By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Maigari of Lokoja, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Kabir Maikarfi IV, has appealed to the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) to provide ferry services for the fidau prayer of the late Etsu Bassa-Nge, HRH Abu Ali, scheduled to begin on Monday. In a statement personally signed and made available to newsmen…
By Lami Ibrahim The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo has been asked not to allow some few persons, who think they are in power, brazenly using their offices arbitrarily, to discredit his administration. In a statement issued by Dr. MacPherson Ojodale Samson, PhD, on behalf of Concerned Ibaji Elites, expressed dissatisfaction with the…
By Lami Ibrahim Armed bandits have claimed responsibility for the recent abductions in Kebbi and Niger States, vowing to launch further attacks targeting military personnel and political figures if government forces attempt to confront them. In a video circulated on Monday, the armed group said it carried out the abduction of students in the two…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A political advocacy group, APC Youth Vanguard, in Kogi State has condemned what it described as a rushed and suspicious process by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to screen new aspirants for chairmanship and councillorship positions across the 21 Local Government Areas, despite the fact that serving council officials still…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Lokoja, the headquarters of the Lokoja Kingdom, was agog with pageantry today for the celebration of this year’s edition of Lokoja Day and turbaning of six eminent persons from the kingdom by the Maigari, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Kabir Maikafi. The ceremony attracted the cream of the society with the Deputy…
By Lami Ibrahim There was pandemonium at the E-Arrival Finger of the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, as fire broke out at the terminal. The fire outbreak, National Watch Tv gathered, led to power outage at the airport. According to eyewitness, the incident caused panic among workers and passengers at the airport as travelers…
By Lami Ibrahim A Niger Delta organisation known as South South Initiative has urged President Bola Tinubu to resist pressure to revoke oil pipeline security contract handled by Tantita Security Services, Maton Engineering Services and other indigenous surveillance organisations across the Niger Delta. Its President, Emmanuel Iriogbe, who addressed journalists, Thursday in Abuja, recalled that…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Chairmanship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Lokoja LGA, Comr. Abdullahi Adamu has expressed optimism of a clean sweep in the Saturday’s Local Government Election. Comr. Abdullahi made the disclosure shortly after casting his votes at his country home in Gbaude village, on Saturday Comr. Abdullahi said…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A Lokoja based Islamic school, Isa Kutepa Islamic Memorial School has graduated 10 Qur’anic reciters. Speaking at the occasion held at the school conference hall in Lokoja on Sunday, the principal of the school and the Chief Imam of Kutepa Central Mosque, Sheikh Mohammed Yahya said the school is a…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to Kogi State Governor on Women and Youths Mobilization, Hon Abdurahman Hussain Gentle, on Thursday gave over 3 million naira worth of Ramadan Packages and cash grant to 300 less privileged women, men youth and the vulnerable people in Lokoja local government area. Speaking during…
