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By Polycarp Auta Old students of Rimi (St. John’s) College, Kaduna are to hold a National Reunion from Dec. 1 – 3, 2023. The reunion, which is to be held at the school premises, is expected to start with special prayers for the 74 years old school on Friday. A programme of events lined…
By Thompson Yamput The military beefed up security around INEC’s headquarters in Lokoja on Wednesday following a siege laid on the premises by a mob. Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Mr Bethrand Onuoha invited the military to the INEC office after the mob laid the siege. Onuoha alerted the Commander, 12 Brigade of the…
By Thompson Yamput The Ebira People’s Association (EPA) has appealed to the residents of Kogi to remain united and peaceful since the state’s Off-Cycle Governorship Election has concluded Dr Godwin Oyibo, EPA President-General, made the appeal in a statement issued in Lokoja on Wednesday. He said the appeal as due to “some prevailing developments…
By Thompson Yamput The Kogi Commissioner of Police, Mr Bethrand Onuoha, on Wednesday warned trouble makers not to create problem for Kogi since election had come and gone peacefully. The commissioner made the plea after some suspected party supporters staged a protest at the office of the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday….
By Blessing Odega Plateau State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency ( PLASCHEMA) has sensitised students of the College of Nursing and Midwifery, Vom, on the importance of enrolling into its Tertiary Institution Student Health Insurance Programme (Tship). The Director – General of PLASCHEMA, Dr. Agabus Manasseh, on Tuesday at the students orientation programme of the…
By Thompson Yamput The International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA) on Monday decried the increasing cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Child Early Forced Marriage (CEFM) in Nigeria. FIDA National President, Mrs Amina Agbaje made the lamentation in Lokoja during a Stakeholders Consultative Forum on Implementation/Status of Gender Responsive Services For Women and…
By Ali M. Ali Let me wish my mentor, Malam Garba Shehu, media aide to Ex President Muhammadu Buhari a happy birthday as he turns sixty-four (64) today, November 27. Certainly, three “scores” plus 4 is momentous. I pray to Almighty Allah (SWT) to increase him in good wealth, health and wisdom. To many…
By Thompson Yamput The Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Campaign Council has called on the general public to hold the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state responsible if anything untoward happens to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC’s) Office in Lokoja APC campaign council called on security agencies to fortify security…
By Blessing Odega Dr Ameji Negedu, the Head of Department Veterinary Medicine, University of Jos, attributes poor legislation on the use of antibiotics in animals as one of the contributory factor to antibiotics resistance in animals in Nigeria.Negedu, said this on Saturday in Jos, at the 2023 World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness week, with the…
By Thompson Yamput The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Kogi has given INEC 48 hours to issue certified copies of electoral materials on the Nov. 11 off-cycle election in the state to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). It also ordered INEC to allow SDP’s forensic experts to examine some electoral materials. The materials include Bimodal…
