kwara state

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has remanded Dr. Saadu Alanamu in prison custody for alleged fraud to the tune of N182m and abuse of bail condition. Incidentally, Alanamu’s name was forwarded to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari last week for confirmation as a commissioner of...

The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Dr Ali Ahmad, on Tuesday accused the Federal Government of failing to show the required immediate response after the armed robbery attacks about some banks in Offa in the Offa Local Government Area of the state. Ahmad, a close ally of the Senate...

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has reacted to the arm robbery incident in Offa area of his state that left four persons dead. It was reported that four persons were killed and several others injured after suspected robbers attacked a popular commercial bank in Offa, Kwara State...

No fewer than six policemen and six others, including residents and bank customers, have been reported killed after some robbers stormed about five banks in Offa, in the Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State on Thursday. Sources said the men, who numbered close to 30, blew up entrances into...

A marketer of CBT software, Tope Sulyman, 36 of No. 4 Igbaja Adewole Ilorin, Kwara state, who allegedly defrauded an educational institute, Easiprep Nigeria Limited, of the sum of N2,022,400.00, has been arraigned before an Ilorin chief magistrate court. The accused was arraigned on a two-count...

KWARA State House of Assembly has authorised the state government to access a term loan facility of N4bn to settle the payment of outstanding salaries and pensions of the 16 Local Government Councils in the state. The legislature which reconvened from its recess, resolved to approve the loan...

The Kwara Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has confirmed that three people were shot dead in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area on Friday. The deaths are suspected to be related to an issue associated with the conduct of the council elections in the state on Saturday. The...

A strange ailment has reportedly killed over 70 persons in Oro-Ago community, in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. Leaders and members of the community said no fewer than 70 persons have died of the strange ailment. According to Punch, the illness is predominant among the...

The Kwara Government on Friday said it had closed down 10 private schools built with wooden slabs and operating without due authorisation from the state government. The Director, Quality Assurance Bureau of the Kwara Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Zainab Bello, told the...

The founder and chancellor of Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Bishop David Oyedepo has posited that African countries will continually be denied of desired development if it ignore core areas as agriculture. He made this submission at the third convocation of the university...

The Kwara State Government has attributed the delay in the payment of some civil servants and pensioners’ salaries to the ongoing Bank Verification Number (BVN) exercise in the state. The state also emphasized that all cleared workers and pensioners in the state will continue to receive...

A pregnant woman, Akata Roheemat has been murdered by a group of men suspected to be ritualists at Gboroko village, near Alapa in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara state, the state Police Command confirms. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ajayi Okasanmi, told New Telegraph on...

Governor Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has secured a $56m (N11.03 billion) Chinese investment for the establishment of a textile industrial park in Kwara state. The governor finalized the investment arrangement during his current trip to East China, Daily Trust reports. The agreement for the...

Following yesterday’s commencement of the Code of Conduct Tribunal trial over false assets declaration when he held sway as governor of Kwara State, Senate President, Bukola Saraki may throw in the towel by resigning from his position any movement from now, Vanguard newspaper gathered...