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A Senior Council Member of the Lokoja Emirate Council, Makama of Lokoja, Retired Rear Admiral Ibrahim Drisu, is death. Drisu, who until his death on Monday 25, October held the traditional title of Nakoji of Muye in Niger State, died after a prolonged illness. As at the time of writing this report,the funeral of late…

The Ohimege Igu of Kotonkarfi, Abdulrazaq Isah-Koto, has charged women and youth of Egbira extraction to embrace Agriculture to enable them improve their livelihood. The Royal Father made the call on Saturday when Egbira people from across the country gathered in Kotonkarfi, Kogi local government area to celebrate the World Egbira-Ohiku day convention and display…

A Police Officer, who wishes to be simply identified as Superintendent of Police Kolade,ormer Commander of the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, and notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, aka Hushpuppi. According to the Superintendent of Police, what befell Abba Kyari was a sting operation that went…

Emmanuel Kehinde, ilorin The Diocesan Bishop, Diocese of Omu-Aran, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Ecclesiastical Province of Kwara, The Rt. Rev’d Festus Oyetola Sobanke has raised the alarm that Nigeria is sinking. He stated that Nigerians are faced with terrorism, banditary, kidnapping, unemployment, and other challenges. He spoke during the fourth synod of the diocese….

The Secretary General of Assocation of Local Government of Nigeria(ALGON) and a philanthropist,Hon. Abubakar Muhammad, a.k.a Bukky, has paid surgical bills of of Malam Garba Garus Almana,worth Five Hundred Thousand Naira(₦500,000)only. According to report the patient was stranded looking on to God when Abubakar was said to have asked about his old friend when he…

ByJohn Akinfehinwa The Kogi State Football Association has banned eight officials of Kabawa United for two years after they started a fracas which led to the disruption of the match between the team and Kogi United Feeders The state football association also wielded the big stick on Kabawa United by slamming them with a two-year…

Two kidnap suspects, Umar Adamu a.k.a. Meagwua (21) and Idris Mustapha (35) arrested by the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have revealed how their eight-man gang, led by one Isah Ibrahim (Danwasa), kidnapped three grandchildren of a Commissioner in Kaduna State, killed a pregnant pharmacist, Hanatu Rufai, and a professor’s son in different operations in…

• Says he was blindfolded for six days, couldn’t tell when it was day or night • Ate once daily without seeing what he was eating • Wife took loan to pay ransom By GBENGA ADERANTI  The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Kogi State University, Professor John Olatunde Alabi, could be regarded…

The works and housing minister once refused that he had a godfather, rather preferring the term “mentor”. Years after denouncing the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu as his godfather, Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola says there is nothing wrong with having a political godfather. In 2010, Mr Fashola, when asked…

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested three suspected kidnappers terrorizing Itobe-Anyigba highway in Kogi State. The arrested suspects according to the Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), DSP William Ovye Aya in a statement sent obtained by THEANALYSTNG on Saturday, are Danlami Shauibu, Kabiru Amodu and Adejoh Tijani Aya explained further that the suspects who all…