Kogi State
19 Jan 2018
Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yayaha Bello, has promised to end firewood cooking as part of efforts to save lives associated with deaths arising from the inhalation of soot...
16 Jan 2018
The Kogi state Commissioner for agriculture Mr. Kehinde Oloruntoba has disclosed that the State Government will empower over 100,000 persons through engagement...
29 Dec 2017
Sir: It is 10 years since the cold hands of death snatched away, the late Aro of Mopa, a consummate, disciplined and principled politician, Chief Sunday Bolorunduro Awoniyi.
26 Dec 2017
Ahead of the 2019 gubernatorial election, Rep. James Faleke (APC-Lagos) has pledged to rescue Kogi from maladministration. Faleke was the running mate to late Prince Abubakar Audu in the 2015 Kogi governorship election. Addressing newsmen at Ekirin-Ade, his country home in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi, the lawmaker said this during a ceremony organised…
24 Dec 2017
The National Rebirth Group (NRG), a non-profit organization with a United Nations consultative status, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of acting a premeditated script prepared by opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a bid to stop Kogi Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello from seeking reelection in 2020. NRG’s accusation contained in a statement…
14 Dec 2017
Ogun State yesterday became the latest in the country to record another attack by herdsmen.
12 Dec 2017
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has commended the Federal Government and other stakeholders for the completion of three turbines power generation at Geregu Power Plant in the state.
11 Dec 2017
It was jubilation galore yesterday in Kogi State, especially among the media community, as Kolawole Ologbondiyan, who was editor with Thisday newspaper...
9 Dec 2017
A former deputy Governor of Kogi State, Yomi Awoniyi has charged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to ensure that it sustained its present momentum of cohesion to elect a credible chairman in today’s national convention. Awoniyi told The Guardian in Lokoja in a telephone interview that he felt something positive was about happening in the PDP.…
5 Dec 2017
A trigger-happy police officer in Kogi State allegedly shot dead a polytechnic graduate, Mohammed Ismail, in Ajaokuta Local Council on Sunday.
2 Dec 2017
The Civil Society on HIV in Nigeria (CiSHAN) Kogi State chapter has threatened to march to Kogi State Government House with the corpse of any of its members...
30 Nov 2017
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has threatened to dethrone any traditional ruler and remove any council chairman if Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash in their domain.
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