FG to boost agro-economy via investment in Dam Projects
The Federal Government says its investment in dam project will help to diversify the economy through Agriculture. The Chairman of the newly constituted Board of Directors for the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Alhaji Zakari Idde, said this while inspecting some of the ongoing projects of the Authority in Kwara North Senatorial district of the state. Alhaji Idde, who led other members...
Utilise TB free treatment, Kwara Gov advises patients ……..as Speaker...
The Kwara State Government has appealed to the residents of the state to avail themselves of the golden opportunity of free testing and treatment of Tuberculosis (TB) provided by the state government as a potent method of outrightly curtailing the incidence and spread of TB in the state. The Parmanent Secretary of the state Ministry of Health, Comrade Olaitan Adefila stated this...
NBA Legal Adviser Barr. Balogun donates building materials, cash to Kwara NUJ
The National Legal Adviser of the Nigeria Bar Association, Chief Rafiu Balogun has donated forty five cartons of tiles to the ongoing Pen School project of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Kwara State Council. While presenting the items and a cheque of fifty thousand naira to the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kwara State Council, Comrade Abiodun AbdulKareem...
NUJ to establish Television station
Plans are underway for the establishment of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Television Station and accreditation of the International Institute of Journalism courses to award Higher National Diploma certificates. The National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Comrade AbdulWaheed Odusile disclosed this at a Special Congress of the Kwara State Council of the Union, held at the NUJ Pen...
ANUCOPER calls for implementation of 33 percent increase …..demands scrapping of Pen-com
Association of Nigeria Universities Contributory Pension Retirees (ANUCOPER) has called on Federal Government to as a matter of urgency prevail on the National Pension Commission (Pen-Com) to without further delay begin the implemention of the 33 per cent increase minimum pension as approved by the government since 2011. The ANUCOPER, which is the main organ of all the Retirees of...
Lawmaker, others advocate best practices in export of agricultural produce
By Timi 'Shuwa The chairman, House Committee on Agric Production and Services, Hon. Mohammed Tahir Monguno has stressed the importance of adhering to best practices in the export of agricultural produces while urging farmers in the country to abide by it. Hon. Monguno stated this in Ilorin during a 3-day training program organized for the North Central geopolitical zone by the...
About 69m Nigerians lack clean water, 47m practice open defecation –Hope Spring
About 69 million people in Nigeria are currently living without clean water, over 120 million do not have a decent toilet while about 47 million people practice open defecation on account of water poverty, the Hope Spring water foundation revealed. The menace according to the foundation has become a threat to the lives of the inhabitants and called on Nigerian...
NNPC to demolish properties worth billions of naira in Ilorin …….owners appeal to govt to suspend action
One of the affected buildings The Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC) has marked hundreds of landed properties worth billions of naira in Tanke area of Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State for demolition. Some of the affected structures are residential buildings, Schools, Hall and Event Centers, Religious Houses, "F" Divisional Police Station, Shops, Office buildings, Ware Houses, Hotels among...
UITH IMAN TRUST CO-OP. SET TO FLOAT MICROFINANCE
The IMAN Non-Interest Cooperative Society of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin has set a ground running for the collaboration to float a microfinance bank. The President of the cooperative, Dr Habeeb K. Omokanye disclosed this on Saturday (March 18, 2018) in his welcome address during the Trade Symposium and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the IMAN cooperative,...
