Confluence Reporters

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The  Federal Government on Wednesday warned broadcast stations in the country against picking results of the forthcoming elections from the social media.

More than two tons of pure cocaine from Colombia were seized at Italy’s Genoa port, in the biggest raid of the last 25 years, Italian Customs Police said on Thursday.

Venezuela’s self-declared interim President Juan Guaido has revealed “clandestine meetings’’ between opposition figures and representatives of the armed forces in a bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro, local media reported on Thursday.

Police Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers in Kogi have been directed to comb all communities under their control for illegal arms, fake police and army uniforms.

Social Democratic Party (SDP) has accused Kogi State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to rig the February 16th elections in the state in favour of her candidates.

Political Campaigns are capital intensive. The logistical aspect of it is enough to scare off the faint-hearted. Picture this if you will; If you’re contesting to be a Senator, you need to cover your district which could be made up of up to seven local government areas, like Kogi State for example.

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Abuja  A group, the Advocate for Peoples Rights and Justice, has accused Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, of using a special squad of military men to harass and intimidate opposition members in the state. It said the governor had been using the squad named “State Boat Security” to perpetrate nefarious activities in the state.

Olaleye Aluko The National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno, has said that reports reaching the security forces revealed that some politicians are planning to use bandits and terrorists to cause violence in the forthcoming general elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission has accredited 144 observer groups that will monitor the conduct of the forthcoming general elections in the country.

The ongoing political friction in Kogi Central may not end any time soon as men in military uniforms suspected to be acting the script of Kogi APC attacked OKehi LGA SDP chairman's residence, Hon. Segun James and tried to plant weapons in his house.

Supporters of Natasha Akpoti, the SDP senatorial candidate embarked on field to field campaign as part of the strategies to win more youths to support Natasha's candidacy, supporting the footballers with sport kits in each of the field visited.

Ade Adesomoju The police have early Monday sealed off the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria,  Justice Walter Onnoghen, who was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari, last Friday, sources at the Supreme Court have informed.

Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to use this golden opportunity to join the sons and daughters of Kogi central and Kogi state at large in celebrating His Excellency, Alh. Yahaya Bello Adoza, the Executive Governor of Kogi state as his clocked 3years in office and I say congratulations.

The Vice Chancellor, University of Benin (UNIBEN), Prof. Faraday Orumwense has promised automatic employment to UNIBEN graduating student, Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, popularly known as Mr Voiceover, from department of Mass Communication, for his numerous outstanding achievements around the globe, our correspondent gathered.

We may not have the impetus to challenge the power that be and the self-acclaimed kingmakers that have dragged their injustice to our threshhold, as a law abiding citizens who have freedom to decide who to support, we will continue to hoot against the undemocratic practises aimed at fronting the inordinate ambition.

A group of Kogi youths under the auspices of Kogi Young Enterpreneurs Network has launched an entrepreneurship network that will connect the young minds in the state and channel their potentials into entrepreneur.

To vastly improve your country and truly make it great again, start by choosing a better leader. Do not let the media or the establishment make you pick from the people they choose, but instead choose from those they do not pick. Pick a leader from among the people who is heart-driven, one who identifies with the common man on the street and understands what the country needs on every level. Do not pick a leader who is only money-driven and does not understand or identify with the common man, but only what corporations need on every level.

By Arogbonlo Israel A gang of hoodlums has  attacked Kogi State University, Anyigba and dispossessed students of their phones among other valuables.

By Etim Ekpimah  Some residents of Ikeja area of Lagos State, on Thursday, apprehended a man for allegedly stealing bras and pants from where they were spread.

An officer of Nigerian police and a medical doctor were reportedly killed in a surprise armed robbery attack on Thursday, at a branch of Polaris Bank located in the Oke Ejigbo area of Ila Orangun, Osun State.

Comrade Yusuf Muyiba has been declared champion of the maiden edition of Ihima Students' Union (ISU) online debate challenge.

Seun Opejobi Seun The Nigeria Police Force, NPF, on Wednesday disclosed why Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad, F-SARS, was decentralised.

By Itodo Daniel Sule Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, policemen have been deployed to flashpoints and vulnerable areas in Kogi State, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Hakeem Busari, disclosed this yesterday.

Samson Folarin, Tunji Bosun and Ademola Babalola Former President  Olusegun Obasanjo has said those in the present administration will not only go to jail, they will go to hell if their corrupt acts are exposed. He also explained why he forgave an ex-Vice-President and Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in an interview with the BBC Yoruba monitored by our correspondents. Comparing Atiku with President Muhammadu Buhari, Obasanjo said his former deputy, though not a messiah, was far better than the incumbent President.

