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  The elderly persons have become the soft targets for kidnapping, a former spokesman of Kwara State Police Command, Ajayi Okasanmi, has said. This is even as Okasanmi described Kwara as one of the safest states in the country. The former police image maker stated this on Wednesday during the monthly meeting of the National…

  A Non-Governmental Organization Young Women in Politics Forum, (YWPF) has called for the full implementation of the Violence Against Person Prohibition, (VAPP) law in Kogi State to put an end to all forms of Gender Based Violence in the State. The Kogi State Coordinator, Young Women in Politics Forum, Barr. Joy Akinola made the…

  In a bid to improve on the standard of secondary school education in kogi state, Governor Yahaya Bello has forwarded a bill for the establishment of Kogi state Senior Secondary Education Board to the state house of assembly. Reading the forwarded bill during plenary on the floor of assembly in Lokoja, the Speaker Aliu…

  The entire community of the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTECH), Osara has received on campus the newly appointed Vice Chancellor, Engr. Prof. Salawu Abdulrahman Asipita. Receiving the new Vice Chancellor in his office were members of the Management Team comprising the Registrar, Ms. Olufunke Hudson, the Bursar, Mr. John Alaji and the…

  Some eminent personalities, including priests, foundation and current members of the Bishop Smith Memorial Anglican Church, Gaa-Akanbi, Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, will be conferred with Awards for their contributions to the spiritual and physical development of the Church in the past 40 years on December 16, 2023. This was disclosed in a statement…

  Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has approved the implementation of a 100% Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for Nurses in the state. Additionally, the governor approved the recruitment of more nurses to fill the vacuum created by the brain drain in the country and to improve the quality and standard of nursing care in…

  A political cum economic pressure group under the auspices of Project Kogi Development, (PKD) has called for the immediate sack of the tribunal secretary for the November 11 Kogi State Governorship election David Umar Mike. The group who noted that, the embattled tribunal Secretary has been heavily compromised in his duty disclosed that, his…

  The Kogi State Government on Thursday begin the process to domesticate the National Gender Policy and its framework. It was gathered that, the National Gender Policy provides guidelines for mainstreaming gender in various sectors of the economy with the overall goal of reducing gender inequalities and enhancing participation of women, men, girls and boys…

  The National Judicial Council NJC has recommended compulsory retirement of a High Court Judge in Osun State, S.O Falola as it sets up panels to investigate 51 petitions against others over various acts of misconduct in the discharge of their judicial duties. The Osun High Court Judge was recommended to Governor Ademola Adeleke for…

An 18-year-old girl, her boyfriend, and three others have been rounded up by the Bauchi State Police Command for armed robbery, criminal conspiracy, receiving stolen property, and causing grievous hurt. Spokesperson of the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, said the five suspected miscreants had…