SAUDI GROUP TO ESTABLISH MULTIMILLION DOLLAR AGRIC CITY IN KWARA NORTH

A Saudi Investment Company, Zain Al-abdin group is to set up an Agric City in Kwara State. The proposed Agric City, which is to be located along the River Niger in Kwara North will comprise a cluster of farms specializing in cultivation, processing and export of rice, maize and vegetables.

The Chairman of the investment group, Zain Al-Abdin Nafawi disclosed this when he and other members of the group visited the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed last Friday at the Government House, Ilorin.

According to the Chairman, the Agric city will also contain facilities such as schools, hospitals, shops and other associated services.

WATER PROJECTS IN ALL MOSQUES, WITH KWARA MONEY OR SARAKI PERSONAL MONEY?

It's absurd how our religious system is joining other decaying sectors. When a whole church of God will openly conduct church service for an unremorseful thief like James Ibori who just returned from "small London" in UK. It's in this same nation a big church conducted a befitting burial for a drug Baron that was convicted and executed in Indonesia and still have the gut to tag such burial as "an exit of a hero" what a decadence of moral and values?

Saraki sponsoring of water projects in all jumat mosques in ilorin is completely unjustifiable if the project will be financed with taxpayers money . What connections exists between holy house Allah and your political money? In a sane nation, people like Saraki, Dele Belgore and others alleged thieves should not be allowed to step their feet into any of these mosques for the evil they have done .

OSINBAJO: "WE ARE COMMITTED TO ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR PEOPLE, & FIXING THE ECONOMY"

I commend the IG and his officers for handling the protests with professionalism and respect for the rights of citizens.

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

PRESS RELEASE: JAACK BLAST SARAKI, RAFIU ON COSMETIC EMPOWERMENT

Saraki and Rafiu Ibrahim empowerment schemes were distractions as Kwara govt lied on Paris club refund - JAACK

The Joint Action Against Corruption in Kwara (JAACK) has described the Saraki empowerment scheme and its offshoot credited to Rafiu Ibrahim as diversionary strategies aimed at luring away the attention of the citizens from asking pertinent questions.

The group in a statement issued by its organising secretary, Joe Mahmud in Ilorin on Tuesday decried the "increasing appetite for insincerity and impunity by the Kwara State government".

SENATOR RAFIU ADEBAYO IBRAHIM EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME: KUDOS TO THE SENATOR REPRESENTING KWARA SOUTH!

SENATOR RAFIU ADEBAYO IBRAHIM EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME, TAGGED 3 IN 1 CELEBRATIONS: IN COMMEMORATION OF HIS GOLDEN JUBILEE BIRTHDAY, LAUNCHING OF HIS RAFIU IBRAHIM BILAL FOUNDATION AND COMMISSIONED OF HIS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME... KUDOS TO THE SENATOR REPRESENTING KWARA SOUTH!

 

Hello our darling new media companions! Permit us to once again salute you on this very unique day after Maolud Nabiyy (SAW) holiday! We first and foremost thank Almighty God for journey mercies He granted us throughout our journey from Ilorin to Offa and finally back to Ilorin. Infact, The Lord is Great!

We promised you that we would attend the empowerment exercise of Distinguished Senator Rafiu Adebayo Ibrahim, that was precisely what we did. Infact, we arrived Offa Descendant Union (ODU) Hall venue of the event as early as possible in order to formalise the necessary details that will admit us into the inner room of the event. 

PILOT TRAINING: 301 FTS GRADUATES NEW BATCH OF 10 STUDENT PILOTS

Ten trainees of Student Pilot Course 41B have completed their ab-initio pilot training at 301 Flying Training School (FTS), Kaduna. 

The graduands, awarded certificates over the weekend, are now ready to proceed for Basic Flying Training (BFT) on the fixed wing aircraft at 303 FTS Kano or similar facilities abroad. The graduating students were among the 25 original members of Student Pilot Course 41 that was later divided into two batches of 12 and 13 students. 

Six members of the first batch of students, constituting Student Pilot Course (SPC) 41A, were sent for rotary wing flying at the International Helicopter Flying Training School, Enugu. The remaining six, comprising 4 Nigerians and 2 Liberians, continued their training in 301 FTS and completed the course in 2015. 

Fulani Herdsmen - WHY ANY GRAZING BILL MUST BE STOPPED

The story is told of how King Yunfa, the Hausa Sarkin in Gobir (now called Sokoto) hosted a Fulani immigrant called Usman Dan Fodiyo and his group in February 1804, as a result of this and since 1808 the whole of the northern region lost its kingdoms and were replaced by Fulani emirates.

King Yunfa is said to have been killed in 1808 and the Fulani warrior (Usman Dan Fodiyo) established Sokoto caliphate, making himself Sultan.

Gradually, other Hausa kingdoms were pillaged and taken over by the Fulani emirs. The ethnic groups in the core north were the first victims of Fulani imperialism, a venture that occurred because the people were given access to grazing land as a result of the hospitality of the hosts.

They however failed to overrun the Bornu kingdom, so the Shehu of Bornu remains paramount till today!

