Tag: Dino Melaye, Jimoh Moshood, Kogi, Kogi News, Legislature
Dino Melaye Arraigned, Re-Arrested After Perfecting Bail Conditions
adminMay 02, 2018
…police insist on Kogi trial The lawmaker representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye, is said to have been...
Kogi and The End of Politics
adminMay 02, 2018
It is quite hard to reconcile the plague currently engulfing Kogi’s political space and the memory that the province is also the cradle of the great Sunday Awoniyi. Or...
The Dino Melaye Saga
adminMay 02, 2018
The news of the abortive recall process that would have suddenly signalled his exist from the Senate came to him on his hospital bed – not the best of places to...
Police Versus Dino Drama
adminMay 02, 2018
A contest of wits and drama has raged in Abuja over several weeks between the Nigeria Police and Senator Dino Melaye [APC, Kogi West]. The latest episode featured the...
Opinion: Determined Efforts to Ferry Dino to Lokoja, We Will Hold President Buhari Responsible If He Gets Harmed
adminMay 02, 2018
Why is Nigeria Police force bent on arraigning Senator Dino Melaye in Lokoja? Moshood Jimoh is still insisting that he will be arraigned in Lokoja over allegations of...
Melaye: Former Ambassador Slams N100m Rights Suit Against IGP, Others
adminMay 02, 2018
Nigeria’s former Ambassador to Cuba, Laraba Elsie Bhutto, has instituted a fundamental right enforcement suit against the Inspector General of Police over her beating,...
Opinion: Recall Nationalism and The Politics of Suspension
adminMay 01, 2018
It is good to be a child. However it is bad to remain a child forever. The recall exercise carried out recently is a product of childish thinking and irrational sense of...
Dino Melaye: The Era of Military Junta is Back
adminMay 01, 2018
As I read how lawyers attached to Senator Dino Melaye were arrested and humiliated, the only thing that flickered through my mind was that Nigeria is back to the era of...
Melaye’s Recall: Group Wants INEC To Punish Those Behind Forged Signatures
adminMay 01, 2018
A group under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to prosecute those involved in forging signatures for...
Real Reason Dino Melaye Forced Way Out of Police Vehicle – Ben Bruce
adminMay 01, 2018
Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, jumped from a police vehicle last week because he was repeatedly tear-gassed by officers, one of his Senate colleagues,...