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22/08/2025

INSECURITY: Kwara South Youths make case for Permanent Military Presence, Arming of Vigilantes

The Apex body of Igbomina youth of Kwara State extraction, Igbomina Youth Assembly in collaboration with the apex Kwara South Youth organisation, Kwara South Youth Development Organisation among others have demanded the citing of a military base in the heart of Kwara South, which according to them will ensure Swift response and nipping incessant insecurity ravaging the Senatorial District in the bud.

This much was disclosed at a joint press conference addressed by the group and read by Engr. Ajibola Olugbenga, which held at Igbomina House, earlier today.

The group while condemning the growing insecurity ravaging Kwara South, commended the efforts of government at various levels, they however demanded more coordinated and concerted efforts towards restoring lasting peace back to the Senatorial District.

The group among others requested immediate and coordinated action to route out the invading criminals.

"Immediate and heavy deployment of military forces into Kwara South to restore dislodge bandits, and secure our communities. This must include a full military base affected axis, not just occasional patrols.

"Emergency security operations to be treated as a matter of national urgency, with m surveillance, air support, and combing of forests where terrorists are hiding.

"Provision of modern arms and logistics to community hunters and vigilantes who r the first line of defense for our people.

"Declaration of a 12-hour curfew (6:00 pm-6:00 am) in the most affected communi allow military operations to flush out these criminals.

"Creation of a Joint Security Task Force with federal, state, and local involvement alongside youth representatives, to ensure coordinated response and accountability".

18/07/2025

Security forces kill criminal suspects, arrest others in Kwara
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16/07/2025

Mass arrests recorded as Kwara launches fresh security operations in Ifelodun, Patigi, Edu

Suspects moved to Abuja More than 20 individuals, including suspected gun runners and their logistics supporters, have been arrested in Ifelodun Local Government Area following a renewed security crackdown on criminal elements in the area, according to an intelligence report on Wednesday. The crackd...

13/07/2025

INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIR RAJI’UN.

The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, this afternoon in a clinic in London.

May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin.

Signed,
Garba Shehu
13-07-25.

07/07/2025

Moro LG Chair names ex-NAKSS Senate President LG Secretary

…announce others as Supervisory Councillors Executive Chairperson of Moro local government area of Kwara state, Hajia Maryam Omotayo Abdulwasiu has announced the appointment of Comrade Nurudeen Mohammed as the Executive Secretary of the local government. The appointment, according to a statement s...

04/07/2025

Kwara PDP attacks Bolaji Abdullahi over ADC, says coalition is for ‘selfish, personal gains’

03/07/2025

Irepodun G7 group, mere ranting of political ants – Orisun Igbomina

The Orisun Igbomina, a reputable socio-cultural organization, has reacted to a statement calling for common sense revolution in Irepodun local government, saying such call was needless in the face of the ongoing developmental efforts by governments at the State and local levels. A statement issued b...

11/06/2025

OPINION: Why Saraki, PDP have not publicly acknowledged and support the victims of stampede in their ‘Temu Durbar’

Ibraheem Abdullateef When I made a condolence post on Tuesday asking for the update about a reported tragic incident at Bukola Saraki’s residence over the weekend, some misguided and headless mob came to my page to brand it as false and misleading. But the last has not been heard about the paralle...

28/05/2025

Kwara Speaker Urges Citizens to Understand Lawmakers’ Limits

…Calls for Realistic Expectations, Advocates Transparency and Accountability in Legislative Processes The Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Speakers’ Forum, Rt. Hon. Engr. Yakubu Danladi Salihu, has called on citizens to understand t...

24/05/2025

On malnutrition -- and the _YK Mules_ of Kwara PDP

Rafiu Ajakaye

In December 2018, I was in Yola, Adamawa State, for a two-day media dialogue on Community Management of Acute Malnutrition. It was organized by UNICEF, DfID, and allied bodies to drive public advocacy on the crisis in which 33m under-five Nigerians were caught at the time.

That event was an eye-opener for me and my colleagues as experts detailed the factors driving the crisis. Malnutrition is not a function of poverty alone; in fact, ignorance and lifestyle may be bigger drivers of the menace.

Malnutrition could be found in the household of the rich, if the food on offer doesn’t satisfy the dietary requirements for healthy growth of the child. Obesity is a form of malnutrition in growing children. While stunting and wasting are common among poor households, experts say ignorance may sometimes play bigger roles in snatching the future of the child.

