The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris,has ordered the immediate removal of Kogi state Commissioner of Police, CP Ali Janga. The IGP asked the CP Esa Sunday Ogbu, Commissioner of Police, Federal Operations, Force Headquarters, Abuja to immediately proceed and take over as the new Commissioner of Police of the State. The Police […]
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The Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye has been declared wanted by the Kogi state Police command. Melaye was declared wanted alongside Mohammed Audu, son of the late former governor of the state, Abubakar Audu. In a statemnet issued on Wednesday by the Commissioner of Police in Kogi state, Ali […]
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The Kogi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday announced the escape of six suspected criminals it identifies Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama, Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, Aliyu Isa, Adams Suleiman, Emmanuel Audu and Musa Mohammed from its custody. The suspects escaped from the ‘A’ Division Lokoja, where they were being detained. Four of […]
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At a press conference on Monday, Jimoh Moshood, force public relations officer, said a case of criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms have been filed against Senator Dino Melaye at a federal high court, Lokoja, the state capital. He said the police filed the action following the confession of two “dreaded” thugs who […]
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A fresh attack by suspected herdsmen attack in Omala local government area of Kogi state, has left at least 10 people, including Onu Agbenema, a traditional ruler, Musa Edibo, his wife, dead. As reported by PUNCH, the victims were killed on Monday in Agbenema, Aj’Ichekpa, Opada and Iyade villages in the local government area. The attackers […]
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Kogi State witnessed hug drama on Sunday, as Governor Yahaya Bello ordered the dissolution of his cabinet but quickly reversed the order just before the news filtered out. Sources close to the State Executive Committee meeting held on Sunday said the governor had ordered all commissioners and all the 21 local government administrators to hand […]
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Four years after he caused the death of Prof. Festus Iyayi, Danladi Baba, a driver with Kogi Government House, Lokoja has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for reckless driving. Chief Magistrate Alhassan Husaini of Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court 11, who jailed Baba on Friday, said he found him guilty of reckless driving and causing […]
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Nigeria’s Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will on February 13 inaugurate Marketmoni/Micro Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Clinics in Kogi under the Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIP). The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that Mr Adoga Ibrahim, the Special Adviser to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi on Multilateral Donor Agencies and Special Projects/Focal Person […]
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Lassa fever has killed a 30-year-old medical doctor, Idowu Ahmad, at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Lokoja, Kogi State. Ahmad contracted the virus in the line of duty and was transferred to Irrua, Edo state, for treatment. A source said Ahmad died in Edo state on Sunday. “He died today. Lassa fever took him. He […]
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Doctors in Kogi are angry over the inability of the state to pay their full monthly salary and have resolved to shut hospitals on Monday. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has directed its members to resume strike on Monday over state governments’s failure to meet their demands. Dr Godwin Tijani, the Chairman of the association, […]
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