Tag: Kogi State
Audu: Sports Minister condoles family, Kogi State
Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Barrister Solomon Dalung, has commiserated with the youth and people of Kogi State over…
Life and Times of Abubakar Audu
*Audu Abubakar, the flamboyant prince of Igalaland and the man who contested four times to return as governor of Kogi dies…
BREAKING: Kogi polls declared inconclusive
Just when many thought the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu will be officially declared winner of Kogi governorship…
BREAKING: APC’s Audu wins Kogi governorship election
All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu, has won the gubernatorial election defeating incumbent Idris Wada in a keenly contested…
Kogi Polls: Results, pictures, live updates
INEC officials take a 30 minute break after announcing results from 11 LGAs. APC’s Abubakar Audu is in the lead…
Kogi Polls: Early results put APC’s Audu in the lead
From all indications, the All Progressives Congress candidate in Kogi governorship election, Prince Abubakar Audu is heading for a victory,…
Kogi polls: Reports reaching me are troubling – Wada
Idris Wada, the governor of Kogi state whose second term ambition is on the line in Saturday’s election spoke to…
Kogi election: Audu sweeps own polling booth, PDP 0
The results of the governorship election held in Kogi State have started trickling in, with the All Progressives Congress candidate,…
Kogi Deputy Governor lauds INEC for smooth conduct of guber polls
Kogi Deputy Governor, Mr Yomi Awoniyi, has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the smooth conduct of the…
Card Readers work near-perfectly in Kogi polls
Most of the Card Reader machines deployed for the conduct of Kogi Governorship election have been working effectively across the…
Kogi Election: Female guber candidate steps down, supports Audu
Eromosele Ebhomele Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the Saturday governorship election in Kogi State, Nigeria, Zainab Usman,…
Polls: APC’s Audu represents the ugly past of Kogi – Obanikoro
Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has stated that the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Kogi state, Abubakar…
Kogi Polls: Don’t allow anybody intimidate you, Mbu tells police
The Commandant, Police Staff College, Jos, Mr Joseph Mbu, has advised police officers to remain bold and never allow anyone…
Kogi Polls: Arase deploys 15,969 policemen, restricts movement
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase has deployed 15,969 police officers, one Deputy Inspector General of…
45 killed in road accidents in Kogi
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says 45 persons lost their lives in 61 road crashes in different parts of…
Kogi Polls: Arase tells trouble makers to keep off
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Solomon E. Arase, has assured Nigerian citizens, especially indigenes of Kogi state, of the readiness…
Kogi: Police uncover plans by thugs to use police uniform
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, said police were aware of plans by some politicians in Kogi to clothe…
Police to deploy SARS for Kogi polls
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Solomon Arase, on Friday said Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) squad would be deployed to…
Be independent, PDP tells INEC ahead of Kogi, Bayelsa polls
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has charged the new leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to assert its…
Vote Audu, APC – Osinbajo tells Kogi electorate
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged electorate in Kogi to vote en masse for Alhaji Abubakar Audu in the governorship…
1.3m voters to participate in Kogi guber poll
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that 1,397, 786 voters will participate in the governorship election holding in…
PDP tells Buhari to warn APC members ahead of polls
buhari The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to caution members of the All Progressives Congress…
INEC to distribute PVCs in Kogi, Bayelsa from Nov. 6
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would commence the distribution of Permanent Voter Card (PVC) to eligible voters…
Vote out Wada, liberate yourselves from poverty, Oyegun tells Kogi electorate
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, on Saturday urged the people of Kogi to…
Kogi Guber: Immigration tells immigrants to steer clear
The Nigeria Immigration Service in Kogi on Saturday cautioned immigrants against taking part in the Nov. 21 governorship election. The…
APC’s Audu responds to N11 billion fraud allegation
In a tweetChat with his followers on Thursday, All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the November 21 Kogi state governorship…
Audu, Faleke begin guber campaign in Kogi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced its governorship campaign in Kogi with a call on the electorate to vote…
Gunmen attack DSS office, kill policeman
Some gunmen on Friday night attacked the headquarters office of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Lokoja. Mr Emmanuel…
Kogi LG workers to receive N45bn from bailout fund
The Kogi Government said on Thursday that N45 billion of the N50.9 billion its bailout money would be spent on…
‘Wada must go protesters’ block Abuja-Lokoja Highway
Taiwo Adelu Travellers going from Abuja and those coming to the capital city had a hectic journey as workers of…