Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arrested 15 suspected internet fraudsters in the Tanke Oke-Odo area of Ilorin, Kwara State. Officers of the Directorate had earlier on Friday arrested 22 suspected internet fraudsters in Tanke, Alao Farm Estate, Yidi Road, and Irewolede areas of Ilorin.…

An Ilorin-based lawyer, Mr Omotayo Abel, has advised Nigerians wishing to travel abroad to beware of fake and fraudulent travel agents using social media to look for victims. Abel gave the advice in Ilorin on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said that such travel agents had defrauded many…

The Mai Martaba Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of the Kwara State Council of Chiefs, HRH Alhaji (Dr) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, CFR, has praised the philanthropic efforts of Global IT leader and Founder/Chairman of SAS Foundation, Engr. Saleeman Adedoyin Saleeman, acknowledging his genuine compassion and dedication to uplifting the less privileged. The revered monarch commended Adedoyin’s…

Some residents of Ibadan, Ilorin and Abeokuta, have complained about the dwindling power supply services despite the recent tariff hike in the sector. Expressing their grievances in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday, the respondents agreed that having to pay more for deteriorating power services was unbearable. An Ibadan-based businessman,…

The Kwara State Government has officially launched a Coding and Digital Literacy training programme aimed at pupils in 50 public primary and junior secondary schools across the state. The initiative, organised by the Office of the Special Assistant to the Governor on Digital and Innovation, Ishola Kayode, was flagged off on Tuesday as part of…

Businessman and former presidential candidate, Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has commissioned a newly constructed one-kilometre asphalt road in Ifedolapo community, Pipeline area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The commissioning ceremony, held on Saturday, February 22, 2025, was performed by former Nigeria Governors’ Forum Chairman and ex-Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Victor Obong Attah. The…

There is a reason Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, Sardauna of Ilorin, enjoys his solo moves within or outside of the state capital:

A duplex building was on Monday set on fire after a five-year-old boy was playing with matches sticks at Abiodun Adebiyi close, off Yidi Road, Irewole area Ilorin in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. The building was later rescued by men of the fire service but not before fire damaged one…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has lauded Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq as an “outstanding leader and an amazing achiever,” praising his efforts to transform the state. Speaking in Ilorin on Wednesday during her two-day visit, she expressed admiration for his developmental strides. Accompanied by the wife of the Vice President, Nana Shettima, and…

  Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. The convict, a self-styled spiritualist was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count…

No fewer than 50,000 Kwara State women have been screened for breast and cervical cancer over the past 14 years. The founder of the LEAH Foundation, Deaconess Omolewa Ahmed, disclosed this on Monday in Ilorin, where she added that the group collaborated with religious organizations, trade unions, market women associations, the government, and other women's…

The Olusola Saraki Market in the Ilorin West Local Government of Kwara was gutted by fire on Friday night. The fire caused by a surge in power supply destroyed about seven shops and goods worth millions of naira. Sources at the market said the fire started around 9:36 pm. The spokesperson for the Kwara State…