Year: 2019
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Kwara people must own, benefit from Harmony Holdings — New GMD
• Says firm committed to workers’ welfare By Steve Oni, Ilorin Group Managing Director of the Harmony Holdings Limited Abdullahi AbdulMajeed on Monday said the investment firm is being repositioned to truly benefit and be accountable to the people of Kwara State whose assets form the core of its existence. “The task in Harmony Holdings…
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HRM Lady Evelyn Balogun emerges BAMA Philanthropist of the Year
Her Royal Majesty, Lady Evelyn Balogun has emerged the Bayelsa Merit Award, BAMA Philanthropist of the Year 2019. The award was presented at a colourful award ceremony held over the weekend in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. Lady Evelyn Balogun, who is the President/Founder of the HRM Evelyn Balogun Foundation, HRMLEF a leading humanitarian non-governmental…
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OPCI advocates restructuring of Nigeria with state police
By Steve Oni, Ilorin National President of Oodua Progressives Congress Initiative (OPCI), Dr. Maruf Olanrewaju, has advocated the restructuring of Nigeria, where each state would be entitled to set up its own police, saying the United States of America “from where we copied our own form of democracy allowed for state and local government police.”…
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Kwara gets minimum wage negotiating committee
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Government has assembled a negotiating team to interface with representatives of the labour unions over the minimum wage. The team is peopled by government officials and leadership of the labour unions in the state, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Rafiu Ajakaye said in a statement on Thursday. The…
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Christmas season: Politicians, civil servants urged to share love
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State government has emphasised the need for love to be shared across religious and ethnic divides to build the State. Deputy Governor Kayode Alabi who identified politicians and civil servants as stakeholders in the state building project made the call at the Carol Service organised by the Government House…
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Kwara prunes ministries to 16, seeks public support
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Government has pruned the ministries in the state civil service to 16, down from the 19 ministries inherited from the past administration, saying the measure was to cut cost and strengthen efficiency in service delivery to the people. The State’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Harriet Afolabi-Oshatimehin, who…
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EFCC recovers additional N70m looted fund for Kwara
By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that it has recovered additional N70m for the Kwara State Government in its ongoing efforts to recover looted funds allegedly stolen by corrupt individuals. It will be recalled that the Commission had on the 11th of October…
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Kwara budgets N162b for 2020
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazak has presented a budget estimate of N162b for 2020, up from N157bn budget of the outgoing year. Presenting the budget, tagged budget of “reconstruction and reformation”, on Wednesday before the state House of Assembly, AbdulRazak said “we propose 47% recurrent expenditure and 53% capital expenditure in…
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Oshiomhole Remains Suspended , —– Edo APC
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City. The Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday insisted that the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole remains suspended and lacks the legitimacy to act in any capacity in the party, saying his membership is already compromised. Addressing Journalists at the APC state secretariat…
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Kwara extends suspension of ‘indicted’ Kwara LG chairs, others
By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday extended the suspension of 16 local government chairmen and their legislative committees, a decision premised on the ongoing investigation of the affected officials by the anti-graft body and a subsisting resolution of the House of Assembly. Accused of alleged misappropriation of public funds, the…