Author: Kamaldeen Saliman

The Chairman, Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mallam Bello Tahueed Abubakar has charged the commission staff to shun indolence in whatever guise in the course of discharging their duties, in their own interests and that of the entire people of the state. The Chairman gave the charge in Ilorin today, during a sensitization meeting, organized by Teaching Service Commission Management. At the meeting, the Chairman stressed further the need for the Commission staff to avoid actions capable of denting their images in the course of discharging their constitutional duties, but quick to add that, no one was interested in…

A leading technology and innovation centre in Kwara State, DHub Innovation Centre, has trained 100 female entrepreneurs in Kwara State. The 6 weeks mentorship program, which was organized with support from AfriLab and tagged FEMQUIP, equipped female business owners in Kwara State with essential know-how of maintaining and scaling businesses in the core digital age. According to the organizers, the mentorship program featured business moguls and experts who took the 100 females selected from across the 16 Local Governments of Kwara State on soft and business skills targeted at strengthening their businesses. The participants were carefully selected from over 500…

The international investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins in China will publish its report in the week of March 15, the World Health Organization’s chief has said. The report was originally due to be published in two stages: an initial summary in February, followed by the full text. However, both will now be released at the same time, said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “I know that many member states are eager to see the report of the joint WHO-led study on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus – and of course so am I,” he said in a…

A former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that he had once been tested positive for the COVID-19. Obasanjo, who turned 84 today (Friday), said he tested negative 72 hours after. According to a report by THE PUNCH, Obasanjo made the disclosure during his birthday, saying, “It will surprise you that I was tested positive for COVID-19. “I called them to come and test me, they came on a Saturday, I didn’t get the result until Wednesday and it came out positive but I didn’t see any symptoms. “They came three days after they tested me and said I am…

The governor of Zamfara state, Bello Matawalle, on Wednesday said that he is ready to resign if that will end insecurity in his state. According to The Punch Newspaper, the governor stated this while responding to questions on the abduction of over 200 Jangebe schoolgirls by bandits in the state last week on Channel Television’s Politics Today programme. When asked if he is intimidated by the decision of the Federal Government to ban flights in the state, the governor said, “I am ready to accept any solution that will bring security to my state. “I am not intimidated. If I…

An agency of the Kwara state government, Kwara Environmental Protection Agency  (KWEPA) commences weekly market sanitation exercise which will be observed  every Thursday of the week, the General Manager of the agency, Alhaji Saad Ayuba Dan-Musa  disclosed. Dan-Musa said coming up with the idea of the exercise is basically meant to inculcate the habit of cleanliness into the life of the citizenry of Kwara state at large. He said that Executive Committees in all major markets in the state had been contacted on the monitoring and enforcement of the exercise. He stated that the sanitation will be observed between the…

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Ifelodun local government area of Kwara State, on Tuesday held demonstrations over alleged hoarding of registration materials for the ongoing party membership revalidation/registration exercise. The APC loyalists from Kwara Deputy Governor’s Council stormed the state capital to express their grievances over inability to revalidate their membership of the ruling party. They accused the two lawmakers representing the local government (Omupo and Share/Oke-ode State Constituencies) in Kwara State House of Assembly; Hon AGF Salaudeen and Hon Owolabi of collaborating with some selfish elements to keeping registration forms and APC Membership register in private…

Adebayo Mojisola Aminat, a political science graduate of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, has written an open letter to the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to protest her disqualification from the ongoing State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) recruitment exercise, tagging it as unjust. What happened The State Government had late last year approved the employment of 4,701 teachers in the state. The government announced the vacancies after sacking over 2,000 teachers across who were engaged by the last administration. 35,709 of 56,924 total applicants scaled first phase Meanwhile, the government last week said no fewer than 56,924…

…calls for cancellation of exercise The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has pointed out that prospective party members are tactically being disenfranchised of their rights in the ongoing All Progressive Congress membership registration in Kwara State. The Minister, who disclosed this at a news briefing in his country home, Oro, on Monday, alleged that the exercise did not comply with the stipulated guidelines. Lai hinted that against the norm, the registration committee handed over the registration materials to an individual, not recognized by the provisions of the guidelines, who has decided to hoard them instead…

A group, Concerned APC Youth Stakeholders of Ifelodun LGA, has commenced the process of recalling the Honourable representing Omupo Constituency, A.G.F Salaudeen, from the Kwara State House of Assembly. The spokesperson of the group, Comr. Adigun Olanrewaju, while addressing a press conference Wednesday, said they came to the conclusion that the honourable should be recalled because he had failed the constituents that elected him. He said the group arrived at this decision after patiently observing and waiting for one year and nine months, adding that the constituency is continuously being deprived of qualitative representation. He stated, “We are not too happy…

