Oke-Ode Community Hails Gov Abdulrahaman on Nursing School Provost’s Appointment
The Elesha and entire people of Oke-Ode in Ifelodun Local Government area have expressed gratitude to the Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdukRazaq, for approving the appointment of an illustrious daughter of the town, Alhaja Muinat Ibrahim, as the substantive Provost of the College of Nursing, Oke-Ode. In a statement jointly signed by the Chairman and Publicity Secretary of the...
MMGIVIT organises poetry competition for Kwara Students
As Nigeria grapples with the challenges of insecurity and poverty, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), MMGIVIT has lend a hand towards curbing the menace in the country. Towards this end, MMGIVIT, a charity organisation, on Thursday in Ilorin, held its annual poetry competition for secondary schools in Kwara State. Themed: "Charity as a panacea to poverty and insecurity in Nigeria", participants...
KWASU VC counsels students on career choice
...as MMGIVIT begins weeklong charity programme By Is'haq Babatunde As MMGIVIT begins the 2022 edition of its annual weeklong charity programmes, secondary school students in Nigeria have been advised to carefully make career choice and explore their potentials in order to become key players in the country's socio-economic space in the nearest future. The Convener of the MMGIVIT who doubles as the...
Read KWSG’s fresh take on use of hijab in Public schools
Kwara State Government has reaffirmed the use of hijab by willing Muslim schoolgirls in all categories of public schools in the state. The State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa'adatu Madibbo Kawu, made this known on Monday (January 24, 2022) during a peaceful meeting between Muslim and Christian stakeholders in Ijagbo, Oyun local government area, held at...
2023 : Group wants Yinka Aluko to contest senatorial seat.
Hon. Yinka Aluko As 2023 election is garthering momentum, a political group in kwara central APC PATRIOTS has called on the special adviser to the state governor on special duties Mall Ahmed Yinka Aluko to aspire for a seat in the red chamber of the national assembly. This was contained in a communique at the end of their meeting held on...
Nigerian varsities on suicidal path-ex-VC
By Ola Babatunde The Pioneer Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, and former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Professor Musbau Adewumi Akanji has observed that Nigerian Universities are on suicidal path. Akanji in his Valedictory Lecture titled " Suicide is Cheap" at the University of Ilorin on Thursday (January 20, 2022) lamented that Nigerian Universities have consequently jettisoned...
Banditry, kidnapping bane of food security in Nigeria- Varsity don
Professor David Apata By Ola Babatunde Professor David Friday Apata of the Department of Animal Production, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Kwara State University, Malete has identified kidnapping, banditry and farmer-herder conflicts as major factors militating against the effective farming system in the country. The don called on President Muhammadu Bihari led administration to as a matter of priority strengthen the...
AO Uthman: The celebration of an officer and gentleman on retirement
By Abubakar Imam All roads would, today (Sunday, January 16, 2022), lead to the residence of Major-General Abdullahi Otta Uthman as colleagues, friends, relations and well-wishers converge on his simple but elegant abode to celebrate with him on his retirement from the Nigerian Army. The celebrated senior officer retired from the Nigerian Army after posting 35 years of unblemished and...
Shaykh Imam Yacqub Ali-Agan: The New Sarkin Malamai of Ilorin
By Abubakar Imam Introduction Ilorin, a junction town and sociocultural confluence, has always being a home of and to scholars, saints and soldiers of remarkable accomplishments. Anyone who takes an excursion into the fascinating history of the nation's southernmost Emirate, which is sometimes referred to as the northernmost Yoruba-speaking enclave, would find the above conclusion incontrovertible. It is, however, a fact of...
Bako: An Unsung Patriot @ 57
By Abubakar Imam Despite hailing from and living in the same Pakata neighbourhood for decades , I was unknown to Dr. Abdulateef Iyanda Bako. I did not exist in his consciousness until two years ago. Although, and , as not unexpected, I have known him for decades as one of my "area brothers" he never knew me. The situation might...
