The Controller-General of Prisons, Ja’afaru Ahmed, has confirmed that five of the 13 prisoners who escaped from Koton Karfe prison in the early hours of Saturday has been re-arrested.This is contained in a statement issued by the spokesperson of the Service, Francis Enobore, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja. The statement said […]
Continue ReadingInformation from Kogi reports, emphatically states that security operatives believed to be taking orders from the Presidency last week, blocked Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello from boarding a Turkish airline flight for a planned trip to Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj.It was reported that when Bello went to the office of the Vice President, […]
Continue ReadingIt is a third consecutive for Governor Yahyah Bello, as the Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal led by by Justice Halima Mohammed, on Wednesday, dismissed another petition challenging his election. The candidate of the Labour Party in the November 21 governorship election, Philip Salawu, a former deputy governor of the State had in the petition […]
Continue ReadingThe Kogi state governorship election tribunal, sitting in Abuja, has again upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello as the governor. Captain Idris wada of the Peoples Democratic Party, said INEC contravened the electoral law by allowing the APC to replace the late Prince Abubakar Audu with Mr. Yahaya Bello, who was not qualified to […]
Continue ReadingKogi governorship election tribunal, sitting in Abuja, has upheld the election Yahaya Bello as governor of Kogi state. James Faleke, running mate to the late Abubakar Audu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21, 2015 election, filed a petition against Yahaya Bello, asking the tribunal to declare him winner instead of […]
Continue ReadingSome indigenes of Kogi under the aegis of Kogi Youth Forum, on Tuesday staged a protest at the National Assembly, demanding the unsealing of state’s House of Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the protest came barely 12 hours after the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, signed the 2016 budget of N99.9 […]
Continue ReadingThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) laughed off swearing-in of Yahaya Bello as governor of Kogi state, describing it as comical, saying that the governor is on an excursion at the government house. This was contained in a statement signed by Wale Oladipo, PDP national secretary, on Wednesday, wherein the party also described Bello’s emergence as governor […]
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(Vanguard) Mr. Emmanuel Adejoh, a human rights activist, has assured the nation that Buhari’s anti-corruption stance would soon come under the light in Kogi State with the emergence of Prince Abubakar Audu as the governorship candidate for the All Progressives Congress, ahead of the November 21 governorship election in the state. Prince Audu is standing trial […]
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It was a keenly contested governorship primaries in Kogi APC, where Prince Abubakar Audu defeated other contestants . Audu polled 1,109 votes of the 3044 votes, to defeat 25 other aspirants. The Chief Returning Officer for the primaries, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State announced that Prince Abubakar Audu polled the highest number of votes […]
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