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By Ishaq Dan-Imam, Lokoja The Muri Governorship support group, Muri Elite Network (M.E.N), has held a training and awareness session on Youth employability and entrepreneurial skills with youths and adults in Lokoja, on Saturday. About One hundred and thirteen youths from across the state were trained in different vocational skills such as Yoghurt making, bead-making,…
By Thompson Yamput A support group of Alhaji Muritala Ajaka, candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi’s Nov. 11 election says Ajaka will redeem and transform Kogi to the delight of its citizens. Amb. Obaje Hassan-Mustapha, spokesman of the group, Muri Ambassadors Network, made the declaration in Lokoja on Saturday. Speaking at its…
By Blessing Odega The Rotary Club, Jos Central, has donated 90 desks and 3,000 exercise books to select schools in Plateau as part of its humanitarian services. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN/ reports in Jos on Friday that the benefiting schools include LEA Yelwa Zangam primary school, St. Theresa primary school, and St. Michael…
By Thompson Yamput Fifteen houses and several farmlands were reportedly destroyed by rainstorm that wrecked havoc in Iyah Gbedde community in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident, which occurred between Tuesday and Thursday, also left the community Town Hall in ruins. Dr Emmanuel Jeminiwa, National…
By Thompson Yamput Sen. Jibrin Echocho (APC-Kogi) on Friday declared that he has neither political thugs nor killer squad as being insinuated in some quarters against his good image and character. The senator representing Kogi East Senatorial District, made the declaration in a statement he made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…
By Thompson Yamput A non-profit organisation, Africa Radio Drama Association (ARDA) in partnership with Community Initiative to Promote Peace (CIPP), has warned Kogi youths against the spread of fake news and hate speech via the social media. Ms Priscilla Fiberesima, ARDA and (CIPP) Programme Manager, made the call in Lokoja on Friday during a one-day…
By Thompson Yamput The Stallion Times Media Service has trained 40 practicing journalists in Kogi on rudiments of Multimedia Journalism toward enhancing the journalism profession in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Lokoja on Thursday that the one-day Multimedia Newsroom Training generated a lot of questions to which answers were provided with…
By Thompson Yamput Sen. Dino Melaye, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Nov.11 poll, says his party is out to win the election, without fear of intimidation from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Melaye said this at the inauguration the state PDP executive members in Lokoja on Thursday. “Go…
By Thompson Yamput The Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Wednesday begged President Bola Tinubu to stop the incessant attacks and carnages occasioned by the governorship electioneering in Kogi. Mr Isaiah Ijele, the Director General, New Media, SDP Campaign Council, made the plea ipat a news conference in Lokoja on Wednesday. Ijele said that innocent citizens…
By Thompson Yamput Postoral Resolve (PARE), a Non-Governmental Organisation, working on Community Initiatives to Promote Peace (CIPP) project, says it has trained 25 farmers and pastoralists on peace building in Kogi. The PARE’s Team Lead and Facilitator, Mr Israel Okpe, said this on Wednesday during the training of some community leaders in Ajaka, Igalamela-Odolu Local…
