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The state Commissioner for health, Dr. Saka Audu, disclosed this on Friday in Lokoja while giving an update on the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria.
The gate of the complex was also locked against the speaker and this enabled the hoodlums to pelt his vehicles with stones and other objects
A statement issued in Lokoja on Saturday by the Commissioner of Finance, Idris Ashiru, said the government’s share of the refund was N4.02 billion.
Moshood said all the suspects had confessed to the kidnapping of the governor’s mother and other robberies in FCT, Kogi and Niger States
Governor Yahaya Bello, who announced the proscription in Lokoja shortly after the weekly State Executive Council meeting, said the decision was with immediate effect.
Bello, through his Director-General on Media and Publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, made what Ekerete Udoh, the Senior Special Assistant (Media)/Chief Press Secretary to Emmanuel, described as “unsanitised” comments on his brother governor.
According to report, over N100 million was allegedly stolen every month over seven years
Bello, who visited the university at Ayagba on Tuesday, pledged to pay all the salary arrears of lecturers and non-academic staff of the institution this month
Bello said the recently concluded staff screening and verification exercise was a huge success and assured all those verified
Other defendants in the suit are: the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Independent National Electoral Commission as well as the Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General of the Federation
The leader of the constituents, Chief Cornelius Olowo, told the News Agency of Nigeria at the INEC headquarters on Wednesday, shortly after submitting the petition, that electorate in Melaye’s constituency had resolved to recall him
Pius Kolawole, the Special Adviser on Political Affairs to the state Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, announced this on Monday in Lokoja
Aro, who stated this at an interactive session with a select group of journalists in Abuja, said the feud
The INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja
Senator Dino Melaye has called for the declaration of a state-of-emergency in Kogi State, saying there was insecurity and anarchy…
Bello said it was Melaye’s desperation that led to the brutal murder of Saka Seidu, a student of the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja
Boniface alleged that the state Governor, Yahaya Bello, ordered the removal of his name as the state’s nominee for the AFN elections, to make him ineligible for the zonal elections
Melaye, who is representing the Kogi West Senatorial District in the Senate, made the statement in Kabba, Kogi, on Sunday when he addressed his supporters
According to Melaye, about 30 members of the All Progressives Congress, who refused to collect the money and sign the recall form being distributed by the Kogi State Government, have allegedly been arrested by the police