The Kwara State University, Malete, for the second time in 17 days, issued a warning informing the general public – admission seekers – against recent upticks in fraudulent activity as regards the institution. The institution’s relation director Abdulrazaq Sanni, put out a statement on Tuesday cautioning people against a website – www.recruitmentbeam.com.ng – advertising admission…
The Alumni Association of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete is getting ready to hold its first reunion. The 3-day event will kick off on November 6 with a novelty football march between Ghalib Chamber and KWASU Alumni at the Kwara State Stadium Complex. On November 8, a public lecture that will also feature the…
No fewer than 30 suspected internet fraudsters were on Sunday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete. According to a statement issued by the spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwajuren, the suspects were arrested following actionable intelligence on their alleged involvement in internet-related fraud….
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has sentenced two final year students of two tertiary institutions in Ilorin to various jail terms for offences bordering on cybercrime. The convicts are Oyewale Wasiu Adetunji and Adebayo Ibrahim Abiodun, who are students of Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete and Kwara State…
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin has convicted two undergraduates – Olamilekan Ezekiel Adebayo and Ibrahim Najeeb Omotosho, both students of Kwara State University, KWASU, Molete and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, respectively over offences bordering on cybercrime. The court found the two students guilty after they pleaded guilty to…
The management of the Kwara State University has suspended the school’s Student Union election over ‘monetisation of the electoral process’ and ‘undue interference … from outside the University’. A statement issued by the Ag. Registrar, Mr. Mohammed A. Shuaib, stated that the decision was reached at an emergency meeting held on Wednesday. He stated that…
…as school mgt calls for calm, advises students The Police in Kwara State are scrambling to rescue the Mass Communication student of the Kwara State University, Miss Isiaq Kadeejah who was abducted on Sunday along Okoru Road in Malete town. “The Commissioner of Police, Kwara State, has deployed the Anti kidnapping Squad as well…
…says AbdulRazaq’s govt committed to completion of KWASU satellite campuses Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology in Kwara State, Barr. Senior Ibrahim Sulyman says the AbdulRazaq-led administration will complete projects abandoned by previous governments. He stated that the era of allowing abandoned projects of past administrations to waste has passed as the projects were…
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, secured the conviction of one Abubakar Abdulbashit Opeyemi, a final year student of the University of Ilorin and two other undergraduate students charged with offences bordering on love scam and internet fraud. The two other convicts are Alimi Abiodun and Idowu…
The Kwara State government has announced its readiness to establish a multi-billion-naira Cancer Treatment Centre within the premises of Ilorin General Hospital in the state capital. The Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, while speaking at a virtual cabinet meeting on Friday, said the N2.5bn recently donated to the state by the Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative (ASR Africa)…
The Centre for Community Development, Kwara State University has presented Participatory Action Research Grants to seven Principal Researchers at the Council Chamber of the institution. Recipients of the Participatory Action Research Grant Award are: Dr. Moshood Shagaya, Mr. Arinze Favour Anyiam, Dr. John Omoniyi Alabi, Dr. Felicia Olooto, Dr. Lukman Adebayo-Oke Abdulrauf, Dr. Taibat Yusuf,…
By Akewushola Afeez As part of the efforts to put an end to open defecation in rural communities across Nigeria, the department of Environmental health science under the Centre for Ecological, Environmental Research Management and Studies (CEERMS), Kwara State University has introduced a program called ‘Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS)’. The program is supervised by the…
The Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi SAN has appealed to the state government to release subvention to cover the increasing operational costs of the institution, explaining that the institution has been surviving on loans, which has overstretched the financial management capability of the Management. He solicited the support of the state…
The Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS) has asked that indigene students be mandated to provide their parents’ tax payment clearance certificates during school registration to stop tax evasion. The KWIRS chairperson, Mrs. Shade Omoniyi said this during a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi SAN in his office…
The Kwara State University has assured students of its commitment to providing standard accommodation on campus. The institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi SAN, gave the assurance at the foundation laying ceremony of the KWASU Students Smart City Project. While addressing prospective investors, Akanbi pointed out that one of his cardinal objectives, when he assumed…
The Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University, Professor Muhammad Mustapha Akanbi, SAN has flagged off the installation of a 114 million Naira worth of solar power system equipment to ensure adequate and sustainable power supply on campus. Akanbi, while speaking at the flag of the installation of the equipment earlier this week, said that improved electricity…
Kwara State University, Malete has postponed the first-semester Examination scheduled to commence on Monday, 19th of April to Monday, April 26th, 2021. A statement by the institution’s Ag. Registrar, Mohammed A. Shuaib said, the postponement was a concession to allow students with registration hitches to complete their registrations before the commencement of the examination. The…
Despite mgt’s threat, KWASU students protest fee hike Scores of students of the Kwara State University, Malete, staged a peaceful protest at the entrance of the school, on Monday morning, against the hike in the hostel exemption fees previously introduced by the management of the institution, among other issues. The protesting students, who brandished placards…
The management of the Kwara State University has sought the intervention of the State Government to bridge the infrastructural gaps in the institution. The school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, represented by the Deputy Chancellor, Professor Omololu Fapojuwo, made this appeal on Tuesday, during the State Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi inspection visit to…
The Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday convicted a 21-year-old graduate of the Kwara State University, KWASU, Ahmed Bolaji, over offences bordering on love scam. The conviction followed his arraignment by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on one-count charge of internet fraud contrary to Section…
