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Kogi Civil Service: Deaths and Sufferings as Reward for Work Done

A lot of preventable deaths and suicides have been recorded among civil servants and their family members in Kogi State over the last few months. Civil servants have...

Opinion: Harvest of Sack in Kogi

Last year ended on a sad note for civil servants in Kogi State when 1,774 workers, eight permanent secretaries and some directors were relieved of their duties by the...

Kogi Govt Approves Hospital Bill Payment for Family of Civil Servant Who Committed Suicide

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has approved the payment of the hospital bill of the widow and triplets of Edward Soje, a director in the State Teaching Service...

Opinion: Suicide At Governor Yahaya Bello’s Gate

We are inoculated from shocks of any harrowing news in Nigeria, however convulsing. This perhaps, may have accounted for the reason we were judged by the World Happiness...

Kogi Suicide: My Husband Rolled on The Floor Day Triplets Were Born – Wife

Mrs. Grace Soje, the wife of the Kogi State civil servant, who committed suicide on October 16, 2017, says her husband’s death remains a shock. The widow told Sunday...

Salary Backlog: Kogi, Benue, Bayelsa Lead Defaulting States – NLC

Ibrahim Apekhade Yusuf and Tony Akowe in this report focuses searchlight on the growing level of insolvency of some state governments unable to pay salaries as and when...

Opinion: Lines for Citizen Edward Soje

Acts of extreme desperation hardly ever make the cut, not even in the most awful circumstances of life. From the standpoint of conventional social conduct – and not...

Edward Soje: Group Demands Immediate Resignation of Gov. Bello

The United Global Resolve for Peace (UGRFP), an NGO, has called for the immediate resignation of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and the disengagement of the state’s...

Unpaid Salaries as Social Cancer

The news of a director in the Kogi State Civil Service, Mr. Edward Soje, who committed suicide in Lokoja, the state capital, following the non-payment of his 11 months...

Kogi Suicide: Late Edward Soje Told Me He Doesn’t Want to Be A Burden to His Wife – Pastor

…one of the children has a malfunctioning organ which may likely be operated on   Edward Soje appeared very excited during the naming ceremony of his...