2011-05-31

ACN, Government In War Of Words
lorin: The administration of the immediate past governor of Kwara state, Dr. Bukola Saraki, penultimate week, came under attack from the major opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, over some of the project...

Two Unilorin staff remanded over NYSC call-up letter
Two staff of the University of Ilorin, Brimmo Ibrahim Adeyemi, 49, and Jimoh Ijaya, 38, who allegedly issued a student of the institution a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) call-up letter, have been remanded...

COE Lafiagi reinstates sacked staff
The College of Education (Technical) Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, has implemented the resolution of the state Assembly by reinstating one Mr. Simeon Olarewaju, who was earlier sacked by the coll...

Kwara govt gives soft loans to traders
KWARA State government has disbursed millions of naira to over 2,000 staff of the Kwara State Waste Management Company from their contributory savings scheme. The outgoing deputy governor of the state, Chief Jo...

Kwara Assembly members to vacate chamber today
Members of the Kwara State House of Assembly will after today’s session which is their last, vacate the chamber for the next set of legislators, the Speaker of the House, Abdulazeez Babatunde Mohammed has said. ...

2011-05-30

Nigeria: Lessons From Shonga Farms
In sincerity, when the government of Kwara state celebrated the coming of the Zimbabwean farmers in 2005, I saw it as the normal "Nigerian thing" because it was under our very eyes that the agricultural secto...

2011-05-28

My Agenda for Kwara - Abdulfatah Ahmed
A few days before he took the oaths as the sixth elected governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, or simply Maigida, as he became known from the electioneering campaigns, sat for a chat in Ilorin with newsmen who...

2011-05-26

Opinion: The Bukola Saraki years in Kwara State
By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu IN the twilight of his eight-year tenure, as Kwara state governor, this week, Bukola Saraki has literally been in overdrive. He hosted Goodluck Jonathan to commission projects: the university a...

Valedictory Session of the Kwara State Executive Council
The valedictory session of the Kwara State Executive Council presided over by Governor Bukola Saraki was held on Wednesday at the Government House, Ilorin. The valedictory session which was characterized by di...