Tag: Kogi State

INEC Announces Direct Transmission of Kogi State Governorship Results from PUs

29Aug

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Elections, News, Nigeria

INEC Announces Direct Transmission of Kogi State Governorship Results from PUs

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed plans to transmit the results of the Kogi State Governorship Election electronically directly from polling units to its server. The decision aims to enhance transparency, eliminate rigging, and curb electoral fraud, according to Prof. Gabriel Longpet, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Kogi. Prof. Longpet shared this information during a two-day media roundtable engagement organized by the Independent Press Center (IPC) in Abuja. He emphasized that electronic transmission of results would prevent irregularities and enhance credibility by maintaining the integrity of the results throughout the electoral process. He highlighted the importance of electronic transmission in addressing issues that typically occur...

Professor Olayemi Durotimi Accused Of Sexual Impropriety, Drunkenness

12Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

Professor Olayemi Durotimi Accused Of Sexual Impropriety, Drunkenness

The Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Lokoja (FUL), Professor Olayemi Akinwumi, is in the news again, not for anything different, but he has become associated with the same sordid acts. Information on the VC hobnobbing and allegedly having intimate relationships and carnal knowledge of female students of FUL within the confines of his favorite hotel located in Ganja have overshadowed discussion. Investigations revealed the Professor of History has a reputation for hosting nocturnal drunken parties, an extravaganza held with his gang of friends in which young female University students are delivered from the Institution he leads.One of the female students, an attendee, informed newsmen that she was invited by a friend for a night out at the NUJ hangout spot in the GRA area....

Kogi Takes Legal Action Against EFCC, says EFCC’s Mission Is Political

20Nov

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Corruption, News, Nigeria

Kogi Takes Legal Action Against EFCC, says EFCC’s Mission Is Political

Kogi State Government says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been pursuing a political agenda regarding the controversial N20bn bail-out fund the state was accused of. Gatekeepers News reports that the Kogi State Government says the EFCC’s is attempting to desperately wriggle out of a bad case with another, which is aimed at misleading Nigerians. The State said this while quoting a letter signed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, which had not said anything different from what had been said so far on the controversial N20bn bail-out fund In reaction to the press release issued by the anti-graft agency, Kogi State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, said the Government would prepare a comprehensive response to the latest of the desperat...

Gov Bello Has Made Kogi Most Backward State – PDP

25Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Gov Bello Has Made Kogi Most Backward State – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused Governor Yahaya Bello, of Kogi State of turning the state to the most backward in the country. This was disclosed by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, during a tour of the PDP offices in the state at the weekend. The opposition party said that Kogi is backward due to the “much devastation, infrastructural decay, poverty and institutionalised hopelessness” under which the people live. He lamented that Bello had “stagnated and turned Kogi into the most backward state in the country.” In a statement signed by Richard Ihediwa, Assistant Director, Publicity Unit, Office of the PDP National Publicity Secretary, the party said, “It is indeed pathetic that Yahaya Bello has resorted to fake news in his desperate forum s...

Court Requests Kogi Govt.To Pay Impeached N180m Owed Allowances Deputy Governor

4Nov

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Judiciary, News, Nigeria

Court Requests Kogi Govt.To Pay Impeached N180m Owed Allowances Deputy Governor

The National Industrial Court in Abuja has asked the Kogi State Government to pay former deputy governor of the state, Simon Achuba, who was impeached in October 2016, N180m in unpaid security votes for 16 months. Channels TV reports that he had approached the court seeking for N921,572,758 for security vote, monthly imprest, traveling allowances, outstanding memos and statutory allocations due to his office as then deputy governor. The judgment, which was read on Wednesday by Justice Oyebiola Oyewunmi, said the sum of N180m will be paid to Achuba as outstanding security votes due to him from April 2018 to August 2019. The court ordered that if the Yahaya Bello administration does not pay Achuba within the period of 30 days, 30% interest will be paid monthly. Part of the more tha...

Exclusive: Kogi Gov. Seeks NUC’s Approval to Establish Second State University

30Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Exclusive: Kogi Gov. Seeks NUC’s Approval to Establish Second State University

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State paid a private visit to the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, mni, MFR, FNAL, where he revealed the plan of his administration to float a specialised Confluence University of Science and Technology as its second state University. Governor Bello said the idea behind the university, whose Bill had already been passed into Law by the State Assembly, was to have a specialised institution that addressed the peculiar needs of the state’s immediate environment. He noted that the existence of Ajaokuta Steel Complex, gave the state a description of a ‘mining hub,’ while others like the Dangote Cement Factory and the West African Ceramic factory made the location of such an institution a big treasure. He sai...