Kwara State Ministry of Communications

(Right) Commissioner for Communications, Hon. Bolanle Olukoju receiving VDI 5-Year Strategic Plan from the Voice of Disability Executive Director, Barr. Catherine Edeh, ESQ during the visit, to the Commissioner, in her office.) The Kwara State Government has pledged media support for the upcoming Voice of Disability Initiative (VDI) project, aimed at advancing sexual and reproductive health, as well as the rights of women and girls with disabilities, to safeguard their human rights in society. The State Commissioner for Communications, Hon. Bolanle Olukoju, made this pledge during the week when the Executive Director of VDI, Barrister Catherine Edeh EQS, and her team paid a courtesy visit to the Commissioner's office. Hon. Olukoju described the administration of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as all-inclusive, emphasizing equal opportunities for everyone, irrespective of their status, evident in the appointment of people with disabilities to key positions as Permanent ...

(L-R) Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Sa'adatu Modibbo Kawu receiving the Souvenir from the Executive Director, Voice of Disability Initiative, Barrister Catherine Edeh during the courtesy visit yesterday.) The Kwara State Government has again pledged its support to the development of the education of the People With Disability (PWD) to enhance brilliant performance of the students in the State. The Commissioner, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Modibbo Kawu Sa'adatu, made the pledge yesterday at a meeting with the Executive Director, Voice of Disability Initiative, Abuja (VDI) in conjunction with the Amplifying Change, United Kingdom at the Ministry's Headquarters in Ilorin. Hajia Modibbo pointed out that the present administration has invested in laudable projects in the education sector, stressing that the State government would intensify efforts to collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ease their...

This is to inform members of the public that the sanitation exercise for this month will come up on Saturday, 25th November, 2023 starting from seven to nine o'clock in the morning. (7:00 am to 9:00 am). Residents of the State are hereby enjoined to fully participate in the exercise, by cleaning both residential and business environments.   According to the press statement signed by the Press Secretary, Kwara State Ministry of Environment, Yakub Aliagan, members of the public should note as usual that, there shall be no vehicular or human movements across the state within the scheduled two-hour duration of the exercise. Security and Monitoring agents shall be on ground to monitor and ensure compliance across the entire State.  Waste Management trucks will also be made available for waste collections and subsequent disposal of same at the dump site of the metropolis. Members of the public are hereby warned that it is an offence to dump refuse on pedestrian walk...

(The Executive Chairman Kwara TESCOM (R) with the Principal Community Grammar school Ganmo Mr Kolawole Iyanda (L) during the visit the school) Teachers of Secondary Schools in Kwara State have been charged to imbibe discipline and commitment as part of the teaching and learning process. The Chairman of the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission Mallam Bello Tauheed Abubakar stated this today while addressing teachers of schools during an inspection visit to ascertain the compliance with the 2023/2024 academic calendar across selected schools in Ilorin. Bello, in his address described education as incomplete without good morals and discipline, which he said is the bedrock of education. He described teachers as the soul of development and charged them to live up to the standards of the profession. He described teaching as a noble profession that everyone should be proud of because it is the hub for knowledge and the root of innovations. According to him, “teachers must be ...

(Olupako of Share, HRH, Oba Haruna Olawale Suleiman, in a group photograph with stakeholders at his palace in Share, Ifelodun Local Government.) The Olupako of Share, His Royal Highness, Oba Haruna Olawale Suleiman Adegbite has commended both Federal and Kwara State Government, for their untiring efforts at developing the livestock sector of the State and the Nigeria at large. Oba Haruna made this commendation during the week, at the ongoing sensitization exercise on Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) in the State, when the team visited him in his Palace, at Share, the Headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The Monarch, who noted that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration giant strides, which cut across all the sectors are positively impacting the lives of citizens, across the State. The Royal Father, disclosed further that, Ifelodun Local Government hosts one of the largest livestock farms in the state, assur...

(L-R: Commissioner for Tertiary Education Dr. Mary Arinde; Abdulkareem Uswat; Dolapo Mariam; Emmanuel Chioma; Chairman Kwara SUBEB Prof. Shehu Raheem Adaramaja; Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq; Chief of Staff Alhaji Mahe Abdulkadir; Commissioner for Education Hon. Sa'adatu Moddibo Kawu; Moshood Kamaldeen; Jatto Rahmatullah; Jimoh Abayomi; and Special Adviser on Education Dr. Adetola Salau Ariyike; during a reception the Governor held for the victorious students of the 63rd presidential debate in Government House, Ilorin, on Friday.) • 'Brilliant six' get N1m each, varsity scholarship  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend hosted the six public school students who won the presidential debate competition in Abuja, rewarding each of them with N1m cash gift and state scholarship for their undergraduate studies in any discipline.  The Governor called the students the pride of the government and people of Kwara State, commending them for their imp...

(L-R: Commissioner for Tertiary Education Dr. Mary Arinde; Mrs Risikat Lawal; Hon. Aina Femi; Prof (Mrs) Salman Medinat; Mrs Nihmat T. Abdul; Chairman Committee on Study, Planning and Implementation for the Establishment of Kwara State University of Education Prof. AbdulRaheem Shuaib Oba; Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq (CON); Secretary of the Committee Pastor Afolayan Babatunde; Chief of Staff Alhaji Mahe Abdulkadir; Senior Adviser and Counsellor, Alhaji Saadu Salaudeen; Alhaji AbdulRasaq Jiddah; Prof. Umar Gunu; Ibiyinka Olufemi; Prof. ( Mrs) Adeyemi Sidikat; and Special Adviser on Education Dr. Adetola Salau Ariyike; during the inauguration of the Committee on Study, Planning and Implementation for the Establishment of Kwara State University of Education, at Government House, in Ilorin, on Friday.) • It's a great vision, step in right direction: Prof Oba Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday swore-in the new Special Adviser on Education ...

