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WRITTEN BY BALOGUN OMEIZA DAVID. How time flies. Just like yesterday, the Confluence Stadium in Lokoja, the State capital in Kogi State was filled to the brim. Faces of men, women, boys, girls, the handicapped and the aged were seen as they all trooped out in large numbers to usher in a government that was bent on charting "A NEW DIRECTION" for the state. Different bodies were present and also groups to witness this epoch making inauguration. To the glory of God Almighty the inauguration has metamorphosed into a hundred days in office for His Excellency, Alh. Adoza Yahaya Bello (AYB) and I deem it fit to congratulate this man of rare qualities and also to dissect the achievements of some of those he has saddled with responsibilities in his kitchen cabinet. Without mincing words, it is known to all and sundry that His Excellency met Kogi State swimming in the murky waters of backwardness and under development. The administration of Capt. Idris Ichalla Wada from whom our pres...

By Rekiya O. Sanni A hundred days ago, the Governor of Kogi state was sworn in. Our people and the whole country marvelled at what has been variously characterised as a miracle and an epoch-making event. The Bello Support Group (BSO) wishes to thank God for the victory of having Change instilled in our beloved State; we are grateful to God for giving us a Governor of our dreams. Indefatigable, detribalised, focused and highly motivated towards excellence. In the light of this, and the many landmark and impact feats ongoing, we congratulate His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on his one hundred days in Office, as the Executive Governor of Kogi State. We have seen the delight in the faces of the entire workforce in the state – both Local Government services, State Government services – as you have taken up the Augean task of sanitizing the Civil Service; plus the recent gesture geared towards ameliorating the working conditions of the Labour union at large state-wide. We...