Tag: Kwara
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Kwara mourns as ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Saidu Isa dies at 71
The Kwara State government has confirmed the death of a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr Saidu Isa. Isa, who until his death was the Chairman Governing Council, Kwara State University, Malete, died on Thursday morning at 71. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba, described Isa’s…
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Flood destroys 2, 000 hectares of Kwara farmland
About 2, 000 hectares of farmland have been destroyed by water across the three districts of Patigi Local government area of Kwara. Special Adviser to Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed on Emergency and Relief Services, Alhaji Duro Mohammed, disclosed this while inspecting the havoc caused by flood in Patigi yesterday. He said rice farms in Lade, Patigi…
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Kwara cemetery rejects corpse of man killed by lightening
The management of llorin Muslim Cemetery on Friday rejected the corpse of a 47-year-old civil servant, Salami Adekunle, who was killed by lightning in Oro, lrepodun Local Government Area of Kwara. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Adekunle was struck to death on Thursday after a downpour. The Coordinator of the cemetery, Abubakar Aliagan, told the News Agency…
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FG confirms outbreak of Yellow Fever disease in Kwara
The Federal Government has confirmed a new case of yellow fever in Oke Owa in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. In a press statement released on Monday, the ministry said the case was confirmed in a young girl from the community after a laboratory diagnosis at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital at the…
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Kwara won’t use card readers for November council polls – KWASEIC
The Kwara State lndependent Electoral Commission on Friday said it would not use card readers for the forthcoming council polls in the state. The commission’s Chairman, Dr AbdukRahman Ajidagba, announced this at a meeting with representatives of registered political parties in his office in Ilorin on Friday. The chairmanship and councillorship elections into the 16…
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Saraki has returned pensions collected as ex-gov – Kwara Govt
The Kwara State Government has said the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has returned all the pensions he collected so far as a former two-term governor of the state. The Secretary to the Kwara State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, in a statement on Wednesday said the attention of the state government had been drawn to issues…
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Kwara 2019: My son won’t contest as governor – Saraki
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has ruled out the possibility of his son participating in the governorship race in Kwara in 2019. He said, at a Forum in Abuja that it was untrue that his son was being groomed as the next governor of the state. According to Saraki, “the boy is…
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Double pay: Saraki replies SERAP, says ‘I have stopped receiving pension as ex-Kwara Governor’
…urges other former governors in the Senate to follow suit The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, said he had stopped collecting pension in Kwara as a former governor of the state. The Senate President revealed this at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He insisted that he had…
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NFF resolves to build Football House in Kwara, five other states
Kwara State in North Central Nigeria is one of the Six States to benefit in the first phase of the Nigeria Football Federation [NFF] Football House to be built in Ilorin. Also, two football pitches are to be constructed in each of the six selected states in the country. These was part of the decisions…
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Drama as Pastor Oyedepo hires bouncers to stop wife’s burial in Kwara
An Abuja based pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Jacob Oyedepo over the weekend allegedly hired bouncers to disperse relatives and friends who had gathered to bury his late wife in Kwara State. The pastor’s late wife, Mrs. Christiana Adetola Oyedepo was to be buried on a property she was said to…