MMGIVIT touches 2,000 lives ……holds poetry competition on charity
Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi, a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin has been described as a focused, loving and a considerate legal luminary who derives pleasure in putting smile on the faces of the downtrodden people. The commendations were made by the participants at the MMGIVIT Poetry competition and various beneficiaries of his third annual...
KWASU introduces Military studies
The Kwara State University, Malete, has unveiled the newly established Institute of Advanced Military Studies. The interdisciplinary Institute is designed to award Doctor of Philosophy degree in Advanced Military Studies. While unveiling the Institute at a Press Conference held at the Senate Conference room, the University's Vice Chancellor, Professor AbdulRasheed Na'Allah, noted that the Institute is not a technical military school...
Permanent Secretary, Civil Defence Officer escape death during Kwara sanitation exercise
It was a mild drama today in Ilorin during the Kwara state monthly environmental sanitation exercise as the erring truck driver of a bottling company hit the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Alhaji Amosa Isiaka Al-amin during the enforcement of the exercise. Similarly, a hit-and-run driver also knocked down a Civil Defence Officer on duty at...
Gov Ahmed warns Offa/Ijagbo residents over communal clash
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed said his administration will continue to strengthen all the local government areas of the state in the areas of revenue growth in order to enable them carry out their responsibility both in capital and recurrent expenditure. Speaking during a courtesy call on him by Council of Chairmen from Kwara South led by the ALGON...
Justice Saka YUSUF: Exit of an Ebullient Judge
The demise of the Honourable Justice Saka Yusuf, a week after the passage of an equally unassuming Senator Ayinla Olomoda, has, yet again, rubbed the llorin Emirate of the services of one of her most distinguished elder-statesmen and fearless patriots. He was a dedicated and reliable community leader and a polished model who afforded the Ilorin Emirate Community selfless...
NHIS: Olatinwo Canvasses Bill on Special Treatment of Infertility
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Professor Abdulwaheed Olajide Olatinwo, has called on the federal government to give special consideration to treatment of infertility under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Olatinwo, who made the call on Thursday (February 15, 2018) while delivering his inaugural lecture at the University auditorium, said separate treatment...
OMA Foundation, ’99 set institute awards, prizes for Sociology Dept
It was a grand celebration of reunion penultimate Monday (January 15, 2018) at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ilorin, when the Oluwatoyin Mojisola Akintola Foundation (OMA) and members of the 1999 set of the Department jointly presented various awards and prizes to the best performing students at various levels of the Department. The well-attended event, which took...
Ex-Kwara CJ buried amidst tributes, exaltations
People from all walks of life on Tuesday (February 13, 2018) paid their last respect to the former Chief Judge of Kwara State, retired Justice Saka Yusuf, who transited to the world beyond on Monday evening in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital after a brief illness. The symmetrizers in their thousands converged at the residence of the deceased, G.R.A. Ilorin...
What Kwara Accountant General did for indigent students will astonish you
It was a moment of celebration and joy to the parents and beneficiaries of the state Accountant General's annual scholarship programme to indigent pupils and students just as the programme practically gave hope to the hopeless. The fifth edition of the scholarship which held at its usual venue, Karuma Primary School, Karuma area, Ilorin, actually put smiles on the faces...
Profile of late Senator Ayinla Olomoda
LATE SENATOR AYINLA OLOMODA Alhaji Ayinla Olomada, OON, was born in Ilorin Kwara State on the19thof November, 1936. At the age of 8, He was enrolled into Pakata Elementary School, in Pakata, Ilorin at the age of 8 (now L.S.B. Primary School). He was there as a pupil between 1944 and 1947, from where he proceeded to Middle School, Ilorin...
