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Collapse Buildings: Dangote To Establish Block Makers Academy By Thompson Yamput Worried by the menace of collapse building in the country, Dangote Cement Plc plans to establish a Block Makers Academy to help address the situation. In a statement issued by its Media Aide, Jibrin Abubakar, the firm said that the move was to support…
By Thompson Yamput Following the impending nationwide strike on Wednesday, Babatunde Ishola, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in charge of Zone 8, has appealed to Kogi workers to be peaceful in their protest. The AIG made the appeal during a meeting with Labour Leaders in Lokoja on Tuesday. Ishola explained that the meeting became imperative…
By Thompson Yamput Mixed reactions have greeted President Bola Tinubu’s broadcast with some stakeholders applauding and some berating his policy statements on the nation’s economy. Prof. Alewo Akubo, the Vice Chancellor of Salem University, Lokoja, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Tuesday that aside of “dowsing the tension and anxiety…
By Blessing Odega The wife of the gov. of Plateau, Mrs Helen Mutfwang, says the state has recorded a rise in the indices of exclusive breastfeeding from 19 per cent to 38 per cent . Mutfuang, said this on Tuesday in Jos, at the commemoration of the World Breastfeeding week with the theme entitled…
By Thompson Yamput Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi says his style of leadership keeps attracting more defectors from the opposition parties in to All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Bello described the situation as a “plus” and “blessing” to the APC in its quest for victory in the upcoming Nov. 11 governorship election in…
By Thompson Yamput A political support group, “Okun United 4 Ododo’’, on Sunday in Lokoja pledged to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Nov. 11 governorship election in Kogi. Okun is a major ethnic group in Kogi and is home to Sen. Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) one of the…
By Thompson Yamput Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has received more People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defectors into the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the struggle for the Lugard House intensifies. The defectors, led by Mr A.K. Salihu, a former two-term House of Representatives member, Mr Udu Malik, former caretaker chairman of Okehi local government…
By Thompson Yamput Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Friday urged the Federal Government to channel funds towards improving health, education, agriculture and other critical infrastructure to help cushion effects of subsidy removal. The governor, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr Onogwu Mohammed, made the appeal during a meeting…
By Thompson Yamput Former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, made President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list read on the floor of the Senate on Thursday afternoon. Ex-Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi; former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El Rufai; and presidential spokesman, Dele Alake also made the list. After a long wait by Nigerians,…
By Thompson Yamput A Parasitologist, Prof Patrick Amidu-Audu, has warned that parasitic infections pose a serious threat to the wellbeing and existence of humans and livestock in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Amidu-Audu, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL), made this known while…
