Tunde Oyekola
One killed, two houses razed in Kwara communal clash
One person was reportedly killed while two houses were burnt in a clash involving youths in Eyenkorin community, a suburb of Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Tuesday morning. PUNCH Metro gathered that t...
1st May 2024
Kwara PDP lowers flag to mourn Senator, suspends activities
The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has suspended all party activities in the state to honour one of its departed members who was a former Senator, Rafiu Ibrahim. Arewa PUNCH gathe...
1st May 2024
One dies, two houses razed in Kwara cult clash
One person was reportedly killed while two houses were burned in a clash involving youths in Eyenkorin community, a suburb of Ilorin, in Asa Local Government of Kwara State on Tuesday morning. Sources...
30th April 2024
N10bn fraud: Court lifts arrest order against Kwara ex-finance commissioner
The Federal High Court in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Monday, vacated the bench warrant issued for the arrest of a former Kwara State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Demola Banu. Banu is being tried alongsid...
30th April 2024
Fuel scarcity: Task force raids filling stations in Kwara
The Kwara State Government Task Force on Monday, raided some filling stations within the Ilorin metropolis, cautioning attendants against hoarding of fuel which the government says imposes needless ha...
29th April 2024
Commuters stranded as petrol scarcity worsens in Kwara
The transport situation in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, worsened on Sunday following the scarcity of petrol, which forced commercial and private vehicles off the road. It was observed that the few fil...
28th April 2024
Octogenarian man injured in Kwara fire
An 86-year-old man on Saturday sustained varying degrees of injuries in a fire incident that ravaged his building around Asa Dam Road, Ilorin, in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State...
28th April 2024
Neglected charcoal fire engulfs 40-room building in Kwara
A resident’s failure to properly extinguish a charcoal fire used for cooking on Thursday night resulted in a fire that engulfed a 40-room flat in the early hours of Friday. The incident happened...
26th April 2024
Saraki pledges support for late senator Ibrahim's family
Former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has again pledged to stand by the family and community of late political associate and former Kwara South Senator, Dr. Rafiu Ibrahim, who died last week. Sa...
25th April 2024
NDE to train 1,850 graduates in agribusinesses
The National Directorate of Employment on Thursday flagged off the orientation and training of a total of 1,850 unemployed graduates nationwide under the 2024 Sustainable Agricultural Development Trai...
25th April 2024
How Kwara saved residents from consuming poisonous beef
The Kwara State Government has buried all confiscated meat from the alleged poisonous cows meant for slaughter and sale for public consumption. Arewa PUNCH’s investigation revealed that the contamin...
24th April 2024
Pray for Nigeria's economy, Ilorin Emir urges Nigerians
The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of Kwara State Traditional Rulers’ Council, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has urged Nigerians to continue to pray for peaceful co-existence and economic growth of the nat...
23rd April 2024
Kwara shuts abattoir to probe poisonous meat allegation
The Kwara State government, on Sunday, ordered the temporary shutdown of the abattoir at Mandate Market in Ilorin, Ilorin West Local Government Area following the alleged sale of poisonous cow meat in...
22nd April 2024
Kwara probes allegation of poisonous meat sales, calls for calm
The Kwara State Government has appealed to members of the public to be calm over alleged sale of poisonous meat at the Mandate Market, Ilorin the state capital. The government’s appeal followed ...
21st April 2024
Kwara begins polio vaccination for children
Kwara State Government has commenced another round of polio immunisation campaign for children under the age of five in the state. The exercise which is the second in the series in the year, is expect...
21st April 2024
C&S okays date for Late Prophet Abidoye's burial
The late Head (Baba Aladura) of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church, Prophet Samuel Adefila Abidoye, will be buried in a Mausoleum at a memorial Museum and Park constructed at the Galilee Land h...
20th April 2024
Kwara firefighters stop villagers' attempt to scoop fuel from fallen tanker
Men of the Kwara State Fire Service on Friday prevented a crowd of villagers from scooping 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, in a truck which fell at Passa village on t...
20th April 2024
19-year-old boy nabbed for defiling a minor in Kwara
The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a 19-year-old boy, Jamiu Akande, for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl at the Pakata Area, Ilorin in Ilorin W...
19th April 2024
Court remands 14 suspected cultists in Kwara
An Ilorin Magistrate Court, Kwara State on Wednesday ordered the remand of 14 suspected cult members who allegedly attacked three members of a family in the state capital, last Saturday. The Police Pr...
19th April 2024
Kwara to renovate 47-year sports hall with N2bn
The Kwara State Government is set to renovate the indoor sports hall of the state stadium at the cost of N2.06bn to make it an ultra-modern sports facility. The sports hall was constructed under the a...
18th April 2024
Kwara urges IBEDC to improve power delivery
The Kwara State Government has called on the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company to improve service delivery to the people of the state, saying many communities were without power supply. The gove...
18th April 2024
Kwara firm partners global foundation on one million shea butter tree planting
In a bid to restore the vital trees destroyed by Charcoal dealers in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, a cosmetic manufacturing company, AMU-Gold Global Network has pledged to plant a m...
17th April 2024
Govt acquires 20,065 hectares for Kwara Smart City project
The Kwara State Government has acquired a total of 20,065 hectares of land in both the Ilorin East and Ilorin South Local Government Areas of the state to site the New Ilorin SmartCity Estate. A gover...
17th April 2024
Kwara group mobilises youths to produce next governor
A Pro-Democracy group, ‘Kwara Must Change’, has told Arewa PUNCH that it is galvanising a political revolution in 2019 aimed at sustaining the newly installed progressive order in Kwara State come...
17th April 2024
Police arrest 46 suspected cultists in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command said that it had arrested 46 suspects allegedly terrorising the people in various areas of Ilorin, the state capital. The command, in a statement by the state Police Pub...
15th April 2024
UNILORIN lecturer produces biodiesel from eggshells
A Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Elizabeth Odetoye, has produced biodiesel through the exploration of chicken eggshell-derived heterogeneous catalyst. Sp...
15th April 2024
AbdulRazaq governing Kwara State via WhatsApp messages - PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party, Kwara State branch, has accused Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of governing the state ‘via WhatsApp messages.’ The party also chided AbdulRazaq for neglecting the ro...
14th April 2024
Rainstorm renders scores homeless in Kwara
Residents of the Igbonna community in the Oyun Local Government Area of Kwara State have been thrown into mourning following a rainstorm that blew off the rooftops of several buildings. City Round lea...
13th April 2024
Kwara gov, Emir mourn Justice Belgore
A retired Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ahmad Belgore, is dead. Belgore’s demise was announced on Tuesday night in Ilorin in a condolence message by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu...
11th April 2024
Kwara gov mourns ex-appeal court justice, Belgore
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has expressed condolences on the death of a retired Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ahmad Belgore. The governor’s condolence message was contain...
10th April 2024
Kwara acquires 20,065 hectares for Ilorin SmartCity project
The Kwara State Government has acquired land in both the Ilorin East and Ilorin South Local Government Areas of the state to site the New Ilorin SmartCity Estate. The land acquisition followed a stake...
10th April 2024