• Condemns sponsored activism, incitement The coordinated campaign to stampede the Kwara State government to back down on the renovation and upgrade of the state’s iconic legacy, Kwara Hotel, is dead on arrival, a pro-democracy group, Kwara Rebuilders, has noted. In a statement issued by co- founder Tobi Matthew, on Friday in Ilorin, Kwara Rebuilders said it condemns what now appears like a strategic alliance between the main opposition PDP, Crystal Group and ENetSUD to prevent the Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration from renovating Kwara Hotel, which has been in a state of disrepair for so long and left without meaningful…
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Rafiu Ajakaye In one of his many writings on leadership which he titled ‘Six Studies in World Strategy’, America’s all-time diplomatic czar and statesman Henry Kissinger said ‘leaders think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. Their first challenge is analysis, which begins with a realistic assessment of their society based on its history, mores, and capacities. Then they must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which…
As with other military forces across the globe, the ancient Roman military commands and adopted an extensive list of decorations for military gallantry and likewise, a range of punishments for military transgression. This is done, to assuage the lost, suffered by thier gallant military men at the war front, and to celebrate thier uncommon grit to sustainable peace and development in the land. The Roman Military parades sorts of decorations for its gallant men. The Grass crown, which was the highest and the rarest of all Military decorations. As such exist in the Roman Military, so it is in every…
By; Temitope Muhideen (Convydence) In the play “A Community under an Emperor” Michael Gavend was a nationalist, a statesman with veto power to implement decisions that affect the people he govern regardless of the situation. while seeking for a second term to lead the community he became garrulous, he referenced his achievements as unmatched. He said, if no one chose to vote for him, his achievements will return him to power, he became arrogant and see the opposition as nothing, at the end he lost to Jima Kade whom was described as an emperor. GAVEND lost because he felt he…
When his campaign train landed in Kwara State last month, no one would have suspected that more than the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, a miasma had also landed. They came bearing promises, they came with the silhouette of a mandate, but they also came with a lie – a concoction of preposterousness – embedded in the slogan, “O su wa”. The morphological origin of this miasmic slogan was a translation of the English sentence “We are tired” to Yoruba. But there is another more nuanced background. In 2019, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had…
The Kwara Progressive Media Organization (KPMO) hereby alerts patriotic Kwarans about the insidious campaign in some parts of the state being deployed by members of the media wing of he Kwara State PDP campaign council against the leadership and Government of Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. The State chapter of the PDP and its yet to be inaugurated assemblage of fake news peddlers have literarily fouled the media space by deliberately entrenching falsehood, fabrications, uncouth language and abuses as “acceptable’ modes of engagement, particularly in the social media. After exhausting their arsenal of calumnies and character assassination against Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the…
By Rafiu Ajakaye I joined community folks and senior citizens from my part of Igbomina land last Friday in Alabe for the funeral of Mama Rachael Oyindasola Abogunrin, the respected wife of the famed general surgeon Dr. Steven Abogunrin. Mama Abogunrin, Née Alada, exuded grace. She was kind and accommodating. People spoke so well of her. It was past 1pm and I hurriedly left the venue of the funeral to go pay homage to the Afetu of Alabe, my grandma, and (as I am wont to do each time I visit) to offer a few prayers for the dead at…
Rafiu Ajakaye ‘Vote right to keep what’s left’ is a political slogan adopted by British longest serving Prime Minister of 20th century Margaret Thatcher in her first attempt at parliamentary representation in 1950. It was a sound bite that captured her imagination of the 1950s British society and her belief that the country would be better served with the Conservatives. I found the Thatcher lines very instructive as Kwarans go to poll next year. Having been privy to the report of the forensic audit that detailed how the Kwara treasury was mindlessly pilfered through what was like a large web of official…
• Says honour is truly deserving Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has congratulated all the recipients of the 2022 national awards from the state, commending them for their great contributions in career, leadership and character to national growth and development. At least 11 Kwarans made the list of honourees who received different national awards today, October 11, 2022, according to a statement by the Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs. The awards were conferred on them by President Muhammadu Buhari. The awardees from Kwara are: former President of the Nigeria Court of Appeal Justice Ayo Salami, CFR; Chief…
• commends the support of Kwara community Under-renovation Oro General Hospital in Irepodun local government area of Kwara State is at 85% completion and will soon be delivered to the state government, the project manager has said. “Our delivery is very close. Our time schedule now is to ensure that the wards and the main operating system of the hospital is in place first to move doctors to their permanent offices. We will then do the theatre last to avoid any infection into the place. All we have left now is the theatre and administrative block,” the project manager Architect…