… a trusted source of news
• Says outlooks in education, health, rural-urban devt, business climate far better • Speaker commends AbdulRazaq for giant strides across sectors, workers’ welfare Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday laid the 2023 budget estimates before the state parliament, restating the administration’s commitment to inclusive growth. The size of the 2023 budget is N189,436,248,054.00, with…
Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority Healthcare Development and Investment Company (NHDIC) has signed an agreement with the Kwara State Government on its Diagnostics and Oncology Expansion Programme to build, equip, maintain, and operate a private modern medical diagnostic centre and catheterisation lab in Ilorin. Kwara State is in the first phase of the programme along with…
Strong indications have emerged over plans by the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to sack the civil servants if elected as a governor in the 2023 polls. In May 2021, Kwara State Government recruited 4,701 including 50 first class graduates for teaching jobs in both TESCOM and UBEC categories. The exercise overseen…
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed Alhaji Abdul-Razhaq Abubakar Jiddah as the new Special Adviser on Special Duties. Jiddah was until his appointment the chairman of the Kwara State Environmental Task Force in the Office of the Governor. Jiddah, a businessman from Ilorin, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Master’s degree in Banking…
Kwara State Government has directed the re-opening of the College of Education Ilorin following five weeks of shutdown. The closure of the school followed a recent rampage and destruction of some public facilities by some students. “We hereby announce the reopening of the school with immediate effect. The approval to reopen the school came after…
,,,,,,,,The Nigeria Governors’ Forum has rejected the sale of 10 power plants and headed to court to stop the move of privatisation of the plants by the Federal Government. The NGF disclosed that its lawyers have moved to prevent the regime of President Muhammamadu Buhari from selling those power plants which are under the National…
,,,,,,,Popular gospel musician, Sammie Okposo has died. This was made known by a close source to the musician. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Details regarding his death is still sketchy at the time of filing this report.
• _APC, a party to beat in Kwara: APC Chair Fagbemi_ • _Our party is waxing stronger daily: Amb Yahya Seriki_ APC Women and Youths in the Central district of Kwara State came out in their large numbers on Friday to reiterate their support for the second term bid of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, asking Kwarans…
• PDP’s comeback bid shameless, fruitless: AbdulRazaq • PDP bigwigs throw weight behind Gov’s second term bid • Defectors hail govt’s impacts across Kwara Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday harvested tens of thousands of defectors from opposition political parties in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, in what observers say further underlines the popularity…
•Atiku, national leaders disappointed in poor mobilisation, scanty crowd The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and other national leaders of the party that attended the campaign in Kwara State on Thursday were reportedly disappointed at the poor mobilisation and scanty crowd witnessed at the venue. The campaign took place…