For instance, a poorly breastfed child (from whichever social background) may suffer malnutrition. Similarly, any pregnant woman from whatever social backgrounds may give birth to a malnourished child. A pregnant woman who misses out on key dietary needs may give birth to a stunted child, regardless of her social standing. These are scientific facts which stress the role of education and advocacy in the fight against under-five malnutrition.

Therefore, malnutrition is a topic that should attract only serious-minded individuals to contribute. Kwara PDP voyeurs — which sadly includes a professor — should note this and join the advocacy to fight the crisis.

For the avoidance of doubt, the UNICEF did not at any time indict the state government in its report. Rather, UNICEF Country Representative Christian Munduate commended the efforts of this administration to combat the crisis.

“Kwara State’s commitment to addressing child malnutrition is commendable. The Child Nutrition Fund enables us to double our efforts and reach more children with the essential nutrition they need. We hope this partnership serves as an inspiration for other states to prioritise child nutrition,” she said.

Kwara is just one of the 11 Nigerian states to sign up for the UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund, according to the official statement of the global body. Under the initiative, the state contributed a whopping $100,000 as counterpart funds to receive the Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), which is critical for the management of malnourished children.

Apart from the above, the administration has adopted policies and programmes that underpin its commitment to the wellbeing of the Kwara child: six-month maternity leave to encourage exclusive breastfeeding, school feeding programme, KwaraLEARN, widespread support for smallholder farmers and traders, the livestock productivity and resilience support project, and social protection like KWASSIP and Kwapreneur.

This administration has since signed up for nutrition-sensitive interventions such as maternal and infant young child nutrition (MIYCN) along with counselling and management of acute malnutrition in the state's health facilities. This is in addition to the state policy on multi-sectoral plan of action, including community food demonstration.

These do not fit the image of an unserious government. The PDP doesn’t have this record from their years. Maternal mortality was the worst in Nigeria under the PDP after the insurgency-wracked northeastern Borno state. In 2019, under-five mortality stood at 4.8 per 1000 live births. Today, Kwara has the least child mortality rate in Nigeria — at 2 per 1000 live births.

In 2019, Kwara wore the crown of shame in national immunisation coverage with monthly outbreaks of circulating polio disease. It was the worst in Nigeria. This is evidenced in the majority of Kwara LGAs not passing the National Lot Quality Assurance Survey (LQAS). Owing to a record of unresponsiveness, a worst form of which was seen in the UBEC blacklisting the state, the UNICEF left the state under PDP’s watch!

The PDP years were hardly a gold standard for anything salutary: the obnoxious law that awarded terrible pension packages was active throughout Ali Ahmad years as the Speaker. The diversion of UBEC funds, a big crime against the Kwara child, happened in those years, while the great Alimi Chalet was stolen from the people in those years. Teachers who mould the future of the children were not being paid in those years -- just as promotion of workers stagnated in the 'golden years'. The list is endless. So what was the law professor saying? I repeat: we won’t allow anyone to revise our history.

The national school feeding programme began in 2016. The PDP administration never enrolled until it lost power in 2019. The APC government enrolled in the programme in 2020. Even with existing gaps, access to public health facilities is many times better under this administration than PDP’s. So what is the chest-thumping about?

Prof Ali Ahmad's claim that UNICEF declared Kwara fit-for-child in 2010 was a LIE -- a barefaced one. Kwara did domesticate the Child Rights Act in 2007, four years after Nigeria enacted it. Yes, but it wasn't even among the first 10 Nigerian states to do so. It was a national trend that some northern states initially objected to on religious grounds. Today, all of Nigeria's 36 states have domesticated the Act amid calls for improved implementation.

Much is expected from Ali Ahmad, a law professor, and his handlers must know this. At no time did UNICEF or any institution declare Kwara fit-for-child. The statement amounted to stacking the deck in the bid to glamorise the past. It is akin to what Gen Zs call YK Mule, an euphemism for outright lies.

Child malnutrition is a global public health crisis which requires all the resources and synergies that the government can mobilise. But that is where it stops: we should not find voyeurs from PDP, with their abysmal record, raising a whimper when such matters are discussed.

