Tag Archives: Kogi

Presidential Candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has commissioned a new borehole project in Onaogaji Community, Ankpa Local Government Area, Kogi State, as part of his nationwide water provision for needy communities. He commissioned the project to the delight and applause of Onaogaji citizens yesterday, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. Writing about the event, Obi ...

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has explained that his unwavering commitment to building a better nation through investing in the critical areas of human and national development – health and education – is ultimately for the good of the nation and the future of society. Obi made the remarks yesterday, when he paid a visit ...

The embattled immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, said he was ready to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja to answer to the 19-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against him. Though Bello was absent for his arraignment, he briefed a team of lawyers who addressed the court on his behalf ...

By Casmir Igbokwe When it comes to politics and elections, the three states where governorship elections were held last Saturday are hot potatoes. Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states have a history of political violence, intimidation of voters and, sometimes, outright falsification of election results. Last Saturday’s exercise was not totally different. Before the commencement of elections in the three states ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent “an urgent complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention over the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of activists Larry Emmanuel and Victor Anene Udoka simply for peacefully exercising their right to protest in Kogi state.” SERAP said: “The arrest and continued detention of Larry Emmanuel and Victor Anene Udoka is ...

Casmir Igbokwe Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has been prancing about telling whoever cares to listen that he desires to be the next President of Nigeria in 2023. To show us that he is serious, and to de-emphasise the clamour for a president of Igbo extraction, he said there was nothing like zoning arrangement in the ruling All Progressives ...

•Vows to contest Weeks after his posters surfaced in some states of the country, Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, declared at the weekend that he would contest to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The governor said his ambition was predicated on calls by Nigerian youths, women, the less-privileged, among others. Bello, at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja, however, noted ...

Casmir Igbokwe Edo State will make a good study in political chicanery of godfathers. Before the governorship election held on Saturday, September 19, 2020, it was as if war would break out in the state. The godfather himself, Adams Oshiomhole, pranced about the state in campaign summersault. Recall that, four years ago, the immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated the Governor of Kogi State on his unanimous affirmation by the Supreme Court as the winner of the Kogi governorship election held in November 2019. In a unanimous judgment on Monday, a seven-member panel of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Mohammed, dismissed for lack of merit ...

An air of uneasiness currently envelops Kogi State as parties to the dispute over the last governorship election in the state anxiously await the verdict of the Supreme Court scheduled to be handed down on Monday. The nation’s apex court is expected to deliver two judgments on the two surviving appeals on the dispute over whether or not the candidate ...