Kogi state

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has ordered the immediate suspension of the Ohi of Eganyi and Chairman, Ajaokuta Traditional Area Council, Alhaji Musa Achuja. Bello’s directives followed an investigation that led to the…

Kogi State Government has disclaimed reports of a bomb explosion in one of its offices on Tuesday. Several news platforms had reported that a bomb went off in the Kogi state govt house sending panic through the state. Read Also:…

Yahaya Bello, the Kogi State Governor and the presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, has boasted that he is the only aspirant sure of victory against the People's Democratic Party in the 2023 elections. Yahaya Bello…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has on Saturday, April 2 officially joined the 2023 Presidential race. Bello officially declared his decision to run for the Presidency in the presence of members of the ruling All Progressives…

Kogi state government has threatened to sue Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), after the anti-graft agency obtained a court order to freeze the state's salary bailout account domiciled in Sterling Bank Plc. Relying on…

Kogi state has been classified as “high risk” for COVID-19 because of its failure to acknowledge the existence of the disease, report tests or build isolation centres. Presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19, which announced the…

Nigeria Police Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested the leader of a kidnap gang responsible for the abduction and killing of a six-year-old girl, Farida Yahaya at the Gabije Area of Kogi State on November 2. The…

Kogi state health commissioner, Saka Audu has debunked claims that 50 persons have died of a strange illness in Kogi State. He said this in reaction to an alarm raised by the lawmaker representing Olamaboro Constituency in the Kogi…

Usman Ibrahim, the permanent secretary of the Kogi State Ministry of Commerce and industry has been queried over a tax placed on every loaf of bread in the state. It would be recalled that Governor Yahaya Bello stated that he was not…

Kogi State government has imposed a levy on every loaf of bread sold in the state, stating that the decision was made to protect indigenous bakers. The state chapter of the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria earlier…

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed cannabis sativa farms worth over N1.5 billion located at Agba-Okete community in Igalamela-Adolu Local Government Area of Kogi state. Kogi Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Alfred…

Flash floods from River Niger have cut off Lokoja-Ajaokuta road, which leads to the South-East and some South-South parts of the country. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the flooded parts of Lokoja on…

Kogi state has declared a two-day mourning period in memory of those that died in the tanker explosion in Felele, along the Lokoja-Abuja highway on Wednesday. Twenty-five persons, including five students of the state-owned polytechnic,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of 23 persons who lost their lives on Wednesday, September 23, in a tanker explosion. The tanker exploded in Felele Area, Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital claiming the lives…