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Fashola orders contractors to make Benin-Auchi-Okene highway passable before rainy season

Ihesiulo Grace 10 February 2020 0

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has ordered the contractors handling the dualisation of the Benin-Auchi-Okene Highway to endeavour to complete one side of the road before the rainy season sets in. Fashola gave the directive in Benin on Monday, while inspecting the extent

Education Politics

Don rates Buhari’s performance in education low, high on security, infrastructural

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2019 0

President of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, has said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has not done anything meaningful to tackle the myriad of problems bedeviling the education sector in the country. Ogirima, a senior lecturer in the Federal College of Education (FCE) Okene, Kogi State, made the […]

Nigeria Politics

INEC explains why Gov. Bello was issued new voter card

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2018 0

…Vows not to allow underage voters in Ekiti The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Kogi State has explained why Governor Yahaya Bello was issued with another Temporary Voter Card (TVC), in Okene, last Friday. This is even as the electoral body has vowed not to allow underage voting during the July 14 governorship election […]

Politics

Faleke berates Bello for donating cars, cash to masquerades in Okene

Ihesiulo Grace 4 January 2018 0

Deputy governorship candidate to late Alhaji Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State and member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency of Lagos State, Hon James Faleke has lambasted the Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for allegedly donating cars to Masquerade. Describing the donations as the height […]

News In Brief

Truck drivers block Abuja-Okene road

Ihesiulo Grace 18 October 2017 0

Protesting tanker drivers have blocked off movement at Jamata Bridge, along the Abuja-Okene road in Kogi State. The drivers were said to be protesting the alleged killing of one of their members. More to follow