“I congratulate the Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice Barrister Salman Jawondo on the conferment of the rank of SAN on him by the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC). This honour is truly deserving for the Hon. Attorney-General whose antecedence of hard work, integrity, erudition, and ethical behaviour is known to all,” the Governor said in a statement.
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The law, cited as Political Offices (Gender Composition) Bill 2021, is arguably the first legislation of its kind in the country that places a ceiling below which the government cannot go in appointment of either gender for public offices.
Speaking at the opening of the 8th Kwara State Joint Trade Fair in Ilorin, the state capital, the Governor said the administration is making deliberate investments in critical infrastructure such as roads, innovation hub, visual arts centre, garment factory, among others, which he said would create more jobs and widen the state’s revenue base.
Speaking at the official signing of MoU for the KwaraLEARN programme, the Governor said it was laughable to hear characters who took part in the looting of public resources for basic education talking about good governance or launching themselves back to public offices in 2023.
Olawepo-Hashim spoke during a courtesy visit to the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Monday.
The digital literacy centres among the 2014-2019 school infrastructural projects of the administration under the Universal Basic Education Commission-Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) interventions.
The Deputy Chairman of the group known as Kwara APC Loyal, Chief Sunday Oyebiyi, said this in Ilorin on Wednesday.
The Minister stated this on Monday when he featured on a phone-in programme of TV Continental: “This Morning.”
Governor AbdulRazaq said this in an interview he granted THISDAY newspaper, which was published on Monday.
The governor, who spoke in an interview with THISDAY, said he only learnt of the money after the governorship poll
In a statement on Saturday, the Governor said the Asiwaju of Offa, a quintessential leader of Nigeria’s hospitality industry, is a pride of the state.
“These priorities, among others, are what would form the basis of resources’ allocation in the new fiscal year. And these are clearly spelt out in the fiscal strategic statement that has been developed to guide allocation of resources and procedures for preparing the 2022 budget,” AbdulRazaq said at the 2022 budget policy direction meeting held in Ilorin on Tuesday.
“Our challenges are enormous. Being a relatively safe state, security agencies tend to be comfortable with Kwara and that explains why they often take out forces from Kwara to bolster security elsewhere. For example, the Army has taken out most of their men to Northeast and we are making efforts to get them back. For the police, our need requirement is about 8,000-10,000 men but we have only about 3,000 now. Many officers of the two mobile squadrons here have been moved out. I am saying this because we definitely need more men on ground here,” AbdulRazaq said when he received the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba at the presidential lodge in Ilorin.
The congresses were held at the LG secretariats of the two factions across the 16 local government areas of the state
Presenting a letter of commendation to SUBEB chairman, Prof Shehu Raheem Adaramaja, the Governor also commended the other monitoring mechanisms, such as electronic monitoring gadgets, being deployed by the board to ensure compliance with standards.
The governor spoke on Friday when a delegation from the Ecological Fund Office, led by Dr. Joel Oruche, visited him at the Government House in Ilorin, the state capital.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the match, which was the grand finale for the 2020/2021 Nigeria Professional Football League season, was played at the Kwara Stadium Complex, Ilorin.
World Bank Senior Education Specialist Dr. Tunde Adekola commended the government for the initiative and its commitment of more than 25% UNESCO budgetary funding to education, adding however that it must invest in technology, training and retraining of teachers, create a regime of incentives for good performance, and involve communities in its drive to transform education in the state.
The governor said this at the inauguration of three newly-appointed commissioners on Wednesday in Ilorin.
Adewara said even the blind can see the huge impacts the administration has had on the education sector within the short period of its reign but urged it to consider the workers’ request on contributory pension, outstanding promotion issues at the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), and consequential adjustment.