By Emmanuel Kwada The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that fresh elections will be conducted in 59 polling units in Kogi state. This development means that the winner of the governorship poll held on November 11, 2023, will not be announced until after the fresh elections are conducted in the affected areas. INEC […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji Kogi State would hold its governorship election in November 2023, all things being equal. As the day draws closer, series of state sponsored killings and destruction of properties perceived to belong to opposing voices have been witnessed in the state. The Kogi East Elders’ Council (KEEC) met in Abuja on Tuesday 11 […]Continue Reading
Key Points: With killings and attacks on properties, governorship election in Kogi has turned to war The three main ethnic groups are pursuing ‘ethnic agenda’ Groups have written to President Tinubu to call Governor Yahaya Bello to order ‘Elders from Kogi East, Kogi Central, and Kogi West must meet urgently to halt the dangerous dimension […]Continue Reading
Following repeated violence against political actors and the media in Kogi State in the march to the 2023 governorship election, Ukomu Igala Organization, a socio-political group in Kogi East Senatorial District, has written a petition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Governor Yahaya Bello to order and halt alleged acts of state-sponsored violence […]Continue Reading
…Herdsmen destroy Oganenigu in Kogi State, four years after similar mayhem Daniel Adaji Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom is counting his last days out of Government House, Makurdi, not without floods of tears over yet another massacre of 134 persons in Oturkpo, Apa, and Guma Local Government Areas of the State. The latest deaths, blamed […]Continue Reading
The officials of Kogi Government and Stakeholders in the financial sectors, have sensitised Kogi residents on the need to accept the old naira notes in line with the Supreme Court judgment. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Supreme Court on March 3, ruled that the new and old naira notes should co-exist […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji The story of Akaiba Ojochenemi who was killed for allegedly snatching ballot boxes at a polling unit in Dekina area of Kogi State has gone viral on the social media and other media platforms. The incidence which took place on 25 February 2023 has received cold reactions from the appropriate quarters. The […]Continue Reading
By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Just three months after the third anniversary of the gruesome murder, the sacrifice, the burning alive of Mrs Salome Abu in Ochadamu, her ancestral home, in Kogi State, on the altar of politics to lubricate the undeserved victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November, 2019 Kogi governorship […]Continue Reading
By Daniel Adaji The apex socio-cultural organization in Kogi East Senatorial District, Uk’Omu Igala Organization, has set up a 13-man committee made up of eminent Igala and Bassa sons and daughters, to interact with candidates from the zone in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The committee, chaired by a former Minister of State for […]Continue Reading
Theophilus Abbah At 2 AM on March 28th 2022 Olanrewaju Suraju, the head of the Human and Environmental Development Agency (HEDA), was asleep beside his wife in their bedroom in Abuja when they suddenly found themselves under attack by men who had broken into the house. The men, who made off with laptops, mobile phones, […]Continue Reading
No help has come from any quarters, victims lament By Daniel Adaji Over 170,000 persons living in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State have been displaced by the devastating floods in the agrarian community in the last two weeks, according to eye-witnesses. I lost my step-mother today due to continuous and excess of flooding […]Continue Reading
…says move will discourage new investments, potential investors By Daniel Adaji The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has strongly condemned the invasion of Dangote Cement Plant on Wednesday by the state’s security outfit, the Vigilantes, on the order of the State Governor Yahaya Bello, noting that such action will discourage new investments in the State. […]Continue Reading