Alangua Okeogun dies
The Alangua Okeogun in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State, Alhaji Mohammed Laaro Abdulkadir is dead. Late Alhaji Abdulkadir died on Tuesday night (November 28, 2023) in Ilorin after a brief illness. The Janaza prayer for late Alangua will hold tomorrow, Wednesday (November 29, 2023) at the deceased family house, Isale Ajanaku area, Ilorin, the kwara state capital.
Ondo lawmakers may declare Aiyedatiwa acting gov today
After the peace meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja on Friday, members of the Ondo State House of Assembly will meet today (Tuesday), to discuss the polity in the state. A source in the Assembly said one of the major issues on the Assembly agenda for today’s plenary was the consideration of whether or not to declare the state...
KWSPHCDA Scribe, Elelu to speak at NUJ 40th Media Parliament Tuesday
All is set for the 40th Media Parliament of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) holding in Ilorin tomorrow Tuesday, 28th of November, 2023. The 40th edition of the media parliament will feature the Executive Secretary, Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency (KWSPHCDA), Dr Nusirat Elelu, as the Guest Speaker. Themed "Transforming Primary Health Care...
Profile of late Shaykh Abdullahi Jubril Imam Sahban
Born in February,1940 at Yaru in the present-day Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State,to a father who hailed from Sahbani Compound,Idi-Orombo,Popo Giwa Quarters, Ilorin. Shaykh Abdullahi Jubril Imam Sahban was a well known Islamic Scholar within and outside Nigeria. A proprietor of many Islamic Schools and community leader. Like many of his contemporaries, late Shaykh Abdullahi Jibril Imam Sahaban...
Proprietor Muhyideen College of Education Ilorin, Shaykh Sahban dies @ 83
...Janazat prayer holds 3pm Monday The proprietor of Muhyideen College of Education Ilorin, Shaykh Abdullahi Jibril Imam Sahban is dead. The late Shaykh Sahban died on Sunday night after a brief illness. The janaza prayer according to a statement issued by Mallam Abdulrazaq Yusuf, said the Janazat prayer will hold on Monday, 27th November, 2023 by 4pm...
Bandits abduct 110 in four communities for refusing to pay N110m montly levy
...as residents flee communities Four communities in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been deserted following the abduction of 110 people by bandits for refusing to pay N110 million monthly levy to a notorious bandits kingpin. It was reported that bandits, on Friday night, invaded four villages in the local government and abducted 110 people for allegedly...
Students’ loan scheme to commence January 2024- Gbajabiamila
The Chief of Staff to the President, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has said efforts are underway to ensure the take-off of the Students’ Loan Scheme in January 2024 to give Nigerian students access to fund their educational aspirations. Gbajabiamila stated this in Lagos on Friday while delivering a lecture titled, “Empowering Nigerian Youths in the Present Day Economy” at the...
Unilorin VC lauds Ali’s appointment as Professor of Practice @ FUOYE
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has felicitated an Ilorin-based prominent legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mallam Yusuf Olaolu Ali, on his recent appointment as a Professor of Law Practice by the authorities of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti(FUOYE), Ekiti State, describing it as "well deserved". Prof. Egbewole, in a statement signed...
Why KWSG embarked on evacuation of beggars, lunatics in Ilorin metropolis- Afolashade
...evacuates 31 beggars, 10 lunatics so far "Kwara State will not condone any act of street begging, as it depicts laziness and also litters the environ while wandering lunatics can also pose danger to the society.” The Kwara State Commissioner for Social Development, Hon. Opeyemi Oluwakemi Afolashade, has said that the rationale behind the evacuation of beggars and lunatics across Ilorin...
The goldfish in JAMB
By Kunle Akogun For keen watchers and followers of his enthralling trajectory, the recent news that the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, has become a hot cake for five African countries that desperately covet his services, is not surprising nor is it unexpected. His sterling performance at JAMB and at...
