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...
A mother, her three children and two neighbours, reportedly died in Ogaminana, Okene, in the the Adavi Local Government Área of Kogi State after eating a...
Policemen from Force Headquarters have smashed a notorious robbery and kidnapping gang responsible for several kidnappings and robbery attacks on citizens of Kogi State as well...
Daniel Makolo, a lawyer, on Thursday sued President Muhammadu Buhari for not appointing anybody from Kogi State in his cabinet. In his suit, FHC\L\CS\44\2016 at...
A catastrophic scene played out on the Kaduna-Abuja Road when an 18-seater bus plunged into River Rijana with all but one of the passengers in the...
President Muhammadu Buhari played host to a number of visitors today at the State House Villa, Abuja. Among them was Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State;...
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has resolved to probe contractors in the state who failed to carry out or complete the execution of their contract...
Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has lamented that the state is in a mess, and has been held down by some individuals over the years....
James Faleke has again failed to unseat Governor Yahaya Bello at the Appeal Court, having earlier failed to do so at the Kogi state Governorship Election...
The Department of State Services, DSS, has arrested 10 kidnappers who were dressed in military uniform in Kogi State. The kidnappers were said to be part...
The Kogi State government lost a whooping N213,034,857,280bn to ghost workers in 16 years, the state Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala, has revealed. Okala stated this...
The rivalry between the camps of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and the Deputy Governorship candidtate to Alhaji Audu Abubakar, has again been rekindled, as...
Worried by the increasing wave of criminal activities in Kogi State, especially Kidnapping and armed robbery, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, Tuesday, said...
Tragedy struck again in Kogi State, as unknown gunmen kidnapped a judge of the state Customary Court of Appeal, Mr. Isaq Momoh Usman, killing his police...