•Bandits Four mourners, comprising a mother and her three children, were among nine persons allegedly kidnapped by bandits at Inele-Ugoh in Igah Ikeje community of Olamaboro Local Government of Kogi State. The incident took place in the early hours of today when gunmen numbering over 40 stormed the community, reports The Guardian. The woman an...
•Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State Six people have died, and others have been wounded in a road crash along the Lokoja–Okene road. The Kogi State Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, said the accident involved a bus carrying passengers returning from the 2025 International Day of Persons with Disabilities held yesterday at the Govern...
•Soldiers rescue kidnapped victims The troops of 12 Brigade Nigerian Army, Lokoja, rescued two kidnapped victims and recovered N3.8 million ransom meant for their release. This is contained in a statement issued by the Brigade Spokesperson, Lt. Hassan Abdullahi, today in Lokoja. According to Abdullahi, the two victims (male and female) were re...
•Bandits Bandits have abducted a woman and her two children in Kogi State and have imposed multi-million-naira levies on farming communities in Niger State as conditions for peace. In Kogi State, bandits invaded the house of one Tokpe Gody at Bareke-Egbe in Yagba West Local Government Area around 2am yesterday, abducting his wife and two [&hel...
The Kogi State Commissioner for Agriculture, Timothy Ojomah, yesterday confirmed that 15 additional corpses had been recovered from last Tuesday’s boat accident in the Ibaji Local Government Area, bringing the official toll to 35. Ojomah, in a text message to our correspondent, said almost 20 more passengers were still unaccounted for, reports...
The Kogi State government is mourning the death of victims of the boat accident which occurred on the River Niger. According to reports, the traders were travelling from the Ibaji Local Government Area of the state to Ilushi market in Edo State, on the evening of yesterday, Tuesday, September 30, 2025, when the incident occurred. […]
•Wig and Gavel The Kogi State Judicial Service Commission has ordered the compulsory retirement of a judge, Alemeru Adekunle Bamidele, of the Area Court over misconduct. The commission also suspended Magistrate Tanimu U. Muhammed from adjudicatory duties for two years and issued him a warning letter, reports The PUNCH. These decisions were tak...
•Kogi State Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo For quite some time now Kogi State, particularly Kogi West and Kogi East Senatorial districts, have been facing security problems following the invasion of killer herders and kidnappers who are on rampage in the state. The insecurity situation is in contrast to what it was during the tenure of […]...
•FRSC officials at an accident scene Six persons have died and five others injured in multiple auto crashes in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) disclosed this to journalists in Lokoja, the state capital, reports Channels TV. FRSC Acting Sector Commander in Kogi, Samuel Ogundayo, described the acci...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan The Kogi Police Command today confirmed that gunmen attacked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s (PDP-Kogi Central) family residence in Obeiba Community in Okehi Local Government Area. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Miller Dantawaye, who confirmed this in an interview with our correspondent in Lokoja today,...
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