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Innalilah waina illahi rajun. It is with deep sadness but in total submission to the will of Allah we wish to announce the passing away of Hajiya Balkisu Sulaiman,mother of Hon. Shaba Ibrahim, Member Representing Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency . This was contained in a statement from shaba Ibrahim media. Hakiya Balkisu passed away today Saturday…
Niger State Governor and Chairman, North Central Governors Forum, NCGF, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello said, henceforth, the North Geo-Political Zone will demand from whosoever aspires to become the next president to meet and tell the region what he has to offer the zone. He said the zone has been short-changed since the return of democracy…
Justice Suleiman Na-mallam of the Kano State High Court on Tuesday Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to pay N400,000 each to the publisher of Daily Nigerian, Ja’afar Ja’afar, and his company, Penlight Media Limited, for expenses incurred in a court case the governor filed over a controversial bribery video involving the governor. Ganduje had been caught on…
Abductors of pupils of Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna State have said the have 121 of them in their custody. The President of Kaduna Baptist Conference and Proprietor of the school, Rev. Yahaya Adamu Jangado, revealed this while speaking with newsmen in kaduna on Tuesday after a meeting of the management and parents of…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced Shehu Tenimu Mohammed, an ND II student of the Department of Public Administration, Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja to 8 years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms, unlawful association. Delivering his Judgement, the trial judge, Justice Tenimu Mohammed convicted the suspects on the three-count charge having pleaded guilty…
The Kano Business mogul Aminu Alhassan Dantata said local government financial autonomy is a precondition to Nigeria’s development. Dantata made the appealed at the coronation ceremony of Aminu Ado Bayero as the 58th Emir of Kano on Saturday. He said lack of autonomy to local government councils in the country has worsened the already fragile…
Cigari of Lokoja ,Alhaji Ahmed Sanusi,On Saturday led a delegation of friends,Islamic clerics and well wishers on a thank you visit to His Royal Highness ,the Maigari of Lokoja,Dr Muhammad Kabir Maikarfi 111 OON at his palace in Lokoja. It could recalled that the Monarch recently conferred the traditional title of CIGARI OF LOKOJA on…
Months after what some political observations tagged “Local Goverment selection” in Kogi state, the State Independent Electoral commission (KOSIEC) ,is presently facing Serious crisis following a petitioned from a Concern Citizens of Kabba/Bunu local government area over an alleged involvement of a Commissioner of the Kogi State Independent Electoral Commission, Hon. Emmanuel Folorunsho Olorunfemi in…
Emeoyiri Uzorma Benjamin, 28, alias Onye Army, arrested for being a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has alleged that he and other members of the organisation launched attacks on security agents following a radio instruction from their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Benjamin, a commander of the Eastern Security Network, the armed wing of…
The Kenyan Government has denied involvement in the arrest and extortion to Nigeria of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The Kenyan High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Machage, made the denial when he spoke with newsmen on Friday in Abuja. The family of Kanu had accused the Kenyan Government of…