▪︎ Rafiu is the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Kwara State

23/05/2025

BREAKING NEWS:

Press Release by Ilorin Emirate Durbar committee,

OUR POSITION ON THE PAVILION FOR THE FORECOURT OF THE PALACE OF ILORIN:
ILORIN DURBAR COMMITTEE

On behalf of His Royal Highness, the Emir of Ilorin and Chairman, Kwara State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr.Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari (CFR ), it has become imperative for the Ilorin Durbar Committee, the Organizers of Ilorin Annual Durbar event, to make some clarifications on the proposed pavilion for the forecourt of the palace of Ilorin as follows:

1. The Durbar Committee initiated the idea of having a pavilion in the forecourt of the palace of the Emir of Ilorin, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, CFR. We considered this as both a cost-cutting initiative and an effort to enhance the safety, comfort, and security of our people as well as further embellish the spectacle and beauty of the Ilorin Annual Durbar and other Royal events.

2. ⁠This idea was discussed with different stakeholders in Ilorin, including His Excellency, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq ( CON) , the Governor of the State, Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Sardauna of Ilorin as the lead sponsor of the Durbar events in the past 6 years. In his response, the Governor made significant suggestions about our initial design and how the project can better serve its purpose.

3. ⁠The discussions on amendments to our original design and ex*****on of same, among other things, were still ongoing as of December 25, 2024 when a representative of the Distinguished Senator Saliu Mustapha, Turaki of Ilorin, unveiled a design of the pavilion at the annual Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) National Conference as a gift from his office.
4. ⁠The Durbar Committee heard of this development like everyone else at the event. We were not privy to it until then. The new design from Senator Saliu Mustapha is also different from the Durbar Committee's original Architectural and Structural Design, which was being reviewed based on the inputs from the State Governor.
5. ⁠While the Durbar Committee remains highly indebted to His Excellency Governor AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq ( CON) and acknowledges the interest of other stakeholders, including Distinguished Senator Salihu Mustapha in our objectives, we however plead for the understanding of all the stakeholders who share our common values and whom we trust are working genuinely for the same purpose of ensuring that the best is done for our community and in honour of our revered Emir, Dr. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, CFR to stop further comments on the pavilion in the interest of peace, oneness of purpose, and mark of our usual highest regards for the seat of Sheikh Alimi.

6. ⁠The imperative for all to heed this appeal is fundamental in order to allow for a lucid resolution of issues as the Government considers the Original Pavilion Design and other subsequent Plans before it in accordance with building standards, public safety and environmental impact regulations. We fully submit to the legal role of Government to uphold due process and security of its citizens; it is our duty to comply with the final decision of the state government on this matter. Accordingly,⁠ His Highness, the Emir of Ilorin, being a legal Icon with excellent track records of being enforcer of due process and rule of law, appeals to all to align with the letter and spirit of the law and regulations in the processing and ex*****on of the project.
7. It is equally important that we put on record our acknowledgement and appreciation of His Excellency Mallam AbdulRahaman AbdulRazaq, the Governor of Kwara State, as the lead sponsor of the Durbar events and other cultural activities since his assumption of office. As a true son of the Emirate, he has demonstrated the greatest regards for the traditional stool and shown commitment to the preservation of our rich cultural heritage. We appreciate him.

Similarly, we acknowledge the various contributions of our respected Royal and Honorary Title holders, sons and daughters of the Emirate, as well
as other well-meaning friends of the Emirate towards the success of the Durbar Committee in all our events.
8. ⁠This statement becomes necessary to clarify our position on the subject matter, given the leading role of our committee in the organization of the annual Ilorin Emirate Durbar to which every son and daughter of Ilorin looks forward as part of the celebrations of the Eid-ul-Kabir and our rich cultural heritage. Once again, our very clear position remains to align with all standards and safety regulations in our pursuit of the original Design and Plan earlier submitted to the government by our Committee.

Signed:

Engr.Suleiman Yahaya
Alapansapa,FNSC,
Danmasani of Ilorin and
Ilorin Emirate Durbar committee,
May 22,2025.

Dr,MR

20/05/2025

Community rejoices as KWSG begins construction of speedbreakers on Oko-Olowo expressway

Kwara State Government has commenced the construction of speedbreakers on Oko-Olowo expressway to curb accidents and safeguard lives and properties of residents in the bustling community. The work followed the approval given by the Federal Road Corps (FRSC) to the Kwara Ministry of Works headed by E...