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Posts tagged with "Kogi State"

Sheikh Gumi sends medical outreach team to look after Fulani herdsmen in Kogi forests African News

Sheikh Gumi sends medical outreach team to look after Fulani herdsmen in Kogi forests

CONTROVERSIAL cleric Sheikh Ahmed Gumi has thrown another cat among the pigeons by sending a medical outreach team to the forests of Kogi State to provide medical care to Fulani cattle herdsmen living there.   Highly divisive and seen as one of the subtle backers behind Fulani herdsmen who have unleashed a reign of terror on...
Teacher commits suicide in Kogi State because she is owed salary arrears and cannot fend for her kids African News

Teacher commits suicide in Kogi State because she is owed salary arrears and cannot fend for her kids

NIGERIA'S ongoing economic crunch has unfortunately claimed a life in Kogi State as a teacher identified as Khadija Yusuf from Obangede in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State committed suicide over her inability to cater for her children.   Like many other states in Nigeria, Kogi is owing its civil servants salary...
Former Nigerian Army provost marshal killed by gunmen to be buried today in Abuja African News

Former Nigerian Army provost marshal killed by gunmen to be buried today in Abuja

FORMER provost marshal of the Nigerian Army Major General Hassan Ahmed who was killed by gunmen in Abuja yesterday is to be buried today in accordance with full Muslim rites at the Lungi Barracks Cemetery today.   Major General Ahmed, who in a recent shake-up was appointed as a director at the Nigerian Army headquarters in...
Nigeria has 853 km of Atlantic coastline but alas we ate not tapping into its economic potential as there is no coherent marine policy in place African News

Nigeria has 853 km of Atlantic coastline but alas we ate not tapping into its economic potential as there is no coherent marine policy in place

Ayo Akinfe Build an 830km Atlantic windmill wall along our coast from Badagry to Calabar. We should set ourselves a target of generating at least 5,000MW from this project Build a 25,000MW hydro-electricity power plant at the confluence of the Rivers Niger and Benue in Lokoja. This will involve the creation of an artificial Lake...
Two men secretly arraigned before Lokoja Magistrates Court for staging anti-Buhari protest News

Two men secretly arraigned before Lokoja Magistrates Court for staging anti-Buhari protest

SECURITY officials in Kogi State have covertly arrested two men for protesting against President Muhammadu Buhari and secretly arraigned before a magistrates’ court in the state capital Lokojal.   Anene Victor and Emmanuel Larry,  were picked up after they were seen in a viral video on Monday holding Buhari Must Go posters,...
Governor Yahaya Bello says he will not allow Covid-19 vaccines to be administered in Kogi State African News

Governor Yahaya Bello says he will not allow Covid-19 vaccines to be administered in Kogi State

GOVERNOR Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that he will not allow any coronavirus vaccines to be administered across the state because he does not believe that combating the virus is important and will therefore not allow his people to be used as guinea pigs.   Earlier this week, Nigeria received 4m doses of the...
Nigerian Joel Adams becomes first ever non-British officer to be commissioned into RAF as aero systems engineer Headline

Nigerian Joel Adams becomes first ever non-British officer to be commissioned into RAF as aero systems engineer

NIGERIAN electrical engineer Joel Adams has broken a 102 year tradition by becoming the first non-UK born person to be commissioned into the British Royal Air Force (RAF)  as an aero systems engineer with the rank of Flying Officer.   Flying Officer Adams, a native of Abejukolo in the Omala Local Government Area of Kogi...
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Armed gunmen abduct traditional monarch in Kogi State as he enters mosque for Friday prayers

ARMED gunmen have kidnapped a first class traditional ruler in Kogi State whisking away Alhaji Shaibu Usman the acting Ejeh Of Ankpa while he was about to enter a mosque for his Friday Jumat prayers.   Coming just after 340 schoolboys were abducted in Katsina State and a few weeks after 43 farmers were murdered in Borno State,...
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Bank of China offers Nigeria $2.8bn loan to fund the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline

NIGERIA is poised to obtain another significant loan from after the Bank of China and Sinosure committed itself to funding 85% of the loan requirements of the proposed Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AAK) gas pipeline project.   Seen as a means of piping gas to Nigerian consumers, the AKK pipeline is a 614km-long natural gas conduit....
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Kogi community alleges General Irefin may have been murdered as he showed no Covid-19 symptoms

MEMBERS of the Aiyetoro-Gbede community in Kogi State have rejected the claim that their kinsman Major General John Olu Irefin died from Covid-19 pointing out that he was a healthy man and was most likely murdered by unknown persons.   Last week, Major General Irefin, the general officer commanding the Sixth mechanised...
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