Kwara State Blog

  #IseNtesiwaju: Ongoing Upgrade of  Omoda Roundabout - Isale Oja Road by Governor AbdulRazaq The Kwara State Government, under the leadership of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, CON, has intensified work on upgrading of Omoda Roundabout - Isale Oja road.  The Omoda Roundabout - Isale Oja road is one of the several roads Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq is upgrading, reconstructing and constructing throughout the state in line with his administration’s welcoming rural-urban initiative.  As one of the commercial roads in the state, the completion of the Omoda Roundabout - Isale Oja road will enhance vehicular movement and free traffic flow and ultimately boost the local economy. In the last five years, His Excellency Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has invested hugely in road construction across the state’s three senatorial districts, recognising its critical role in economic growth and development.  Like the several completed roads and the ones being rehabilitate...

  Court fixes date for former Kwara Governor’s N5.78bn fraud trial Kwara state High Court, Presided over by Justice Mahmud has fixed March 12 and 13 for continuation of trial of the former governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed and his former Commissioner for Finance, Demola Banu, over alleged diversion of N5.78 billion naira State Universal Basic Education Fund . Led in evidence by counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the prosecution witness, Mr Hassan, Assistant Director Finance, Universal Basic Education Commission(UBEC), Abuja, said “the duo are not signatories to the account of SUBEB and cannot be allegedly liable for the missing of the fund”. The Ilorin zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had dragged the duo before a Kwara state High Court over alleged misappropriation of UBEC’s matching grants of N5.78 billion between 2013 and 2019. Both defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges. Cross-examined by Counsels to the former ...

NEWS: Police Arrests Islamic Cleric For Killing Kwara College Female Student Lured From Facebook. On February 10, 2025, Lawal Hafsoh Yetunde, a final-year student at Kwara State College of Education, vanished while attending a naming ceremony in Ilorin. After receiving a call from a friend she met on Facebook, she abruptly left the event. Her worried family and friends launched a search, but to no avail. Her parents reported her disappearance to the Oja Oba Police Station, prompting an investigation. The police tracked her last call to a suspect in the Ofa Garage area. Initially, the suspect denied involvement but later confessed that Hafsoh died from an asthma attack at his residence. However, a gruesome discovery revealed her dismembered body hidden in a bowl, along with dismemberment tools. The suspect, said to be the son of a prominent cleric, is in custody at the Kwara State Police Headquarters.  Evidence suggests this may not be his first offense, as tools used for dismemberm...