Chief Press Secretary to Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Mr. Rafiu Ajakaye and his predecessor, who was the Chief Press Secretary to former Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed, Mr. Wahab Oba have taken to social media to fight dirty. It started when the former spokesperson, Mr. Oba published an article entitled: ‘This Is Not My Governor’, reviewing the current administration. However, while responding to this article on a Whatsapp platform, Kwaran Forum, Mr. Ajakaye lambasted his predecessor for calling the Governor ‘uneducated’, stating that Mr. Oba can’t write error-free sentences as well. He said: Without being immodest, many of you who abuse…

Some officials of the Non-Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, according to a report by Punch Newspaper, were on Monday interrogated in connection with the ongoing nationwide strike by non-academic university workers. The officials arrested by men of the Department of State Services, according to the report, included the National Financial Secretary of SSANU, M. J. Akanbi; branch Secretary of SSANU, T. M. Saheed; branch Secretary of NASU, Com. Flourish Josephine, Kwara State Council, State Secretary of NASU, Com. Owoeye, Idris Alata, and Adejumo Olusola, Stakeholders of NASU and…

The report of a forensic analysis of the Lekki Toll Gate shootings would be ready Tuesday, the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of SARS related abuses said. The Panel chairman, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd), stated this while turning down an application by the operators of the toll gate plaza – Lekki Concession Company (LCC) – to repossess the facility. On January 6, the judge emeritus also turned down an application by LCC seeking to regain access to the property. She said the panel had hired forensic experts to comb the facility. The experts, paid for…

A former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Zakari Mohammed becomes the first politician to publicly declare his intention to run for governorship seat in the 2023 elections in Kwara State. Mohammed had, while commiserating with the family of the late Justice Abdulqadri Orire who died last Tuesday, referred to himself as a gubernatorial aspirant. A part of the condolence message, which was posted on his social media handles, reads, “A Kwara state gubernatorial aspirant and former Honourable member, Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Zakari Muhammed has commiserate with the kwara state governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the Emir of Ilorin,…

The Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is yet to decide on zoning for 2023 election. The State Chairman of the party, Engineer Kola Shitu, said this in Ilorin, last week while addressing some protesters who stormed the party’s secretariat demanding clarification on the issue. According to NATIONAL PILOT Newspaper, scores of party members from Moro local government area of the state had stormed the secretariat in protest over a radio interview granted by one of the party officials which appeared to suggest that the position had been zoned. While appealing to the protesters, the…

The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KW-IRS) has generated the sum of N6,227,099,973.42 (Six Billion, Two Hundred and Twenty Seven Million, Ninety Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Seventy Three Naira, Forty Two Kobo) for the fourth quarter of the year 2020. According to a statement issued by its Executive Chairman, Mrs. Shade Omoniyi, the breakdown of revenue generated within the three (3) months of Q4 (October, November and December 2020) is highlighted as follows: October, 2,765,485,579.54; November, 1,287,202,252.78; December, 2,183,412,141.10; totaling 6,227,099,973.42. According to the statement, for the entire year 2020, KW-IRS recorded total revenue of N19, 623,992,033.64 which was…

The Nigerian Government has pointed out that the implementation of the 65 year retirement age and 40 year of service approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday have taken off. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu disclosed this on Thursday at the 2020 ministerial briefing in Abuja, said the policies took effect from January 1. He, however, said that there would not be a uniform take-off date for all the other policies approved by President Muhammadu Buhari at the 2020 World Teachers Day. He said that effective dates for other policies would be announced subsequently after the…

The Kwara State House of Assembly has passed the Appropriation Bill of N137.6bn for the 2021 fiscal year. The budget was increased from N134.9bn reviewed by the state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in January to N137.6bn. This shows an increase of 2.2percent, which is about N3bn. The passage was sequel to the presentation of a report of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation on the budget proposal at the Committee of Supply and laid before the House. Presenting the report, the Committee Chairman, Ibrahim Ambali Olatunji representing Owode-Onire Constituency, expressed the belief that the proper implementation of the budget would…

Kwara State Government has warned the contractors in the state against delivering substandard jobs. Mansurat Amuda-kannike, Ministry of Works’ Press Secretary in a statement said that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, TPL. Isiak Yinka Oloruko-Oba gave the warning on Tuesday at a meeting held with some selected contractors. Oloruko- oba said that any job short of expected quality by contractors will not only be unacceptable but also be seen as a deliberate sabotage of the government’s efforts to improve infrastructure for the comfort of the citizenry. He disclosed that the Ministry has put in place a special task force …

The Kwara State Government has warned schools against flouting the COVID-19 guidelines, adding that any school caught flouting this order would be sanctioned. To ensure compliance, the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development team embarked on compliance monitoring exercise across the state capital metropolis simultaneously to ensure that schools adhere to this directive. Some of the schools visited are Government Girls Day Secondary School, Okesuna, Amule Secondary School, Okelele Secondary School and Dada Community Primary School. Others are Dada Community Junior Secondary School, Bani Community School, Government High School, University of Ilorin Secondary School and Queen Elizabeth Secondary School,…