Kogi Govt Calls For Help as Flood Ravages State ATABOR JULIUS LOKOJA The Kogi State Government has called on the Federal Government and international donor agencies to come to the aid of the State as flood sacks over 200 communities. Addressing newsmen Monday at Kotonkarfe, headquarters of Kogi Local Government, the State Commissioner for Information…
Kogi State Governor Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo has paid glowing tribute to the State Commissioner for Solid Minerals and Natural Resources, Engr. Abubakar Bashiru Gegu, described him as a quintessential leader who has stood with him and carried along the people of Kogi LGA to the best of his ability. The Governor made the…
SSAP-SDGs Mourns Passage of Akran of Badagry. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals (SSAP-SDGs) Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, OFR, has described as a great loss, the passing of the Akran of Badagry, His Majesty De Wheno Aholu Menu-Toyi I, who died at the age of 89. In a condolence statement released…
FG begins disbursement of#20,000 conditional cash Transfer to vulnerables in kogi. The Federal Government has commenced disbursement of N20,000 stipend to each of over 74,000 beneficiaries in Kogi State, under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). The CCT is the payment of N5,000 monthly stipend to the poor and…
The Stella Heart Foundation SHF has warned students against Psychoactive drugs abuse in order to preserve their mental well beings and to protect their lives dreams . This is as the foundation celebrated the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Lokoja, Professor Gbenga Solomon Ibileye on his sixty years birthday anniversary. The promoter of the Foundation,…
Kogi Govt carpets EFCC over renewed Media trial. … ‘Asks what happened to bail-out probe’ The Kogi State Government has debunked an allegation of money laundering levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, describing it as a sustenance of the persecution of the government by the Abdulrasheed Bawa-led EFCC. The government in…
All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart in Kogi State, Hon. Matthew Ochada aka ‘HMO’ has congratulated the state House of Assembly member-elect, Hon. Umar Faruk , describing his victory as a welcome development. Hon. Ochada who is a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor told journalists immediately after the state Assembly elections on Sunday. Hon….
FIDA urges Govt. to step up sensitization on VAPP law in Kogi Worried by the high cases of public and private violence across the State, the international federation of Women lawyers, (FIDA) have appeal to the Kogi State Government to make available to the public the Violence Against Person’s Prohibition law, (VAPP) signed by the…
Bandits invade Omala Communities in kogi . As the killings and burning of property continued unabated in Bagana, some bandits believed to have come from Agatu Local Government Area of Benue state have stormed Okpotala village a stone through from Bagana allegedly in search of the embattled District Head of Bagana Chief Alih Haruna, The…
A Magistrates court sitting in Lokoja, presided over by A.M. Mopa Esq, has granted bail to a husband and wife, Denise Osanwuta and Joy Osanwuta for a two count offence on criminal conspiracy and voluntarily causing grievous hurt without provocation on staffers of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Lokoja. The case which was mentioned today…
