Confluence Reporters

The leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the order for the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.

The Nigeria Immigration Service and its Ghanaian counterpart have begun reconciliatory talks over the recent deportation of four Ghanaian nationals by Nigerian authority.

Workers in the employ of the Kogi State judiciary are groaning over many months of unpaid salaries following a lingering impasse between the executive and the judicial arm of government.

The majority leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, will on Sunday officially declare his intention to run for office of the speaker in the ninth assembly.           Majority Leader of the House of       Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

Adams Oshiomole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has alleged that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) worked against his party in the just-concluded general election.

President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to Ajaokuta Steel Company Completion Fund Bill, and four other  bills that were passed by the National Assembly and forwarded to him to sign into law, The Will Nigeria reports.

National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has lauded the Kogi State Hajj Commission (KSHC) for its early preparation ahead of 2019 hajj exercise.

Mr Yisa Usman, Kogi Coordinator of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it was faced with shortage of accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres in the state.

Chairman, Kogi state council of the United Labour Congress (ULC), Comrade Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon has called on the state government to change its attitude towards civil servants and pensioners.

An illegally-built 57-million-euro ($64 million) Tuscan-style palatial property in southern France has been ordered demolished in a long-running judicial battle between a French property developer and his multi-millionaire British neighbours.

Peter Dada An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, on Wednesday, sentenced one Adeyemi Seidu to death by hanging for killing his girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo.

The candidate of Social Democratic Party in the last senatorial election in Kogi Central, Barr. Natasha Akpoti, Tuesday, reiterated her commitment to seek for justice at the tribunal which said will reform INEC. Natasha H Akpoti 

Out of probably the most Intriguing elections ever to be held in Nigeria, some EMERGED as Superstars who hold the future of much of our POLITICS, set the Standards, faced the Demons and won, beat the Odds, lost their Bids but can SHAPE the country going forward.

Femi Falana A senior Nigerian lawyer, Femi Falana, has threatened to go to court if the Muhammadu Buhari administration goes ahead to allocate oil blocks to private individuals and corporate bodies.

The storyteller appeals to the mind and appeals ultimately to generations and generations and generations -Chinua Achebe

The SDP senatorial candidate for Kogi Central in the last senatorial election, Barr. Natasha Akpoti has rebuilt the houses of her supporters destroyed by alleged APC thugs during campaign period.

Leaked audio conversation between the Administrator of Okehi local government, Abdulraheem Ohiare and INEC official has emerged to show how Kogi APC bribed the state INEC to rig Kogi Central senatorial election. Abdulraheem Ohiare 

…Suspended CJN to file no-case submission Ade Adesomoju The Federal Government on Thursday closed its case of false and non-declaration of charges preferred against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

In the last eight months, Kogi state judicial staff who, in the past, were the first among the civil servants to receive salary alerts at the end of every month, had in recent times been lamenting  non-payment of their salaries for months.

The newly sworn-in Kogi East senator, Isaac Alfa, on Wednesday said he would sponsor a bill for the federal government to recognise Kogi as an oil-producing state.

My attention has been drawn to rumors making the rounds that I Sani Idakwo Philips of the Social Democratic Party (SDP)  has decamped to the All Progressive Congress (APC) alongside other candidates of our party in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Former Kano governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Tuesday said that the governorship supplementary election scheduled for Saturday in Kano State would determine the credibility of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State on Monday announced that the state owned university would soon commence admission of pioneer students in 2019.

Kemi Busari The Nigerian Senate has approved N30, 000 as minimum wage for workers in Nigeria.

It was Frederick Douglass who said "where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe". Where injustice rules, preaching peace and love would rather be a thing of mockery to the victims.

Stephen Adeleye. The Commander, Command Army Records, Major General Elvis Njoku, has reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Army to attaining greater heights in maintaining the security in the nation.

Tunji Bosun The Ogun State Governor,  Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday likened his remaining two months in office to the last lap of a long-distance race.

Etim Ekpimah A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has sentenced one Akeem Lawal to death by hanging for shooting and robbing his stepmother, Taibat Lawal, and stepsister, Sherifat Olanipekun.

The Federal Government has disclosed that parents who refuse to send their children to school will soon be criminalised, adding that such parents may also be prosecuted.

