Ahead of the Kogi State governorship election scheduled for November 16, some women from across the state, particularly Kogi Central senatorial district, have declared support for Natasha Akpoti.   Akpoti contested for the seat under the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the last National Assembly elections, but lost to the candidate of…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) community in Kogi State was thrown into mourning on Friday following the news that the Kogi State Coordinator of the Corps, Mrs. Oludolapo Ahile, died in a ghastly auto crash. The Assistant Director, Public Relations, Kogi NYSC, Mr Adedapo Tayo, told journalists in Lokoja on Friday that the coordinator was involved in…

The gubernatorial elections in Adamawa, Bauchi and Imo States must have thrown up a poignant question in the country’s polity: Why do politicians who enjoy massive goodwill from the electorate fritter it away after their astonishing electoral triumphs? Recent developments in Kogi point to the likelihood that that poser would echo on November 2, 2019…

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has lamented how the state became a near theatre of war following the passage of its open grazing prohibition and ranches establishment bill 2017. He stated this yesterday while delivering the Professor Miriam Ikejiani-Clark lecture at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), saying the Federal Government deployed all its might…

Five soldiers have been killed as troops of the Nigerian military clashed with Boko Haram fighters in Magumeri village, Borno State. The report is coming amid deterioration in the nation’s security as bandits unleash a wave of kidnappings and murders across states...

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has commiserated with the senator representing Kogi west senatorial district, Dino Melaye, over the death of his mother, Comfort, whose death was announced on Thursday. In a statement by the Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onogwu Muhammed in Lokoja, Bello described the news of Melaye’s mother’s death as “a rude…

Over 200 archers drawn from across the country are participating in the second phase of the 2019 Nigeria Archery Federation’s coaching and officiating workshop, which started on Monday and will end on May 4 at the Package 'B' of the National Stadium, Abuja. Among the participating states are Delta, Plateau, Niger, Kogi, Benue, Lagos, Oyo,…

The Obobanyi of Ohionwa in Ihima, Okehi Local Government of Kogi State, Chief Jeremiah Akaava, has died at the age of 116. A statement issued by the Ohionwa clan in Lokoja on Saturday said that the monarch died in the late hours of Friday. It said the deceased spent 36 years on the throne. The…

Civil servants in Kogi State now beg to feed their families, due to non-payment of their monthly emoluments, according to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lamented yesterday. The state chairman of NLC, Onuh Edoka, at the seventh quadrennial delegates’ conference in Lokoja, appealed to the state government to do something urgently to reverse the trend.…

A 42-year-old woman has been delivered of five babies (quintuplets) at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi State, after 18 years of childlessness. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the woman, Mrs. Uchenna Okeigbo, and her kids were in good condition. Okeigbo, an indigene of Olokoro Amangbo Community in Umuahia South Council…

The current face-off between Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and the state Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah is again putting the state in the spotlight. The disagreement between the two kinsmen from Kogi Central Senatorial district has brought to the fore the many illegalities that have become the state government’s hallmark. First was the…

The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that persons in the upper echelons of Zamfara were complicit in the recent spate of killings in the state...