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About two months after armed thugs invaded the Federal Medical Centre , Lokoja which led to the closure of the facility,Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, RT Hon Matthew Kolawole has described the lock down as worrisome and a matter of concern to the public. The Speaker made disclosed this while ruling on the oral…
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Kogi Chapter, has re-elected Mrs Anne Olurinde of the State Information Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), as its chairperson for another three-year tenure. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Olurinde defeated her sole opponent in the race, Mrs Debra Samuel-Iyiola of the Nigeria Television Authority…
I read on one of the social media platforms an open letter to Malam Adamu Adamu, the Honorable Minister of Education by our Ambassador in Mexico, to which I think I should make a contribution that may interest the minister in addressing the issues at stake. In February 1971, almost 50 years ago, I became…
The minister of Information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,says the “opportunistic” opposition is playing dirty politics with the new electricity tariff and increase in petrol price. Addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja, Mohammed said subsidising petrol is no longer feasible owing to the prevailing economic conditions. The minister said the federal government could…
Q and A on Subsidy Removal Question 1 Can I meet you? I’m Dr. Tom Ohikere, a two time commissioner of Information of Kogi state, a business man and the publisher of APC News Online Question 2 Talking about the APCNEWSONLINE you recently lunched few days ago, what is your motive behind this initiative? Answer…
…Denies Rift with Ize- Iyamu CANDIDATE of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) for the September 19, 2020 Governorship election in Edo State, Governor Godwin Obaseki has vowed to make his predecessor and former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, politically irrelevant. Obaseki disclosed this weekend when the PDP Campaign rally berthed in Ward…
Dear Professor Ibrahim Gambari CFR, I write this piece with a heavy heart; my mind is troubled with the current happenings in our dear country. Prof Sir, I specifically write to you because of the high respect I have for you, and indeed with the hope that our dear president would listen to you as his…
A coalition of civil society organizations under the auspices of #JusticeNow Movement has called on former leaders including General Yakubu Gowon, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd), General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar amongst others, to add their voice to the incidence of insecurity in parts of the country. The international President of #JusticeNow Movement, Comrade Vik-morrow Okon…
Many defied the heavy rainfall which had threatened the occasion to mark the 40th birthday of the treasurer for Kogi Local Government Area, Alhaji Abdullahi Yusuf Ohikwura. But despite that and the choking vehicular clog on the popular Jamata Bridge which delayed many travelers, the event was successfully celebrated. The event, which was organised by…
