2011-06-08

First timers win Kwara Assembly speaker, deputy speaker seats
Abdurrazaq Babatunde Atunwa representing Owode Onire in Asa local government area of Kwara State and Professor Mohammed Gana Yisa from Patigi constituency in Patigy local government area were yesterday ele...

NSF: 130 athletes to represent Kwara
A total of 130 sportsmen and women, including 30 officials will represent Kwara State in the 17th National Sports Festival holding in Port Harcourt between June 26 and July 9, 2011. The athletes, including thos...

Emotional outpouring as Bukola leaves Kwara
Those who could hold their emotion merely hissed and sighed intermittently while those who could not wept and wailed openly. It was an open display of emotion by the huge crowd that saw off Dr Bukola Saraki, the former...

2011 WAFU Club Competition
After close to four years of inactivity outside the shores of Nigeria, Kwara United supporters will have something to cheer as the Afonja Warriors return to the sub-regional West African Football Union Club Competition...

As Bukola Saraki leaves Kwara...
The essence of democracy is choosing leaders who can make a difference and making them accountable for their actions and inactions. Globally, this is the most prevalent form of governance. Occupancy of electi...

Traffic: NESRA condemns refuse dumping on road
The Acting State Coordinator, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, Kwara State, Alhaja Bintu Mohammed, has said that indiscriminate dumping of wastes on the road is seriously hampering f...

2011-06-07

Governor Ahmed receives \"Torch of Unity\", promise to promote sporting activities
As countdown for the 17th National Sports Festival, tagged Port-Harcourt 2011 draws nearer; the Torch of Unity for the competition has been presented by the National Sports Commission (NSC) to the Kwara State Governor, Al...

2011-06-06

Atunwa Emerges as Kwara Speaker
The former Commissioner for Finance, who was also a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kwara state in the 2011 general election, Barrister Abdul Rasaq Atunwa has emerged as the new...

Kwara police deny awareness of threat to life of tribunal secretary
Kwara State police command has said that it is not aware of an alleged threat to the life of the secretary to the state governorship election petition tribunal, Mrs Uju Mesiobi-Emeto, by some faceless persons in the st...

Kwara ACN urges probe into threat to election tribunal secretary's life
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kwara State has urged security agents to probe the alleged threat to the life of the Secretary to the election petitions tribunal, Mrs. Uju Mesiobi-Emeto. Some faceless p...

Politicians seek marabouts' help to make Kwara exco
By DEMOLA AKINYEMI Ilorin – There is palpable tension in Kwara State over the list of the new cabinet members being awaited even as politicians now patronise spiritualists to ensure that their preferred c...

Kwara State assembly swears in new speaker
AbdulRazaq Atunwa was yesterday elected as the new speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly in Ilorin during its seventh Assembly. Mr Atunwa, was a former commissioner for Finance during the administration of Bukol...

2011-06-05

Kwara tribunal secretary receives death threats
Secretary to the Kwara state governorship elections petition tribunal sitting in Ilorin, the state capital, Mrs. Uju Mesiobi-Emeto has raised the alarm over threat to her life.    ...