The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Tuesday approved the immediate implementation of the N30,000 new national minimum wage for the state workforce with partial consequential...
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the immediate posting of Mr. Edward Chuka Egbuka to Kogi State as the new commissioner of police....
The Kogi State government has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding N35 billion damages over what...
The Kogi State government accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of trying to mislead Nigerians on the N20 billion bailout fund. The commission said...
Police operatives in Kogi have arrested three suspected kidnappers in the state. The spokesman of the state police command, William Anya, disclosed this in a statement...
Three suspected kidnappers operating along the Itobe – Anyigba Highway have been arrested by the Kogi State Police Command. Police operatives attached to Itobe Division under...
The Kogi State government on Sunday dared the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make public, the report of its investigations on the purported misappropriation...
The Kogi State Government on Friday insisted that it is innocent of accusations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the wake of the...
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has confirmed the attack on the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC) in Kabba, Kogi State, by unknown gunmen in the early...
Hundreds of prisoners at the Medium Federal Correctional Centre in Kabba, Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State, have escaped, after heavily armed gunmen attacked the...
The joint suit by Lagos and Rivers States to challenge the collection of Value Added Tax by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has resulted in...
The Federal Fire Service has decried Wednesday’s attack on firemen by hoodlums in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, threatening to pull out of any state that...
Two groups known as Global Rights and the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) have decried the poor regulation of artisanal and illegal mining activities in...
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said on Wednesday the state has become the first oil-producing state in Northern Nigeria. Bello disclosed this to State House...
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Tuesday described the report on the freezing of the state’s account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The Kogi State government has threatened to take legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N20 billion salary bailout funds...
The Kogi State government on Wednesday confirmed 129 cases of cholera and eight deaths in the state. The state’s Epidemiologist, Dr. Austin Ojotu, who disclosed this...
Unknown gunmen allegedly shot dead two policemen at a checkpoint in Kabba, headquarters of Kabba/Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi state. An eyewitness stated that the...
The abducted Kogi medical doctor, Dr. Solomon Nidiamaka, has regained freedom. Nidiamaka, who is a staff of the Kogi General Hospital in Ugwolawo, Ofu local government...
Gunmen on Monday abducted a medical doctor, Solomon Nidiamaka in Kogi State. Nidiamaka, who works with the General Hospital at Ugwolawo, Ofu local government area of...
The abducted monarch in Kogi State, Alhaji Mohammed Adambe, has regained his freedom. Adambe, who is the traditional ruler of Eganyi, was kidnapped along the Okene-Ajaokuta...
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the timetable and schedule of activities for the party’s congresses in nine states of...
Justice Tenimu Mohammed of the Kogi State Magistrate Court, Lokoja, on Wednesday sentenced a student of the state polytechnic, Shehu Mohammed, to eight years imprisonment for...
Professional hunters in Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State, in the early hours of Tuesday, gunned down two kidnappers, while they were collecting ransoms to...
Police operatives in Kogi State have arrested four suspects over alleged illegal possession of arms and ammunition. The spokesman of the state police command, William Anya,...
Local vigilantes in the Gegu-Beki community in Koton-Karfe local government area of Kogi State on Tuesday chased out kidnappers who stormed the community to abduct a...
A newly constructed bridge that cost millions of Naira has collapsed in Kogi State a week after it was completed by the Governor Yahaya Bello administration....
The abducted council chairman of Yagba West Local government chairman in Kogi State, Pius Kolawole, has regained his freedom in the late hour of Wednesday night....
The Police Command in Kogi has stormed a kidnappers’ den and rescued a man abducted on April 25 at PYN junction on Ajaokuta-Lokoja road. This was...
The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Saka Haruna, on Monday, expressed the state’s readiness to start administering the COVID-19 vaccine to its residents, noting that the...
A former federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye, on Sunday night knocked the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccines after receiving palliatives...
The Federal Government has delivered the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 to 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to...
The Senate on Wednesday, March 3, mandated its Committee on Power, to liaise with the Federal Ministry of Power and develop on necessary steps for immediate...
The Kogi State government on Tuesday hit back at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), over the agency’s labelling of the state as a high...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF) has named Kogi, Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa and Kebbi as ‘absolute high risk’ states for Nigerians to go as the...
The state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Solomon Aghure, has confirmed that Fourteen people lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident...
At least 17 people died on Tuesday in a ghastly auto crash along the Okene- Lokoja – Abuja highway in Kogi State. The Federal Road Safety...
The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Saka Audu, said on Wednesday suspected hoodlums invaded the state’s Central Medical Store and vandalised medical equipment and consumables...
The nationwide looting of COVID-19 palliatives warehouses has reportedly claimed four lives in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, with several others injured. According to reports, the...
Some unknown gunmen have struck again in Okofi community under Kogi Local Government Area, killing three persons, while several others sustained various degrees of injuries. The...
Gunmen on Tuesday abducted two medical doctors in Kogi State. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) which confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday in Lokoja,...
A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Friday ordered the remand of a 69-year-old traditional ruler in Adavi local government area of the...
The Kogi State Executive Council on Wednesday approved a set aside fund of 1.56billion naira under the Kogi Care Initiative planned towards economic recovery and stimulus....
Unknown gunmen on Wednesday morning killed 14 people in Agbudu community, Kogi-Koton-Karfe local government area of Kogi State. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Ede Ayuba, who...
Commuters travelling to and from the nation’s capital, Abuja, were stranded overnight as two trucks reportedly belonging to a cement manufacturing company collided on the ever...
The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday said two robbery suspects, who were declared wanted a week ago, have been arrested in Lokoja, the Kogi State...
Governor Yahaya Bello-led government of Kogi has inaugurated a new Chief Judge (CJ) for the state. The new CJ, Justice Henry Olusuyi’s swearing-in ceremony was held...
The Kogi State government has reacted to a reported treatment of a COVID-19 index case identified as Chief Imam of Kabba, Shiek Ahmed Ejibunu and his...
The drama of whether or not covid-19 exists in Kogi State has taken another dimension , as the family of the index case in the state...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has said that there was nothing controversial in the confirmation of two Covid-19 cases...
