By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The ongoing probe of alleged N80.2billion fraud in Kogi State took a new dimension yesterday following protest marches by those backing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) and the supporters of the former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello. While the Kogi Conscience Movement KCLM, was for the EFCC, Kogi Youth Coalition formed a…
… As Nigerian Police Disperse Pro-Bello’s protesters in Abuja By Lami Ibrahim The Kogi Conscience Libration Movement (KCLM), has called on the Economic Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. Speaking on Monday at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, spokesman of the KCLM, Mr. Austin Okai, the…
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…
By Lami Ibrahim The former Governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, has lambasted some former governors who refused to pay their state counterpart fund during their tenure for the education of school children but sent theirs to schools abroad. Senator Oshiomhole lambasted the Ex Governors at a ceremony in Abuja over the weekend. Oshiomhole…
By Lami Ibrahim Four persons have reportedly lost their lives in Ita-Oshin area of Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital in a gas tanker explosion on Saturday evening. The explosion which occured when a vehicle manoeuvred along the road railings, causing multiple accidents also had about six vehicles burnt to ashes. National Watch Tv reports that…
By Lami Ibrahim Five people have been confirmed dead and over 70 vehicles burnt in the tanker explosion at the Eleme section on the East-West Road in Rivers State on Friday night. An eyewitness who gave his name as Baridi said the incident followed a petrol-laden tanker which collided with a heavy-duty truck, spilling its…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Ohimegye Igu of Koton-Karfe and Chairman, Lokoja/Kogi Local Government Areas Traditional Council, Alhaji (Dr.) Saidu Akawu Salihu, has turbaned twenty five indigenes of the Emirate, charging them to be good ambassadors wherever they are. The monarch who stated this at his palace in Koton-Karfe during the turbaning of the…
… Describes turbaned title holders as people trusted,with proven integrity By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Ohimegye Igu of Koton-Karfe and Chairman Lokoja/Kogi Local Government Areas Traditional Council Alhaji (Dr.) Saidu Akawu Salihu has been praised for his commitment to uniting the people of his Kingdom. The Kogi State Commissioner For Solid Minerals and Natural…
By Musa Usman Malomo There was pandemonium on Tuesday morning as Dana Air overshot the runway on landing at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. It was gathered that the plane on landing at the Lagos Airport RW18L, skidded off the runway probably due to poor braking action and flooded runway….
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Residents of Koton-Karfe in Kogi Local Government Area have expressed discontent over the way Shaibu Abdullahi Alkowel, former legislative aide to late Buba Jibril handle the uncomplited Ultra Modern General Hospital in Koto since the death of his boss six years ago. They alleged that Abdullahi who has personalized the…
