Kogi State

September 05, (THEWILL) - Professor Stephen Ocheni, a former Minister of State, Labour and Productivity has been awarded a leadership honour by Nigeria Post Newspaper. Ocheni was honoured during the 31st Anniversary of the creation of Kogi State, which was...

September 02, (THEWILL) – Any Presidential candidate, seeking to erect billboards in Kogi State, will pay N10 million to the state’s signage and advertisement agency. This followed the passage of the Kogi Signage Agency Establishment Law by the state’s House...

September 01, (THEWILL) - The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was on Wednesday, booed and pelted with sachet water by suspected hoodlums in Lokoja, Kogi State. Kwankwaso was in Lokoja, the State capital...

August 02, (THEWILL) - Governor Yahaya on Tuesday, ordered the closure of all brothels harbouring prostitutes in Kogi State. The Governor also banned the use of face masks in public places to ensure proper identification of persons in the state. Bello gave...

July 26, (THEWILL) – The Kogi State government has debunked reports of bomb explosion in its offices in Lokoja, the State capital, on Tuesday. A press statement signed by Onogwu Muhammed, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, described the reports...

The Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) is also a sourcess in Kogi over the years, specific focus under the ABP has been on agricultural commodities that have potential for significant economic benefits. These include: cassava, cocoa, cotton,...

June 13, (THEWILL) - Over 1,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)  in Kogi Local Government Area, Kogi State, have dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Announcing their defection, leader of the defectors, Alhaji Abdullahi Isah from...

June 03, (THEWILL) - At least one person has been reported dead and several others injured in an explosion at Okene in the central district of Kogi State. Sources said the explosion occurred on Thursday night, at Idoji area of...

May 30, (THEWILL) - The Kogi Police Command on Sunday, confirmed another yet to be ascertained explosion in Kabba Town of Kabbah-Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi state. This is coming less than a month after a similar incident on May...

May 26, (THEWILL) - A board member of the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission, Isah Salami, has been kidnapped in Kogi State. He was reportedly kidnapped in the early hours of Thursday, on his way to the mosque in...