Kogi State

The crisis over the ownership of the Obajan cement plant in Kogi State deepened on Friday as the state government and Dangote Cement Plc continued to lay claims to the facility. The management of the firm also vowed to take legal action…

The National Inland Waterways Authority has released boats to help provide services for stranded travellers in Lokoja and Koton Karfe of Kogi State. NIWA managing director George Moghalu said this in a statement signed by the agency’s…

The Kogi House of Assembly has sealed the Dangote Cement factory, Obajana, and threatened to arrest its chairman Aliko Dangote for failing to honour the legislature’s invitations. The shutdown of the Dangote Cement factory followed…

The Kogi State Government has assured Mopa residents of its determination to get to the root of the mysterious death of four members of a family after eating a local delicacy known as ‘Amala’. Four members of a family in Mopa had died…

The Kogi State Ministry of Health has described as misleading and confusing, a report of an outbreak of measles in the state. The viral online report stated that over 50 cases of measles were recorded in the state. In a statement by…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) have decorated 170 newly promoted officers in Kogi State. Speaking during the decoration of newly promoted officers at the headquarters of the command in Lokoja on Thursday, the Kogi…

The Kogi State Government, through the Ministry of Solid Minerals and Natural resources, has directed the total stoppage of illegal mining in the state. The directives followed the death of two persons in an illegal mining site after the…

The staff verification committee, set up by the Kogi State Acting Chief Judge, Justice Josiah Majebi, to probe the nominal roll of the state High Court, has discovered 268 ghost workers on the court’s payroll. The committee has also…

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has admonished commercial institutions to fix high-tech Close Circuit Television cameras around their branches, covering the banking premises and the neighbourhood. The governor made this call while…

Medical specialists on Wednesday berated the Kogi State Authorities for banning using face masks in public locations as a part of efforts to sort out insecurity within the state. They described the ban as a technique by the governor to…