kogi state

A Nigerian lady has recounted how she and other passengers were attacked by bandits at Okene, in Kogi state recently. In the viral video that she recorded after the…

Justice Josiah Majebi of a high court in Kogi state has sentenced a Nigerian man, Muritala Dare, to death after finding him guilty of the murder of his colleague. Dare…

The Kogi State Police Command has commenced investigations into a trending video were Police personnel attached to Adogo Division, while on patrol duty along…

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command to immediately carry out discrete investigations into…

Femi Fani-Kayode has come out to defend his friend, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state who has been accused of fixing N20 billion of the state funds in a private…

Kogi state's salary bailout account domiciled in Sterling Bank Plc has been frozen by a federal high court sitting in Lagos, over a N20 billion loan obtained from the…

A Commissioner in the Kogi State Pension Board, Hon. Adebayo Solomon (Akeweje) has been killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday evening, May 1. According to reports, he…

The Kogi government has accused the Presidential Task Force on COVID19 of trying to scare investors away from the state after classifying the state as a ''High Risk''…

Gunmen suspected to be bandits in Kogi State have kidnapped 18 traders from Kano State who were on a journey to Abia State to purchase their wares. DailyTrust reports…

A Saudi Arabia-based oil expert, Ogacheko Atanu, has been killed by suspected assassins in his residence in Idah, Kogi State on Sunday, January 10. Atanu was said to be…

Suspected bandits have beheaded a court worker, Suleiman Abdulkareem, while he was working on his farm in Bagana community in the Omala Local Government Area of Kogi…

Unknown gunmen have abducted the Medical Director of Peace Hospital, Ayingba, Dr. Azubuike Joel Ihenacho. The Chairman of the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical…

Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello has claimed that Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, and eight more PDP governors, are on their way to join the ruling All…

Kogi state residents have located a warehouse where the COVID19 palliatives donated to the state were being kept. Like in every other state, they carted away as much of…

Gunmen have abducted two doctors working in Kogi state. The victims identified as Dr Ebiloma Aduku of the Zonal Hospital Ankpa and Kelechi Mgbahurike of Christ the King…

At least 25 persons were burnt to death after a petroleum tanker exploded in the Felele area in Kogi state this morning September 23. Those said to have perished in the…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended the United States government for imposing a visa ban on individuals found guilty of undermining democracy and the…

A former governor of Edo State and ex-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, is reportedly among top Nigerians slammed with a visa ban by…

Security agencies in the country have been put on red alert following an intelligence report that the Boko Haram sect might have begun to lay siege on the Federal…

A welcome party for Adama Inidimi and her husband, Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim, was held in Ebiraland in Kogi state on Saturday, August 15. The welcome party was held in…

Tragedy struck in Agudu, a community in Bassa, Kogi/Koton-Karfe LGA of Kogi State on Wednesday, July 29, after suspected bandits stormed the community and killed 13…

Three alleged kidnappers were killed in a gun battle and two of their informants arrested early Saturday morning along Lokoja-Okene highway by a team of hunters and…

Two naval officers, a male and a female, were shot dead by yet to be identified persons along the Lokoja-Okene Expressway in Kogi State today July 9. According to…

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Kogi Governor Yahaya Bello. In a judgement delivered today July 4, the five-man panel of justices of the court…