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...
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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,...
The Kogi Government has described Thursday’s Okene bomb explosion as the handiwork of enemies of progress. Retired Commodore Jerry Omodara, Security Adviser to Kogi Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, made the statement in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Thursday. The explosion, which...
The following are photos of President Muhammadu Buhari while in Kogi to inaugurates Gov. Bello’s Legacy projects on Thursday. L-R: Nigeria’s President Buhari and Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, at the inauguration of Reference Hospital Okene on Thursday.
The Kogi State Government has declared war against quackery in its health sector following its devastating effects on lives of innocent residents of the state. Dr Zakari Usman, Kogi Commissioner of Health, made the declaration during a stakeholders’ meeting of private medical practices held in the ministry, Lokoja, Kogi....
The Kogi Government has urged residents of the state to vote massively for candidates of All Progressives Congress (APC) at all levels for victory in the 2023 general elections. Mr Ozigi Salami-Deedat, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, made the call while addressing party supporters during the unveiling...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, restrained the Kogi State Government from shutting down Dangote Cement PLC in Obajana area of the state. The court also stopped the state government from disrupting or suspending the activities of Dangote Coal Mines Ltd and Dangote Industries Ltd in Okaba, Ankpa...
The National Security Council says it ordered the reopening of the Obajana Cement Company for the sake of peace and Nigeria’s economic prosperity. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the cement company was initially closed down following disagreements between the Kogi government and management of the company,...