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Cashew Farm Crisis: Senator Aidoko Appeals to Warring Communities in Dekina, Bassa

By Yusuf Abubakar. Senator Atai Aidoko Ali of Kogi East has decried the recent bloody clash between Igalas and Bassa Kwomus over cashew nuts harvest. In a reaction to...

5 Killed, 50 Houses Razed as Communities Clash Over Cashew Nut Harvest in Kogi

No fewer than five persons have been reportedly killed in a fresh communal clash between Igala and Bassa Kwomu speaking tribes in Kogi State. It was gathered that over...

Herdsmen Killings: PDP Donates Food, Cash to Victims in Kogi

…calls for concrete steps to stop menace Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) have donated 30 bags of  rice, 30 bags of Semovita and...

Dekina, My Personal Experience (3)

In the year 2002 up till 2010 during the then PDP administration in Kogi State, a lot of youth in Dekina local government especially those from Anyigba died for being...

Kogi: Gov. Bello Threatens To Dethrone Monarchs Over Herdsmen Attacks

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has been left enraged after the violent attack on some villages in Dekina, Bassa and Omala Local Government Areas of Kogi East in which...

The Deplorable State of the Shintaku – Oguma Road; A Distress Call to The APC-Led Federal Government

A ferry across Lokoja – Shintako inland waterways reveals great potentials and opportunities wasted by successive governments of Kogi State. It is an untapped...

Dekina, My Personal Experience (1)

From available statistics, Dekina is the largest local government area in Kogi state. As large as it appears so also are the problems that have impeded its development...

How ‘Horsemen of Death’ Moved Into Kogi Hinterland

Outrage and condemnation have continued to trail the bloodletting in Kogi East Senatorial District (Igalaland) in the past few weeks perpetrated by gunmen suspected to...

House of Reps Urges FG to Halt Killings in Kogi

The House of Representatives Wednesday passed a motion condemning the recent killing of 32 persons while several other are still missing at Abejukolo, Bassa of Omala,...

Agbenema – Omala Invasion; The Time to Help You is Now! – Johnson Musa

A House of Representatives hopeful for Dekina/Bassa federal constituency, Comrade Johnson Musa has condemned the renewed attack on the people of Agbenema in Omala local...