A statement in Lokoja on Wednesday, signed by the Returning Officer, Sam Abenemi, the State Secretary of PDP, Faruk Yahaya, and the State Publicity Secretary, Bode Ogunmola, said no primary was held to return a Senatorial candidate for the Kogi Eastern Senatorial District.
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The Edo Police Command on Wednesday in Benin said it had arrested 71 suspects for various crimes in different parts of the State.
The National Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday warned residents displaced by the recent flood disaster in Kogi against returning to their homes.
According to the newspaper, residents of the area speculated that the late lecturer might have died due to his frustration over the non-payment of his salaries.
The silver jubilee celebration of Iyara Day, organised by Iyara Development Movement in Kogi State, has been slated for October 20, 2018 at Iyara Town Hall by 10am.
A faction of the party led by the National Chairman, Dania Emmanuel, had earlier fixed the convention for Saturday in Abuja, a move the NEC members said was against the party’s constitution.
The authorities had predicted the flooding, saying Kogi State should be prepared for the worst along with three others
The protesters, in their hundred, carried several placards with various inscriptions.
The bulletin was signed by Onuh Edoka and Faniyi Olakunle, Chairman and Secretary of the NLC.
The directive was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Lokoja by the state chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council.
The ongoing nationwide recruitment exercise being conducted by the Federal Road Safety Corps was disrupted for hours in Lokoja on Tuesday when one of the applicants collapsed suddenly and died.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State on Monday, the leader of the forum, Hon. Shaibu Momoh, said the committee, which is in charge of screening Senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants for the 2019 election, had been bribed with N50 million to compromise their reports to favour their preferred candidates.
The state chapters of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Teachers and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees gave the commendation in a statement in Lokoja on Sunday.
The party made the call in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday in Abuja.
Sanusi Yahaya, the state’s Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, announced this at the official flag-off of the distribution on Tuesday in Lokoja.
Mustapha Maihaja, NEMA Director-General, made the declaration during an assessment visit to River Niger on Monday in Lokoja.
Governor Yahaha Bello of Kogi on Monday in Abuja updated President Muhammadu Buhari on the flood disaster that submerged more than 200 communities in 10 local government areas of the state.
This political lack, failure and inability have not only permitted the several under-developments we are faced with presently as a state, but have gone a long way to putting the state in perpetual poverty.
The Kogi government has set up temporary camps for victims of flood in Lokoja, as more houses get submerged in the confluence city.
The group, made up of young people drawn from seven local government areas of Kogi West Senatorial District, made the call in a statement issued by its Coordinator, Babatunde Alabi, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Abuja.