By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Umar Aliyu as well as house of representatives member representing Lokoja/Kogi federal constituency, Hon. Sulaiman Danladi Aguye, were among the leaders who stormed Gegu-Beki in Kogi LGA of Kogi State for the…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Special Adviser on Media to the Kogi State Governor, Hon. Ismail Isah has assured that the current administration in the State will forge a robust partnership with local media practitioners. Isah stated this in Lokoja when he met members of the Federated Chapel of the NUJ on Wednesday. He…
By Musa Usman Many shops were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night following an explosion on Olusesi Street in the Ifako-Ishaga area of Lagos. No casualty was recorded at the time of filing this report as operatives of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service have responded to the fire outbreak. According to a witness,…
… Gives govt two-week ultimatum By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Kogi State Chapter of the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN), has lamented the incessant increase in prices of flour and other baking materials. The group also frowned at the high tariff regime allegedly imposed by the National Agency for Food…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Rice sellers in Kpata market, Lokoja, have made passionate appeal to the Kogi State government to set-up a Taskforce that will stop mass purchase of rice by marchants to other states. According to them, the mass purchase of rice by these Marchants allegedly coming from Kano state are reasons for…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The fidau (three-day) prayer for late Lokoja LG Education Secretary, Abdulmalik Ndagi Kassim, who died on February 8, aged 52, was held on Sunday at his Lokongoma residence in Lokoja, Kogi State. The Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Engr Muhammed Danladi Yahaya, Kogi State Secretary, Council of Ulama’u, Alhaji…
By Lami Ibrahim A market woman in Ogun State, (names withheld) has lamented over the spiking rise in the prices of food items in the country. The market woman said the Federal government should please have mercy on the masses as the suffering is now unbearable. She said; “If they do not protest, we the…
By Musa Usman Suspected kidnappers struck again in Ondo State early on Saturday, as they struck at the Ondo-Ekiti highway, killing a commercial driver, abducting passengers, while a young baby was left stranded on the road. It was learnt that the passengers boarded a bus from Lagos and were on their way to Abuja when…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The remains of Abdulmalik Ndagi Kassim, the Lokoja Local Government Education Secretary, who died late Thursday, was on Friday, laid to rest amidst weeping, wailing and eulogies from family members, friends, colleagues and associates. The Chief Imam of Lokoja, Sheikh Aminu Shaban, performed the funeral prayer shortly after the Jummat…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Lokoja Local Government Area Caretaker Chairman, Hon Abdullahi Adamu has debunked newspaper reports not (National Watch Tv) that some traders in Lokoja protested food price hike, saying that the reports were malicious and baseless. According to him; “As far as we are concerned, no trader in Lokoja LGA stege…
