Kwara Polytechnic releases 2013/2014 admission list

The Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has released the first batch of students' admission list for the 2013/2014 academic session. The admission list accessed from the Polytechnic's website includes both National Diploma and Higher National Diploma admissions.

Vigilance Group Kill 3 Cultists In Kwara

A vigilance group has killed three alleged
members of a cult group Aiye Confraternity
in Kwara State, after mistaking them for
robbers. Eighteen other members of the group have
been arrested by the police, while four got
critically injured. The Vigilance group had mounted some
road blocks around the meeting point of the
cultists, where initiation of new members
was being held. When the cult group finished the ceremony
of initiation, as they left the hidden venue,
they ran into road blocks of the armed
vigilance group. An exchange of gun fire
occurred. The State Command Police Public Relations
officer, PPRO, Olufemi Fabode, while
confirming the deaths and the arrests, said
the information gathered was that Saturday
night armed robbers were hiding in a bush
behind NASFAT village along Airport road, Ilorin. “This prompted various vigilance groups in
the communities around the place to mount
sentry on all roads that lead to the bush and
waited until early hours of Sunday morning
when members of the cult group completed
their initiation. “Unaware that ambush had been laid for
them, they ran into the ambush laid by the
various vigilance groups while people
mistook them for armed robbers and
opened fire on them,” Fabode said. The PPRO said in the ensuing exchange of
gun battle, three of the cult members fell
and they were almost burnt to ashes before
the men of the command got there. He also
said three of the cultists died, four critically
injured and 18 of them arrested and are being interrogated by the men of the state
CID. According to Fabode, some of the cultists
came from as far as Lagos, Osun, Ibadan
and Oro, adding that other cultists ran and
escaped when they learnt that their men
had been arrested by the police. He said investigation is on going while
corpses of those who died had been
deposited at the mortuary of the University
of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. He therefore admonished people “to always
give useful information to the Police with a
view to making the state crime- free and
warned parents to closely monitor their
wards as some of those arrested disclosed
that they were yet to gain admission to higher institution.” The dead and the injured were yet to be
identified.

Kwara Governor Warns Youth Against Violent Tendencies

In order to maintain the harmonious nature of the state, the Kwara state governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed has called on youths in the state especially the unemployed ones to desist from destructive tendencies or being used as instrument of crisis assuring of his determination to provide means of livelihood for them soon.

The governor made the call while playing host to the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulugambari at government house who paid him Salah homage.

He noted that government would not fold its arms and allow some youths to disrupt political or social gatherings on the pretext of lack of jobs adding that efforts are on to provide jobs for thousands of youths in the next few weeks.

300 Boreholes, Regular Electricity, Employment Generation; Kwara Gov Gives Account Of Stewardship

Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, Governor of Kwara State

The Kwara state government has disclosed that it has sunk over 300 boreholes and rehabilitated 13 waterworks across the state in the last two years, to ensure access to water supply for the people of the state.

It added that an additional 189 communities now enjoy regular electricity supply under its rural and urban electrification programme.

Disclosing this in Ilorin at the recent 2013 New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), Kwara State Business and Investment Development Interactive session, the state governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, also said over 800 kilometres of rural, urban and federal roads have been rehabilitated by his government to enhance infrastructural development.

He stated that primary and secondary healthcare institutions as well as five General hospitals have either been rehabilitated or are currently at various stages of completion.