By Tanko Taidi The Police have killed one and arrested suspected kidnappers of Ekiti pupils and teachers. Ekiti Police Commissioner Akinwale Adeniran spoke on Friday while parading suspects. According to a statement by Ekiti Police spokesman DSP Abutu Sunday, the breakthrough was made possible through the dogged effort of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) led by their…
By Lami Ibrahim Vice President Kashim Shettima caused a mild drama on Thursday after he requested Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State to greet the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike. Shettima made the request during a meeting between state governors and President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Some…
By Lami Ibrahim The most wanted suspected kidnapper in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dahiru Adamu, has been arrested. The development comes barely three days after the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, placed a N20 million bounty on him and one Abu Ibrahim. The two terrorists are said to be causing mayhem in the nation’s capital,…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Umar Aliyu as well as house of representatives member representing Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency, Hon. Sulaiman Danladi Aguye, were among the leaders who stormed Gegu-Beki in Kogi LGA of Kogi State for the…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Special Adviser on Media to the Kogi State Governor, Hon. Ismail Isah has assured that the current administration in the State will forge a robust partnership with local media practitioners. Isah stated this in Lokoja when he met members of the Federated Chapel of the NUJ on Wednesday. He…
By Musa Usman Many shops were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night following an explosion on Olusesi Street in the Ifako-Ishaga area of Lagos. No casualty was recorded at the time of filing this report as operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service have responded to the fire outbreak. According to a witness,…
… Gives govt two-week ultimatum By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Kogi State Chapter of the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN), has lamented the incessant increase in prices of flour and other baking materials. The group also frowned at the high tariff regime allegedly imposed by the National Agency for Food…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Rice sellers in Kpata market, Lokoja, have made passionate appeal to the Kogi State government to set-up a Taskforce that will stop mass purchase of rice by marchants to other states. According to them, the mass purchase of rice by these Marchants allegedly coming from Kano state are reasons for…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The fidau (three-day) prayer for late Lokoja LG Education Secretary, Abdulmalik Ndagi Kassim, who died on February 8, aged 52, was held on Sunday at his Lokongoma residence in Lokoja, Kogi State. The Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Engr Muhammed Danladi Yahaya, Kogi State Secretary, Council of Ulama’u, Alhaji…
By Lami Ibrahim A market woman in Ogun State, (names withheld) has lamented over the spiking rise in the prices of food items in the country. The market woman said the Federal government should please have mercy on the masses as the suffering is now unbearable. She said; “If they do not protest, we the…
