623,690 residents displaced by Kogi flooding
October 9, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin 10 Comments | credits: The Kogi State Emergency Management Agency said the number of displaced persons in the state had risen to 623,690. According to a...
View ArticleWe’re dying, flood victims cry in Kogi
As sharp practices rock relief camps From EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, Lokoja Government officials and greedy individuals may have taken advantage of the flood disaster on Kogi State to enrich themselves, Daily...
View ArticleEx-gov Audu to be declared wanted by EFCC
DECEMBER 12, 2012 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR, ABUJA 10 COMMENTS The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday said it had concluded arrangements to declare Kogi State ex-governor, Alhaji Abubakar...
View ArticleWanted Ex-Governor Audu Arrives US Multi- Million dollars Potomac Home
Ex-governor of Kogi state Abubakar Audu, who is wanted in Nigeria by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over N4 billion frauds has arrived his rich neighborhood home in Potomac in the...
View ArticleKogi Governor Injured in Deadly Road Accident
Posted: December 28, 2012 – 15:27 By PREMIUM TIMES Report reaching PREMIUM TIMES indicates that the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, was badly hurt in a fatal road accident on Friday and is in the...
View ArticlePicture: Wada returns to Abuja for post-surgery check-up, thanks Jonathan,...
From JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada, three days after he was discharged from the Cedar Crest Hospital, Abuja, where he was receiving treatment following a fatal...
View ArticleGov. Idris Wada, His Leg, and Our Legs – By Prince Charles Dickson
By Prince Charles Dickson / NNP / Jan. 5, 2012 - The antics of the monkey will eventually be his undoing when he jumps from one tree to another playfully until he falls to his death. Just looking at...
View ArticleKorea donates $200,000 rice mills to flood victims
To build capacity in disaster management The Republic of Korea has donated 20 rice mills worth $200,000 to three flood affected states-Benue,Kogi and Bayelsa- to cushion the effect of the disaster. Ten...
View ArticleFacebook friends kidnap Kogi varsity student
By Sam Eyoboka with Agency report After Pope Benedict XVI retires, he will get a 2,500-euro pension, a home in the Vatican, and other amenities. How does his retirement package compare with others?...
View Article8 killed on Okene-Lokoja Highway
Lokoja – Eight persons, including a child died instantly in an accident which occurred on the Okene-Lokoja highway on Thursday. The victims were among some some 22 passengers travelling in two...
View ArticleGovs move to resolve Anambra, Kogi boundary crisis
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and his Anambra State counterpart, Peter Obi, have promised to collaborate to restore peace in the boundary communities of Odeke and Aguleri. The people of Odeke in...
View ArticlePolice kill 2 bank robbers, arrest 2 others in Kogi
FROM EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, lokoja Two armed robbers who carried out violent attacks on two commercial banks in Kabba, Kogi State on Friday have paid with their lives as they were shot dead by a crack team...
View ArticleExcitement as Salem University holds inaugural convocation
…Graduands share their life-changing experiences By COSMAS OMEGOHIt was a bright, beautiful day as the mid-morning sun stepped up its shine. The venue was the convocation ground of Salem University,...
View ArticleKogi gov’s convoy caused Iyayi’s death –FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Corps has stated that the holes found on the chest of the late former President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof. Festus Iyayi, were caused by body parts of...
View ArticleHeartless robbers …Snatch man’s car, throw away 3-month baby, rape wife to...
By FROM EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, LOKOJA on August 17, 2014 · COVER Tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing mother whose three-month old baby was thrown into the bush...
View ArticleKogi teacher couldn’t raise N3,000 medical bill, dies (Shame on the governor...
The Kogi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Mallam Suleiman Abdullahi, on Sunday said a teacher recently died in the state because of his inability to raise N3,000 required for...
View ArticleAmerican missionary woman abducted in Kogi State
An American woman doing missionary work at a school in Kogi State was abducted by masked gunman, police say. Kogi State police spokesman Sola Collins Adebayo told reporters that unknown gunmen first...
View ArticleJonathan vs Buhari: How they stand in 36 States, FCT
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Lokoja: Tourist Attraction or Filthy Hub?
1 Uncollected refuse at sections of Lokoja PHOTO; JOHN AKUBO HEAPS of refuse are threatening the tourism potentials of Lokoja, theKogi State capital. The eyesore grows daily at strategic points, an...
View ArticleKogi Guber election: On the Planned Defection of Yahaya Bello – By Shaibu...
By Shaibu Stephen Ojate | Abuja, Nigeria | Sept. 26, 2015 - The just concluded All Progressive Congress’s primary election that seen to the nomination of Prince Abubakar, the former Governor of Kogi...
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