The Kwara Government says it will digitalise Education Management Information System (EMIS) to promote efficiency in the sector.
The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Fatimah Ahmed, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of the official presentation of the EMIS organised by the ministry in Ilorin.
Ahmed said the present administration was already going digital especially with the introduction of e-governance and that a good strategy to put education in the limelight was to go on-line real time.
“We want to move away from manual collection of data to digital, a …
In late December, the Kwara State government reclaimed a piece of land bordering the civil service clinic in Ilorin, the state capital. The Government said the land originally belonged to it and was meant for construction of state secretariat but was unlawfully allocated to one Asa Investment Limited, a firm owned by the late strongman of Kwara politics Senator Olusola Saraki, in 2005 when his son, Bukola Saraki, was the Governor.
Bukola Saraki, until 2019 the all-in-all of Kwara politics, objected. He said the Governor had crossed the line of decency. He hauled so much invective on the Governor …
The defence was issued on Saturday despite government order on such activities to stop.
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Mrs Fatimoh Ahmed, had on January 14, issued a statement that no religious organisation is permitted to go to public schools for preaching or engaging in any religious activities during the morning assembly.
The statement added that prayers should be said silently on the morning assembly across public schools in the state.
On Saturday, a statement signed by CAN
The examinations were held between 8th April and 31st May, 2019.
The development, the worst in the history of the state, affected 122 public secondary schools and 43 private schools, each fined N250,000.
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Kwara State government has kicked against preaching by religious groups in public schools.
The government in a statement on Monday, signed by Hajia Fatimoh Bisola Ahmed, Hon. Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, banned preaching in all public schools henceforth.
The Ministry directed that prayers should be said silently on the morning Assembly across public schools in the state.
The statement read: “It has come to the notice of the Kwara State Government that some religious organisations have been going to public schools in the state to
The Kwara state government has established an e-Government Delivery Team to drive its efforts to deploy modern technology for government operations and enhance ease of doing business in the state.
That comes a few weeks after Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said the state would turn the page on the recent 2018 poor ranking of the state in the national ease of doing business index released by the World Bank.
Speaking in Ilorin recently, durng the official introduction of the e-Government team to the newly sworn in cabinet and top echelons of the civil service, Abdulrasaq said that, “The economic challenges that …
Saraki stated this on Saturday, while reacting to the governor’s decision to revoke a land occupied by his family in Ilorin, the state capital.
In a statement on Friday, Abdulrazaq’s Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaiye, claimed the land was originally meant for government secretariat and parking space of a clinic.
But in a statement he personally signed, Saraki who once governed the state, insisted the land was duly allocated and a Right of Occupancy title issued on it.
“It should
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Kwara Governor, Rafiu Ajakaiye said on Friday that a new secretariat would be built on the land.
Ajakaiye said the land was originally meant for Government Secretariat and parking space of the Civil Service Clinic, but was unlawfully allocated to a private firm, Asa Investments Limited, without any record of payment to the state government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that part of the land, situated beside the Civil Service Clinic,
The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Wednesday disclosed that it has recovered additional Seventy Million Naira for the Kwara State government in its ongoing efforts to recover funds allegedly stolen by corrupt individuals.
The commission had on October 11, 2019, handed over the sum of N112m recovered to the state Governor, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Ilorin.
Speaking as a guest, Wednesday, on the Nigerian Television Authority program, Ilorin, ‘Morning Safari’, the zonal head, Isyaku Sharu said the N70m was recovered in the ongoing investigations of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service, KWIRS.
He said” we …
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said his administration would not tolerate any attempt to create distractions in attempts to unravel the case of the N5bn alleged to have been shared among former lawmakers in the state.
Abdulrazaq also said no government official would be spared if proven to have committed infractions against the law.
“A few days ago, some former Kwara lawmakers were alleged to have shared N5bn of taxpayers’ money among themselves. This of course followed a pattern of systemic looting of the treasury which has been discovered since we assumed office,” the governor said in a statement …
Delta Force acquired the slot of Kada City last season but has struggled to fulfil their financial obligations.
The deal was sealed on Wednesday, after a thorough discussion between the management of the two sides with the General Manager of Kwara United FC, Bashir Badawiy leading the club’s charge.
Addressing the media on this development, Kwara United’s chairman Olakumbi Titiloye claimed his management will blend with the league and its challenges.
“I
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, BUA Group of Companies, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu has hinted that the planned sugar plantation and refinery in Lafiaji, in Edu local government council area of Kwara state is capable of producing over 200,000 tonnes of refined sugar and generate over 10,000 direct employments opportunities for the people of the country.
He also said the project would generate 200,000 litres of ethanol and 35 megawatts of power – using the bye product of sugarcane.
Rabiu stated this in Lafiaji, Kwara State on Monday, when he led the state governor, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq on facility tour of …
