By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Action Peoples Party, APP, has won all the 22 local government area Chairmanship seats in Rivers State announced by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, out of the 23 LGAs of the state. APP has been declared winners while collation is still ongoing in Etche Local Government Area….
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Residents along the banks of Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja are apprehensive as the river has overflown its banks. The residents are also disturbed by the recent report of the opening of Lagdo Dam, that is now filled to capacity. Already some buildings and farmlands along the river had been…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab An astute engineer, Engr. Abubakar Katamba Ndarani on Saturday picked up the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to contest the October 19 Lokoja Local Government chairmanship election as he vowed to end the reign of the ruling APC in the area. Ndarani who addressed journalists…
By Muhammad Lawal The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has vowed to end the queues for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, by Wednesday, as the black market for PMS boomed on Sunday. NNPC also declared that it did not owe international oil traders $6.8bn as claimed in some quarters, a development which some industry…
Chief Richard Asaje, an elder statesman from Kogi West, who doubles as the National Coordinator,”Like Minds Alliance Pressure Group”, has congratulated Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo on his one year anniversary as a democratically elected Governor of our dear Kogi State.. In his congratulatory message, he described Governor Ododo as a servant leadership that serves as…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab 53-year-old woman, Easter Williams Ojuekaiye, sister in-law of the Katika of Lokoja, Alhaji Bala Salisu has converted from Christianity to Islam. In an interview at the Chief Imam of Lokoja, Sheikh Aminu Shaban’s Mosque in Hangwar Fawa street, Lokoja, shortly after her conversation to Islam by the Imam of the…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab In an interview with newsmen recently, some Juju Musicians who were kidnapped alone Obajana road in December last year, explained their ordeals in the hands of the kidnapers. According to the victims, 91 million Naira ransom was later paid for their release. Watch Video Below:
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The two major workers’ unions in Nigeria have declared a total indefinite strike from Monday across the country. The unions, NLC and TUC, made the declaration at a press conference in Abuja on Friday. Many other workers’ unions such as those of doctors, university lecturers, airport workers and electricity workers…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A Social Democratic Party (SDP), councilorship aspirant in Lokoja Ward ‘C’, Hon. Yahaya Bala Yusuf has raised the alarm over plans to impose a candidate on the SDP in the Ward. Yahaya, who accused the Lokoja local government chairman of the SDP, Danladi Abdulrahman of planning to foist an aspirant…
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