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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Friday, December 28th, 2012
Posted: December 28, 2012 – 15:27 By PREMIUM TIMES Report reaching PREMIUM TIMES indicates that the Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, was badly hurt in a fatal road accident on Friday and is in the intensive care unit at the Kogi State Hospital in Lokoja, the state capital. The ADC to the Kogi State Governor […]
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Kogi, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

Ex-governor of Kogi state Abubakar Audu, who is wanted in Nigeria by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over N4 billion frauds has arrived his rich neighborhood home in Potomac in the state of Maryland, USA. The multi-million dollars home where the ex-governor has now moved to is located at 12301 Glen Road, Potomac, […]
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EFCC Politics, Kogi, State News
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
DECEMBER 12, 2012 BY FRIDAY OLOKOR, ABUJA 10 COMMENTS The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday said it had concluded arrangements to declare Kogi State ex-governor, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, wanted over alleged N4bn fraud. A statement by the spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said the decision followed alleged evasion of arrest of […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Friday, October 12th, 2012
As sharp practices rock relief camps From EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, Lokoja Government officials and greedy individuals may have taken advantage of the flood disaster on Kogi State to enrich themselves, Daily Sun gathered. A discreet survey carried out on the flood disaster in the state revealed that figures on those affected were grossly amplified while bogus […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
October 9, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin 10 Comments | credits: The Kogi State Emergency Management Agency said the number of displaced persons in the state had risen to 623,690. According to a statement in Lokoja on Monday by the Director, Ministry of Information, Mr. James Adedoyin, SEMA, in its latest report, said property estimated […]
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Headlines, Kogi, Plateau, State News
Saturday, August 18th, 2012
Four persons lost their lives in renewed violence in Plateau and Kogi states at the weekend despite efforts to restore peace to the trouble spots. As both government and security agencies are trying to restore normalcy to the Northern part of Plateau State, three Fulani were killed on Friday while two others sustained injuries in […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Monday, August 13th, 2012
By Boluwaji Obahopo LOKOJA—Kogi State chapter of Miyette Allahi Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has threatened to withdraw its animals from the state markets over harassment and arrest of its members by the police. Chairman of the association, Alhaji Shuabu Idrisa, weekend, after a stakeholders meeting between Fulani Ardos and Miyette Allah cattle breeders […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Kogi, State News
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
Residents of Okene in Kogi State on Sunday alleged that soldiers deployed to maintain peace, law and order in the area were brutalising them. They also alleged that some of them had been maimed and some of their belongings destroyed by the soldiers. Some of the complainants said they came out for their legitimate businesses […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Adepegba and Friday Olokor THE police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested three suspects in connection with the Monday and Tuesday gun attacks in Okene, Kogi State, in which a total of 24 persons, including two soldiers, were killed. The Kogi State Police Command said the suspects were arrested at a hide-out on Idare Hills […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Kogi, State News
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
WHILE the Deeper Life Bible Church was still counting its heavy losses to the ruthless Monday night attack on its church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, four persons again died in an attack on the Central Mosque in the city on Tuesday. Reports from Kogi on Tuesday indicated that the death toll in the attack […]