAQ MODIBBO KAWU Last week, the Suprem Court affirmed that Abdulfatai Ahmed, was winner of the April 2011 gubernatorial election in Kwara state. The verdict effectively closed the judicial challenge which follo...

Flood claims 1,555 lives,N50 billion lost in 2010-NEMA
The National Emergency Management Agency has said that flood disaster in the country in 2010 affected 23 states of the federation and killed about 1,555 people, while over N50 billion was lost to fire incident in 22 stat...

Baby, seven others die in Ilorin auto crash
An eight-month-old baby and seven others died on Monday night in an auto crash in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Many people were injured and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. The accident was said ...

Kwara will feed Nigeria soon - Ahmed
The Kwara State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mosila Group Limited for the establishment of a 600-tonne agro-processing complex in Share, Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.&nb...

Lawmakers seek urban planning for Ilorin
In an attempt to correct perceived improper planning of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, the state House of Assembly has called on the state government to re-present the State Urban and Regional Planning Bill. ...

2012-03-14

Kwara unveils four-year plan to upgrade public schools
CONVENTIONAL and nomadic primary and secondary schools in Kwara State are to benefit from the state government’s 800-classroom renovation project. The scheme would be completed in four years. The exercise...

Sen. Adeyemi, Kwara Assembly Bicker Over Hotel
Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi and  the Kwara House of Assembly are in serious disagreements over alleged blockade of a stream occasioned by the former's investm...

Govt. Urged to Partner NGOs to Finance Rural Agriculture
Taiwo Toluyemi, a trainer with the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, Kwara, wants governments to partner with NGOs to finance rural farmers. Toluyemi, who was in Delta to coo...

Residents call for intervention over land dispute in Kwara
Residents of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero local government has appealed to the state House of Assembly to urgently intervene in the land dispute between the town and Osi-town to avoid imminent breakdown of law and order. ...

Kwara establishes agro-processing complex
In a bid to transform Kwara State into the nation’s number one investment destination in agriculture, the state government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aMosila Group Limited for the establish...

Kwara to spend N289m on schools rehabilitation
The Kwara State Commissioner for Education and Human Development, Alhaji Raji Muhammad yesterday said that N289 million was released for the rehabilitation schools that are in bad conditions in the state. He said the m...

Positioning Kwara State for 'Shared Prosperity'
In what looks like a clear departure from the normal trend in the running of government, whereby government functionaries work in isolation without connecting with the dream of their chief executive officer, the admini...