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Established in 1973, The Herald has correspondents in Kaduna, Kano, Kogi and Abuja. [2] Falilat Adetoun Olaoye and Clement Adeboye [3] was appointed the general manager of The Herald and Yomi Adeboye as editor in 2020. [4] [5] The newspaper is state-owned. [6] [7] The Herald is published by Kwara State Printing and Publishing Corporation. [8]
Of the 36 states of Nigeria, Kwara is the ninth largest in area but the sixth least populous with an estimated population of about 3.2 million as of 2016. [7] Geographically, Kwara is split between the West Sudanian savanna in the east and the Guinean forest–savanna mosaic ecoregion in the rest of the state.
The Kwara State House of Assembly is the legislative arm of the government of Kwara State of Nigeria. [1] [2] It is a unicameral legislature having 24 members elected from the 16 local government areas of the state. Local government areas with considerable lager population are delineated into two constituencies to give equal representation.
The Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Kwara comprises three Senators representing Kwara Central, Kwara South, and Kwara North, and six Representatives representing Baruten/Kaiama, Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-ero, Asa/Ilorin West, Ilorin East/South, Offa/Oyun/Ifelodun, and Edu/Moro/Patigi.
The political economy of Kwara State can be traced to 1967 when it was created. [12] Since then the state has undergone various developmental efforts, mostly initiated by the federal government given the nature of the Nigerian state, a centralized federal system where development policies and programmes originate from the centre.
He was born in Ilorin West Local Government. [4] AbdulRahman is the son of Alhaji Abdulganiyu Abdulrasaq SAN, the first northern lawyer in Nigeria. [8]He attended Capital School, Kaduna between 1966 and 1968; Bishop Smith Memorial School Ilorin between 1970 and 1971; and Government College Kaduna where he is said to have earned his West African Senior School Certificate Examination in 1976 ...
This is a list of administrators and governors of Kwara. Kwara , Nigeria , was formed on 27 May 1967 when the Northern region was split into Benue-Plateau , Kano , Kwara, West Central , North-Eastern and North-Western states;
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