The Afonja dynasty compromised by allowing a Fulani warrior known as Janta Alimi to settle in Ilorin, the Fulani guerrillas killed Afonja in 1824

Senate President Bukola Saraki Prepares to Return to PDP as APC Strips Him 'Unclad'

Senate president Bukola Saraki could be coerced into a shocking return to the opposition party after losing the support of his APC counterparts.

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kwara State Chapter, Iyiola Oyedepo has alleged that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki is desperate to return to his former party where he served as a governor for eight years, according to the Dailypost.

Oyedepo while speaking with some party leaders from the 16 local government areas of the state in Ilorin, the state capital on Monday said the All Progressives Congress, APC, was out to render Saraki “politically unclad.”

He said, “The senate president is about to be made Unclad by the APC. APC is in disarray and he is about to be made politically unclad.

National Conference: Islamic Scholar Wants Delegates to Focus More on Peace

An Islamic scholar, Dr. Abdulkadir Oba Solagberu, at the weekend urged the committee on religion in the ongoing National Conference to dwell more on factors capable of restoring peace, unity and harmony among religious adherents in the country.

Solagberu, who is also the founder of Darul-Kitab Wa Sunnah College of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Ilorin, disclosed this in Ilorin over the weekend while speaking with journalists.

According to him, “The gesture would go a long way of assisting the nation to witness a new dawn in fostering peace among all the stakeholders in the country. “People must accommodate and tolerate one another irrespective of religious, cultural or political affinities. 

Kwara Lawmaker, Idris Haliru is dead

A member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Idris Haliru, is dead. 

Hon. Idris represented Kaiama/Kemanji/Wajibe constituency of Kwara North. He died in the early hours of today at the official residence in the Legislative Quarters, Ilorin. 

The deceased was the son of Sen. Haliru Mohammed from Kwara North.

E-kwara learnt very reliably that the deceased had been battling with a chronic terminal illness for over two years now. He practically spent the better part of his legislative life on the sick bed. 

At a point, he was said to have been flown to India for intensive medical treatment.

Herdsmen Crisis: What Fulani Want From Government (Article) - Ismail Iro

Grazing land and stock-routes top the list of Fulani's demands from government.

All the leading presidential aspirants in the previous elections who were seeking the votes of *Miyetti Allah* Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (M.A.C.B.A.N.) had sent letters to the association assuring the Fulani of enough grazing land and stock-paths if elected. Discussions among government officials, traditional rulers, and Fulani leaders on the welfare of the pastoralists have always centered on requests and pledges for protecting grazing spaces and cattle passages. It has become evident that the political party that ignores the Fulani demand for grazing land would during an election attract a voter revenge.

The Growing pressure from *Ardo'en* (the Fulani community leaders) for the salvation of what is left of the customary grazing land has made some state governments with large population of herders to include in their development plans the reactivation and preservation of grazing reserves. Quick to grasp the desperation of cattle-keepers for land, the administrators have instituted a Grazing Reserve Committee to find a lasting solution to the rapid depletion of grazing land resources in Nigeria.

Hoodlums Attack Actor Femi Adebayo In Ilorin, Hospitalized!

Yoruba actor Femi Adebayo and son of veteran yoruba actor, Adebayo Salami was reportedly hospitalized after having been attacked by unknown hoodlums in Ilorin, Kwara State. The actor was at the movie shoot in Tanke area of the state capital, when the thugs demanded money and threatened shooting. However, their demand was not fulfilled by the film crew.

Following their refusal the hoodlums attacked Adebayo and other members of the crew. While the police upon arriving tried to stop the shooting, one person was shot dead. According to information, Femi Adebayo, popularly known as ‘Jelili’, was among those injured and rushed to the hospital for medical assistance.

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Ukrine Crisis: Crimea Belongs to Russia, Putin Should Annex Eastern Ukraine Too - Fani-Kayode

           Support for Russians Gains More Momentum

 Claiming that the Crimea is not Russian is absurd and it betrays nothing but ignorance says the former Nigerian minister, Femi Fani- Kayode while reacting to the Ukrainian-Russian crisis in Crimea peninsula. 

According to Fani-Kayode; "it is rather like saying that the people of the city of Ilorin and it's environs in Kwara state and the people of Kabba, Yagba-West, Yagba-East, Mopa-Amuro, Ijumu and Kabba-Bunu local government areas in Kogi state respectively are not Yoruba and that those areas are not part of Yoruba land".

"Historically the Crimea has always been part of Russia and 70 per cent of it's population are not only ethnic Russians but they also speak nothing but the Russian language. There are also massive and substantial pockets of Russian populations in eastern Ukraine."

It is absolutely absurd for anyone to assume that the Russian Federation would sit by silently and allow the lives, the future and the fortunes of their kinsmen from those parts to be in any way threatened. I am therefore in total agreement with the actions of President Vladimir Putin of Russia in the Crimea. 

The former Minister said Russian Putin has done the proper thing in protecting the Russians' interests and that he need to go further to annex the Eastern Ukraine as well.