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NDLEA Arrests 43 Drug Traffickers in Kogi

Posted by admin 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 […]

Buhari, Ribadu, Shekarau up against incumbent factor

Posted by admin Abia, Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Adebayo Adejare, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Elections 2011, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara Friday, April 15th, 2011

Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]

Tenure elongation: How INEC lost bid to sack five Govs

Posted by admin Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Governors, Kogi, Sokoto, State News, Top Stories Friday, April 15th, 2011

The Court of Appeal Friday upheld the verdict of a Federal High Court barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting governorship election in Kogi, Cross River, Sokoto, Adamawa and Bayelsa next week. The appellate court which dismissed the consolidated appeal lodged before it by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as substantially lacking […]

Five N’Assembly members defect to ANPP in Kogi

Posted by admin Kogi, Legislature, State News Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

AT least five members of the National Assembly, including two senators and three members of the House of Representatives, have defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party in Kogi State. A former governor of the state from 1999 to 2003, Alhaji Audu Abubakar, gave the hint on Monday […]

Four Feared Killed As Kogi Youths Protest Varsity’s Relocation

Posted by admin Education, Kogi, State News Saturday, January 29th, 2011

The riot had spread from Kabba to Ayetoro-Gbede in Ijumu and to Mopamuro Council by yesterday. As a result, delegates to today’s rerun senatorial and House of Representatives primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lokoja and Kabba could not travel and had to turn back. Windscreens of buses conveying some delegates identified to be supporters of a […]

SSS in Hot Chase After Kogi Gov’s Aide

Posted by admin Kogi, State News Thursday, January 27th, 2011

Over alleged plans to bomb rerun venue || Governor disowns him || The State Security Service (SSS), acting on intelligence, is currently in a hot chase after Mr. Ogwu Achemu a.k.a Araka, the special assistant to Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State on Youth Empowerment, over an alleged plan to bomb the venue of […]

FG, States Share $1b Secretly – Deplete Excess Crude Account to $3m

Posted by admin Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Headlines, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Presidency, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara Saturday, January 1st, 2011

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]