The Rector of the Kwara Polytechnic, Dr Abdul Jimoh-Muhammed, has called on tertiary institutions in the country to invest in commercial farming on their campuses. Jimoh-Muhammed, who made the call in Ilorin on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said tertiary institutions should prioritise food production and not restrict themselves to academic research alone. It was …

A female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa in Kwara State, Miss Toyin Bamidele, has been allegedly hacked to death by yet-to-be-identified people. The Higher National Diploma student of Food Technology was said to have been murdered in her rented apartment outside the campus on Thursday. The acting Head of the Public Relations Unit of the institution, Mrs Folake Oyinloye, …

The Rector of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Abdul-Jimoh Muhammed, has appealed to the state governor to assist the institution with a perimeter fence on its 35-kilometre land to stop encroachment on its land by suspected land grabbers. The rector made the appeal at the 29th convocation of the polytechnic held on Thursday. According to the rector, even though the …

The Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has emerged the champion of the 2023 University of Ilorin Mass Communication department’s Pitch-a-Ton competition. The Pitch-A-Ton event, which took place on Wednesday at the University of Ilorin, had Kwara State Polytechnic scored 217 points to beat seven other institutions that competed. The University of Ilorin came second have scored 194 points, while Summit University, …

The management of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin (KwaraPoly) has raised an alarm over encroachment of its land by suspected land grabbers in the state. On the sideline of the institution’s 28th convocation ceremony, the Rector, Engineer Abdul Jimoh Mohammed told the media that 41 percent of its land areas had been encroached upon. “The Polytechnic is currently occupying six …