By Joseph Edgar… Democracy is all about the people, popular will and there is really nothing the powers that be can do about it. The People...
There was low turn-out of registered voters who turned out for the verification process for recall of Senator Dino Melaye. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)...
Dino Melaye, the lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District, has responded to reports that he has fled Nigeria over his running battle with authorities in the...
Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has said that he is ready to submit himself for investigation, but not to Kogi State police command. The embattled...
Senator Dino Melaye has described the allegation that he was arming armed gangs and hooligans in Kogi as fabricated lies by the state government and the...
The police have paraded two men they said were members of an armed gang perpetrating violence in Kogi State. The police said the suspects had confessed...
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has announced his decision to head to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court upholding the...
The Senate, on Wednesday, instructed its committee on National Security and Intelligence; Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, to summon the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mr....
The Nigeria Customs Service said it has identified the importer of military wares which allegedly belong to the government of Kogi State. The customs also said...
There was confusion in Kogi State on Sunday as Governor Yahaya Bello ordered the dissolution of his cabinet but quickly reversed the order just before the...
The lingering fight between some senators and their state governors, on Wednesday, took the centre stage on the floor of the Senate. Lawmakers who took their...
The Okene country home of the senator representing Kogi Central, Ahmed Ogembe, has been attacked by hoodlums. Also, the house belonging to a former member of...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that it was not backing down on its intention to prosecute Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over...
The House of Representatives has said that it will on Thursday, resume its sectoral debates, with special focus on the steel sector, and how to revive...
By Akin Obakeye When Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF) came to Nigeria in 2016, she urged Nigerians to brace up for harder times,...
VITALCARE Hospital became a shadow of itself in three days. The health centre which was arguably one of the thriving private hospitals serving people in the...
No state in the southern Nigeria has volunteered to provide land to the Federal Government to set up cattle colonies in order to address the incessant...
The House of Representatives has yet to investigate the N100bn disbursed to some states by the Central Bank of Nigeria to build cattle ranches, one year...
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello Friday disclosed that his administration would henceforth base salaries of workers on the number of times they were present at work,...
Two police officers were said to have been killed while trying to prevent the abduction of an expatriate at a construction site in Obajana, Kogi State....
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, Monday claimed that there was no real strike action embarked upon by civil servants in the state over salary arrears, claiming...
As Nigeria celebrates its 57th Independence Anniversary, Nigerian youths undertaking the National Youth Corps Scheme in Taraba State have made a call on Nigerians to remain...
Embattled Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has deserted his office, located on the second floor of the new Senate Wing. Melaye’s refusal to...
Senator Dino Melaye has stated that a fatal blow had been dealt the process to recall him by members of his Kogi West Senatorial District owing...
Economic activities in Kogi State were on Friday crippled, following the industrial action declared by the organised labour union which was fully adhered to by the...
In bid to reconcile the warring factions of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and Senator Dino Melaye, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...
By Pius Adesanmi… The scenarios 1) A public health disaster in Kogi state this past week claimed scores of lives. My own Yagba land was seriously...
Following the crisis that has rocked the Kogi State House of Assembly, the Speaker, Umar Imam, is said to have resigned and replaced by the erstwhile...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has joined the fray in the continuing drama over the recall of Dino Melaye, by dragging the Independent National Electoral Commission...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to swear in two ministers-designate within the next one week. Their call follows the...
The Senate, on Tuesday, came hard on the Government of Kogi State, over a three-page advertorial it placed in some national dailies, wherein it claimed that...
Senator Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West Senatorial district at the Senate has been described by his state governor, Yahaya Bello, as a mere social deviant...
Barely four hours after he reportedly escaped an assassination attempt, Senator Dino Melaye who represents Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate, has called on President...
The worsening face-off between Senator Dino Melaye and Kogi State’s Governor Yahaya Bello, may have taken a dangerous turn as five people were reportedly shot dead...
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello’s name has disappeared from the voters register after being accused of double registration. Bello’s name has been delisted, but the Independent...
Senator Dino Melaye has dragged his state Governor Yahaya Bello to court for failing to conduct local government election in the state. In a suit he...
Senator Dino Melaye has continued his attack on Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and said that the governor has been politically castrated. He also said that...
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it was not going to take any action against Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for registering twice for...
Sources within the Dangote Cement Factory in Obajana, Kogi State have said that the company’s management, in an internal memo, has carried out a safety review....
Kogi State government has denied allegation that it is yet to pay workers’ salaries of some months and claimed that, instead it has paid up to...
Senator Dino Melaye says he is suspicious over the silence of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello over the assassination attempt on him (Melaye). The lawmaker said...
BY OCHO BABA… It is no longer news that Comrade Usman Okai Austin who earned for himself the title CFR (Certified Feather Ruffler) was on Sunday...
Nigeria produced about 43.5 million tonnes of solid minerals in 2016, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its report on the performance of...
Mr President Sir, SAVE OUR SOUL; A CRY OF AGONY FROM THE ARMY OF VICTIMS OF MALADMINISTRATION IN KOGI STATE Greetings and best wishes from the...
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has said that governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states will hold before ending of 2019. Yakubu...
To curtail miscreant and terrorists activities in Kogi State, Governor Yahaya Bello, on Wednesday pulled down buildings suspected to be dens of kidnappers, Boko Haram and...
Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson has been appointed as a Senior Special Assistant by the Government of Kogi State. The curvy thespian was among 54 Senior Special...
Obajana, a once sleepy town in Kogi state, is home to Africa’s largest cement company, Dangote Cement. Buried in its rusty underbelly are some of the...
A clampdown on all stray animals on the streets of Kogi State has started yielding results, so says the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Mrs...
A police sergeant attached to the Elere Police Division of the Nigerian Police Force lost his life when he according to reports embarked on a fake...
