By Lami Ibrahim The Izon Cultural Heritage Centre (ICHC) has expressed deep concern over recent comments attributed to Dr. Shola Mese, a representative of the Olu of Itsekiri in the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). The ICHC described the comments as “unguided” and “misrepresentative” of the programme’s scope, mandate, and beneficiaries. The ICHC, led by Apostle…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab About 25 indigent Pupils and Students of primary and secondary schools in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital have been offered scholarship by Angwan Pawa Progressive Youth Forum (APPYF). Speaking during a ceremony to unveil the first batch of 25 recipients, at Anwan Pawa in Lokoja on Sunday, the President of…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab An orphan, Sulaiman Abubakar, has sent a passionate appeal to Nigerians for financial assistance to enable him continue his treatment at the hospital. Making the appeal during an encounter, with Nationalwatch Tv and MOHAB Foundation, at his Contonment residence in Lokoja, on Saturday, Abubakar said he lost both parents at…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A Socio-Cultural Organization in Lokoja, the Lokoja Forum of Patriots (LFP), has said that there is no traditional ruler with the title of Etsu Lokoja or Etsu Nupe Lokoja. Addressing a press conference in Lokoja on Thursday, Chairman of the Lokoja Forum of Patriots, Alhaji Idris Baba’Ango downed Emmanuel Dauda…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Ahead of the 2027 general elections, crisis has rocked the Social Democratic Party (SDP), as protesters on Tuesday, pulled down the main gate of the National Secretariat in Wuse 2, Abuja. The protest broke out while the party’s National Working Committee was meeting at the party’s headquarters. The reason for…
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 Indigenes of Lokoja have called for the immediate redeployment of the General Manager (Administration) of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Mr. Abdullahi Aliyu Dabai, accusing him of aiding the Managing Director, Bola Oyebamiji, in the alleged marginalization of Lokoja indigenes within the agency. The demand was made on Monday…
By Lami Ibrahim Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said that his visit to his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday was not about politics, but “a courtesy call on the former President”. Atiku, who arrived at Obasanjo’s Abeokuta residence located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library at exactly 12: 37p.m.,…
…Declare Reps Member Abejide Party Leader By Lami Ibrahim The State Working Committee (SWC) of the African Democratic Congress, Kogi State has reaffirmed the expulsion of their former state chairman, Kingsley Ogga from the party, describing his purported return as a ‘figment of his own imagination.’ The party made this known on Monday…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Residents of Karaworo Street in Lokoja, Kogi State, have called on relevant authorities to urgently intervene and rescue a sick man who was reportedly dumped in front of a shop by unknown persons suspected to be his family members. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday, has…
