Tag: Kogi State
Death toll rises in Nigerian church massacre
The death toll in the church massacre in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi state has increased to 19, according to…
16 Christians massacred in Nigerian church
Sixteen persons have been killed and many others wounded by unidentified gunmen, who stormed the Deeper Life Church at Otite…
Nigeria police free suspected child traffickers
The Kogi State Police Command has released the 103 children and adults handed over to the command for investigation by…
Nigeria arrests 20 vehicles over child trafficking
Members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) stationed in Lokoja, Kogi, on Sunday intercepted 20 vehicles conveying more than 103 children,…
Robbers bomb bank, kill Nigerian cop
Gunmen suspected to be robbers on Friday night, attacked a bank and police station, killing a policeman at Iyara Community…
Bomb goes off near Nigerian Church
Bomb Goes Off Near Nigerian Church A bomb went off Sunday near a church in Okene, a major town in…
Gunmen kill abducted college bursar
Armed men, suspected to be robbers, on Friday night abducted and killed Stephen Omole, a bursary staff member of Federal…
Wada begs PDP boss to settle Kogi crisis
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state has called on Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the PDP National Chairman, to intervene in the…
Dangote Cement expands Obajana Plant
The Dangote Cement Company is to be the largest cement plant in the world with a combined production capacity of…
Ex-Open varsity VC now Kogi government scribe
Nigeria’s Kogi state government has appointed Professor Olugbenro Jegede, the pioneer Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN),…
Police arrest fugitive accident victim for robbery
An accident victim, who escaped from the hospital in Badagry, western Nigeria, after N4.09 million was found in his car,…
Court Orders sacked workers reinstated
A High Court in Okene, the Nigerian central state of Kogi, on Monday ordered the immediate reinstatement of 346 civil servants…
Court to Rule on Wada’s Swearing in July
Felix Nnamdi/Abuja Justice Abdu- Kafarati of a Federal High Court siting in Abuja has fixed July 5th to deliver judgment…
DPO Dies In Auto Crash
A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Ozuoba Police Station in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Southsouth Nigeria,…
Apex Court Declines Fresh Order on Kogi
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The office of the Governor of Kogi state was on Thursday thrown into fresh crisis following…
State Police Will Be Disastrous For Multi-Ethnic Nigeria —Odunayo Joseph
If there is any quixotic issue that has generated an unending controversy and debate in Nigeria in her 52 years…
Ajaokuta Bomb Attack: Medical Centre Shut
Ajaokuta Steel Company Medical Centre, Ajaokuta, Kogi State, north central Nigeria has been shut since the bomb attack on the…
Court saves new Nigerian Governor
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has declined a request to make an order stopping…
Kogi Acting Governor sacks political appointees
Acting governor of Kogi state, Abdullahi Bello has debunked news reports that he has relinquished the position for the governor-elect,…
Ex-Gov Audu T Face Trial For Scam
The Supreme Court of Nigeria, SCN, has struck out an application for stay of proceedings before a High Court of…
Why We Reject Kogi Gov Poll Results –Melaye
A Chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and former member of the House of Representatives, Dino Melaye, has…
No Third Tenure For Ex-Governor Audu
Former Governor of Kogi State, Abubakar Audu has been trounced by his rival in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Captain…
16 Die In Road Crash On Okene-Auchi Road
At least 16 people lost their lives in a road crash on the Okene-Auchi road in Kogi on Monday morning. Mr.…
I Remain Kogi PDP Gov Candidate – Jibrin Isah
Hope of a speedy resolution of the crisis that engulfed the Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party following…
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Melaye Leads Protest To INEC Office
There was stampede this morning as a members of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), embarked on a protest at…
I Will Not Probe Kogi Gov, If Elected —Audu
The former Governor of Kogi and a governorship candidate of ANPP, Prince Abubakar Audu, said in Lokoja on Thursday that…
KOGI PDP GOV. CANDIDATE: Parties Know Fate On Thursday
Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday fixed 17th February for the delivery of…
Police Chase Away Returnee Rep Member
Dino Melaye, the leader of the five progressives in the House of Representatives whose suspension was voided by an Abuja…
Okene LG Boss To Grace Eehi Awards
The Executive Chairman of Okene Local Government area of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Karaku will be in Lagos to grace…