Tag: Kwara government

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Tertiary institutions in Kwara State have received the sum of N378, 426,018.04 as allocation for the fourth quarter of 2017, as approved by the State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed. The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, who made this disclosure on Thursday, said the beneficiary institutions are College of Education, Ilorin; College…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The management of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has insisted that it has not increased school fees for the 2017/2018 academic session. The institution’s Rector, Alhaji Mas’ud Elelu, who reiterated this while fielding questions from journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday, disclosed that for the 2016/2017 academic session ND I indigenous students…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Residents of Adewole community in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State have raised the alarm over rising cases of transformer theft in the area. They appealed to the security agencies in the state to descend on the staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company on the persistent theft of transformers…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has commissioned, a US$15 syringe and needle production plant, HMA Medical Limited in Ilorin with an installed capacity to produce 200 million syringes and 350 million needles annually. The plant which is a wholly indigenous –owned venture with partnership with a Sino-German according to its Chairman, Board of…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has commissioned the Kwara state-owned International Vocational Technical and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase- Ipo in Irepodun local government area of the state. Osinbajo, who was in the state on a one-day working visit,   endorsed the IVTEC’s model for vocational training of the Nigerian youths, saying…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Congress of Nigeria’s Political Parties (CNPP), Kwara state chapter has described the last Saturday’s local government elections in the state as peaceful, free and fair. This is just as it called on the newly elected council chairmen in the state to extend hands of fellowship to those who lost out…

  By Steve Oni, Ilorin Police Nab 52The Kwara state police command has arrested 52 people for alleged disorderly conduct during the state local government poll which held on Saturday, the 18th of November. Briefing journalists in Ilorin on Monday, the Commissioner of Police, Lawan Ado, said the 52 suspects were arrested by security operatives…