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The Bauchi State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said flood had killed 16 persons, destroyed 3,042 houses and several farmlands in the state. Alhaji Shehu Ningi, the Permanent Secretary (PS) of SEMA told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Bauchi that 11 out of the 20 local government areas of the state were…
The Acting Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Henry Olusuyi, has decried the scourge of coronavirus pandemic, saying it has seriously slowed down the administration of criminal justice system in the country. Justice Olusuyi, who stated this while receiving members of the judiciary correspondents in his office in Lokoja, said the state judiciary was poised…
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has warned that the country still has many weeks of rainfall in the course of the year and more floods are still expected in the months of September and October. The Director General of the agency, Mr Clement Nze, who gave the warning at a press briefing in Abuja…
Kogi state council of Ulama’u led by former Kogi state Grand Khadi,Honourable Justice Sulaiman Olurufemi on Friday commiserated with the Ohimege of Igu kingdom,Alhaji Abdulrasaq Gambo Isakoto, in his place over the death of one of his traditional title holder,Alhaji Tijjani Shuiabu Tatu. Spokesman of the group,malam zakariya’u Aliyu informed the royal father that the…
The Kogi West Zonal Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Benson Omofe has assured the people of the state that the party will not give up its desire to re-position the state. Omofe made this in Lokoja on Wednesday at the executive meeting of the party. The zonal chairman said despite the “brazen electoral…
As the Federal Government rolls out the Economic Sustainability Plan and sets goal for National Food Security, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria ”not to issue a kobo” of the country’s reserves for the importation of food items and fertilizer. This was contained in a Press statement signed by Malam…
The State chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr Omakoji Oyiguh has disclosed that four medical doctors have left Kogi State civil service as a result of non-payment of salary and poor remuneration. Oyiguh made this known during a familiarization visit to the State Council of Ulamua in Lokoja on Wednesday. Dr Oyiguh who…
. Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday commissioned a-45 bed space Hajia Hauwa Bello medical Center, alongside , perimeter fence, security house and a newly renovated lecture theater at the Kogi state Polytechnic, Lokoja. The Governor who was accompanied by his Deputy, Edward Onoja; Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Mathew Kolawole and other…
The Kogi State Government had dispelled rumors of retrenchment in Local Government Councils, saying the story was “manufactured to create unnecessary tension in the civil service”.Reacting to media reports in Lokoja, Thursday , the State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo said Government is not considering retrenchment.“I do not know where the unfounded…
The FCT Police Command said it had rescued five of the people abducted in Abuja after a fierce gun duel. The victims were among many people kidnapped in Tunga Maje, a village near Zuba, an outskirts of Abuja on Thursday. The kidnappers were said to have stormed the village shooting sporadically in the wee hours…
