APPEAL FOR AFFIRMATIVE CANDIDACY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN KOGI STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS By Hon Ahmed Abdulkareem Onimisi To: His Excellency, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo, Executive Governor of Kogi State, and Honorable Abdullahi Bello, State APC Party Chairman We humbly appeal to your esteemed offices to consider implementing affirmative candidacy measures for persons with…

  Professor David Kolawole Omole the Dean faculty of science federal university Lokoja has emphasized the need for a national policy that will strengthen the post UME screening exercise in all Universities across the country. Professor Omole stated this while speaking as the 20th guest Inaugural lecturer at the Adankolo campus of the institution in…

  Today, we celebrate the you with our support and the power of our collective voices. As proactive, dogged, democratic and responsive Chairperson of Ogori-Magongo LG, you are the driving force of Ogori-Magongo progress and the beacons of hope for a brighter future. Let us embrace Hon. Rosemary Ohiezu the anointed, prepared and ready to…

  1. Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC has fixed October 19th, 2024 for kogi State local Government council poll, the recent supreme Court judgement granted the 774 local Government in Nigeria autonomy sets this ball rolling. 2. As we have in kogi state caretaking head at the council, Alhaji Ibrahim Haruna was appointed as…

Onokpasa, Tinubu’s loyalist, decries ‘pull-him-down syndrome’ against Yahaya Bello, El-Rufai, others   A member of All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Jesutega Onokpasa, has again lamented the sharp division, pull-him-down syndrome and bad blood going on within the ruling APC. He warned that it was high time the alleged gang-up against…

  Some students of the University of Ilorin have sustained varying degrees of injury in a lone auto accident along the university road on Thursday afternoon. It was gathered that the accident, which involved a small commercial bus, popularly called “Korope”, was as a result of tyre burst while the bus was on motion. It…

  Kwara State Government on Thursday got an accolade from the Federal Government for being transparent in the handling of public funds and in compliance with the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS). The Accountant General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, gave the commendation in Ilorin at the 44th Retreat of the Federal Account…

  The Hydroelectric Power Producing Development Commission HYPPADEC said it has concluded arrangements to distribute Starter packs to 705 trainees under her Youths Training Programs for the youths in the flood prone local Government Areas in Kogi state. HYPPADEC disclosed this in a stakeholders meeting held on Thursday in Lokoja, Kogi state capital. The stakeholders…

  The suspected killers of the traditional ruler of Koro, a community in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, have been arraigned at the State High Court sitting in Ilorin for the alleged offences of kidnapping and culpable homicide. The suspects, Godwin Jacob, Olofela Oyebanji, Adefolalu Ayodele, Tewasie Francis, Babatunde Samuel, Godwin Joseph, Issa…

  The Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN) has conferred fellowship Award on the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Aliyu Umar Yusuf. The speaker was informed of the development when the State Executive of ANAN was led on a courtesy visit by its Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Tijani Oricha. Reacting to…