Author: Ahmed Lanre

By Ahmed ‘Lateef Over N4billion has been paid as Kwara State’s counterpart fund for Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) between 2019 till date. The released counterpart fund is to assist the state government through RAAMP, a world bank assisted project, for the upgrade, rehabilitation and construction of roads in rural communities. The state RAAMP Project Coordinator, Dr Isaac Kolo, who stated this at the 47th media parliament of the state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin, on Monday, said the first phase of the project, with six years lifespan, has commenced in selected rural…

By Ahmed ‘Lateef The Kwara State monthly environmental sanitation exercise is holding on Saturday between 7am and 10am. However, verified candidates for the State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) Computer-Based Test (CBT) will be permitted to attend their examination in line with the directive from the commission. The state Commissioner for Environment, Hajia Nafisat Musa Buge, made the clarification in a statement issued in Ilorin and made available to The Herald, Friday. Buge, in the statement issued through the Press Secretary of the ministry, Shakirat Muritala, instructed environmental officers and security personnel to allow TESCOM job applicants, with verified invitations, move…

By Ahmed ‘Lateef President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is undertaking reforms through his renewed hope agenda to rescue the country from total collapse. The Director General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), Mallam ‘Lanre Issa-Onilu, drop the hint in Ilorin on Thursday when he featured on the 46th Media Parliament of the Kwara State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). It was themed “Can Citizens Still Be Hopeful in a Renewed Hope Era”. Issa-Onilu told the media parliament that previous administrations chose to mend the cracks in the building instead of pulling down it completely for reconstruction. He explained that Tinubu…

By Ahmed ‘Lateef The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command is disturbed over what it called “the rising security threats in school environments”. It, however, called for a coordinated and collective approach to mitigate risks associated with security threats. The state Commandant of NSCDC, Dr Umar Muhammed, said this at a one-day Security Summit with the theme: “School Safety and Emergency Response Tips: Citizens’ Security”, which the Ilorin West Local Government Area Division of the NSCDC of the state command organized. theheraldnews.ng reports that the summit was aimed at strengthening security measures in schools and their…

By Ahmed ‘Lateef About 5000 hectares of rice plantation estimated at N11.5billion ravaged in the flooding that submerged farmlands in some communities in Moro, Edu and Patigi Local Government Areas of Kwara State. This was revealed when a member representing Edu/Moro/Patigi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Dr Ahmed Adamu Saba, visited the scenes of the disaster in Edu at the weekend. Some of the communities where flood affected rice plantation include Fonga and Jebba in Moro; Lade, Patigi and Kpada Districts in Patigi and Shonga, Bacita and Lafiagi in Edu local government areas of the state. Over 5000…

By Ahmed ‘Lateef The new Controller, Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Kwara State Command, Mr Oyediran Famuwagun, has pleaded with the state government to relocate the Custodial Centre, Oke-Kura in Ilorin to a vast land that could adequately take care of its services. He said the need for relocation of the facility, which should be urgently considered, was due to its overpopulation. Famuwagun made the plea on Wednesday when he led his team on a courtesy visit to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Mamman Saba Jibril, at Governor’s Office, Ilorin. He said the overpopulation of the custodial centre…

One of the newly appointed Imams of the National Mosque, Abuja, Dr Abdulkadir Salman Sholagberu, has absolved President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from any complicity over the lingering hike in prices of goods and as well as hardship in the country. The cleric said the present administration inherited problems from the previous administration, urging the citizens to show patience and understanding. Sholagberu gave the admonition while delivering his sermon at the juma’ah service in Abuja.

A political support group, A.A. Network has urged the newly appointed Principal Private Secretary to Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdullateef Adebayo Oloyin, to justify the trust his principal reposed in him.