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  The Confluence Doctors Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Lokoja, has empowered vulnerable widows with cash award and offered scholarship to pupils in schools in Kogi. The organisation is the cooperative arm of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Lokoja. Addressing newsmen at the event on…

  . ‘Attempt to harass INEC, security agencies’ll be resisted’ Youth groups in Kogi State across major political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, have called on the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to ignore what the described as the anti-democratic tendencies of the Social Democratic Party and its Governorship candidate, Muritala Yakubu,…

  Kogi state commissioner for Education science and technology, Wemi Jones reiterated that the money released by Governor Yahaya Bello for the payment of 2023 WAEC fees for students in public secondary schools across the state will be judiciously deployed for the purpose intended. The Commissioner stated this when he appeared before the Kogi state…

  A law to provide for the legal and institution framework for participation of Kogi state in the power sector in the Areas of Electricity Generation, Transmission, System Operation, Distribution, Supply, Enforcement of Consumer’s Right and Obligation and Inauguration of Renewable Energy to Kogi state Energy mix and for the attraction of investment has passed…

  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…

  The Gamji Members Association (GAMA) in Kwara State has rejoiced with one of its members, Dr. Mohammed Ghali Alaaya, on his appointment as a non-executive director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. GAMA, an association committed to the ideals of the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu…

Short Biographical Profile on Emeritus Professor Olugbemiro Jegede Emeritus Professor Olugbemiro Jegede is the immediate past Secretary to the Government of Kogi State of Nigeria, a past Secretary-General and Chief Executive of the Association of African Universities (AAU) and at the invitation of Federal Government of Nigeria, was the National Co-ordinator of National Open and…

  The trial of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele began at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja on Tuesday with three witnesses exonerating him of wrong doings in the Award of N1.2bn vehicle supply contracts by CBN under him. Emefiele was put on…