Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the subsidy on the cost of 2024 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for students in public schools across the state. A total of 55,150 candidates are writing the examinations in the state. A statement by Mr. Peter Amogbonjaiye from the State Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development said that all candidates …

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday inaugurated members of the state executive council — along with five new Permanent Secretaries and a member of the Civil Service Commission. The cabinet contains 50 per cent of each gender, which is the highest number of female commissioners in the country. The inauguration came with another first for the Governor as he …

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the reappointments of Mr. Kayode Tajudeen Aremu, and Mr. Yomi Clement Adeboye as General Managers of Radio Kwara (Kwara State Broadcasting Corporation) and the Herald newspapers respectively. Aremu, from Ilorin, was the helmsman of the state’s official broadcaster until 29th May 2023. While he was in charge, he took the station to a …

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved a slew of multibillion Naira palliatives to neutralise the effects of recent removal of fuel subsidy, cutting across different sectors and demographies of the state. On top of the palliatives is a cash support of N10,000 for every public sector worker in the state, which will begin this month, and last until a …

A former Special Adviser on Strategy to Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Saadu Salahu has enjoined journalists in the country to enlighten Nigerians on the gains of fuel subsidy removal. The season journalist said government’s decision to withdraw fuel subsidy was in the interest of the highest number of the citizens as against the few billionaires who were the sole beneficiaries of …

Kwara State Executive Council has granted the state government approval to offset its local debt stock with the outstanding payments of its share of the Federal Government’s unauthorised deductions from Excess Crude Accounts (ECA) between 2009 and 2015. The Nigerian Governors’ Forum is proposing that each state converts its balance of the deductions to what it equals in its debt …