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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Starnded workers | credits: Success Nwogu No fewer than 85 workers and visitors were locked out at the Governor’s Office in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday. The governor’s office complex is made up of offices of workers under the office of the Secretary to the State Government, the Head of Service, the Ministry of […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 21st, 2015
Ahmed and Saraki The delay by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State to constitute his cabinet is causing ripples in the state, writes Success Nwogu Following the swearing in of the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, for a second term in office on May 29, and the promises he made in his inaugural […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Kwara, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Queues of bank customers at ATM service points on Aba Road, Port Harcourt… on Friday. | credits: Stanley Ogidi Nigerians across the country besieged commercial banks on Friday to make last minute cash withdrawals ahead of today’s presidential and parliamentary elections. In Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, residents flooded Automated Teller Machine points across the […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Headlines, Kwara, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), State News
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
The suspects | credits: Success Nwogu For 21-year-old Musa Isa, who is from the Niger Republic, his major mission to Kwara State, Nigeria was to work and get money to feed himself and later marry. Isa was one of the 120 illegal immigrants arrested and paraded by the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, on […]
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Kwara, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Politics, Trending (ILORIN) A representative of Kwara Central District in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has responded to rumours of his ambition to contest for the Presidency in 2015, saying he will make his decision known in the right time. After a stakeholders meeting of the Kwara […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Chairman, Ebola Viral Disease Control Committee, Kwara State, Prof. Sunday Opabola, on Thursday said that a suspected case of Ebola disease has been reported in the state. He stated that the suspect is a seven-month old baby, who came with his parents from Ibadan for a visit at Ilorin. Addressing journalists in Ilorin on […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Kwara State Government yesterday, announced the immediate closure of a private hospital in the metropolis over a suspected Ebola virus contamination. Announcing the closure of the hospital, the Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Public Health, Professor Sunday Opabola, and his counterpart on Secondary Health, Dr Ibrahim Gambari, said the seven […]
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Headlines, Judiciary, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 8th, 2014
After about 15 years of nerve-wracking battle, the Supreme Court has finally upheld the decisions of a Federal High Court in Ilorin, which declared the withholding of the academic records and degrees of two former students of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) unlawful. Delivering judgement in an appeal lodged by the University of Ilorin, the […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
By Demola Akinyemi ILORIN—Tragedy struck, yesterday morning in Ilorin, when a Pastor who was a volunteer member of his Community Development Association, was drowned in a flood while creating pathway for the water’s free flow in front of his house. The over 10-hour rain in the state capital started about midnight lasting till about 11am, […]