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By Thompson Yamput The Kogi Government on Thursday denied the alleged harassment of the governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Mr Leke Abejide. Mr Kingsley Fanwo the state’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, said this in a statement in Lokoja. Fanwo said that Abejide was one of those just making up the numbers…
By Sunday John The Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has reserved judgment on the petition challenging the outcome of 2023 governorship poll in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr David Ombugadu, governorship candidate of the PDP, is challenging the declaration of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of the APC…
By Thompson Yamput Mr Samson Bako, Kogi Commissioner for Works and Housing, says the determination and commitment of Gov. Yahaya Bello to make history through massive Infrastructural Development in the state is beyond politics. A statement in Lokoja on Thursday by Abah Eneojoh, the ministry’s image marker, said that Bako made the pronouncement while inspecting…
By Thompson Yamput Twenty persons died and 36 injured in separate auto crashes involving Toyota Hiace buses in two weeks in Kogi, an official has disclosed. Corps Commander Samuel Oyedeji, Kogi Sector Commander, FRSC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Thursday that the fatalities were from three separate accidents. Oyedeji described…
By Thompson Yamput The All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders in Lokoja /Koto Federal Constituency have resolved to deliver massive votes to the party’s Governorship candidate, Alh Usman Ododo in the Nov. 11 Governorship Election in the state. The stakeholders, under the Chairmanship of Mr Baba Ali, in a Communique on Wednesday, made this known at…
By Thompson Yamput The Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Dr George Moghalu, has expressed immense grief over Adamawa and Niger States’ boats mishaps that left several persons dead on Friday and Sunday. Moghalu, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Tuesday, described the two incidents as “very unfortunate” and “saddened”, considering the…
By Thompson Yamput Former Deputy Governor of Kogi Yomi Awoniyi on Tuesday officially joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the Nov. 11 Governorship Election in the state. Awoniyi, who recently declared his defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was officially received into the APC at the party’s national headquarters in Abuja,…
BY CHRIS GYANG It is entirely fortuitous that as the current governments at the state and federal levels marked their first one hundred days, the sudden removal of fuel subsidy was having devastating effects on the lives of citizens and the world was coming to terms with the aftershocks of the military coups executed in…
By Thompson Yamput The Kogi Police Command has confirmed the case of suicide by a yet-to-be-identified man, who allegedly jumped into a river in Lokoja. The command’s Public Relation Officer, SP Williams Ovye-Aya, who confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said it happened between 12.30 p.m. and 1p.m. Ovye-Aya said that…
By Taiye Agbaje The National and State Houses of Assembly Election Tribunal on Monday, sacked the son of Prof. Jerry Gana, Rep Joshua, from the House of Representatives. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Rep Joshua Audu Gana was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Edati/Lavun/Mokwa Federal Constituency of Niger…
