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Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu yesterday assured the Ebira Community in the State his administration’s readiness to provide social amenities and access roads to communities and villages to ease farming. The Governor gave the assurance while playing host to the Ebira Community who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.  Governor Akeredolu thanked the people for their support and loyalty, extending his greetings to his colleague in Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.  Not that alone, Governor Akeredolu used the opportunity to admonish the people on sanitation, urging them to always ensure to live in clean and serene environment irrespective of its remoteness. The Special Assistant to the Governor and Chairman of Ebira Community in APC, Honourable Hassan Ahete pledged the continuous supports of the Ebira people to the Akeredolu led- administration in the State and the re-election bid of President Mohammadu Buhari come 2019. Further, the Special Assistant re...

By Prince Osuagwu  Indication yesterday emerged that a looming telecom blackout which threatened about 13 states, including some parts of Abuja, might have been averted following the intervention of Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC.  The commission said its intervention in the dispute between telecom operators and Kogi State government led to the unsealing of telecom operators’ infrastructure in the state.  NCC said Governor Yahaya Bello had on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of telecom Base Transceiver Stations, BTS, restoring services to over 120 sites after a meeting between the governor and NCC (regulator) in Lokoja, the state capital. The governor was also said to have directed that court cases instituted by the state be withdrawn and amicable settlement reached between the telcomms and Kogi State government.  Penultimate week, the state shut down the BTSs following a standoff with telecom operators over revenue-related contention, which led the tel...

John Akinfehinwa (Daily Post) A Higher National Diploma student identified as Jacob Ufedo, and Abubakar Nuhu Sadiq a National Diploma student, both of the Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja have been arrested by the Police for their alleged involvement in armed robbery and illegal possession of fire arms. This is just as 21 others were arrested from their hideouts across the state for their involvement in kidnapping, armed robberies, cultism and other crime related activities. DAILY POST gathered that the two suspects finished their exam on the 7th of December and they are still writing their project before they were apprehended by the police. One of the suspects, Jacob Ufedo while regretting his action said this was the first time he ventured into armed robbery. According to him, “We collected a gun from one of our friends who we knew since 2016. After collecting it, we decided to make use of it since the economy is not smiling. This is the first I have robbed people of their belongi...

The aftermath of the fallouts from the last primary polls in Kogi may have started manifesting, as the Member representing Adavi/Okehi Constituency at the Green Chamber, Muhammed Kabir Ajanah has left the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ajanah who is currently the Vice Chairman, Commitee on Ports, Harbours and Waterways has now pitched his tent with the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He had contested the Senate Primaries in the Central Senatorial District of the state, which according to him was not devoid of irregularities and intimidation.  He is one out of the dozens of aggrieved aspirants in the primary elections who alleged gross misconduct and imposition of candidates.

The Senate has directed its Committee on Local and Foreign Debts to investigate allegation that the Kogi State is on the verge of borrowing the sum of $500 million (about N180 billion) from the United Arab Emirates. This was sequel to a motion raised by Senator Dino Melaye, who also pointed out that the State is already indebted to the sum of N40 billion. Melaye, who rose under Orders 42 and 52, added that the loan has been christened Loan of Debt Refinancing to avoid the Kogi State Government from approaching the National Assembly for approval. Melaye alleged that the loan would be used to fund the Kogi State and Presidential elections. He particularly expressed concern that a State, whose debt already stands at N40 billion, is borrowing N180 billion. “What it means is that the Government is borrowing to pay borrowed money,” he added. In his contribution, Senator Attai Aidoko said that it is unacceptable for the Kogi State people to accept an illegal borrowing. Aidoko added that...

If lying was a lucrative job,  Ebira Land would have been most likened to Silicon Valley, producing liepreneurs  by now ought to be competing with people like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and even Aliko Dangote. Like wildfire lit in harmattan, words recently saturated the land that popular Ikede vocalist, Onyeche Okumatete who died and was buried on Friday May 11th, 2018 had made a sudden appearance in allusion that she did not die.  To back the rumour up was an allegation that it was not only reported on Tao FM, but also stated that on the day of her funeral, a banana stem of her size was buried.  For such report similar to an unprecedented publicity stunt, Ebira Reporters spoke with sources in Tao FM who described the report as false, denying such as emanating from the people's radio.  At the time of filing this report, a close source to the family said she only heard of the report on Tuesday evening when her relative residing in Ekiti State called to v...

By Mohammed Ahmed Yabagi Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State is set to receive the Old Students of one of the oldest secondary schools in the ancient city; Crowther Memorial College, who would storm the town for a reunion. The event which is schedule to hold from Thursday, 29th November, 2018, is expected to host old students of the college from far back as the 1970s. Secretary of the planning committee and head boy of the 1988 set, Igiku Shadrack Edward, told our reporter that the event is aimed at making efforts to bring back the lost glory of the institution which was a reference point for academic prowess and discipline in the past.  He added that the reunion would also serve as an avenue to help suggest ways of raising funds to put back to shape some dilapidated structures in the school and give it its deserved look.  "Old friends who have last seen each other several decades ago would also have the opportunity of reconnecting and having positive rapport while catching u...