The Kogi State Government has ordered the freezing of all state and local government accounts with immediate effect. A statement by the Commissioner for Finance, Asiwaju Asiru Idris said no imprest or any form of payment should be made to anyone from government accounts henceforth. According to the statement, “all standing orders and investment instructions are hereby cancelled forthwith. “All …

The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Tuesday, said he accepts the Appeal Court’s verdict affirming Mrs. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the duly elected Senator for Kogi Central. “I accept the decision of the appeal court and I use this opportunity to congratulate my sister, Barrister Natasha as a senator of the Kogi Central …

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has denied reports of an assassination attempt on his life. On Sunday, the state government had announced an assassination attempt on the governor, which it said happened a few kilometres away from Abuja, on his way to an official engagement from Lokoja, the state capital. In a statement, the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kingsley …

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command said it has commenced an investigation into Sunday’s evening alleged attack on Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaha Bello, a few kilometres away from Abuja. In a late Sunday night telephone interview with The PUNCH, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba said: “We’re investigating”. According to the Kogi State Government, there was an assassination attempt …

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has said that his ambition for now is to help President Bola Tinubu to succeed. Bello was one of the major presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. The governor pointed out that all Nigerians would succeed if President Tinubu succeeded. At an interactive session with journalists at the third Annual GYB …

Kogi State State Governor Yahaya Bello has approved a 100 per cent increment in the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to the state for their mandatory one-year service. In a statement in Lokoja, the state capital, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Mohammed Onogwu, said the governor made the approval considering the …

Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello signed five Bills into law on Monday, according to his Chief Press Secretary of Kogi State, Onogwu Muhammed. In a statement, Onogwu praised Bello for signing several Bills into law, which included that establishing a health science and technology college, providing for the retirement of teachers, establishing a roads fund management board, and allowing …

Since he became governor over seven years ago in circumstances which remain fuzzy, Yahaya Bello has left no one in doubt about his totalitarian grip on the north central state of Kogi. He is the be-all-and-end-all of the potentially rich, but pathetically indigent and decrepit state, whose style reminds of that of the infamous King Louis XIV in French history. …

Ahead of the Kogi State’s primary election for the governorship of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Yahaya Bello has declared Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, the state’s Auditor-General, as his preferred candidate. As a result, the governor’s Chief of Staff, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulkareem Asuku, a pharmacist; and Deputy Governor Edward Onoja withdrew from the race. This was announced at the …

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will convincingly win next month’s election. Bello, who was featured on Channels Television‘s Politics on Sunday, said because he believes in the capacity of APC’s standard bearer, he and other leaders in the north were solidly backing Tinubu and working for him …