KOGI STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, LOKOJA A BILL FOR A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE, PROHIBITION OF ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS, PROTECTION OF VICTIMS AND PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS, AND OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH, 2020. SECOND READING … Rt. Hon. Speaker and distinguished Hon. Members; permit…

  From the moment his re – election was confirmed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello had been ready to take on governance head – on as he has always done in all areas of his endeavours. He had identified the pitfalls of leadership of the Confluence…

The twenty one local government areas of kogi state have proposed a total of over one hundred and thirty one billion naira for the twenty twenty fiscal year. This was cantained in a letter forwarded to the assembly by the commissioner for ministry of local government and chieftaincy affairs Barrister Salami Ozigi. Reading the correspondence…

  By Sunday Ajayi – Lokoja The leadership of Kabba/Bunu All Progressive Congress, (APC) which comprises of the Local Government Executives, Ward Chairmen, Women leader, Ward Party Secretaries, Ward Youth leaders and critical stakeholders across the 15 wards has zoned the Chairmanship position to Bunu District. This was disclosed by the party chairman, Hon Elisha…

By Gabriel Olayemi. The member representing Kabba-Bunu/Ijumu in the House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Ayo Yusuf has paid for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination for over one hundred students in the constituency. The beneficiaries were drawn from all the thirty (30) wards and students unions and associations in the constituency. While briefing newsmen…

Following to the unabated activities of kidnapping and cultism in kogi state, the speaker prince Mathew kolawole, has directed the house committee on legal, justice and protocol to liase with the special adviser to the governor on legislative matters and the state attorney general to see how the state law on kidnapping and cultism can…

The Kogi Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Wemi Jones, has urged all heads of institutions in the state to intensify action in eradicating cultism in schools as directed by His Excellency, Gov. Yahaya Bello. The commissioner gave the charge at the maiden meeting he held with all the relevant stakeholders in education on…

Kogi state House of Assembly has appealed to the state government to rehabilitate streetlights in lokoja metropolis. The appeal followed a motion of urgent public importance sponsored on the floor of the house by the member representing Okehi constituency Murktar Bajeh on the need for the state government to rehabilitate the Streetlights in the state…

  A Frontline chairmanship aspirant for Ajaokuta Local government council, Salami Abdulraheem Prince, has promised to prioritize education of children and young ones if election as chairman of the council. The chairmanship aspirant who disclosed this while declaring his intention to run for the number one position in the council, in Adogo recently, stressed that…

  As the next Local Government election draws closer, the Administrator of Okene Local Government, Engr. Abdulrazaq Muhammad on Friday received yet another massive supports as Ebira Market Women Association endorsed the Council Administrator as the next Executive Chairman of Okene Local Government. The market women who turned up in their numbers arrived the Council…