VOICE AIR MEDIA An explosion has rocked the ancient city of Okene, the headquarters of Kogi Central Senatorial district, the home town of Governor Yahaya Bello. The explosion at the governor’s home…
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Assembly candidate for Kogi nabbed with N326m, $610,500 cash
VOICE AIR MEDIA THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Yusuf Atumey,i with N326million and…
Pastor Remanded For Selling “Bulletproof” Water In Kogi
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State has remanded Pastor Peter Michonza of the New Jerusalem Deliverance Ministry, at the Federal Correctional Centre Kabba over alleged culpable homicide. The suspect…
Tragedy hits family after consuming cassava flour meal, 4 killed
Four members of a family have died in MopaMuro Local Government Area of Kogi state after eating a meal of Amala, made from Cassava flour. It was gathered that the family members…
Panic As Robbers Attack Church In Kogi Community, Steal Cash Sums, Valuables
Armed robbers have invaded a church, named the New Life Gospel Church at Sariki-Noma, a suburb of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, and carted away an unspecified sum of money, phones and…
Bello cautions traditional rulers over hosting intruders: Kogi
The Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has cautioned traditional rulers in the state against hosting hostile intruders within their domain warning that such action going forward would meet stiff opposition and resistance…
Prayer house offering blood transfusion, psychiatric services sealed in Kogi
A prayer house allegedly operated by unlicensed medical practitioners has been closed down by the Kogi state government. According to a statement by Onogwu Muhammed, chief press secretary to the governor, the…
Just In: Gunmen abduct 3 children in Kogi, demand 100m ransom
Insecurity seems to be degenerating in Kogi State. Barely a week after the murder of eight security operatives in Ajaokuta Council Area, gunmen have kidnapped three children in the area. It…
Tragedy As Mother, Three Children Die After Allegedly Eating Amala In Kogi
A Mother And her three children have died after allegedly eating Amala flour in Usugnwe-Okaito, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. It was gathered that the three children reportedly died immediately…
Rabiu jailed over Facebook posts on deaths in Kogi: Covid-19
A resident of Lokoja, the capital of Kogi, Achile Rabiu has been sentenced to two months imprisonment for allegedly spreading fake news about the rate of death in Kogi at the height…