By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The member representing Yagba Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Leke Joseph Abejide, has reaffirmed his commitment to the preservation of culture and grassroots unity as he attended the annual Traditional Rites and Thanksgiving of the Mopa Traditional Council. The event, which held on Saturday, December 28, 2025,…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Hajia Safahu (Aduke) Mohammodu Kabir, step mother of the Maigari of Lokoja, Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Maikarfi IV, has been laid to rest. The burial rites, which held at Maigari’s Palace, Lokoja, had the Ohimegye-Igu of Koton-Karfe, Dr. Saidu Akawu Salihu, the Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Umar…
Re: The Politically Motivated “Vote of No Confidence” Against Senator Sunday Steve Karimi is self serving, failed flat, of no consequences. The attention of the Kogi West Movement for Justice and Progress (KWMJP) has been drawn to a purported communiqué issued by a few individuals claiming to represent the structure of the All Progressives Congress…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Kogi State Council of Ulama’u on Monday flagged off its annual Ramadan Lecture Series at the Lokoja Central Mosque, calling on Islamic preachers to use the holy month as a platform to promote peace, unity, and moral guidance. The programme began with the recitation of the Holy Qur’an, followed…
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 The Maigari of Lokoja, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ibrahim Gambo Kabir Maikarfi IV, represented by the Rogan of Eggan, Muhammad Alhassan, on Thursday commissioned the newly renovated Police Area Commander’s Office in Lokoja, renovated by the Kutepa Outreach. Speaking at the ceremony, the Maigari’s representative conveyed the appreciation of HRH…
By Lami Ibrahim Kogi, Kwara, and Ondo are the three states in Nigeria with the highest food prices amid worsening hardship. This is according to the latest National Bureau of Statistics April’s Consumer Price Index and Inflation report. The report ranked Kogi State with the highest food inflation rate at 48.62 per cent, followed by…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Top politicians and Islamic Scholars within and outside the state have eulogised late Abdullahi Ladan Ibrahim, immediate elder brother to Sanni Karashi, who died and was buried on Saturday. The death of the deceased was described as a great loss to the entire Lokoja people by bigwigs at the Fidau…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab As Muslims around the world approach end of the Ramadan fast, winding down the intense worship characterising the period, the Kogi State branch of the Council of Ulama’u this evening (Saturday) has ended it’s Ramadan lecture series with a strong advice to waelhty Nigerians to share with less privileged. In…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the rehabilitation of two major federal road corridors traversing Kogi West Senatorial District, with contracts worth a combined N128.7 billion. The projects include the rehabilitation of the Ilorin–Omu-Aran–Egbe–Kabba–Obajana Road at a cost of N104 billion and the Kabba–Omuo–Ifaki–Ado Road valued at N24.7 billion….
