The Zone 8 – Crusher road which had been in a deplorable state for over three successive administrations has finally gotten the attention of government as rehabilitation and construction work has commenced on it. The 6 kilometre road which houses strategic government offices as well as the Kogi state House of Assembly and the…
Journalists operating in Kwara State have been admonished to see themselves as patriots with an equal stake in the State’s development by writing reports that positively project the corporate image of the state. The state Commissioner for Communication, Hon. Bola Olukoju, made the appeal in Ilorin at the grand finale of the 2023 Press…
A High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, has sentenced Sarkin Fulani of Kwara, Usman Adamu, his brother, and one Gidaddo Idris to life imprisonment for conspiracy to kidnap and for actually kidnapping. The convicts were accused of kidnapping one Abubakar Ahmad and allegedly collecting a ransom of N1 million before his…
A law to provide for the legal and institution framework for participation of Kogi state in the power sector in the Areas of Electricity Generation, Transmission, System Operation, Distribution, Supply, Enforcement of Consumer’s Right and Obligation and Inauguration of Renewable Energy to Kogi state Energy mix and for the attraction of investment has passed…
Kogi state commissioner for Education science and technology, Wemi Jones reiterated that the money released by Governor Yahaya Bello for the payment of 2023 WAEC fees for students in public secondary schools across the state will be judiciously deployed for the purpose intended. The Commissioner stated this when he appeared before the Kogi state…
. ‘Attempt to harass INEC, security agencies’ll be resisted’ Youth groups in Kogi State across major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ignore what the described as the anti-democratic tendencies of the Social Democratic Party and its Governorship candidate, Muritala Yakubu,…
The Confluence Doctors Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Lokoja, has empowered vulnerable widows with cash award and offered scholarship to pupils in schools in Kogi. The organisation is the cooperative arm of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Lokoja. Addressing newsmen at the event on…
Media houses and practitioners in Nigeria have been charged to be more strategic in the discharge of their roles as the Fourth Estimate of the Realm, and ensure that they continue to hold the government to account. The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Kwara State Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, said this in Ilorin on…
The Kogi state House of Assembly has summoned the state commissioner for Education science and technology, Wemi Jones to explain reasons why public schools principals were still requesting students to pay WAEC fees after Governor Yahaya Bello has paid for the exam. The summon followed a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by the…
The Kogi state House of Assembly has summoned the state commissioner for Education science and technology, Wemi Jones to explain reasons why public schools principals were still requesting students to pay WAEC fees after Governor Yahaya Bello has paid for the exam. The summon followed a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by the…