News Update
The Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) has fixed December 15, 2023, for hearing of the application filed by the Estate of Late Ambassador Abubakar Garba Gobir against the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for disobedience to a court order. It would be Having failed that the Tribunal had in its…
By Muhammad Mukhtar Idris In what seems like a continuing culture of affinity for heights, the Executive Chairman of Kogi State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS), Alhaji Salihu Sule Enehe, has added another feather to his existing ones, as he just graduated from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Nigeria….
Minister of State for Youth Development, Mr Ayodele Olawande, has said it was high time for redesigning of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to fulfil the purpose of its creation. Olawande said this on Tuesday after paying an unscheduled inspection visit to the facilities at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp in Yipata in…
The former speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly Prince Matthew Kolawole has called on government and spirited individual to invest in sports in order to support talents in lawn tennis and other games. Kolawole made the call during the first edition of late Pastor Esther Kolawole sport championship organized by Lokoja club 1901 sponsored…
Adavi United 4Ododo a foremost grassroots support group that campaigned for the election of Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo as the Kogi State Governor-elect has expressed appreciation to stakeholders in Adavi Local Government area for their support for the victory of the APC Governorship candidate in the November 11 election. The group made this known…
The immediate past spokesman of Kwara State Police Command, SP Okasanmi Ajayi, will on Wednesday deliver a lecture on security at the monthly meeting of the National League of Veteran Journalists (NALVEJ), Kwara State chapter. The lecture will take place at the press centre of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),Offa road, GRA, Ilorin…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been dragged before the Supreme for allegedly unlawfully presenting himself for inauguration as President inspite of a pending legal action against the conduct of the 2023 presidential poll. Citing the doctrine of Lis Pendens, a presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, Chief Albert Ambrose Owuru is asking the Apex…
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…
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…
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…
