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 […]
AT least, 33 out of the 36 states of the federation have men of the Nigerian Army complementing the police, in order to protect the citizens. The statistics was given on Monday by the General Officer Commanding the Second Mechanised Division, Ibadan, Major-General Muhammad Abubakar, in Osun State. Abubakar made the declaration during the launch […]
AFTER a car with registration number Kogi LKJ 919 AA, rigged with explosive devices, exploded in Okene on Sunday, a bomb and explosive factory has been discovered in an apartment in Kogi State. The building also houses a church and a mosque at Okaito, a remote village in Okehi LGA of the state. On the […]
THE people of Kogi State, on Monday, lost one of the oldest first class traditional ruler, Alhaji (Dr) Aliyu Obaje, the Attah of Igala, who dies at the age of 102. Dr Obaje died on Monday at Idah, at about 2.00 p.m. The late Attah Igala was enthroned on November 2, 1956. He was the […]
OVER 5,000 youths are said to have been allegedly infected with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus in Kogi State within the last one year. This was disclosed during the capacity training organised for over 1,000 barbing and hairdressing salon operators in the Kogi Central senatorial district. A research recently carried out by a lecturer at the […]
By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO …parade security guard, 8 other suspected robbers LOKOJA—Kogi State Police Command has paraded seven persons for allegedly posing as bishop, pastors and prophets during a revival programme in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State. Those paraded include Bishop Bamidele Abraham of Eagle Kingdom Church, Lokoja and Pastors Chucks Ingalis Kelvin, Chinedu Okosisi, Samson […]
The Joint Task Force comprising the Army, State Security Services and the Police has discovered another bomb factory in a cave at Usomi village along Okene–Ogori/Magongo Road in Kogi State. The top state officer of SSS, who confirmed the startling discovery yesterday while speaking with newsmen at the state headquarters of the SSS in Lokoja, […]
NO fewer than 15 persons lost their lives while 54 sustained injury in an accident that occurred at ‘Crusher’ on the Okene- Lokoja- Abuja highway on Thursday morning. An eyewitness said the accident involved a luxury bus belonging to the Young Shall Grow Transport Company and a stationary truck. According to the source, the luxury […]
THE Federal Government has commenced the process of relocating the Nigeria Prison at Koton Karfe in Kogi State, following the attack on the facility by suspected Islamic sect, Boko Haram, last week. Minister of Interior, Mr Patrick Abba Moro, who disclosed this, however, insisted that the attack on the prison was carried out by alleged […]
The Nigeria Prisons Authority on Thursday confirmed the escape of 119 inmates from the Koton-Karfe prison on the Lokoja-Abuja Road after it was attacked on Wednesday night by unknown gunmen. The Spokesperson of the Nigeria Prisons Authority in Lokoja, Mrs Hadiza Aminu,said that the inmates were among the 120 persons awaiting trial. She denied reports […]
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