Kogi Facts

29/03/2024

UPDATE: Kogi State government has paid over N800 million to secure clearance for 460 intending pilgrims from the state to perform the 2024 holy pilgrimage to Makkah.

Ismaila Isah, the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Ahmed Ododo disclosed this to Daily Trust in Lokoja.

17/03/2024

05/03/2024

UPDATE: No fewer than 53 transformers have been recovered in Kogi following the renewed efforts of Governor Usman Ododo’s administration to combat crime in the state.

The perpetrators were also said to have been arrested at Obajana on their way to Lagos.

27/01/2024

BREAKING: Usman Ododo sworn-in as Governor of Kogi State as Yahaya Bello bows out after serving for 8 years as Governor.

27/01/2024

UPDATE: Vice President Kashim Shettima has just arrived in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, for the inauguration of Ahmed Usman Ododo and Salifu Joel Oyibo as the Executive Governor and Deputy Governor of Kogi State.

24/01/2024

UPDATE: A medical doctor at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Lokoja, has revealed how a group of men stormed the hospital on Tuesday over the death of a patient and attacked workers.

23/01/2024

UPDATE: Licensed coal miners in Kogi State have expressed support for the recent impounding of 21 coal trucks by the Kogi State government and security operatives, which they said belonged to illegal coal miners in the state.

21/01/2024

UPDATE: The FCT police command has debunked reports of abduction in the River Park estate, Lugbe area.

In a statement, Josephine Adeh, spokesperson of the FCT police command, said the purported abduction was staged by a man to defraud his brother.

The suspect has been arrested.

21/01/2024

UPDATE: The Kogi State, government has announced plans to institute a policy making the payment of external and internal examination fees-free.

21/01/2024

UPDATE: Former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, and 78 other “distinguished” personalities will be presented with the Kogi State Honour Award by departing Governor Yahaya Bello next week.

19/01/2024

Governor Yahaya Bello promised, he came in, he delivered. The hope of every kogites has indeed been renewed.

16/01/2024

Kogi residents in the flood prone communities now enjoy erosion free environments. Thanks to the decisive action of GYB on the menace.

29/10/2023

Breaking News: Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Alh (Dr) Ado Ibrahim Passes Away

In a somber turn of events, the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Alh (Dr) Ado Ibrahim, has tragically passed away. Stay tuned for more details on this developing story.

23/10/2023

UPDATE: Gov. Yahaya Bello has clarified the incident earlier reported as an assassination attempt, saying it was a minor disagreement between the security details attached to him and some military personnel providing security on the road.

01/10/2023

ON THIS DAY: Alhaji Abdulmalik Attah, the son of former Ohinoyi of Ebiraland and the then high commissioner for The Federation of Nigeria lowered the Union Jack and hoisted the Nigerian flag in Britain on 1st October 1960.

Happy Independence Nigeria!

23/09/2023

UPDATE: Two former PDP governors, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris and Captain Idris Wada, have confirmed their joint support for the party's gubernatorial candidate, Senator Dino Melaye, and his running-mate, Hajia Habibat Mohammed Deen.

23/09/2023

UPDATE: Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, cleared the controversy on his relationship with the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 11 election, Usman Ododo, saying they are not cousins.

18/09/2023

UPDATE: The latest Consumer Price Index data released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics revealed that KOGI, Lagos, and Rivers are the most expensive states to live in, based on inflation rates for August 2023.

03/07/2023

UPDATE: Residents of NASFAT community, Felele phase II, a suburb of Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital, have lamented absence of power supply by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, (AEDC), for several months.

09/05/2023

Kogi Gov'ship: Ododo visits Archbishop Onaiyekan.

The Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the November 11th governorship election, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo has paid a visit to the Archbishop of the Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, John Onaiyekan in Abuja.

28/04/2023

UPDATE: The APC gubernatorial candidate, Alhaji Ahmad Ododo, paid a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari along with Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.

This meeting comes ahead of the Kogi State governorship election, which is set to take place in November.

21/02/2023

UPDATE: The Executive Director, of Rural Electrification Fund, Dr Sanusi Ohiare (), has joined the race for the Kogi State governorship election.

21/02/2023

UPDATE: Senator Yakubu Oseni representing Kogi Central Senatorial District has today joined the November 2023 Kogi governorship race.

04/12/2022

UPDATE: Kogi State Governor, H.E Governor Yahaya Bello () conferred with the highest honour of Rivers State, Grand Service Star of River State (GSSRS) by Governor Nyesom Wike.

01/12/2022

UPDATE: The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello has pre­sented an estimated budget of N172,090,787,00 for the year 2023 for consideration by the Mem­bers of the Kogi State House of Assembly.

The 2023 budget tagged: “Bud­get of Transformation”

01/12/2022

UPDATE: Dangote Industries Limited has asked the High Court of Kogi State to stay further proceedings in the suit filed against it by the State Government over the Obajana Cement dispute.

01/12/2022

UPDATE: Kogi State Government has signed an MoU with Chinese investors for the provision of technology security architecture to track movement in and out of the state from a central control centre.

The project is expected to create 685,000 jobs & attract over N591bn investment.

18/10/2022

UPDATE: Kogi Court Jails ‘Yahoo Boy’ 5years for N56.3m Fraud

A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced 23-year-old Yusuf Salawu, from Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State to five years imprisonment without option of fine.

10/10/2022

UPDATE: Parts of the Kogi state house of assembly complex in Lokoja have been gutted by fire.

The incident occurred on Monday morning — but the cause of the inferno is yet to be ascertained.