By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in Kogi State, Abdulrafiu Yakubu his over 3,000 supporters has left the PDP and returned to the APC. Announcing his defection in Lokoja on Thursday at a well attended ceremony in Felele, Lokoja, Yakubu said the PDP has nothing to offer the…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The popularity of Ahmed Usman Ododo, admirably called OAU, in the political landscape of Kogi State came to the fore on Wednesday with the unprecedented crowd that graced his return home after last Friday’s Supreme Court judgment which affirmed his victory in the state’s November 11, 2023 governorship election. As…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A 12-year-old girl, (names withheld) residing in Inuwalange street, Lokoja the Kogi State capital, has revealed how she was raped and impregnated by a man she cannot identify. She made this known in an encounter, with Nationalwatch Tv and MOHAB Peoples Care Foundation, at her lnuwalange residence on Monday. She said, “I got…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Dignitaries from all walks of life trooped out on Monday to celebrate with The Nigerian Post newspaper as it held a public Lecture and Gold Prize Award to mark the 33 years anniversary of Kogi State creation. The theme for this year’s public lecture is: “Sustaining Kogi’s Unbroken Unity –…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab All the 20 medical students who were rescued after spending 9 days in captivity are currently meeting the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun at Force Headquarters, Abuja, Daily Trust reports. The students of Universities of Jos and Maiduguri, who were abducted in Benue State while en route Enugu for a…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab A trader was shot dead, while two police officers were killed in a clash between police and members of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), popularly known as Shiites, in Wuse Market, Abuja. Nationalwatch Tv reports that the victim, one Amiru, who was an onlooker, was shot in the…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Kogi State was thrown into jubilation, today, following the affirmation of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo as winner of the November 11, 2023 gubernatorial election by the Supreme Court. Thousands of Ododo’s supporters, among them family, friends, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), market men and women, youths, and commercial motorcyclist,…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Muhammed Sule, a charity worker who usually patch Lokoja township roads, has sent a passionate appeal to Nigerians for financial assistance to enable him settle hospital bill. Making the appeal during an encounter, with Nationalwatch Tv and MOHAB Peoples Care Foundation, at his Kpata-Koto residence in Lokoja, on Wednesday, Sule said he started bedridden…
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…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Alhaji Idris Abdulrahman Sofada has emerged as the Chairmanship candidate of the Social Democratic Party SDP in Lokoja Local Government Area Cross for the October 2024 council election. Sofada emerged through consensus in an exercise held at Adankolo Primary School in Lokoja on Saturday. The exercise, which involved 7 aspirants,…
