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Truck crushes man to death in Ilorin

    It was a gory sight at the Post office area of Ilorin Kwara state capital Thursday morning when an articulated vehicle known as a trailer crushed one Usman...

Court remands 3 suspected burglars over alleged theft of car parts

    Magistrate Ibrahim Dasuki of an Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded three suspected burglars in Oke-Kura Correctional Centre, Ilorin, over...

Only one of us drank alcohol, Kwara Madrasa students react to brutal flogging

      Left: Students of Musbaudeen Islamic School, Ilorin, Kwara State, flogging one of their several colleagues who attended a birthday party where they...

Sixteen-year-old girl remanded in Kwara for allegedly setting colleague ablaze

      An Ilorin Magistrate court, Tuesday, remanded a Sixteen-year-old girl, (name withheld), for allegedly killing her colleague, Fatimon Jako by setting...

History Of ILORIN

      Ilorin was founded by a Yoruba man called Ojo Isekuse in 1650 (and Afonja came into the history in the 1800s ( 1820-23 ). A few years later given...

Ogun kickboxing head coach found dead in hotel room

    The Head Coach of kickboxing in Ogun State, Olufunke Ogunsuyi, has been confirmed dead. She died in Ilorin on Saturday while participating in the Kwara...

Father in court for allegedly giving out 12-year-old daughter in marriage

    A Family Court in Ilorin, on Monday, ordered the remand of one Oyefeso Saheed in Oke-Kura Correctional Centre, Ilorin, for allegedly giving out his...

Man in court for allegedly giving wife abortion drug as pain killer

    The police in Ilorin on Thursday arraigned one Nurudeen Osioyemi for allegedly giving his wife, Balikis Aliyu, an unknown drug as a pain killer, which...

Monarch sues Ilorin Emir for installing Hausa leader in Jebba

    The Oba of Jebba in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Abdulkadir Adebara, and the Serikin Hausawa of the town, Yusuf Gwadabe, have dragged...

Court remands farmer for allegedly shooting 18-year-old herder to death

    An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a farmer, Segun Adebayo, who allegedly shot an 18-year-old header to death be remanded in Oke-kura...

COVID-19: Unilorin don cautions FG on vaccination funding

    A Professor of Medicine at the University of Ilorin, Emmanuel Obi Okoro, has cautioned  the federal government not to be in a hurry to expend billions of...

KWARA: Governor AbdulRazaq swears in 10 commissioners, special adviser

  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has sworn in 10 commissioners and one special adviser, charging them to be “exemplary, prudent, creative, and team...

Police arrest man with human head, hand in Kwara

  The Police in Kwara have arrested a 24-year-old man, Kehinde Moses, with a bag allegedly containing a freshly severed human head and hand along Ajase-Ipo road...

Suspected Okada thief burnt to death by angry mob in Ilorin

  A suspected motorcyclist theft specialist met his waterloo on Friday in Ilorin as an angry mob around Maraba area of the state capital set him ablaze for...

Fire guts 14 rooms in Ilorin family house

  Fire has destroyed 14 of the 46 rooms in a family house at Onibata Compound, Alore Area in Ilorin,  Kwara.   A statement issued on Monday in Ilorin by Mr...

Court stops Kwara govt from taking over Ile-Arugbo

  An Ilorin High Court, Tuesday, restrained the Kwara State Government from taking over “Ile-Arugbo”, the three plots said to be property of late Abubakar...