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  Kwara State Government on Tuesday signed agreement with the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council on the implementation of the Consolidated Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Salary Structure (CONPCASS) for Academic Staff of the Colleges of Education Ilorin, Oro Lafiagi and College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS). The agreement, among other…

Kogi State House of Assembly has adopted what it described as a staggered seating arrangement pending when the state government puts an improved security measure at the assembly complex. The adoption followed a motion sponsored by the majority leader, Murktar Bajeh on the need to for the state government to put improved security measures in…

Littoral University appoints Prof Jegede as chancellor By Esther Onyegbula The management of Littoral University, Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, has announced the appointment of Professor Olugbemiro Jegede as its new substantive Chancellor. With his appointment as the head of the university, he is to be responsible for interfacing between the government and corporate organisations, according…

  Members of the Ebira Produce Buyers Association in Kogi state comprising Asuku, Ege, Oyiza and Avabe Multipurpose Corporative Societies have presented an award of excellence to the APPEALS project state coordinator, Dr Sanni Abdullahi Ozomata for his immense contributions towards the welfare of farmers in the state. The spokesperson for the groups, Sanni Nurudeen…

  The Ilorin Global Shapers Community on Aug. 6 in Ilorin awarded a total sum of N300,000 to two winners of its First Climate Action Challenge. The Hub Curator, Mr Kehinde Akinsola while speaking with Newsmen said that everyone had a role to play in order to tackle climate change issues in their respective communities…

  The traditional ruler of Samora in Irepodun local government area of Kwara state, Oba Matthew Idowu Ajiboye, was arraigned at an Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for allegedly leading some hoodlums to attack the Oloba of Eju Land, Alhaji Maroof Afolayan Adebayo in his palace also in Irepodun local government area of the state….

  A High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, presided over by His Lordship, Justice Nureni Kutanga, has given an order restraining the Kwara State Government, their agents, privies, assigns and whosoever deriving or claiming the title from or under them from further interfering with Artee Industries Limited’s peaceful possession of the parcel…

  A ranking member of the Green Chamber of the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. James Abiodun Faleke as been appointed as the Secretary of the Presidential Campaign Council, Tinubu/Shettima 2023. The Law maker who started as an Executive Secretary of a Local Government became a two term Chairman of same Ojodu LCDA between the year…

  A Non-Governmental organization, Participation Initiative for Behavioral Change in Development, (PIBCID) has called on the Kogi State Government to as a matter of urgency look into the plight of the people of Agbaja in Oworo under Lokoja Local Government by constructing roads post eteachers to schools and resuscitate Agbaja Cottage hospital in a bid…

    Women Who Don’t Breastfeed Regularly Are at Risk of Cancer – Expert The Kogi State Programme Manager of Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN), Mr. Ogundusi Bolarinwa says women who refuse to breastfeed their babies are at risk of Cancer. This is just as he stated that the breast milk consist of 70%…