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Dr Omakoji Simeon Oyiguh: Fighting insecurity in Kogi State with bare hands

By The Insight Team September 7, 2026 259 0

By Theophilus Abbah Angels had snatched my mother from the gate of death. We had to ferry her to the foremost tertiary hospital that shone as the glory of our State- Kogi State Specialist Hospital, Lokoja. That was in December 2025, when the unfriendly humidity from the mountains encircling the capital city was fierce and […]Continue Reading

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Nigerian Army, Police Rescue 21 Kidnap Victims from Forests in Kogi

By The Insight Team September 3, 2026 76 0

By Emmanuel Kwada Troops of the 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, working in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Services (DSS), local hunters and vigilante groups, have rescued 21 victims abducted along a major road corridor in Kogi State. The victims were rescued on August 31, 2026, following a coordinated security operation in […]Continue Reading

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Kogi East Group Endorses Tinubu, Ododo for 2027, Pushes for Peaceful Power Rotation

By The Insight Team August 7, 2026 186 0

By Emmanuel Kwada Political leaders, community stakeholders, and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Kogi East Senatorial District have declared their support for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo in the 2027 general elections, while calling for a negotiated and peaceful framework for power rotation Continue Reading

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Kogi East Elders Congratulate New Army Chief

By The Insight Team October 30, 2025 491

By The Insight The Kogi East Elders Council (KEEC) has congratulated the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Waidi Shaibu. In a press release signed by the Council’s Chairman, Professor Godwin Ogbadu, and Secretary-General, Chief Dr Rakiya Momoh-Abaji, the KEEC expressed the confidence that the new COAS would rise to the challenge of his […]Continue Reading

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Joseph Ejima Ataguba (MON) Bows Out At 91

By The Insight Team July 28, 2025 2363

The Insight The death has occurred of Mr Joseph Ejima Ataguba MON, a renowned and a most distinguished permanent secretary from the era of military governments of the 1970s in the then Kwara and Benue States. In a statement issued in Anyigba, Kogi State by Mr Emmanuel Ataguba on behalf of the family of the […]Continue Reading

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Kogi State: How did ‘benevolent Governor Ododo’ spend N100bn in one year?

By The Insight Team February 7, 2025 1686 0

Kogi may have earned over N200bn in one year if FAAC allocations to LGs and IGR are added to allocations to FAAC disbursement to the state government The most visible projects are two major roads, totalling 15 kilometres ‘He has reduced tension through prompt payment of salaries’ Ex-Governor Yahaya Bello’s ‘divide and rule’ tactics are Continue Reading

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INEC Announces Fresh Elections In 59 Kogi Polling Units On Nov 18

By The Insight Team November 12, 2023 773

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

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Kogi East Elders decry state sponsored insecurity in Kogi State

By The Insight Team July 11, 2023 959

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

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2023 Governorship: Tinubu, APC, police fold arms while Kogi burns

By The Insight Team June 23, 2023 917

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

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Kogi Governorship: Igala nation petitions Tinubu, security agencies over ‘political terrorism’

By The Insight Team June 12, 2023 697 0

  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

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No help is near as Fulani bandits massacre over 134 in Benue, Kogi communities during Easter

By The Insight Team April 10, 2023 1111 0

…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

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Kogi sensitises residents, fuel stations on old naira notes acceptance

By The Insight Team March 14, 2023 742 0

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