2025

  …as Coordinator Solicits Stakeholders’ Collaboration for Seamless Implementation Dr. Bello Abdulhakeem, Kogi State Coordinator of the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), has called for stronger collaboration among stakeholders to ensure the smooth implementation of the AGILE project in the state. Speaking at a sensitization and stakeholders’ engagement program in Lokoja, Dr….

  Kwara State government, in collaboration with the World Bank, has targeted 28,000 school girls for digital skills training under the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project. Speaking at the opening of a five-day workshop, tagged, Kwara AGILE digital skills workshop for Master Trainers, on Monday in Ilorin, the State capital,, the…

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has stated that it would deploy the use of modern technology towards reducing the activities of smugglers across the country to the barest minimum. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, stated this on Monday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, during his familiarisation tour of the Kwara Area Command….

  No fewer than 53 people have benefited from the skills acquisition training programme organised by the Abubakar Kawu Baraje Foundation (AKBF) in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, towards making them self-reliant. The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Foundation, Barr. AbdulKadir Adelodun (SAN), who disclosed this at the 28th graduation of the students of…

The Federal Government has affirmed the Dangote Group’s pivotal role in the country’s push towards industrialization, as the company took the center stage at the ongoing Kaduna International Trade Fair. Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Dafang I. Sule, who represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of…

    Over 800 parents have benefitted from education support programme organized by a lawmaker Hon. Yusuf Zakari Eneve representing Okene II state constituency at the Kogi State House of Assembly. Presenting a cash of thirty thousand naira (#30,000) each to the beneficiaries in Okene local government area of the state on Saturday the lawmaker…

  A final year female student of the Kwara State College of Education in Ilorin, Lawal Hafsoh Yetunde, has allegedly been killed by her boyfriend that she met on Facebook. It was gathered that the suspected killer, after the gruesome killing, dismembered her body for alleged ritual purposes. The Kwara State Police Command, which confirmed…

  The Ijaw Youths Network (IYN) has denounced a coordinated smear campaign against the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro. The group accused unnamed individuals and their sponsors of spreading false allegations of financial misconduct against Dr. Otuaro in an attempt to discredit him. A statement signed by the IYN President…

  A delegation of stakeholders from Ogodu district, led by HRH Chief Adejo Salifu, the Acting Onu Omaba of Ogodu, paid a courtesy visit to Hon. Umar Yahaya (Connect), member representing Omala constituency in the State House of Assembly. The purpose of the visit, according to the royal father, was to express gratitude for the…

  A Candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the 2023 Kogi Governorship election, Otunba Olayinka Braimoh, has called for joint sacrifice to address the hydra headed issue of societal poverty bedevilled Okunland for decades. Braimoh made the call at the formal launching of “Okun Youth Alliance (OYA) Movement” with the theme: “Raising a New…