By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja. A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has given a definite order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, detaining and prosecuting former governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Justice I.A. Jamil of the state High Court IV gave the order in a two-hour judgment on suit no HCL/68/M/2020 delivered on Wednesday in Lokoja. Justice Jamil declared in the judgement as “null and void” any infringement on the Fundamental Human Rights of the former of Kogi State. He said, “By this order, the EFCC is hereby restrained from arresting, detaining and prosecuting the…
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***Tells President Tinubu to caution the anti-graft agency Immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has sounded the alarm over what he described as the illegal invasion of his Anuja residence by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Bello raised the the concern in a statement from his media office on the action of the anti-graft He said Nigeria is not a lawless country, pointing out that there is a subsisting order of a state high court in Lokoja, restraining the EFCC from arresting him pending the final determination of a suite he filed against…
Yhe Kano State High Court has granted an ex parte order restraining the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, from parading himself as a member of the party. The court ordered that Ganduje must refrain from presiding over all affairs of the National Working Committee of the APC. The application waa said to have been granted by Justice Usman Na’abba on Tuesday, following an ex parte motion filed by Dr. Ibrahim Sa’ad on behalf of two executive members of Ganduje’s ward, Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Area, the Assistant Secretary, Laminu Sani and Legal Adviser, Haladu Gwanjo (plaintiffs),…
From Daniel Abel, Lafia Manager, Asset Integrity, NNPC-ATAMS Producing Dr. Musa Adamu has disclosed that production of oil in Nasarawa is being faced with some challenges hence the delay as they are still in the process of drilling to reach the reservoir. Dr. Musa gave the hint in an interview with journalists in Obi, Obi local government on Tuesday. Dr. Musa who doubled as Chairman, Obi Oil and Gas Exploration Committee explained that the current drilling activity is the Ebenyi 1 drilling site by ENSA, a branch of NNPCL in Obi. The petroleum expert with thirty years of field experience…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has barricaded the residence of the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, in Abuja. It was gathered that the operatives of the agency have taken positions around his Abuja home located at Benghazi Street, in the Wuse Zone 4 area of the city. The EFCC operatives reportedly blocked the roads leading in and out of the street, causing vehicular traffic around the area. The EFCC recently named the former Kogi governor in an amended charge filed against Alli Bello. Alli, chief of staff to Usman Ododo, the incumbent governor of the…
The National Mathematical Centre (NMC) has selected 22 students of the Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC) to participate in a 3-day Olympiad Camp. The Olympiad competition covers subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Arts, Music, Literature, History, Culture, Information Communication Technology among others. The Managing Director NTIC, Feyzullah Bilgin, in a statement on Tuesday said, “In a remarkable display of academic prowess, 22 students from Nigerian Tulip International Colleges in Nigeria have been handpicked by the prestigious National Mathematical Centre (NMC) to participate in a rigorous 3-day Olympiad Camp. “The selection of these bright minds not only highlights their exceptional mathematical…
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi has again uncorvered lopsided allocations in the 2024 federal budget Obi in his previous remarks on the budget called for a total review of the budget He insisted that there were various misplacement of priorities tilted against poor and vulnerable Nigerians Obi expressed dismay that the National Assembly Hospital was receiving whooping N15b for one year, the amount which he said is five times more than that allocated to the National Hospital and six other premier Teaching Hospitals in the country. The former Anambra Goverrnor made…
As an indigene of Kogi State from Ijumu Local Government, I am always concerned about any issue that has to do with Kogi State’s affairs and I do my best to be involved, even if modestly, in her development. I love my state and I love my people, without necessarily compromising my patriotism to Nigeria, my country. For some time now, I have come to notice that certain dark interests, often political, like to project all that is negative about Kogi State with a glee that is symptomatic of zonked-out analysts. The latest half-witted article by Tunde Olusunle on Kogi…
The President of the Senate, Godswill Obot Akpabio has has dolled out N27m to families of seven police personnel killed at Ugheli forest in Delta State on 20th February, 2024. Akpabio, while making the presentation of the posthumous awards on behalf of the Nigeria Police, announced that he would support each of the families with one million naira to pay their way back home while the Senate as an institution made a commitment to supoort the families of the deceased with N20 million. Akpabio made the pledge at the maiden edition of the Nigeria Police Awards and Commendations Ceremony which…
By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja KOGI State Government has inaugurated a 22-member Open Government Partnership (OGP) State Steering Committee comprising state and non-state actors to reinforce the state Government’s commitment to issues of Transparency, Accountability and Citizen Participation. Dr (Mrs) Folashade Arike Ayo-Ade, Secretary to the State Government (SSG) who inaugurated the Committee on Tuesday in Lokoja, said the programme would place Kogi on the global map in the areas of Transparency, Accountability and Citizen Participation. She described OGP as a multilateral initiative aimed at securing concrete commitments from national and Sub-national Governments to promote Open Government. The Partnership, she added,…