October 2024

  The Kwara State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr. Umar J.G. Mohammed, has urged the newly promoted officers to embrace their new ranks with a heightened sense of duty and accountability. Commandant Umar gave this charge on Thursday during the decoration ceremony held at the State Command Headquarters in…

    In order to ensure persons and families displaced by flood are not exposed to water-borne diseases, the Governor of Kogi State, Alh. Ahmed Usman Ododo has begun the drilling of boreholes at the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps. According to the state government, this will also help to ameliorate the hardship the displaced…

  Ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Climate and Sustainable Development Network (CSDevNet) has concluded plans to hold an advocacy/campaign around the flooded areas in Ganaja, Lokoja Kogi State, calling on world leaders to take climate action. CSDevNet is a coalition of over 300 organizations committed to promoting climate-friendly and equitable sustainable development across Nigeria….

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, sought for adjournment of hearing in its fresh charge against the immediate-past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello and two others, to November 14, 2024. Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, who appeared for the EFCC at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, said at the hearing that…

  Parents have been encouraged to support their children’s creative pursuits by providing access to arts materials, engaging in creative activities together, and promoting a positive and nurturing environment. A professor of Fine Art in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Oluremi Mabel Awogbade, gave the charge…

  Kogi State civil servants are thrilled to receive their October salaries with the newly approved minimum wage of ₦72,500. The Director of Civil Engineering in the Ministry of Works, Engr Sunday Baba while receiving his salary alert in Lokoja on October 23, 2024 thanked the administration of Gov Ahmed Usman Ododo for this significant…

  Today being 23rd October, 2024, the Executive Chairman of Mopamuro LGA, Hon. Ademola Bello Destiny swears in elected officials of the Local Government to begin legislative duties immediately. The swearing in ceremony takes place at the secretariat legislative chamber, with the Commissioner for oath in attendance, Magistrate Agada, Hon. Olawumi Jacob KGHA member representing…

  Kwara State Government has officially handed over the State Civil Service Hospital to the contractor, Craneburg Construction Nigeria, for construction and upgrade of the facility for better service delivery to the people. At a brief handover ceremony in Ilorin, the state capital, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Ahmed El-Imam, said the expansion work…

  Justice Mohammed Madugu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja, has issued an interim injunction ordering the arrest, detention and prosecution of anyone who attempts to sell the properties of the former President of the Abuja Customary Court of Appeal, late Justice Moses Bello. The judge’s ruling came following an ex-parte application…

  As part of measures to cushion the effects of the hardship people are currently passing through in Kwara State, the State Government has distributed food items to over 100 vulnerable women and widows in the State. The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hon. Opeyemi Oluwakemi Afolashade, who supervised the distribution of the food items at…