Politics
Kalu regains freedom as court orders immediate release from prison
By David Olalekan. Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered the immediate release of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, from prison. This…
Edo guber: Oshiomhole insists on direct primaries as Gov Obaseki visits Buhari
By Shola Abayomi. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has backed the party’s National Working Committee’s approval of direct…
Ondo 2020: Liberal movement endorses Kekemeke
By John Oladiti The liberal movement, a collection of members of the Liberal Platform, an influential group of Ondo state indigenes, who are members of…
Kwara govt slashes RoW charges for telecom firms from N5,500 to N1 per km
By Ibraheem Solaudeen. The Kwara State government has announced a drastic reduction of the Right of Way (RoW) charges for telecommunications companies from N5,500 per…
Entertainment
Veteran singer, Majek Fashek dies at 71
By David Olalekan. Veteran Nigerian musician and entertainer, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek has passed away. Fashek, 71, died in a hospital in…
Fuji icon, Kwam 1 denies alleged illicit affair with Alaafin’s youngest wife
By David Olalekan. Popular Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, aka Kwam 1 has denied having a romantic affair with Olori Badirat Ajoke, the youngest wife…
Kano govt bans 2 popular drama series on Arewa24, viewers react
By Umar Salam. The Kano State government has banned two popular Drama TV series — Kwana Casa’in and Gidan Badamasi from showing on Arewa24, a…
Court fines Funke Akindele N100,000, sentences her to 2-week community service
By David Olalekan. Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, and her husband, Abdulrasheed Bello have been fined N100,000 each for defying the lockdown order imposed by the…
House party: Police arrest Funke Akindele for defying Covid-19 lockdown
By David Olalekan. Less than 24 hours after hosting a house party to celebrate her husband’s birthday, popular comic actress, Funke Akindele has been arrested…
Business View More
CBN intervenes, stops banks from retrenching full-time, part-time workers
By Shola Abayomi. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has scuttled the planned retrenchment of workers by some commercial banks in the country. According to…
Traders rain curses on Kwara govt for evicting them from Mandate Market (VIDEO)
By Balkis Tijani. Some roadside marketers, who trade outside the popular Mandate Market in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital have expressed anger over the decision…
Nigeria’s economic woes deepen as oil price crashes to $29
By Shola Abayomi. Nigeria’s staggering economy took another hit on Monday night as the international oil benchmark, Brent crude, fell below the $30 per barrel…
Nigeria becomes Africa’s biggest economy as S/Africa plunges into recession
By Shola Abayomi. Nigeria has emerged as Africa’s biggest economy, edging out its economic rival, South Africa which currently suffers its second recession in two…
Nigeria’s GDP records quantum leap, beats IMF’s 2.1% projection
By Shola Abayomi. A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 2.55% in 2019.…
SON, PECB certify Mubab Ltd, laud firm for prioritising quality, workers’ welfare
By Nafiu Toyin Abdulqadri. An indigenous manufacturing company, Mubab Nig. Ltd., has received the Standards Organisation of Nigeria’s Mandatory Conformity Assessment Programme (MANCAP) certification. The…
Kwara govt declares support for SMEs, speaks on 2nd economic summit
By Nafiu Toyin Abdulqadri. The Kwara State Commissioner for Enterprise, Alhaji Abdulwahab Femi Agbaje has restated the commitment of the Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq-led administration to improving…
Kwara Min. of Enterprise partners Bank of Industry, CAC to revive moribund businesses
By Ibraheem Solaudeen. The Kwara State Commissioner for Enterprise, Alhaji Abdulwahab Femi Agbaje on Monday received the State Manager, Bank of Industry (BOI), Mr. Olusegun…
SMEs set for facelift as Buhari signs Finance Bill into law
By Shola Abayomi. President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the 2019 Finance Bill into law at the State House, Abuja. The president, who made the…
Editorial
2023: Presidency cabals move against Osinbajo
By Nimi Princewill. Speculations are brewing as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s influence in the Presidency is reportedly being watered down by a widely believed presidential…
Sports
Sports Ministry visits Kwara, pledges monthly stipend for Yekini’s mum
By Kennedy Pwaspo. The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has promised to pay a monthly allowance to Alhaja Sikirat Yekini, mother of late…
Fans want NPFL scrapped as player slumps, dies during league match
By Kennedy Pwaspo. Reactions have continued to trail the death of Chineme Martins, a defender with Nasarawa United FC, who slumped on the pitch during…
