The Senate decision was sequel to a point of order raised by Senator Dino Melaye
Browsing: Governor Yahaya Bello
In a statement in Lokoja on Tuesday, the governor said he would ensure that the perpetrators faced justice.
The Acting state Chairman of the party, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahovi announced the expulsion of Ametuo and others during a press conference in Lokoja on Friday.
Melaye was on Thursday dragged before the court for falsely incriminating the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, Edward David, in a reported assassination attempt
According to Osikoya, stiff penalties as prescribed by law will be used to curb the menace of examination malpractice in the state
In a statement on Saturday by his Director General of Media and Publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, Bello said the reports in the media that he disrespected the Catholic Community and its leaders was “another low by his detractors in their desperation to portray him as an irresponsible leader”
While reacting to the visit of the Bishops, under the aegis of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, who told Buhari Nigerians were angry, Bello, among others, said the position was informed by the fact that the access to stolen funds used to pay tithes had been blocked by the President
Bello said this on Friday in reaction to the position of members of the CBCN, led by their President and Catholic Bishop of Jos, Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, that the Buhari Administration had not lived up to expectations and the people were hungry and angry
The survey also found that all debt-ravaged states that collected the Federal Government intervention fund as well as the Paris Club loan refund are still owing some categories of workers salary arrears
INEC had last week sacked their staff involved in the registration of Bello in May 2017, with a vow to prosecute the governor
This is sequel to Thursday’s pronouncement by the Independent National Electoral Commission that Bello is guilty as alleged in the case of double registration
In this wise, INEC said Bello is liable to prosecution and will be so tried
The Special Adviser to the State Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy affairs, Abubakar Ohere, disclosed this during a meeting with traditional rulers
Addressing reporters in Lokoja on Monday, the Director General on Media and Publicity to Governor Yahaya Bello, Kingsley Fanwo, said government cannot afford to continue “funding fraud” in the service
Bello also said he would commence prompt payment of salaries of workers in the state public service from January 2018.
Addressing newsmen on Friday, the Director General on Media and Publicity to the Governor of Kogi State, Kingsley Fanwo, said the endemic corruption in the civil service has taken heavy toll on the financial health of the state.
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in the state, Segun Martins, revealed this to journalists in Lokoja on Thursday
These changes were contained in a statement Bello personally signed on Tuesday
De Club 10 Nigeria, in a communique at the end of its pre-Annual General Meeting in Abuja recently, said the sordid discovery of thousands of ghost workers and absentee civil servants, who stay in major cities of Nigeria and draw their salaries from Kogi State treasury, is enough to justify the staff audit.
Ocheni said this at a news conference on the internal security and industrial and labour harmony in Kogi State on Monday in Abuja.