By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has sacked the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr David Apeh. Governor Bello also sacked his Special Adviser on Emergency Management, Mr Danladi Isah-Yunusa, and Hajia Maryam Salifu, Part-time Chairman, Kogi State Hotels and Tourism Board. The Secretary to the...
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Kogi Central Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senatorial Candidate in Kogi, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has alleged that the recent attack on Gov. Yahaya Bello’s convoy is politically motivated. “It is a smear campaign against the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Governorship Murtala Yakubu-Ajaka”, she alleged in a statement issued in Lokoja on...
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has received a group of former members of the PDP from Igalamela/Odolu Local Government Area of the state into the ruling APC. The governor received the defectors on Monday at the Government House Lokoja. He expressed appreciation to the defectors for recognising the achievements...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, filed a motion for stay of execution of the ruling by a Federal High Court, Lagos on 14 property and the sum of N400 million allegedly linked to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Justice Nicholas Oweibo had, on April 26,...
Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has won the prestigious Governor of the Year at the 2023 edition of Global Excellence Awards in Nigeria. The Awards was organised by Global Excellence, one of Nigeria’s leading news, entertainment, and lifestyle magazines in Lagos. The committee on the awards, in a statement ...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Government has warned politicians against promoting ethnic sentiments and other divisive tendencies ahead of the November 11 governorship election in the state. The state Commissioner of Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, who gave the warning in a statement in Lokoja on...
The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi, Mr Usman Ododo, on Friday, received President Muhammadu Buhari’s blessings as the party’s flagbearer in the November election. Ododo, while briefing State House Correspondents after he was presented to the President by Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, said...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, (APC, Kogi West), Shuaibu Abubakar and three others have approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding an immediate cancellation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Kogi. The suits are marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/556/2023 and FHC/ABJ/ CS/557/2023 and were filed by Mr Adekunle Otitoju on behalf...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, struck out an interim order of forfeiture, seeking to forfeit properties linked to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. The suit was instituted through an exparte application brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), seeking a temporary order, forfeiting 14...
Two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have pleaded with an Abuja High Court to void the party’s Governorship Primary election which held on April 11. Mr Realwan Akpanachi and Yahaya Seidu-Nuhu, in an originating Summons filed by their Counsel, Mr Promise Ogbodu, sued six of the contestants...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi (APC-Kogi), one of the aspirants for the governorship election in Kogi has faulted the conduct of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in the state. He made this known during a news conference in Abuja on Saturday. Adeyemi, who represents Kogi-West Senatorial District, expressed disappointment...
Alhaji Ahmed Ododo has emerged as the governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kogi. According to Patrick Obahiagha, Secretary of the Kogi APC Primary Election Committee, Ododo scored 78, 704 votes to beat six other contestants. Obahiagha who announced the result of the governorship primary on Friday...
Many persons have been feared killed after gunmen on Sunday invaded communities in Oganenigu Ward of Dekina Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State. Authorities suspect that the assailants were herdsmen. Sources say the invaders stormed the communities shooting sporadically, and burning hundreds of houses in the early morning...
Dr Sanusi Ohiare, Kogi governorship aspirant, on Saturday in Abuja, said the state is ripe for investment, adding that he will make it a logistics and industrial hub of the country if elected as its next governor. He said this while speaking with newsmen after submitting his Expression of...
The Leadership of the APC in Kogi has finally screened Alhaji Murtala Yakubu-Ajaka, a frontline governorship aspirant after his purported suspension by the party on Thursday. Also screened by the party were the State Deputy Governor, Chief Edward Onoja and Sen. Smart Adeyemi, all anxious to lead the people...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has threatened to arrest and prosecute those rejecting the old Naira notes. The governor stated this in a statement issued by Bello’s Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Kingsley Fanwo in Lokoja. It would be recall that the Supreme...
Gov. Yahaya Bello has led the campaign train of Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential, National and State Assemblies to his country home in Agasa-Uruvochinomi, Okene Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Speaking at the campaign on Tuesday, Bello assured of their continued effort to galvanize votes...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi have been exchanging brickbats over pre-election violence. The PDP stated on Friday in Lokoja that the APC was responsible for Thursday’s destruction of its properties and those of its members in Ofu Local Government Area of...
The Former Speaker, Kogi House of Assembly, Alfa Imam, on Thursday led scores of supporters of the ruling APC to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former speaker described their defection as “decisive” and “a step in the right...
The Kogi Government on Thursday commended the Department of State Security (DSS) for arresting masterminds of the Dec. 29, Okene explosion. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, in statement issued in Lokoja, thanked the DSS for unmasking the terrorists suspected to be behind the explosion. Fanwo said,...