Alore Primary School @ 70: …..A glance at Ilorin based earlier indigenous primary education
By Is'haq Babatunde It was a refreshing moment and a gathering of reunion on the 1st of January, 2018 at the premises of Alore Primary School, Ilorin, when the scholars, professionals, administrators, technicians, traditional rulers and a host of personalities converged to celebrate the 70th year anniversary of the school. The old students who have finished from the school several years...
2019: Kwara PDP prays for unity, victory
Hundreds of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state on Saturday organised a special prayer for the unity and peaceful coexistence among themselves as a roadmap to achieving victory in the 2019 General elections. The prayer was at the instance of the youth against bad governance forum under the umbrella of the party. The special prayer which took...
DELE MOMODU’S OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI
'PLEASE, I BEG YOU...DON'T RUN FOR A SECOND TERM. GO HOME WITH YOUR HONOUR INTACT' *'THOSE POLITICIANS ASKING YOU TO RUN AGAIN ARE DOING SO FOR SELFISH INTERESTS' '...Kindly permit me to be as brutally frank as possible. As a stakeholder who made his modest contribution to your emergence as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I owe you nothing...
Ilorin Emirate Chiefs debunk collecting N20m from Saraki
By Is'haq Babatunde The Ilorin Emirate Magaji and Alangua Forum has strongly condemned the allegation levelled against it that the forum collected whooping sum of N20 million from the Senate President, Dr. Bukoka Saraki, saying that the report was untrue, baseless, and a figment of the writer's imagination. The forum declared that the malicious information which has gone viral on the...
GSS Ilorin ’93 set inaugurates academic group
....pledges to improve the school's academic activities The 1993 academic set of the Government Secondary School, Ilorin has been inaugurated with a view to improving the teaching and learning and overall development of their alma mata. The alumni of the College also constituted a constitution drafting committee and agreed to open a bank account for the set, for safe keeping of...
Digitization of broadcast media will generate over 300,000 jobs- NBC boss
"The potential for job creation is immeasurable as over 300, 000 jobs will be created directly within the eco-system and from other ancilliary sources connected to the process" DIGITIZATION OF BROADCAST MEDIA: THE PLACE OF NIGERIA BEING TEXT OF SPEECH BY DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION (NBC), IS’HAQ MODIBBO KAWU FNGE, PRESENTED TO THE NIGERIAN UNION OF JOURNALISTS (NUJ), KWARA STATE...
TMF distributes Glucometers, strips to diabetes patients
An indigenous Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), Taiwo Muatapha Foundation on Monday (25th of December, 2017) donated a set of Glucometers and strips worth thousands of naira to patients suffering from diabetes at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) and other selected health centers. The beneficiaries were also presented with some beverages, and other items as well as an undisclosed amount...
Act locally but think globally- Professor Ibrahim Gambari
"There is general agreement that low oil prices will become the new normal for quite sometimes to come. The world is tiring of the hydrocarbon industrial civilisation that has fuelled the world economy since the beginning of the last century. The advanced industrial nations are frantically seeking alternative energy sources. Global warming is an additional incentive for them to...
FAK holds graduation ceremony, counsels youth on entrepreneurship
The Director, Pharmaceutical band Food Services, Kwara State Ministry of Health, Ilorin, Mrs. Risikat Bolanle Lawal has advised Nigerian youth to embrace entrepreneurship as an alternative to white collar job. Pharmacist Bolanle Lawal gave the advice at the weekend during the graduation ceremony, end of Year party and award giving ceremony at FAK Fashion Center, Irewolede Housing Estate, Ilorin. According to...
Is Abdulsalam Firdaos Nigeria’s Rosa Parks?
By Mahfouz A. Adedimeji One windy evening on December 1st, 1955, a 42-year old seamstress, Rosa Parks, boarded a segregated bus in Montgomery, the capital city of Alabama, USA. She took a seat near the middle just behind the front “white” section well within the “colored” sectionDz. As more passengers boarded the bus at the next stop, there was no more...
