October 30, 2024

  The Kogi State House of Assembly has commended the Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, and the Deputy Chief of Policy and Plans, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja Major General Usman T. Otaru for facilitating the construction of a new edifice and renovation of structures at Oziokutu Hospital and providing it with modern…

  The daughter of a late President of the Customary Court of Appeal in Abuja, Justice Moses Bello, has accused her father’s will executor, alongside some court officials, of trying to frustrate and truncate proceedings. The claimant, Ann Eniyamire, alleged that contemnors in the suit and her late father’s will executor, Rev. Father Ezekiel Awolumate,…

  The Federal High Court of Nigeria has clarified that the order of the Chief Judge of the Court, Justice John Tsoho was not defied by any of the Judges on the bench of the court across the country. Rather, the court said that the earlier transfer order made by the Chief Judge was reversed…

  A Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned hearing in the money laundering case brought against the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to January 21, 2025. At the resumed hearing on Wednesday, Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, said…

  The stakeholders outlined the achievements and setbacks of Kogi State handball since its inception in 1991, pointing to the need for immediate change to revive the state’s handball culture. They noted that Kogi State’s handball history includes significant accomplishments from winning national underage tournaments in the 1990s to representing Nigeria in international competitions. Kogi’s…

  A sociocultural group, the Orokere-Amuro Welfare Association (OWA) in Orokere Amuro, has appealed to Kogi State and Local Governments to rehabilitate the deteriorated roads and provision of modern healthcare facility in the community. The National President of OWA, Mr Segun Peter, made the call during the 2024 Orokere Day celebration and Fund Raising ceremony,…

  The Kogi State House of Assembly has decried the rising spate of insecurity in Bassa Local Government Area. In a motion of urgent public importance moved by the lawmaker representing Bassa State Constituency, Hon. Sunday Daku on the floor of the House on Wednesday, he lamented that several persons have been killed by unknown…

  In a bid to hit the ground running, the Executive Chairman of Mopamuro LGA, Hon. Chief Ademola Bello Destiny submitted names of supervisory councillors to the Mopamuro Legislative Arm for screening and immediate swearing in. The Chairman appreciates the Legislators for their promptness in discharging this important responsibility hoping for good synergy between them…

  The federal high Court in Abuja has stopped the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN from further releasing monthly financial allocations to Rivers state government. The court held that the receipt and disbursement of monthly allocations since January this year by governor Siminalayi Fubara is a Constitutional sommersault and aberration that must not be allowed…

  As Ecstatic excitement and jubilation continues to envelop kogi state and beyond following the approval of over point six billion naira for free Payment Of this year’s West Africa Examination Certificate, National Examination Certificate fees [Waec, Neco] for indigenous students in public secondary schools by the Servant leader and the state governor, Alhaji Ahmed…