A UN fact-finding mission says Israeli forces committed rights violations during their crackdown against Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip last year that may amount to “war crimes,” urging the regime’s military to prevent its snipers from using lethal force against the demonstrators. Palestinian demonstrators protest under tear gas canisters fired by Israeli forces during a demonstration near the fence along the border with the occupied territories, east of Gaza City, on February 8, 2019. (By AFP)

Thousands of demonstrators rallied around Serbia’s presidential palace in Belgrade on Sunday, accusing President Aleksandar Vucic of authoritarianism and muzzling the media.

Tunji Bosun An ex-Governor of Ogun State and Director-General of Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Gbenga Daniel, said that his political supporters have pleaded with him to lead them to the ruling All Progressives Congress.

More than 100 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds.

Whilst the modern science has done a great job in overturning unimaginable calamities and made life easy, death continued to be the greatest challenge yet to be surmounted.

Mr Utitofon Ukpong, in the middle (on a blue wear), shortly after he was geanted bail by the court in Uyo.

Trump and the mainstream Western media are partially responsible for Friday's massacre of Muslims in two mosques in New Zealand, according to British journalist and writer Yvonne Ridley. White politicians like US President Donald 

You don’t know me. I am sorry for introducing myself after sitting at your table, eating all your beverages and wallowing in your bathroom basin of lots of soupy dishes. I have made it a responsible for myself to pay you the truest respect, which won’t even be the last. I have said, even in the grave, you remain forever.

The SDP Senatorial candidate for Kogi Central in the last senatorial election, Barr. Natasha Akpoti has taken INEC,  APC,  and Alh. Yakubu Oseni to tribunal to challenge the outcome of the election she alleged to have been rigged in favour of Kogi Central APC senatorial candidate, Alh. Yakubu Oseni.

Kyunghee Park and Angus Whitley Boeing grappled with more groundings of its most important airliner as operators from Brazil to South Korea idled the 737 Max following a second deadly crash, throwing the US manufacturer deeper into crisis.

Many number of primary school pupils yet ascertained feared dead on Wednesday after a three-storeyed building at Ita Faji, Lagos Island, collapsed around 10am.

These are not best of times for the people of Kogi State. The outcome of the just concluded House of Assembly elections across the state leaves much to be desired. While we decried the present crop of lawmakers in Kogi State House of Assembly, the next crop (7th Assembly) might be the worst in the history of the confluence state.

Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory Territory, FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kogi West, Tuesday said that arrangements have been concluded to put in place, a conference that would check what he described as incessant and indiscriminate harassment of the people by governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.

Through the short period on earth, I've watched the powerful men of yesterdays become helpless as death struck when they thought they were at the pick of their goals. I've watched presidents, powerful politicians, military generals, and respected scholars dragged to the mudy earth and left at the mercy of termites and thunderous rain.

Ezekiel Afon, lawmaker representing Pengana constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, has died hours after he was re-elected to represent the constituency.

The SDP senatorial candidates for Kogi Central in the last National Assembly Elections, Barr. Natasha Akpoti on Sunday described the death of Kogi born erudite Professor Pious Adesanmi as a great loss to the people of Kogi state and Nigeria at large. Late Prof. Pious Adesanmi 

The SDP senatorial candidates for Kogi Central in the last National Assembly Elections, Barr. Natasha Akpoti has embarked on reconstruction of her supporters' houses burnt during the campaign period by suspected APC thugs.

Without mincing words, contemporary Ebira narrative will definitely be incomplete without dedicating a larger portion to Barr Natasha Hadiza Akpoti, the woman who out of mountainous challenges and impediments showed the strength and relevance of women in societal building and gives hope to thousands of other women within and outside the shores of Kogi State. Natasha H Akpoti 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State has won all the six legislative seats in the central senatorial district of the state at the Saturday's House of Assembly elections.

… Says he is been sponsored by Administrator to snatch ballot boxes. The Police in Yagba West LGA of Kogi state have arrested one Segun Olu, a suspected political thug in Egbe found with a pistol in Isaba polling unit.

#AkwaibomDecide2019 At Ward 10 Unit 9, some alleged APC armed thugs tried to hijack electoral materials.