By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The International Fund for Agriculture Development – Value Chain Development Programme (IFAD-VCDP), has distributed tricycles to farmers, processors and marketers in Kogi to improve their wellbeings and livelihoods. The distribution was flagged off by Kogi Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Timothy Ojoma, at FGN/IFAD-VCDP office on Tuesday in Lokoja. The commissioner…
By Ishaq Dan-Imam The Nigerian Ambassador to Togo, Adebowale J. Adesina, has urged Nigerians at home and abroad to promote good image of Nigeria in their chosen fields of endeavors as great representatives of Nigeria in other Countries. Ambassador Adesina stated this in Lome when a group of Nigerians bestowed with academic honours paid visit…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA), and a Non Governmental Organisation, Helpline Foundation for the Needy, Abuja, are to partner on areas to improve the lives of women and children in the country. National President of Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA), Mrs. Elizabeth Egbatokun, who led a delegation of POWA…
By Ndayagi Sulaiman A Research Scholar and Digital Forensic Expert, Isa Ali Musa, has urged professional Journalists to embrace artificial intelligence in order to be more effective on social media. Musa gave the advice while speaking with journalists at the end of a One-Day Training for CSOs and Journalists on “Effective cause of Social Media”,…
By Lami Ibrahim The Senate has been asked not to clear Hon. Olubunmi Tunji Ojo, the Ministerial Nominee from Ondo State. In a petition copied to newsmen, a Group known as Concerned Ondo Patriots, said the two term House of Representatives Member from Ondo State has alledgedly committed perjury, urged the Senate not to clear…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has inaugurated the newly constructed two-storey Administrative block built by the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH) Lokoja. It would be recalled that the former President Muhammadu Buhari had in March this year approved the upgrade of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja, to a Federal Teaching…
By Lami Ibrahim The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) Lokoja, has expressed its readiness to join the ongoing nationwide strike by NARD due to failure of Kogi State Government to meet any of their demands. The Association disclosed this in a Communique issued at the end of its Emergency Executive…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab There was pandemonium on Thursday (today) in Lokoja the Kogi State capital, when some commercial motorcyclists, Okada riders, staged a protest against leaders of their association. The aggrieved riders who barricaded some streets and major junctions in the town called for the removal of the current union executives for alleged…
By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The management of Korea – Nigeria Friendship Institute (NKFI) of Vocational and Advanced Technology Lokoja, has offered full scholarships to three talented students who built SUV jeep during an exhibition. The scholars are students of Saint Peter’s College, Idah, Kogi State, who recently wrote their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination…
… Unveils 1445 Hijrah calendar By Amuda Dan Sulaiman Fab The Kogi State chapter of Council of Ulama’u has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government on Saturday 4th Muharram to address the agonising issue of inflation in the country to reduce suffering among the masses. Speaking at the celebration of the Hijrah 1445…