Kwara State has been ranked second after Lagos in Nigeria in the latest Progress Report, titled: “The State of the States,” released by Africa Report in its July/August, 2018 issue.
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The minister, in a statement he personally issued in Abuja on Monday, said that with the recent gale of defections, the APC members and supporters in Kwara were determined to strengthen the party.
The community service, which was mainly to clean the community and its environ, had as its theme: “Personal hygiene and environmental cleanliness.”
Biodun Ogun, the District Business Hub Manager, made the pledge during a meeting with members of Omu-Aran Traditional Council of Chiefs at the Olomu’s Palace on Saturday.
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has said it would not accept back into its fold the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, even if the National Executive Committee of the party insists on it doing so.
The Force Headquarters says Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has a case to answer in connection with the April 5 armed bank robbery in Offa, Kwara, which claimed 31 lives.
The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has again written to the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over the Offa robbery, in which 33 persons, including nine policemen, were killed.
The Police on Wednesday night described the failure of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, to honour its invitation on the Offa, Kwara State robbery incident of April 5 as “disrespectful”.
Abdulwahab had been held in police custody in Abuja since June 2, 2018 after he responded to police invitation over his alleged link with suspects who carried out robbery attacks on commercial banks in Offa on April 5, 2018, leading to the death of no fewer than 33 persons, including nine policemen.
No fewer than 4,000 athletes and officials from 41 federal and state polytechnics in Nigeria will take part in the 2018 Nigerian Polytechnic Games, NIPOGA, in Ilorin.
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Monday flagged-off the Central Bank of Nigeria Anchor Borrowers’ Programme in the State.
Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution, U.E. Mohammed, and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.
Baraje said this on Sunday during an interview with newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has hailed the elevation of the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, from the Turaki of Ilorin to Waziri of Ilorin by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari.
Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) Limited has donated four ultramodern science laboratories to Erku Secondary Commercial School in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State.
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has won BusinessDay Newspaper Award for the Best Performing Governor in Rural-Urban Infrastructure Development.
The Kwara State Government has raised the alarm over vandalisation and theft of streetlight cables and bulbs and other components of solar farm tunnels currently being built in Ilorin under the Light-Up Kwara project.
The gathering of some of the country’s political heavyweights oscillating between the All Progressives Congress and the Reformed All Progressives Congress on the one hand and the Peoples Democratic Party on the other in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, raised speculations about the real motive of the meeting.
Iyiola Oyedepo, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara, says no injunction has been served on the party restraining its executives.
In a statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Sulyman Buhari, in response to the statement by Nabena calling on Saraki to declare his stand on the Reformed-APC