The Governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman Abdulrasaq, has dissolved the members of his cabinet in just a year after they were inaugurated into office. In a statement released late Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, the cabinet had been relieved with effect from December 31, 2020, though the Secretary to…
A student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, Osun State, had a near-death experience recently in the hands of some kidnappers, who picked her from the school environment and later dumped her in a bush in Kwara State. According to Punch, Saturday, July 23, 2016, was one day that will always give 18-year-old…
The sixteen local government councils in Kwara State got N12.5m each in addition to the federal allocation for the month of May, 2016 to augment salary payment. The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Demola Banu, who disclosed this to newsmen on Tuesday after the State Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) meeting, said this is to…
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has called on stakeholders in the education sector to map out strategies for taking Basic Education Teachers’ salaries off local government councils in the country. Ahmed said this when the Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Dikko Sulyman, and his management team visited him at the Government…
The Kwara State government has reacted to allegations that it paid the sum of N500 million to counsel to the former state governor, Bukola Saraki, Kanu Agabi. Saraki, who is now the Senate President, is standing trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, in Abuja for allegedly not declaring all his assets while he…
One of the top figures in the Yoruba movie industry, Femi Adebayo, has now been appointed as Special Assistant on Culture, Arts and Tourism to the Kwara State governor, Ahmed Abdul Fatai. Ahmed was appointed on Monday, February 22, 2016, by the state governor in Ilorin, the state capital. Femi is the son of veteran…
National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lai Mohammed, says his nomination as a minister by President Muhammadu Buhari is well-deserved. The Kwara State-born politician made this known in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital while answering questions from journalists as regards protests that he never voted in the state during the last elections.…
On Thursday, embattled Senate President, Bukola Saraki, got a treatment he may never have imagined to get in his hometown in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, where he was once governed for eight years. Saraki was in Ilorin for the Sallah celebration, but when he went to the Muslim prayer ground in the morning…
*The Looting Inside Gov Ahmed’s Govt Reports reaching us from Kwara State seem not to be a very palatable one. As you read this piece, residents of Kwara have resorted to God to save them from the grip of their governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, who they fear might run the state aground. According to a report…
If disturbing information coming out of Kwara State is anything to go by, then the good people of the state are in for a rough time ahead. It was alleged that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has been giving his ‘master’ and predecessor, Senator Bukola Saraki, the sum of N100 million monthly to continue to curry favour…