AC Milan forward Gonzalo Higuain arrived in the UK on Wednesday and will undergo a medical at Chelsea.

The Kogi State Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the acting inspector general of the Nigeria Police, Mohammed Adamu to compel Governor Yahaya Bello to disarm political thugs that are indulging in acts of political violence across the state.

The Kogi Central Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Barr. Natasha Akpoti has disclosed plans of Gov. Yahaya Bello to frame her up for murder.

The police have refused to release the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, despite meeting his bail conditions.

...Pledges 1Million to Anyone With Information of the Murderer Kogi Central SDP senatorial candidate, Natasha Akpoti on Sunday joined members of Late Enesi Ojo to lay the remains of the deceased to rest, promising to compensate anyone that has the information about the whereabout of the murderer of Enesi with one million.

 A female thief was nabbed by a quite “ Hot” Ghanaian crowd in the PZ Area in Adum, the Central Business District (CBD) of Kumasi.

Nollywood actor Emmanuel Ehumadu Totolos aka Labista recreates 10 years ago photo carried actress, Regina Daniels.

The SDP chairman in Adavi local government, Hon. Muhammed Obeito has described the purported decamping of Adavi SDP executives to APC as a wishful thinking aimed at deceiving the public.

After his resignation, the Former Senior Special Assistant to Kogi State Governor on New Media, Odaudu Joel Minister became public on his choice of Abubakar Atiku over President Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming election, but this did not go down well with the Director-General Protocol to the State Government, Abdulkareem Asuku, hence a war of words.

The chairman, Kogi State Board of Internal Revenue Service, and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi Central senatorial district, Alhaji Yakubu Oseni has finally opened up on the allegation that he embezzled three billion naira and built an edifice with it, saying his asset declaration is more than the fucking house people are making noise about.

Old politics are doomed, as the accelerating internationalisation of the market economy is met by the continuous decline of representative democracy.

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) says the scanty attendance at the President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rallies is an indication that Nigerians are not ready to return him into office for a second term.

Barely three days after suspected APC thugs attacked and killed Enesi Ojo in Ihima, one of the supporters of SDP senatorial candidate, Barr. Natasha Akpoti, the thugs have launched another attack on kuroko II SDP ward chairman, Abdulmaleek Wokili.

...Desperate Politicians, thuggery, responsible for backwardness in Kogi Central The senatorial candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP) for Kogi Central senatorial district, Barr. Natasha Akpoti has said she is too refined to breed thugs in Kogi Central which she has always stood and defended.

" He who goes to equity must go with clean hands" -- Philosophical quote. I've read with pains and disdain several write-ups against Barr. Natasha Hadiza  Akpoti and her "Ebira Project". All the articles lacks merit and porous of verifiable facts in the real work of journalism.

Irrate youths at the family house of late Enesi Ojo, one of the supporters of Kogi Central SDP senatorial candidate, Barr. Natasha Akpoti that was killed by APC thugs in Ihima yesterday, this morning booed Okehi local government Administrator, Abdulraheem Ohiare and foiled his effort to bribe the family of decease and cover his evil.

The attention of Natasha Akpoti campaign organisation has been drawn to spurious publications making the round on social media, twisting the evil of APC leaders and their arm marauders that killed Enesi Ojo, one of the the supporters of Natasha Akpoti.

Ebira my father land has become something else all in the name of politics, we now hunt for each other as if we are in the evil forest.

Kogi Central SDP senatorial candidate, Barr. Natasha Akpoti has disclosed the reason she moved the corps of her slained supporter, Ojo Enesi to Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja.

A Passionate Appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari and Inspector General of Police to Release Senator Dino Melaye From Police Custody as Dino Will Be Re-elected Whether Detained, Dead or Alive.

Sunday Aborisade and Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The security lapses in and around the National Assembly Complex seems to have become worse, with three members’ offices looted by thieves within the week.

Olalekan Adetayo, Friday Olokor, Success Nwogu and Alexander Okere There are strong indications that names of some dead persons may be retained on the current voter register of the Independent National Electoral Commission as the commission concludes plans for the conduct of the general elections slated for February and March.

IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE Reginald Moyo Omolayo graduated from the Department of History and International Relations, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State with a first-class degree in 2018 with a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.63. He tells IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE how he was able to do well in school