Category: News

Yahaya Bello and Lessons From Yahya Jammeh’s Misadventure

There is saying common with my people, ‘it’s the knowledge garnered from the experience of others that will always stop anyone calling an elder a loon’ In the...

Chinese Company to Refund N6.1b for Failed Water Project in Kogi

The Kogi State Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up on the Great Lokoja Water Project has ordered Chinese Company that handled the project to refund the sum of N6.1...

Kogi Govt. Declares State Of Emergency in Agriculture To Boost Food Production

The Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello has declared state of emergency in agriculture to boost food production and diversify the state’s economy. Governor Bello who...

Opinion: Kogi State’s Over 320 Days in Political Wilderness

With the recent release of the screening and verification report by the screening committee set up by Governor Yayaha Bello, it is now clear that Yayaha Bello is not the...

Perm. Secs, Directors to Account for Expenses on Ghost Workers – Kogi Govt.

Permanent secretaries and directors will be made to answer for the billions of Naira spent on 8, 879 ghost workers recently uncovered in the payroll of Kogi, the...

Tension in Kogi As Screening Committee Chairman Fails to Honour Assembly Request

By Olatunde Odimayo. There was mild drama on Thursday at the Kogi State House of Assembly when the chairman of the staff screening and verification committee, Alhaji...

8-Year Old Anderson-Sax Emerge Winner of Kogi Got Talent 2.0

…Kogi government promises continuous support 8-year old saxophonist, Master Anderson Peter has emerged winner of this year’s edition of Kogi Got Talent...

No PDP, APC in Kogi State House of Assembly – Victor Omofaiye

The Federated Chapel of the Kogi state chapter of Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), yesterday, honoured Honourable Victor Omofaiye with an award of excellence for his...

Kogi: Prison Service in Hot Pursuit of Escapee Armed Robber

By Eunice Emmanuel-Bagi. A robbery suspect, Mr. Lawrence Urih recently escaped Police Custody when he was brought to the state high court, Lokoja for trial. The Public...

What We Have in Kogi is Staff Victimization, Not Verification – Onibiyo

A software analyst, Mr Dayo Onibiyo, has described the recently concluded workers’ verification exercise in Kogi state as ‘Staff victimization’....