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  In a bid to avert future attack, a community policing organization, Kogi East Neighborhood Watch (KENW); has called for the creation of separate Command of Kogi State Vigilante Service in Oganenigu under Dekina Local Government Area of the State. Director, Public Communication, KENW, Wing Commander Iye Ayefu Aku rtd, made the call in a…

  A 32-year-old woman, Mariam Yusuf, has been arrested by the Kwara state Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSDCD) for stealing some baskets of tomatoes and pepper at the Kulende market, Ilorin, the state capital. The suspect, according to the spokesman of the NSCDC Command, DSC Ayeni Olasunkanmi, was arrested on…

      The Kogi state Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressive Congress APC in the state have been enjoyed to sustain its posture of equity and fairness in the equatable distribution of political office in the state by ensuring that the forthcoming Governorship seat is ceded to the western Senatorial District of the…

  The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) has condemned the attack in Oganenigu communities under Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. Recall that, Edede, Ojapata, Ojuwo-Ile and Aloko, all in Oganenigu communities was on Saturday invaded by men suspected to be herdsmen killing scores of innocent people and setting houses in the community ablaze with…

  A new Registrar, Mr. Adewole Ayobami, has been appointed for the College of Education (Technical), Lafiagi in Edu local government area of Kwara state. A statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Mansurat Amuda-kannike, said the announcement was made by the institution’s Governing Council following the approval of the state government after…

The leadership of Ogori Descendants’ Union (ODU) has aligned itself with the position of its sister body, Magongo Development Association (MDA), reaffirming that Hon. Moses Oke Akande, , our representative in the State House of Assembly is a gentleman. In a statement signed by the ODU, Engr Gbemi Omole, the union said to the best…

  Dr Ekundayo Samuel, a lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Ibadan, has been elected as President of the Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association, Nigeria (COSFAN). Dr. Samuel was previously the association’s Secretary-General. Our Correspondent reports that Dr Samuel and other new Executive Committee of the Association were inaugurated…

  In very recent years, Nigerians have become more agitated and much concerned with the many complexities associated with governance. Today, leadership roles are increasingly in the public domain and since important questions concerning its role and performance in Nigeria have been raised, the general public and the entire academic community have shown an intense…

  Property worth over N38m has been lost to an inferno that gutted a paint shop located around Balogun Afin, at Ita-Kure area of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday. The inferno also razed two residents buildings and five other shops beside the paint shop, destroying the property inside completely. A statement by the…

  The Spiritual Father and Chairman Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide, His Grace Prophet Samuel Adefila Abidoye, has urged Christians in the country to emulate Jesus Christ’s virtues of love and sacrifice towards enhancing peaceful coexistence and nation building. Prophet Abidoye, in his Easter message to Christians, described Easter as a watershed occasion to…