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Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Few hours to the Kogi state governorship Peoples Democratic Party’s primary held in Lokoja township stadium yesterday, prominent aspirants in the race to Lugard House told journalists they were withdrawing from the race owing to what they alleged as government hijacking of the delegates. Addressing newsmen in his residence, one of the leading aspirant,Adinoyi –Ojo […]
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Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
AS Kogi State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set for the conduct of governorship primary election on Thursday, no fewer than seven aspirants have picked the party’s nomination form. The aspirants are Alhaji Isah Jubrin Echocho, Alhaji AbdulRasaq Isah Kutepa, the current deputy governor of the state, Mr. Phillips Salawu and AVM Saliu Atawode. Others are […]
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Kogi, State News
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Ahead of the Kogi State gubernatorial election in 2012, hope appears dim for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to hold a fresh party primary before the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) September 22 deadline. Alredy, series of meetings are being held by top political players in the state with sworn political enemies shifting ground and creating […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
THE people of Lokoja, Kogi State, on Saturday, were in a state of confusion as a grenade suspected to belonging to the police was discovered near Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke -Isegun at Phase II Estate extension in the state capital. Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police uncovered the grenade. […]
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Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Headlines, Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto, State News
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Ahead of Wednesday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a web of intrigues has entangled the party as it prepares to take a definite stance on the propriety or otherwise of fresh governorship primaries in five states under its control where governorship election will be conducted between December this […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
It was a gloomy afternoon on Tuesday in Kogi State when two corps members who were just discharged from their orientation camp and one National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) staff lost their lives in an auto crash along Kabba/Okene Road. The incident happened at about 2.15 pm when the corps members, numbering five, including a […]
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Headlines, Kogi, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, July 4th, 2011
POLITICIANS have been accused to be responsible for high rate of robbery in the country. The allegation was made by the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr John Abaka Sanga, during a stakeholders’ meeting, organised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) toward 2012 gubernatorial election in the state. He chided politicians for arming the […]
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Boko Haram, Kogi, State News
Monday, July 4th, 2011
FOLLOWING a bomb threat received by security operatives in Kogi State from Boko Haram sect that the Jamata and Itobe bridges would be bom-bed, security operatives have taken over the two bridges to avoid the disaster. Nigerian Tribune gathered from top security operatives in the state that the Boko Haram members who were planning to […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics, Kogi, State News
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says all political parties must educate eligible voters ahead of the 2012 governorship election in the state to avoid the low turnout witnessed in the last general elections. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mallam Muhammed Abubakar gave the charge yesterday during a stakeholders’ meeting at the INEC office, Lokoja. […]
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Headlines, Kogi, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), State News
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Seizes 56.6 kg of Indian Hemp || Kogi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) recently arrested 43 suspected drug dealers just as it discovered 56.6 kilogrammes of compressed cannabis (Indian hemp) inside a moving car engine compartment. Appraising its performance since January, the command stated in a statement made available to […]
