No fewer than 200 persons have benefited from another empowerment programme facilitated by the lawmaker representing Okene/Ogori Magongo Federal Constituency at the National Assembly. The entrepreneurship programme was organised in Ebira Muslim Community College (EMCCO) Town Hall, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State. The empowerment came a few weeks after 300…
By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City. Hearing in the case of the State vrs Iyasere of Warri, Chief Johnson Atselege and 8 others in the alleged brutal murder of the Okaighele of Kolokolo Community, in Ologbo Dukedom , Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Edo State, Nigeria , Mr Sunny Etchie, has been adjourned to 4th…
The State opposition Peoples Democratic Party says it has put adequate arrangements in place to ensure a rancour free Congress in the three hundren and thirty nine electoral wards in the state. The party spokesman, Mr Bode Ogunmola stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Lokoja today. He explained that they Men…
By Michael Jegede The Tiv professionals resident in Lagos, recently, organized a reception in honour of Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Jime on his appointment as the Executive Secretary/CEO of Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC) by President Muhamadu Buhari. The occasion held in Eko Hotel and Suite, Lagos, was graced by eminent personalities including the Minister of Transportation…
… MAKES HISTORIC VISIT TO ITAKPE CAMPUS The Governing Council of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja has approved the promotion of Five (5) Principal Lecturers to the rank of Chief Lecturers just as it approved demotion of one from Chief Lecturer to Principal Lecturer over gross misconduct. This was part of the far reaching decisions…
*Yari Condemns EFCC for freezing Benue and Akwa Ibom government accounts The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has justified why states owe workers’ salaries saying governors were not elected to pay salaries of civil servants only. Addressing journalists after NGF meeting in Abuja on Thursday, the chairman of the Forum and governor of Zamfara State, Mr….
The governor thinks that states and local governments who are closer to the people, should be getting more money. President Muhammadu Buhari (R) and Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa. [Twitter/@BashirAhmaad] Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State believes that Nigeria’s brand of fiscal federalism is skewed to favour an all powerful federal government, with states left…
Kogi State Government has promised to ensure prompt payment of counterpart contributions to foreign organizations in agriculture for food sufficiency in the States. Governor Yahaya Bello made the remarks when he received the nineth International Food Agriculture Development Mission from West and Central Africa led by Marietu Camara at Government House lokoja. The Governor in…
Our Reporters State governments including Kano, Benue, Osun, Delta, Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, Rivers and Kwara are currently owing pensioners many of whom are dying without receiving their entitlements. Labour leaders and officials of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners, who spoke to thenigerian Post in separate interviews on Thursday, said besides failing to remit the contributory…
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have nabbed three men who were allegedly involved in the kidnapping of over one 100 students of Bethel Baptist School, Kaduna. The suspects, who were dressed in military camouflage, were paraded by the Force Public Relations Officers, Frank Mba, at the headquarters of defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Abuja….
