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2021 World Widows Day; Kogi Governor’s Aide Calls for Sustained Support For Widows* As the World celebrate the 2021 International Widows Day, the Senior Special Assistant to Kogi State Governor on Women and Children Development, Hon. Omotayo Adeleye Ishaya was called for more support for widows across the world. Hon Omotayo made the call in…
KOGI WINS SECOND POSITION AS WORLD BANK- CSDP CLOSE OUT IN 29 STATES AND FCT. The Community and Social Development Project CSDP has officially been concluded with over 11 million direct beneficiaries across the 29 states and FCT and with an estimated 25 million indirect beneficiaries. The eleven year old programme was launched in 2009…
Police of the Edo State Command have begun an investigation into the alleged murder of a 79-year-old man, Osariakhi Oronsaye, by his 13-year-old son, Abubakar. Abubakar reportedly hacked his septuagenarian father to death with an axe while he was asleep on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20, at Egbon Estate in Evbuotubu, Benin, Edo State. Confirming the incident,…
FG in trouble, Gets Court order to pay Rivers, Akwa Ibom $3.3bn oil revenue A Federal High Court sitting Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay a whopping sum of over $3billion to Rivers and Akea Ibom States, as their outstanding revenue share from crude oil sales. The amount ordered to be…
Court Strikes Out Suits Challenging Oshiomhole-Led APC’s NWC Dissolution… Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday struck out two separate suits challenging the dissolution of the Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress. APC. The first suit was filed by a former South South National Vice Chairman of…
Court jails Farouk Lawan 19 years over oil subsidy Justice Angela Otaluka of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), sitting at Apo, Abuja, yesterday found a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, guilty of demanding bribe of $3million and receiving $500,000 from an oil magnate Femi Otedola The judge…
We’re not part of Blackmail on Gov. Bello , Coalition of Political Parties Says The Coalition of Political Parties for GYB /CEDO has disassociated its self from the CNPP’S write up condemning the character and personality of Kogi State governor Alhaji yahaya Bello. The group also cautioned CNPP to desist from unnecessary blackmail aimed at…
Okene Council Chairman Call On FG To Intervene On Okene-Auchi Road The Chairman of Okene Local Government, Engr. Abdulrazaq Muhammad has appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria to immediately intervene in the absymal state of Okene-Auchi road that has caused hardship to motorist due to long hour traffic-jam and avoidable accidents resulting in loss…
Ekinrin Adde Day 2021: Olaiya Michael Olobatoke OMO steals show as his arrival siezes the arena ***Emerges as the “Otunba Atunluse of Ekinrin-Adde”. A frontline Federal House of Representatives aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Chief Olaiya Michael Olobatoke shook Ekinrin Adde on Saturday as unprecedented mammoth crowds welcome him to the arena of…
MINISTRY OF FINANCE, BUDGET AND ECONOMIC PLANNING: Kogi State Operation Coordinating Unit (SOCU-NASSSCO) We heartly congratulate the “Driver of Modern” Kogi state, His Excellency Alhaji Yahaya Bello on his 46th birthday. We in SOCU (defunct) are proud of your passion and care for the poor and vulnerable in the land. May God Almighty continue to…
