Category: Politics
Bye-Election: Result Shows Kogi People Have Pitched Their Tents With APC – Gov. Bello
adminAug 12, 2018
The Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has congratulated the winner of the just concluded bye-election for Lokoja/Kogi Koton Karfe Federal Constituency, Alh....
2019: Is Vote Buying And Selling A Crime?
adminAug 12, 2018
Since the recent elections in Ekiti and the attendant allegations of vote-buying and vote-selling, I have been reflecting on why people sell their votes in an election....
Opinion: Kogi Bye Election and The ‘Yeye’ in Some of Us
adminAug 12, 2018
The scenario that played out in the Saturday’s Lokoja / Koto Federal House of Representatives Bye Elections in Lokoja and Kogi (Koton Karfe) local governments of Kogi...
Kogi Elders, PDP Stakeholders Demand Cancellation of Kogi Bye-election, Wants Smart Adeyemi Arrested
adminAug 12, 2018
…Wants Kolawole Matthew, Senator Adeyemi, Gov Bello’s aides arrested for electoral fraud Kogi elders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have jointly...
USAID Lauds Natasha’s Move to Set Precedence by Unveiling Her Credentials
adminAug 11, 2018
By Mary Amodu. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has commended the frontline Kogi Central Senatorial aspirant, Barrister Natasha Hadiza...
PDP, ADC, SDP Calls for Cancellation of Kogi Bye-Election
adminAug 11, 2018
The coalition of all Political Parties that contested Saturday bye election in Kogi State have rejected the conduct of the election citing government induced harassment,...
Olamaboro 2019: What is The Sin of Hon. Linus Enenche?
adminAug 11, 2018
Since democracy returns the first Assembly member that represented Olamaboro was Hon. Achile Abugede from Ogugu District (1999 – 2003), he contested under the...
Kogi Bye-election: SDP Agents Shot by Suspected Political Thugs
adminAug 11, 2018
Two agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) have been shot by political thugs. The agents were shot during the ongoing bye-election for Kogi/Koto-Karfe federal...
Kogi Bye-election: Mob Kills Two for Attempting to Snatch Ballot Boxes
adminAug 11, 2018
Police in Lokoja have confirmed that two persons died during Saturday’s bye-election to fill the vacant Lokoja /Kogi seat in House of Representatives. Spokesman of the...
Ex-Govs Idris, Wada’s Alleged Importation of Thugs into Kogi, Gov. Bello is Afraid of His Own Shadow
adminAug 11, 2018
Not only did I find it laughable that the outgoing governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello accused former governors Ibrahim Idris and Idris Wada of importing thugs into...