A total of 188, 588 voters, representing 52.3 percent of the total number of registered voters in Kogi west senatorial district have reportedly approved the recall of Dino Melaye from the senate. Pius Kolawole, a special adviser to Yahaya Bello, governor of the state, announced this on Monday in Lokoja while addressing party members from the district. He […]
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Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has attacked a senator from the state, Dino Melaye, saying the lawmaker was not properly nurtured into adulthood by his parent. The comment came Wednesday as a political feud between the two former allies deteriorates, following an outbreak of violence at a political rally in Kogi, for which the two […]
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As the recall move against Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi West) gathers momentum, he has said that the move by the electorate in his constituency will fail. Melaye, who addressed his supporters in Kabba, Kogi state, on Sunday said his achievements in the Senate were enormous and as such the people of the constituency were solidly […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Fact-Finding and Reconciliation Committee on Kogi Crisis has blamed acrimony in the state’s chapter on communication breakdown. It said that the hitch in communication engendered the ruptured relationship among the party in the state, the government and the governor. Chairman of the committee, Chief Tony Momoh, stated this on Wednesday […]
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kogi State has called on Governor Yahaya Bello to resign for registering twice for permanent voter card. A Senator, Dino Melaye, made the call on behalf of the party at a news briefing in Abuja on Friday. The chairman of the APC in Kogi, Hadi Ametuo, agreed with […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has accused the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello of double registration for Permanent Voter Card against electoral law. The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by Prince Solomon Soyebi, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC) on Thursday in Abuja. INEC stated that […]
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Mr Wilson Inalegwu, the Commissioner of Police in Kogi, on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of Alhaji Taofiq Isah, Administrator of Ijumu Local Government, over alleged assassination attempt on Sen. Dino Melaye. The senator’s country residence in Kogi was reportedly attacked in the early hours of Saturday, April 15. Briefing newsmen in Lokoja, Inalegwu said that […]
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Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye escaped death by the whiskers as gunmen invaded his house in the early hours of Saturday at Ayetoro-Gbede in Kogi State. Newsmen gathered that the gunmen numbering about ten arrived the house at about midnight through the bush and opened fire from different directions on the house. The house […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has sent names of two new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. A source close to the Senate told our correspondent that the letter arrived the Senate late Tuesday. The source revealed that the two nominees are from Kogi and Gombe state. Our correspondent gathered that the Kogi nominee will be […]
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Some gunmen attacked a police station at Eika community in Okehi local government area of Kogi state in the early hours of Friday, killing two policemen and a detainee. According to NAN, the bandits invaded the station around 1am and immediately opened fire on policemen on duty. The heavily armed hoodlums, said to be about […]
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