The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of Miller Dantawaye as the new Commissioner of Police (CP) for Kogi and Betty Otimenyin for Edo. The Head of Press and Public Relations of PSC, Mr Ikechukwu Ani said this…
An auto crash involving an articulated vehicle in Kogi on Tuesday left six persons dead and 60 persons injured, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) official has confirmed. Mr Samuel Oyedeji, FRSC Kogi Sector Command, who made the disclosure to…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it arrested 284 suspects between January and December 2024 in Kogi State. The agency said during the period, it also confiscated 5,232,575kg of illicit drugs and counterfeit currency worth 2 million U.S.…
Suspected arsonist have set ablaze the palace and properties of a self acclaimed monarch, HRH Emmanuel Akamisoko Dauda-Shelika, Nyamkpa IV, in Kogi State. Newsmen gathered that the monarch’s vehicle and other properties within the palace were burnt in the incident…
The Kogi State Government has ordered the immediate closure of Zango Market in Osara and banned the roadside parking of trucks in the vicinity. The move was in response to the growing security concerns in Osara and its surrounding areas.…
…set-up investigation panel By Seun Ibiyemi The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has sent an emergency rescue team to search for missing passengers as a merchant boat capsized in the waters of Ebe community in Kupa South Local Government Area…
The Kogi Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in partnership with the State Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), has vaccinated more than 200,000 livestock against anthrax. The State Project Coordinator of Kogi L-PRES, Dr Olufemi Bolarin, disclosed this…
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has urged communities in flood-prone areas to immediately relocate to highland as the Benue and Niger rivers approached danger thresholds. The Director-General of NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, gave the advice on Thursday when he led the…
There was commotion at the Supreme Court on Friday as the apex court delivers judgment in the governorship election disputes in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. The court had fixed today, Aug. 23 for the final judgment of the Nov. 11,…
Gov. Usman Ododo of Kogi, on Tuesday, presented additional 11 cars to judges in the state. Ododo, while presenting the cars to the state Chief Judge, Justice Josiah Mejabi, at Muhammad Buhar Square, Lokoja, promised to deliver the last batch…