(L-pres Team in a group photograph with stakeholders at Bode Sa'adu, Moro LGA.) In preparation for the official flag-off of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), the Kwara State Government through the State Coordinating Office has commenced stakeholders' sensitization exercise for the project. The project, which has as part of its objectives, to improve livestock productivity, resilience, and commercialization of selected value chain and strengthened the country's capacity to respond to an eligible crisis in the sector. Addressing stakeholders at Bode Sa'adu, the headquarters of Moro Local Government Area of the state, the State Project Coordinator (SPC), Mr. Olusoji Oyawoye said the sensitization exercise is imperative in order to properly inform the stakeholders in livestock value chain business on the opportunities embedded in the project. Mr. Oyawoye explained that the project, when fully implemented would lead to improved p...

(6th right ) Honourable Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh; (6th left ) Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Musa Olarewaju Okanlawon; (5th right) Director, Personnel, Finance and Supply, Mrs. Maryam Ishola; (4th right) Director, Child, Mrs. Maryam Yusuf and the Participants at the event.) The Kwara State Government has pledged that it would continue to protect the Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in order to provide a meaningful and sustainable future for them, while imploring the Steering Technical Committee to deliberate extensively on the welfare of the OVC aimed at enhancing their accelerated access to basic services such as Education, Health, Nutrition, Psychosocial, Legal Protection, Social Protection, among others. The State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh, made this pledge at the last quarter meeting on Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in collaboration with the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (A...

(right- Hon. Commissioner for Social Development, Opeyemi Oluwakemi Afolashade) The Kwara State Government has re- affirmed its commitment to ensuring that all citizens in the state, especially the needy, less privileged and mentally ill enjoy adequate social support from the government. The Hon. Commissioner for Social Development, Opeyemi Oluwakemi Afolashade stated this while addressing the public on a Television Programme - "Network Kwara", at the Kwara State Television Authority recently. Hon. Afolashade in her address emphasized the commitment of the Mallam Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq's -led administration towards improving the standard of living of the disabled and vulnerable in the State. Hon. Afolashade who highlighted the various interventions of the state government for the physically challenged and vulnerable, such as the distribution of food items and other consumables, vocational engagement and training, distribution of working tools, among several ...

The Kwara State Government has again reiterated commitments to youth development to make youth useful for the society  as well as the selves as future leaders. The State Commissioner for Environment, Mallam Shehu Ndanusa Usman stated this during the week, at the end closing ceremony of the 3-day Workshop organised for youth and women on climate smart municipal solid waste management, by Federal Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with Kwara State Ministry of Environment, held at the conference hall of the Ministry. He stressed that the present administration under the leadership of Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is committed to youth development and ready to develop our youth, to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood, so that they can achieve their full potentials and be useful to themselves and the society at large.  He therefore charged participants to make use of the knowledge gained from both Timekus Global Resource Limited and Chyme Pacers Vent...

(4th Left is the Executive Chairman ESV Abdulkareem Babatunde Sulyman, next is the Chairman NITP, Tpl Bolakale Yusuf and others shortly after the meeting at the Agency.) Kwara State Government has again assured the State Chapter of Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and Estate Valuers in the state of it's readiness to partner with them, for the progress and development of the Agency and Kwara State at large. The Executive Chairman, Kwara State Goegraphic Information Service (KW-GIS), ESV Abdulkareem Babatunde Sulyman, gave this assurance during the week, when members of the Institute paid him a courtesy visit in his GRA office, Ilorin, the State Capital. Sulyman further assured them that, KW-GIS would continue to work with the Institute and others who are partners in progress of both the Agency and the State, especially Institutions with common bound in the area of land related matters, adding that the State Chapter of the Institute has been enjoying cordial relatio...

The Kwara State Government has reassured youths of the State of its unalloyed support in the development of their entrepreneurial skills and acquisition. The First Lady of the State, Her Excellency, Amb. Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq stated this at the "Global Entrepreneurship Week, Kwara 2023", held at the Michael Imodu Institute for Labour Studies. Her Excellency who was represented by the Commissioner supervising the Ministry of Youths Development, Hon. Usman Yunusa Lade commended the host of the Entrepreneurship Week , assuring them of the State's immense support  in making sure that youths are properly guided and channelled in the right path to entrepreneurial freedom. Prof. Abdulrazaq who advised youths on creativity and innovations, urged them to take their roles as the largest  drivers of the Nigerian economy serious, which can only be successfully attained through  entrepreneurship skills. "This week, professionals from various walks of life have co...

The Rural Electrification Agency (REA), in collaboration with National Fadama Development Project (NFDP), has supported dry season farming across the 16 local government areas of state with Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps, to enhance food security in Kwara State and to ensure all year-round in farming/cropping. This is coming as a result of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in July 2022 between REA and (NFDP). Presenting the solar-powered irrigation pumps, the Higher Technical Officer, Rural Electrification Agency, North Central Zone, Engr. Adebayo Babatunde disclosed that the initiative is aimed at improving utilisation of Land and Water Resources across the major rivers in the country.  He noted that implementation of the programme by REA started with thirteen pivotal states of which Kwara is one and that the beneficiary subproject sites selected include communities with Farmers’ User Groups (FUGs), surface water schemes, subproject sites requiring upgrades in electrificati...