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By News Desk The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, has predicted sunshine and cloudiness from Friday to Sunday across the country. NiMet’s weather output released on Thursday in Abuja predicted sunny atmosphere on Friday with patches of clouds over the northern region with prospects of morning thunderstorms over parts of Zamfara, Kebbi and Sokoto states. According…
By News Desk Protests rocked the Headquarters of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Friday against the continuous stay in office of the Comptroller-General (CG) of the Service, Isa Idris Jere. The protesters asked the CG to step down immediately. The protesters said they would proceed to the Ministry of Interior and the Presidential Villa…
Aliyu Abdulwahid A kidnapper, Haruna Musa, has lamented that he wasted two million naira realised from kidnapping. The 28-year-old from Farang in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State told newsmen in Yola on Thursday that he wasted all the money he got without buying anything of value. Musa was among nine suspects apprehended and…
••••As Youths Protest Looms Over Outrageous Electricity Bills By Musa Tanimu Nasidi In recent times, Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State has witnessed an upsurge in the vandalisation of electric transformers and cables. This development has thrown residents of some areas in the Lokoja metropolis into darkness for some months. There were reported cases of…
By News Desk A group under the auspice of Ajaokuta Steel Township Youth Vanguard for Development has called on Kogi state Governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello, the national assembly and the incoming president – elect to put an immediate halt on the last minute galloping rush by the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to concession…
Friday Sani Makama is a former lawmaker representing Igalamela Odolu Constituency. He spoke to DAILY POST concerning the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election held on April 14, 2023 and the need for Kogi East to bury their ethnic agenda ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Kogi State. How would you describe the…
By News Desk The country may be thrown into another round pf blackout I’d threat by the Federal Government to severe power firms from the national grid is anything to go by. The Federal Government had announced that it had begun disconnection of some power companies from the national grid due to their non-compliance with…
•••Wants order compelling INEC not to recognize Ododo as party’s flag-bearer, seeks Buhari, Tinubu, Adamu, ACF, others’ intervention By News Desk The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi, former Kogi state governor’s son, Shuaibu Abubakar and three others have called for the cancellation of the just concluded primary…
By News Desk The Federal Government has suspended plans to remove fuel subsidy by June this year. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Ahmed Zaniab gave the indication on Thursday, shortly after the National Economic Council, NEC, meeting, chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. She said the NEC, which comprises State Governors deliberated…
By Aisha Musa The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has dismissed the “purported” missing 48 million barrels of crude oil. Malami, while appearing before the House ad hoc committee on Thursday, dismissed the possibility of the sales of the oil without remitting to the federation account. “Let me state on record and for…
