News

VP Osinbanjo commissions US$15 syringe production plant in Ilorin

Ihesiulo Grace 22 November 2017 0

The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday night commissioned, a US$15 syringe and needle production plant, HMA Medical Limited in Ilorin with an installed capacity to produce 200 million syringes and 350 needles annually. The plant which is a wholly indigenous –owned venture with partnership

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Gunmen abduct Labour Party national chairman’s mother

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

Unknown gunmen, Sunday’s night in Ilorin, Kwara state, abducted a 71-year old woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Omotosho. Mrs. Omitosho is the mother of the national chairman of Labour Party (LP), Dr. Mike Omotisho. The septuagenarian was allegedly kidnapped by four people at her Tanke, Ilorin, residence, between 7 and 8.00 pm on Sunday night. According to […]

Sports

Over 400 grassroots athletes storm Ilorin today

Ihesiulo Grace 4 September 2017 0

Over four hundred up-coming ‎athletes from the sixteen Local Government Areas will converge on Ilorin from today for the first All Kwara State Inter-Local Government Primary Schools Open Athletics competition. Participants in the two-day programme will feature in seven events including 100m, 200m, 400m, mixed relay, medley, sack race and egg race. The Chairman of […]

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3 labourers sustain injury, as four storey building collapses in Ilorin

Ihesiulo Grace 19 August 2017 0

Three people sustained minor injuries yesterday when a section of a four-storey building undergoing restructuring caved in in Ilorin, Kwara state. It was gathered that the restructuring was being done to conform with observation and advise of the state’s Town Planning Authority. The incident occurred at about 10am along Sulu Gambari road in the state […]

News In Brief

Building collapse in Ilorin

Ihesiulo Grace 18 August 2017 0

Several casualties have been recorded after a building collapsed along Zulu-Gambari road, Ilorin in Kwara State. More to follow

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Sanitation: Hoodlums,Disrupt Mobile Courts,Raze House,Shops

Ihesiulo Grace 25 April 2015 0

The monthly enviromental sanitation excercise in Ilorin,Kwara state capital on Saturday turned violent as suspected miscreants invaded two mobile courts sitting at different locations disrupting proceedings. According to him, one persons was also reportedly short while shops,houses and properties worth several millions of naira were set ablaze by suspected hoodlums

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NLC Factions Hold Parallel Delegate Conferences in Ilorin

Ihesiulo Grace 23 April 2015 0

The current division in the Nigeria Labour Congress again manifested on Thursday as the two factions of the Labour movement are currently holding parallel quadrennial state delegates conference in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. While the faction, led by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, is holding its conference at Banquet Hall beside the Government House along Ahmadu […]

Business Power & Energy

ECN, NBTI Partner to Commercialise Research

Ihesiulo Grace 10 April 2015 0

The Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) said it would collaborate with the National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) to commercialise its research and development products nationwide.       Prof. Jere Bala, the Director-General of the commission, said this on Thursday in Abuja.       He said the commission’s collaboration with NBTI was to

Business News

GOtv Extends Quality Programming in Four New Cities

Ihesiulo Grace 17 March 2015 0

GOtv has continued to churn out quality programming of its low cost digital terrestrial pay-tv extending it to hundreds of thousands of households and making entrance into four new cities. The latest cities to benefit from the quality programming of the low cost digital terrestrial pay-tv are; Birnin Kebbi, Ilorin, Minna and Zaria. At the […]

Politics

Buhari’S Wife Convoy Attacked, Two Arrested

Ihesiulo Grace 16 March 2015 0

The convoy of Hajia Aishat Buhari, the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), was attacked on Monday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. Mrs. Buhari, in company with her entourage, were returning from a courtesy visit to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu-Gambari, when the convoy […]