Category: News
Opinion: Unpaid Salaries Sending Kogi State Govt Workers to Early Grave
adminNov 17, 2016
By Hon Alfa Tijani. Several months of unpaid salaries in Kogi state has turned tragic as workers increasingly live in pathetic and inhuman conditions which ultimately...
Recession: Demand for Family Planning Increases in Kogi
adminNov 17, 2016
The present economic recession in Nigeria is having a profound impact on lower and modest-income couples in Kogi State as their demand for family planning has increased....
Victor Omofaiye, Other Assembly Members Urge Govt to Address Herdsmen Menace in Kogi
adminNov 17, 2016
Kogi House of Assembly on Thursday called on the state government to take a holistic measure at curbing herdsmen activities which had made farmers and farming unsafe in...
Proposed Decentralization of Kogi State University is a White Elephant Project – Ujache Igala
adminNov 17, 2016
A political pressure group, ‘Ujache Igala’ has described the proposed decentralization of Kogi State University, Anyigba as a white elephant project, wondering how a...
Kogi to Plant 21,000 Hectare Cassava Farms in 2017
adminNov 16, 2016
The Kogi State Government is to facilitate the planting of over 21,000 hectares of cassava farms in 2017 as part of efforts toward actualizing the shift from subsistence...
KSU Lecturers Hint on Strike Action Over Salary Backlog, Outstanding Demands
adminNov 16, 2016
The Academic Staff Union of Union of Universities, Kogi State University chapter (ASUU-KSU) has said it will extend the one-week warning strike by its national body, if...
The Culture and Traditions of Ogugu People
adminNov 16, 2016
Ogugu is a community of Igala speaking people in the Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria, with an Igala version tagged as Akporto due to the...
Yahaya Bello as Scarlet Pimpernel
adminNov 16, 2016
For much of last week, Kogi State was rife with rumours of their vanishing and unpopular governor, Yahaya Bello, who assumed office in January after a controversial...
Two Dead, Two Injured As Butchers Clash in Anyigba
adminNov 16, 2016
Two persons have been killed and another two injured in a brutal clash among butchers in Anyigba, Dekina local government area of Kogi State. The clash started during an...
Opinion: Before Kogi Workers’ Screening Turns to Deliberate and Calculated Wickedness
adminNov 16, 2016
The feelers in messages and calls after my view on the screening exercise was posted, revealed a more sordid situation than I thought and this has necessitated this...