Breaking; Bandits shot dead Major General Hassan Ahmed, Wife abducted. Major General Hassan Ahmed has been shot dead by gunmen believed to be bandits onThursday night in the Abaji area of the FCT even as the wife was whisked away to unknown destination. Ahmed who was formerly provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army, according to…
Niger passes Traffic MGT., Motor Vehicle ADM into Law. Yahaya Zakka Minna Niger state House of Assembly has considered and passed into law two Bills which are a Bill for a law to establish agency for traffic management in Niger State and for other matters connected purposes thereto 2021 and a Bill for a law…
Insecurity ; ODA calls for urgent intervention to halt Banditry, kidnappings, in Kogi West. A Socio-cultural Group of the Yoruba speaking part of Kogi State, Okun Development Association (ODA) has decried the spate of robbery, killings and kidnappings in Okun land, by dreaded gun men suspected to be fulani herders and member of ISWAP….
&4.63M World bank Refund. Bello has demonstrated rare prudence in governance— Barr.Ladi Jato , Newmap Boss. The Kogi state project Coordinator of Nigeria’Erosion and Watershed Management Project Newmap , Barrister Ladi Jato has described the refund of 4.63 billion dollars of the unspent budget by governor Yahaya Bello as a rare display of predunce and…
Niger Governor Commissions 43km Roads in Niger East. Yahaya Zakka Minna. The Governor of Niger state Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has commissioned 43kms double-coated surface dressed rural roads connecting Suleja-Abuchi-Izom and Farindoki-Old Gawu communities in Suleja and Gurara Local Government Areas of Niger East Senatorial District in the state as part of 235kms rural…
Breaking ; Unknown Gunmen abduct kogi monarch, Demand #30M ransom. ATABOR JULIUS LOKOJA A first class traditional ruler in Kogi State Adogu of Eganyi in Ajaokuta local government area of Kogi State Alhaji Mohammed Adembe was on Tuesday evening kidnapped by yet to be identified abductors along Okene – Adogo road. The kidnapping of…
HND Discrimination ; Farooq Kperogi writes On the Parity of Esteem Between Polytechnics and Universities. * Urges FG to upgrade Polytechnics to Degree Awarding. If you are a university graduate who has been socialized to disdain polytechnics as inferior higher education institutions, think about this: Albert Einstein, the world’s most renowned physicist…
On behalf of the Governing Council, Management, Staff and Students of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, I wish to felicitate with Engineer Abubakar Ohere, the Honourable Commissioner for Works and Housing on his 55th birthday celebration. Engineer Ohere, you are worthy to be celebrated for your amiable, pragmatic and immense contribution to the New Direction Government…
NAF to establish FOB in Kogi The Executive Governor of Kogi State, His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has called for the establishment of a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Kogi State. He made the call when he paid a courtesy visit on the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao at Headquarters…
Kogi Nscdc officer shines at Edo 2020 Osom Games . * Commandant pledges support. Mrs, Francis Ruth Oluwakemi an Assistant Supretendent of Corps 11 of kogi state Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC has won a Gold Medal, 3 silver and a bronze medal in the athletic, 100 meters hurdles in…