Tag: Kogi
Kogi Commissioner Urges Youths To Support FG
Mr Aroma Adoji, Kogi’s Commissioner for Youth Development and Sports, has charged youths to support efforts by the federal and…
Kogi to establish Unity Schools in Senatorial Districts
Kogi is soon to establish a Unity secondary school in each of the three senatorial districts of the state to…
Kogi Releases N4.2bn For Workers Salary
Kogi Government has released N2 billion to the 21 local government councils in the state as their share of the…
Kogi, NIHSA Collaborate To Explore River Niger Shorelines
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) is collaborating with the Kogi Government to explore the shorelines of River Niger for…
NURTW Urges Kogi Govt To Assist With Buses
Mr Alaba Ajibade, Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW) Kabba branch, Kogi has appealed to Gov. Yahaya…
Korea, Kogi partner to promote vocational training
The Korean Government has partnered with the Kogi State Government and Dana Motors Limited, marketers of KIA Motors, to promote…
Kogi Gov Begs State Varsity ASUU To Suspend Strike
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has appealed to members of the state university Academic Staff Union to call off their…
Police Ban Rally In Kogi State
The police command in Kogi on Wednesday announced an indefinite ban on rally, public procession and demonstration in all parts…
Touch Dino and face our wrath – Kogi women
Hundreds of women on Saturday staged a peaceful protest in Aiyetoro-Gbede, Ijumu Local Government of Kogi, over the reported attempt…
Afforestation: State marks out 125 hectares for tree planting in 2017
The Kogi State Government says it has marked out 125 hectares of land for tree planting this year, as part…
Kogi May Enact Cattle Grazing Prohibition Laws
The Kogi Government says it may enact laws that would prohibit cattle grazing in the state if the measures it…
NBA Wants Appeal Court Established In Kogi
The four branches of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Kogi, on Wednesday appealed to the President of the Court…
APC inaugurates committees to intervene in Kogi, Bauchi crisis
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has inaugurated two fact-finding and reconciliation committees to look into the crises rocking its chapters…
Kogi Gov Inaugurates Cassava Factory
Gov Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Friday, called on the people of the state to be receptive to investors.
Man nabbed for bombing radio station
A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered the remand of a middle-aged man, Hayatudeen Amoto, in prison for allegedly…
Smuggling: Customs seek stakeholders support
The Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) of Niger, Kogi and Kwara has called on stakeholders to complement its efforts…
NMA bars doctors from treating commissioners, advisers
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), has directed its members to stop attending to health needs of commissioners , special advisers…
AEDC to deploy 65,000 meters in Niger, Kogi
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), says that plans are at advanced stage to begin mass installation of 65,000 meters…
80 patients get free surgeries in Kogi
No fewer than 80 patients in Lokoja received free paediatric and general surgeries, as well as dental services and gynaecological…
IGP deploys cops for Imo, Kogi rerun elections
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, has directed the Commissioners of Police in Imo and Kogi to ensure…
Police dislodge kidnap gang in Kogi, rescue victims
The Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) has smashed more notorious kidnap gang that have been terrorizing Kogi State and…
Buhari mourns Ocholi
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock and sadness at the death of Barrister James Ocholi (SAN), who together with his…
Police kill suspected kidnapper, rescue 3 victims
Police in Kogi on Friday shot and killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued three kidnap victims at a border area…
Kidnapped Deeper Life pastor regains freedom
Kazeem Ugbodaga Twelve days after he was kidnapped, State Overseer, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Kebbi State, Pastor David Onubedo was…
Deeper Life pastor still in kidnappers’ den 7 days after abduction
Kazeem Ugbodaga Seven days after he was kidnapped, Pastor David Onubedo, State Overseer, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Kebbi State, is…
Edo bank robbery suspects, native doctor arrested in Kogi
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo police command has confirmed the arrest of six members of the armed robbery gang that attacked two…
Pastor of Kumuyi’s church kidnapped, N50m ransom demanded
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Kebbi State Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM, Pastor David Onubedo was on Monday evening…
Can We Allow The Travesty In Kogi State To Stand In A Democracy?
Joe Igbokwe I am writing this piece as Joe Igbokwe not as APC Publicity Secretary Lagos State. I am writing…
Fleeing suspected car thief arrested in Kogi
Paul Iyoghojie The police at the Lion Building Division, Lagos Island, western Nigeria, have arrested a suspected car thief, Mathias…
World Bank to establish agric. equipment centres for cassava farmers
Dr Adetunji Oredipe, Senior Agricultural Economist with the World Bank on Tuesday said the bank would establish equipment hiring enterprise…