Rohr names rejuvenated Iheanacho, Akpeyi in squad for S/Leone clash (Full list)
By Kennedy Pwaspo. Super Eagles Head Coach, Gernot Rohr has unveiled his 24-man squad ahead of the double header 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier…
NFF appoints ex-Int’l, Joseph Yobo as new Super Eagles’ assistant coach
By Kennedy Pwaspo. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed former Super Eagles’ captain, Joseph Yobo as the new assistant coach of the team. The…
Over 3,000 athletes storm Ilorin for polytechnic games
By Ibraheem Solaudeen. The 20th edition of the Nigeria Polytechnic Games (NIPOGA), kicked off on Saturday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, with over 50…
Education
FG: We paid ASUU’s N800bn debt – Uncovered ghost lecturers, others on double pay
By Shola Abayomi. The Federal Government has accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of allegedly rejecting the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and…
El-Rufai to enrol 218 Almajiri kids in primary schools
By Umar Salam. Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Monday announced that 218 Almajiri kids repatriated from other parts of the country will be…
Buhari appoints new NECO chief executive after ousting fmr registrar for corruption
By Shola Abayomi. President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Prof. Godswill Obioma as the new Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). This…
FG dispels rumour of reopening schools in two weeks
By Shola Abayomi. The Federal Government has discountenanced social media reports suggesting that schools would be reopened nationwide on Monday, June 8, 2020. Speaking on…
Financial impropriety: Buhari sacks NECO registrar, 4 others
By Shola Abayomi. President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dismissal of Prof. Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council…
Special Reports
Nigeria’s Covid-19 cases hit 10819 as 117 more patients recover, 15 die
By Shola Abayomi. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 241 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the…
Buhari describes rape, murder of UNIBEN student as barbaric – IGP takes up case
By Shola Abayomi. President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of the late 100-level student of the University of Benin, Uwaila Omozuwa, who was…
12 new deaths, 115 recoveries as Covid-19 infections surge by 416 to 10578
By Shola Abayomi. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 416 new cases of Coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the…
Kwara records 23 new Covid-19 infections as cases rise to 111
By Balkis Tijani. The Kwara State government on Monday night announced confirmation of 23 new Covid-19 cases in the state as the total number of…
FG reopens churches, mosques, says domestic flights likely to resume June 21
By Shola Abayomi. The Federal Government on Monday announced the relaxation of the ban imposed on religious gatherings across the country. According to the Secretary…
Opinion
FEATURED: Celebrating the Danladi in Kwara Speaker at 35
By Ibrahim Sheriff (Gold). Today, Rt. Hon. Engr Salihu Yakubu Danladi, Speaker of the 9th Kwara state House of Assembly clocks 35 on the surface…
OPINION: 365 days since Kwara gave its expensive car to a learner
By Olukayode Thomas. In Kwara’s 53-year history, few politicians have offered to serve the state like Governor Abdulrasaq. From contesting to be the State’s Governor…
OPINION: One year after the inglorious exit of a dynasty
By Abdullah Abdulganiy. How time flies! Today, 29th of May 2020, makes it a year a political dynasty was cast into the dustbin of history,…
OPINION: Infiltration of northern youths into Southeast – Why we should be worried
By Prince Ejeh Josh. It all started like a piecemeal approach. They were gradually crawling in. Crawling from the far north, crossing neighboring borders; unstopped…
TRIBUTE: Dele Momodu at 60: A rare gift to humanity
By Prince Ejeh Josh. “The son of the poor doesn’t over sleep”, Uncle Bob Dee once enthused in reaction to a twitter user who had…
OPINION: The Esinrogunjo in all of us
By Abdullah Abdulganiy. When the news first broke out on a Whatsapp platform, that Comrade Musibau Esinrogunjo threatened to kill the Governor of Kwara State,…
OPINION: The Leaked Audio: Esinrogunjo and Others
By Ishaq AbdulSalam. It was a long day yesterday in my home state Kwara, as a purported audio of a self-acclaimed aláàánú Mẹkunu, a frontier…
OPINION: Demolition — Before you crucify Gov. Wike for doing his job
By Prince Ejeh Josh. Let me be brute and ruthless with truth here. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State simply did what many leaders were…
OPINION: Covid-19 and the Challenge of Building Virtual Learning in Nigeria
By Abdullah Abdulganiy. From all indications, it appears that there is yet to be an end in sight to the battle against the novel coronavirus…