Kwara State

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a commercial motorcyclist, Umar Kareya, in prison for allegedly killing passenger over N200 transport fare. The Magistrate, Mrs. Jumoke Bello, who did not take the plea of the defendant…

No fewer than 15 Princes of Patigi kingdom in Patigi local government area of Kwara State have indicated interest to ascend the throne as new Etsu Patigi, following the demise of the Etsu Patigi Alhaji lbrahim Chatta-Umar recently.…

Mr. Femi Ogunsola, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has congratulated the Governor-elect, Mr. Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq and stated his expectations from the incoming administration. Ogunsola, a former…

A military jet is said to be deployed to Kwara state for the governorship and state house of assembly elections According to Kayode Egbetokun, Kwara police commissioner, the decision is taken to ensure better performance in the area of…

Barely a week to the Governorship and House of Assembly elections, over 2, 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ilorin West and Asa local government of Kwara State.…

 Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday urged Nigerians not to be discouraged by the earlier postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections. The vice president made the plea on Thursday in Ilorin during a courtesy…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has landed in Ilorin, Kwara State, where, he said, he was continuing the “Next Level engagements.” According to Osinbajo’s media aide, Laolu Akande, “VP Osinbajo arrives Ilorin to boisterous shouts of “O to…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State, Alhaji AbdulKadir Oba-Ajara, on Tuesday said he was not arrested by security agents in the state with Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs)…

 No fewer than 2,044 students have benefited from the free Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) forms purchased for them by a federal lawmaker, Raheem Olawuyi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the gesture was…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says he owes his appointment as minister to President Muhammadu Buhari and no one else. In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, the minister said it was “laughable’’ that…