AS part of efforts towards ensuring a robust fiscal framework to guide in the preparation of the 2019 Appropriation Bill, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed held a meeting with government officials and stakeholders to establish the policy direction for the budget…. See photos below:
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The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has assured the people of the state, especially residents of Irepodun, Oke Ero, Isin and Ekiti Federal Constituency of their safety and security during next Saturday’s House of Representatives by-election. Governor Ahmed gave this assurance during a state security council meeting held on Monday at Government House, Ilorin,…
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Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed will on Wednesday address the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Taxation. Governor Ahmed will be speaking at the 4th NGF National Internally Generated Revenue Peer Learning Event in Abuja with the theme “Mobilizing Domestic Financing for Development”. Alhaji Ahmed, according to the organizers, was invited to address the Forum…
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The Kwara State Govermment has commended the Federal Government for its adoption of Every Child Counts, an education model introduced ten years ago by the administration of former Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki and scaled up by the current administration of Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo had last Tuesday announced that the Federal Government’s…
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The final burial rites for the first governor of Kwara State, Brigadier-General David Bamigboye (rtd) begins today with the arrival in Ilorin, the state capital, of the late military officer’s remains. A Nigerian Airforce aircraft marked NAF 038 which conveyed the corpse landed at the Ilorin International Airport at about half past one on Thursday…
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As the rain gradually subside, the Kwara State government is to begin the rehabilitation of roads in Ilorin metropolis. This was disclosed in a statement by the State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Aro Yahaya in Ilorin on Tuesday. He noted that the weekly palliative work is in line with the preventive maintenance approach…
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THE Kwara State government says it has paid the sum of N4.46billion under the State Infrastructure Development Fund (IF-K) to contractors for work completed. This was published in the December 2016-2017 edition of the IF-K inaugural management report. The report noted that prior to the establishment of IF-K, the shortfall on 62 existing projects was…
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THE Kwara State Government will today, Saturday, begin the rehabilitation of the Eiyenkorin-Okolowo portion of the Ilorin-Jebba Road. Kwara State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Aro Yahaya, who announced this in a statement, said the state government decided to intervene on the federal facility in view of the hardship experienced by motorists and commuters…
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