Ilorin East chair, Agbelere presents 2025 budget before Council Legislators
The Chairman of Ilorin East Local Government, Hon Lukuman Olayinka Garba Agbelere has presented the 2025 budget of N9,114,528,643.00 (Nine Billion, One and Fourteen Million, Five and Twenty Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty Three Naira only) before the Local Government Legislative Council. Tagged "Budget of Progress and Development", the appropriation has total recurrent expenditure of N4, 659,279,643.00, with capital...
HSKi marks International Day for Street Children, advocates more awareness
Stakeholders in Kwara State have raised awareness on the need to educate and amplify the voice of street children. Some of them who spoke with news men during a sensitisation walk organised by Home and Street Kids Welfare Initiative (HSKi) on Saturday in Ilorin said that educating street children is paramount to a safer society. The Founder and Executive Director of...
Man Caught Stealing Electrical Wire at UITH, Arraigned in Court
An Ilorin Area Court arraigned 39-year-old Ibrahim Isiaka, of Atere Compound, Apalara area, on Friday, over alleged theft of electrical armoured wire at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. The First Information Report through which the Defendant was brought to Court, indicated that he was arrested by the security operatives attached to UITH while committing the alleged offense. The security operatives,...
Why Govt Must Sustain Momentum to Enjoy Gains in FP in Nigeria — TCI
By Ayinde Muhammed The Challenge Initiative (TCI) of the Development Communication Network of Nigeria has called on states at all levels in the country not to relent but sustain the effort of providing access to family planning (FP) and childbirth spacing services across the country. This was made known through a press statement signed and made available to journalists by the...
Unilorin Professor debunks forest myths, calls for sustainable management
By Ayinde Muhammed On the 10th of April 2025, the University of ilorin Audtorium welcomed guest from the east, south, north and west of the world as the first professor in the department of Forest resources management, faculty of Agriculture, Professor Folaranmi Dapo Babalola gave his inaugural lecture. Babalola, an Igosun born forest Professor delivered the 277th inaugural lecture of the...
A Heartfelt Congratulations to KWASU’s Newly Promoted Professors
By Abdulwaheed Musa The Governing Council of Kwara State University (KWASU) has ratified the promotion of 28 academic staff members to the professorial cadre. According to the press release signed by Dr. Saeedat Aliyu, Acting Director of University Relations, three distinguished colleagues have been promoted to full Professor, while 25 have ascended to the rank of Associate Professor. I heartily congratulate...
KWASU Approves Promotion of 3 Professors, 25 Associate Professors
The Governing Council of Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete, at its 73rd meeting on Thursday, April 10, 2025, approved the promotion of three (3) staff to the rank of professor while twenty-five (25) others were promoted to associate professor. The Newly Promoted Professors are as follows: Professor Shehu Abdulganiyu Salau: Agricultural Production Economics, Faculty of Agriculture Professor Moshood Zakariyah: Sociolinguistics, Faculty of...
Kuliyan Geri of Ilorin Emirate: A step in the right direction
By Isiaka Babatunde All roads led to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Friday, April 11, 2025 as the esteemed Professor Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN was turbaned with a prestigious honour as the first Kuliyan Geri of Ilorin by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Dr. Ibrahim Sulu Gambari CFR. Professor Yusuf Olaolu Ali SAN is indeed a renowned...
Yusuf Olaolu Ali, the Emir’s Kuliya title for a titan
by Mubarak Oladosu This blessed day, Friday, April 11,2025, shall witness history, as the turbaning of one of the most distinguished Nigerians of this contemporary, Prof. Yusuf Olaolu Ali, SAN, an Ifetedo, Osun State born icon , as Kuliya n Geri of Ilorin, holds.The events shall unfold at the venerated grounds of the palace of the Emir of Ilorin. For the...
Yusuf Olaolu Ali , the Emir’s Kuliya title for a titan
by Mubarak Oladosu This blessed day, Friday, April 11,2025, shall witness history, as the turbaning of one of the most distinguished Nigerians of this contemporary, Prof. Yusuf Olaolu Ali, SAN, an Ifetedo, Osun State born icon , as Kuliya n Geri of Ilorin, holds.The events shall unfold at the venerated grounds of the palace of the Emir of Ilorin. For the...
