Govt Receives Report On Obehia, Okengwe Crisis
By Olufemi Yahaya (Daily Independent) 7 February 2010 Kogi State government has received the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the recent Obehia/Okengwe crisis, which caused untold number of deaths and destroyed much property last December in Okene Local Government Area. While presenting the report to Governor Ibrahim Idris at Government House, Lokoja, the committee chairman, Mr. Osmond Onoja, stated that the panel was set up on December 28, 2009 to look into the immediate and the remote causes of the crisis. Onoja explained that the report was presented in three volumes, which spelt out the remote and immediate causes of the civil ...
Govt Receives Report On Obehia, Okengwe Crisis
// Feb 7th, 2010
By Olufemi Yahaya (Daily Independent)
7 February 2010
Kogi State government has received the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the recent Obehia/Okengwe crisis, which caused untold number of deaths and destroyed much property last December in Okene Local Government Area.
While presenting the report to...
Nigeria needs academic revolution – Salem VC
// Feb 7th, 2010
By SEGUN OLUGBILE (The Punch)
Sunday, 7 Feb 2010
Prof. Paul Omojo-Omaji
The Vice Chancellor, Salem University, Lokoja, Prof. Paul Omojo-Omaji, in an interactive session with journalists, speaks on the vision and mission of the two-year-old university and how corruption forced him to stay in Australia for 21 years....
Kogi CJ goes tough on ghost workers
// Feb 2nd, 2010
Vanguard
Koton-Karfe (Kogi) — The Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Nasir Ajana, has warned judiciary officers, whose relations constitute the bulk of ghost workers in the state’s judiciary, to dispense with their services immediately.
He told judiciary staff and officers at Koton-Karfe High Court, yesterday,...
Police arrest leader of Ekiti monarch’s kidnappers
// Feb 2nd, 2010
By Femi Makinde (The Punch), Ado-Ekiti
Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010
The leader of the suspected kidnappers of the Attah of Ayede-Ekiti, Oba Adeleye Orisagbemi, and the Acting Provost of the College of Education , Ikere, Dr Gabriel Olowoyo, has been arrested.
The monarch, the provost, and two officials of Agricultural Development...
URGENT NEED FOR FIRE BRIGADE
// Feb 2nd, 2010
By Buhari Omolori Sanni
The article below was published on 16th Dec. 2005
It is a common sight in Ebira land to have houses and people burnt as a result of tanker accidents. The incidents have occurred times without number and in most cases, it was due to brake failure of the tankers.
From the number of accidents...
New deans, directors for FCE Okene
// Feb 2nd, 2010
From Esther Elegbe (Peoples’ Daily), Lokoja
As part of efforts to take the Federal College of Education, Okene to a higher level, the Provost of the institution, Dr. Iyela Ajayi, has charged the newly appointed deans and directors to distinguish themselves in the discharge of their respective responsibilities....
‘Why Kogi students fail WAEC, NECO exams’
// Jan 31st, 2010
By Isiaka Wakili (Daily Trust), Lokoja
Sunday, 31 January 2010
The Kogi State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) has attributed students’ poor performances in examinations to the poor state of education in the state.
Chairman of the union in the state Comrade Ojo Ranti Mathew who spoke...
Govt to spend N4.5b on Ajaokuta Steel Complex this year
// Jan 30th, 2010
By Wole Shadare, Lagos and Auwal Ahmad, Gombe (Guardian)
THE Federal Government has earmarked N4.5 billion this year for the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, as part of efforts to ensure its full take-off.
The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Steel Development, Aminu Shehu Shagari, made this known in Gombe...
World Bank to assist Nigeria on road repairs
// Jan 27th, 2010
234next.com
January 27, 2010
The World Bank has offered to assist Nigeria in repairing the Obajana-Kabba Road in Kogi.
The Engineer in charge of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, (FERMA), Kuti Ademola, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja that talks on the road project had been concluded between the agency...
Coal Exploration – Kogi to Get Compensation
// Jan 26th, 2010
NAN
26 January 2010
Western Gold fields Group Limited, a mining company, has assured indigenes of Omalar, Dekina and Ankpa Local government of Kogi of adequate compensation for exploring coal in their land.
Dr Innocent Ezuma, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, gave the assurance at the two...
I am not a politician – Sanusi Abubakar
// Jan 25th, 2010
ALHAJI SANUSI ABUBAKAR is the CEO/MD Gamji Group of Companies and Asmau Foundation for orphans and less privileged. Recently, he mobilized experts to Ebiraland to deliver free eye treatment/eye operations to people with eye problems.
Sanusi Abubakar
Many Anebira benefited from the laudable project through free medications...
Idris Tasks Residents On Drainage System
// Jan 24th, 2010
Isiaka Wakili(Daily Trust)
24 January 2010
Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State has urged the people living around erosion waterside in Ankpa Local Government Area to protect the drainage system.
The governor recently made the appeal while inspecting the on-going erosion control project in the area.He urged the people...
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