The Dangote Cement Plc Obajana Plant has donated 10 tricycles popularly known as Keke NAPEP to its host communities. The vehicles were handed over to the host communities at an event weekend attended by the four traditional rulers. The beneficiary factory and mining communities are: Obajana, Akpata, Iwaa and Oyo. Speaking at the ceremony to hand over the tricycles, the Read More
A graduating student of Kogi state university, Anyigba, simply identified as Abdulfatai Sani, has been reported dead shortly after attending final year examination. Abdulfatai was a student of Micro Biology in the Faculty of Natural Sciences who was said to have just wrote his final examination last Saturday. A close friend (name withheld) to Abdulfatai confirmed his demise. He said Read More
The Paramount Ruler and the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, Dr Ado Ibrahim, has charged the people to channel their resource towards the promotion of culture and tradition of the area. The Royal Father gave the charge in Okene, the headquarters of Kogi Central Senatorial District, during a beauty contest organised by Princess Megida Foundation. He said the only way tribes Read More
Northern states governors under the aegis of Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) are currently holding an emergency closed door meeting in Kaduna. The meeting, which kicked off with 16 states from the North represented, is presided over by the Chairman of the Forum and Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau state. The meeting, which started at 1:50pm is expected to Read More
Senator Dino Melaye’s bid to return to the Senate and represent Kogi West senatorial zone has hit the wall. This is because the Appeal Court on Tuesday has dismissed the appeal he filed which challenged the victory of Senator Smart Adeyemi as winner of Kogi West Senatorial District election. Details loading…
President Mohammadu Buhari on Tuesday approved the appointment of 12 new Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folasade Yem-Esanmade, this known in a statement signed by Director Communication, Mrs Olawunmi Ogunmosunle, in her office in Abuja. The new Permanent Secretaries are; Mr Akinlade Oluwatoyin from Kogi, Malam Alkali Nura Read More
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the statement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that its card readers were being circumvented, confirmed its position that the Kogi and Bayelsa governorship elections, as well as the Kogi West Senatorial election, were allegedly manipulated. PDP in a statement issued by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Thursday added that “the confession Read More
Congratulatory messages, mostly from party leaders, stalwarts and supporters, have started pouring in for re-elected Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and APC gubernatorial candidate in Bayelsa state now governor-elect, David Lyon. President Mohammadu Buhari literally fired the first message hours after Bayelsa’s Chief Returning Officer, Professor Faraday Orumwense, declared Lyon “duly elected”. The president says he looks forward to Read More
The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General, Shuaibu Ibrahim, has commended Corps members that served as INEC adhoc staff in the last Saturday’s Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections. The DG stated this on Monday in Abuja during his visit to the FCT orientation camp in Kubwa, saying over 20,000 foreign trained Nigerians uploaded online for mobilisation but Read More
The Judiciary Staff Union (JUSUN), Kogi state branch, on Tuesday dragged the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, and the Chief Judge of the state, Hon. Justice Nasiru Ajanah, before the National Industrial Court (NIC) sitting in Lokoja, the state capital, over non remittance of funds due to the state judiciary. The staff of the judiciary have been on strike since Read More
A Stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Prince Mohammed Abubakar Audu, has condemned the political violence that marred the February 23 polls in the eastern part of the state. In a statement he personally signed and issued on Sunday, Prince Audu called on politicians to eschew violence and approach future elections with respect for the sanctity Read More
Kogi state Governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has charged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to eschew violence and embrace peace during the local government congress of the party. Bello gave the charge yesterday in Lokoja during the party’s stakeholders meeting ahead of the local government congress slated for today. According to him, government is operating Read More
A High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi state, has ordered that Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi-west senatorial district in the National Assembly be moved to the National Hospital, Abuja for further treatment. Justice Nasir Ajanah gave the order on Friday, after the Senator’s counsel, Mike Ezekhome (SAN), sought for his bail following an order of a Magistrates’ Court for the Read More
The national leadership of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) said it has approved the expulsion of its Kogi state chairman, Dr. Abdul Denja, and two others for allegedly playing anti party activities. In a statement issued Friday in Abuja by its director of media, Kayode Jacobs, the party said the decision was taken at the zonal meeting of North-central Read More
The national leadership of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) said it has approved the expulsion of its Kogi state chairman Dr. Abdul Denja, and two others for allegedly playing anti party activities. In a statement signed Friday in Abuja by the party’s director of media, Kayode Jacobs, said the decision was taken at the zonal meeting of North-central leaders held Read More
If there is any aspect of agriculture that has touched the lives of farmers in Kogi state positively more than any other under the current dispensation, it is cashew plantation farming. ELEOJO IDACHABA, who was in the state recently, writes that despite the economic meltdown and unpaid salaries in the state, many are smiling to the banks. For David Read More
A senior Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja, on Friday granted bail to seven accused persons arraigned for allegedly disrupting women empowerment programme organised by Senator Ahmed Salau Ogembe in Okene local government area of Kogi state. In her ruling, Senior Magistrate, Ojoma Rachael Haruna, granted the accused persons bail with the sum of N20, 000 each and a surety Read More
Following last weekend’s reign of terror unleashed on some parts of Kogi state, especially Ebira land by youths suspected to be political thugs, the Ebira Youth Elites Organisation of Nigeria (EYEN) has warned the political class not to turn the state which is known as Confluence of Peace to that of blood. The group noted with dismay, “the growing resort Read More
…Buhari’s name won’t save him – Melaye Some serving Senators, Federal House of Representatives members, political leaders and activists from Kogi state led by Senator Dino Melaye, have formed a coalition known as Save Kogi Project (SKP) to ensure the removal of the incumbent Governor Yahaya Bello. The group, which its membership cut across all the political parties, civil society Read More
The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi state of being responsible for the vandalization of its promotional bill boards calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the state chapter of his party to order. The opposition party, however, warned that the ruling party was becoming intolerant and violent against opposing democratic views Read More
The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congres (APC) Friday took another dimension as the North Central zonal committee and the National Working Committee (NWC) disagree over the announced sack of Kogi state chapter of the executives. The North-Central zonal leaders had announced on a national Television that the Kogi State excos have been dissolved but in a swift response, Read More
Eric Amazu The police have remained at the receiving end of the blames for the herdsmen crisis that is ravaging some parts of the country, especially Benue State. The police inaction was interpreted to entail their partisanship, support for, and collusion with the herdsmen. Since we have established a national culture of calling out the army to intervene in many Read More
By Oyibo Salihu Lokoja A Human Rights Activist and the Director of Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR), Comrade Idris Miliki Abdul, has warned the Kogi state government against its proposed plan to sell 10 assets belonging to the state. Miliki in a statement in Lokoja yesterday, condemned the proposed move and queried the rationale behind the proposed Read More
By Bode Olagoke A Community Based Organization in Kogi state, the Ebira Youth Elite Organization of Nigeria, EYEON, has mourned the death of a medical doctor, Victor Idowu Ahmed, who reportedly succumbed to the deadly Lassa Fever virus recently. In a tribute to the doctor who allegedly contracted the virus from his patient, president of EYEON, Yunusa Jimoh said the Read More
Deputy editor of Daily Post, Wale Odunsi has narrowly missed death when he was molested by security aides attached to Government House, Kogi in Lokoja. A man dressed in mobile police personnel in the Government House slapped the editor before threatening to shoot him. Odunsi had travelled to the state to honour an invitation to the rescheduled Kogi State Social Read More
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