Tompolo’s Anti-Oil Theft Campaign Under Fire from Powerful Interests, Claims Adeyanju Human rights lawyer and activist, Deji Adeyanju, has alleged that powerful interests are working against the efforts of former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, to curb crude-oil theft and environmental pollution in the Niger Delta. Adeyanju made the claim…
…as Governor Bello assures Equitable Utilisation. Kogi State has received its first derivation allocation as an oil producing state. Governor Yahaya Bello disclosed this during the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday, assuring the people of the determination of his administration to continue to record more wins for Kogites. He said his administration had recorded…
Kogi’s LugardTV Commences First Anniversary Celebration …as Ododo’s SA Media Announces Month – long Event Special Adviser on Media to the Kogi State Governor, Hon. Ismaila Isah, has announced a month-long programme of events to commemorate the first anniversary of LugardTV, the state’s official online public service broadcaster. Hon. Isah disclosed this in a statement…
Ajaokuta will breathe fresh air again — Audu ,Minister of Steel. ATABOR JULIUS LOKOJA. The Administration of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his priority is how to ensure that Ajaokuta steel company is revamped and revitalised to meet the yearning of the founding fathers. The Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Abubakar-Audu…
. The Kogi Commissioner for Education, Hon. Wemi Jones, has advised students in the state against indulging in any form of social vices. Jones gave the advice on Monday at the 2023/2024 Matriculation ceremony of Gloryland Polytechnic Anoka, Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State. The commissioner admonished the matriculating students to focus on their…
2027 : Former Kogi Governorship Candidate, Olayinka Braimoh , Supporters defect to ADC . ATABOR JULIUS LOKOJA The 2023 Kogi state Governorship candidate of Action Alliance , Otunba Braimoh Olayinka and his supporters have decamped to the Frontline opposition Party, African Democratic Congress ADC, with the promise to rejig the party to take over power…
CELEBRATING AN ICON, A TEACHER, A MENTOR @ 52 On behalf of the staff of the Directorate of Public Relations and Protocol, Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, I appreciate you for your magnanimity, resourcefulness, time, energy and knowledge that have impacted us in several ways. Your uniqueness, kind-heartedness and result oriented disposition is evident in your…
Governor Ododo hails Supreme court verdict, calls on supporters to be magnanimous in victory. By Ismaila Isah, SA. Media Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has applauded the decision of the supreme court that affirmed his victory as the duly elected Governor of Kogi State. In his reaction to the ruling of the Supreme…
Kogi to sue EFCC for Contempt over illegal harassment of state officials The Kogi State Government, on Thursday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of illegal harassment of state officials “over a bail-out fund the Commission tried fruitlessly” to prove was stashed in an account, despite a Court injunction restraining it. The State…
APC National chairman, Ademu congratulates Ododo on success at Primary election. On Wednesday, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, received Hon. Ododo Ahmed Usman, OAU, the APC Candidate for Kogi 2023, at the party secretariat in Abuja. Hon. Ododo, in company of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello,…
