Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday walked along with hundreds of #EndSARS protesters to the police headquarters in Ilorin, the state capital, urging them to remain…
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AGAIN, AISHA AHMAN- PATEGI RESIGNS FROM ABDULRAHMAN ABDULRAZAQ’S GOVERNMENT
By Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin Kwara Commissioner for Special Duties Hajia Aisha Ahman-Pategi has resigned from the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. She is believed to have earlier resigned only to…
KWARA HEALTH WORKERS BEGIN 7-DAY WARNING STRIKE OVER GOVT HANDLING OF CORONAVIRUS
Abdulrazaq Adebayo Members of the Joint Health Sector Union, JOHESU, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, on Tuesday, commenced a seven-day warning strike over poor provision of personal protective equipment, PPE,…
YOUTHS PROTEST INCREASE IN COST OF MARIJUANA IN ILORIN
Concerned elders in Ilorin are worried over alleged rise in crime rates among youths in the ancient town of Ilorin, Kwara State. The development came on the heels of outbreak…
KWARA SENDS 30 TRAVELLERS BACK TO NIGER FOR DEFYING INTER STATE TRAVEL BAN, SEE PICS
COVID19: @kwaragovt has returned a loaded Toyota Hiace passenger bus which defied the interstate travel ban to Niger State. The bus driver & the 30 passengers on the directive of…
KWARA GOVT FOILS ATTEMPT BY CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS TO ESCAPE FROM. ISOLATION CENTRE IN ILORIN
A plot by some COVID-19 patients who sneaked into Kwara State to escape from the Ilorin isolation centre was foiled on Friday. A statement by the spokesman of the state…
HOW 200 ALMAJIRIS BEAT CHECKPOINTS FROM KATSINA TO KWARA
By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin Kwara State Police Command, weekend intercepted a lorry load of the trailer fully loaded with 200 Almajiris (street urchins) in Olooru,Moro local government area of…
5 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES RECORDED IN KWARA
Kwara State has recorded five new coronavirus infections, The PUNCH reports. This brings the total number of cases in the state to nine. The state government made this known on Friday night…
CORONAVIRUS: KWARA TOTAL LOCKDOWN BEGINS TODAY
• NMA to sanction members treating COVID-19 without PPE • UITH to publish report on suspected case • Ishaku relaxes Taraba lockdown Kwara State Government has announced total lockdown…
CORONAVIRUS: ALL SCHOOL IN KWARA TO SHUT BY MARCH 23
Hammed Shittu in Ilorin Amidst global spread of coronavirus, the Kwara State Government has announced the shutting down of all public schools in the state. A statement issued in Ilorin…
COURT REMANDS 3 MEN FOR GANGRAPING A 13-YR OLD GIRL IN KWARA
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded three men, Mutiu Adebola, Gbenga Olusayo and John Samuel, accused of gang-raping a 13-year-old girl in correctional service custody. The defendants are facing…
HOW SARAKI DIVERTED 10BILLION NAIRA KWARA GOVT MONEY, EFCC TELLS COURT
By Akin Kuponiyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told the Federal High Court in Lagos how former Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki allegedly diverted N10…
KWARA GOVT, SARAKI MEETING OVER ILE ARUGBO DEADLOCKED
From Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin The reconciliatory meeting ordered by a Kwara State High Court between the state government and the late Dr. Olusola Saraki’s family on the demolished Ile…
PRESIDENCY ANGRY WITH ABDURAZAQ OVER DEMOLITION OF ILE ARUGBO
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, may have stirred the hornet’s nest if reactions within and outside Kwara State to the state government’s demolition of Ile Arugbo, the totem of the…
ILE ARUGBO: WHY WE CAN’T AFFORD MISSING WEEKLY MEETINGS-KWARA AGED WOMEN
Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin The aged women have explained why they cannot afford not going to Ile Arugbo, the charity home of the late Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki in Ilorin,…
ILE ARUGBO DEMOLITION CRISIS: BUHARI WADES IN
By Emmanuel Oladesu and Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin President Muhammadu Buhari has waded into the feud between Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and former Senate President Bukola Saraki over the…
ILE ARUGBO: KWARA GOVERNMENT KEEPS OFF, OBEYS COURT DIRECTIVE
Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin The Kwara State Government said on Tuesday that it had suspended further action on the reclamation of plots 1, 3 and 5 of Civil Service Clinic on…
ILE ARUGBO DEMOLITION: OLD WOMEN FLOCK SARAKI’S HOUSE TO RECEIVE GIFTS, MONEY
Tunde Oyekola Despite Thursday’s demolition of a building belonging to the Saraki family in Ilofa, GRA, Ilorin, aged women still converge on the place. Ile Arugbo (house for old persons) was demolished…
HERDSMEN ABDUCT 3 IN KWARA DEMAND 15MIL NAIRA RANSOM
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have kidnapped three indigenes of Obbo-Aiyegunle, Ekiti Local Government Area, Kwara State. The kidnappers have also allegedly demanded a ransom of N15 million from the…
THE VINDICTIVE POLITICS OF KWARA GOVERNOR ABDULRAZAQ
Abdulateef Oniyangi contends that the decision of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State to fight perceived enemies may lead to anarchy in the state The Kwara state government, had in…