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Adavi LGA Team The long awaited and loudly talked-about Kogi Central Football League 2014 eventually started on a promising ground on 24 th August, 2014. Thirty viable football clubs, with a total of nine hundred players and management members are featuring in the soccer fiesta. The football league project which is tagged “football for peace and development” is to herald the proposed Kogi Central Annual Sport Festival due from 2015. In a chat with Comrade Sheik Mamman, the President-General, Ebira Youths Congress (EYC)- the organizer of the League, it was made clear that the league was primarily conceived to mobilize and sensitizes the teaming youths of the land into productive venture in the over all socio-economic interest of the district, the state and nation as a whole. “Football is the ink thing over the world. It has since constituted itself into a rallying point, and as a strong unifying and centrifugal force”. “The league project goes beyond enter

If the recent publication in the August-September edition of National Image magazine is anything to go by, there are strong indication that the serving senator of Kogi central senatorial district, Nurudeen Abatemi has a low rating on the public scorecard. See report below: Senator Nurudeen The dynamics of politicking peaks in Kogi Central Senatorial District and the centre of attraction is the Senatorial seat currently occupied by Senator Nurudeen Abatemi. He wishes to seek for a second term but opposition mounts against his desire. Who are those working to unseat Nurudeen and can he weather the storm? Our political correspondent writes on the issues involved. Since the inception of the present political dispensation three and half years ago, Senator Nurudeen Usman Abatemi, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District of Kogi State stands low because of self pride, arrogance and his inability to reach out to the electorates. But the outspoken Senator who criticized past senat

By Ismail M. Kabir Exactly two weeks after a family of three was fatally killed by a Dangote trailer upon their return from a Jumuat (Friday prayer) around Idoji area of Okene, another rider was crushed to death Friday 5th October 2014 around noon. The accident occurred just before the entrance gate of the Okene division of the Nigerian police station in Lafia Okene. Residents of the area were said to be wailing at the horrible sight of the crash which sent chilling shiver s down their spine. Eye witness accounts held that the unidentified Okada rider was conveying two Fulani passengers, running at full speed within the tight traffic on the Okene township road when he erroneously maneuvered his way into a narrow space between two long vehicles. The rider was said to have lost control as the motorcycle was hit from both trailer, crushing the rider to death beneath the vehicles with his brain splashed on the road. Miraculously, the two passengers survived with minor injuries. As sy

By Ismail M. Kabir I may not know about measures adopted by other Nigerian banks in the nationwide public sensitization on Ebola Virus Disease but with my experience today in Lokoja, I think Guarantee Trust Bank is getting more precise in the fight against the spread of the deadly virus. Just as customers approach the Lokoja branch of GTB, they're greeted by a friendly security guard who leads every customer with his charming smile towards a transparent plastic container where they're politely requested to wash their hands. Afterwards, the guard who appeared to be specially trained for this 'added' task proceeds to point his handheld Ebola scanning device at the customers' ears and other parts of the body before waving them a welcome to GTB. Cautious as it may appear, it was evident that not all customer was comfortable with the 'unsolicited hand wash'. Yet, some fun seeking folks were requesting for an extra treat after completing their transaction as a

WORKERS of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex have expressed dismay over recent statement allegedly made by the Chairman of the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), Alhaji Kola Belgore that the Federal Government was wasting N3.4billion monthly vote on Ajaokuta Steel Mill.     The reports credited Belgore as allegedly saying that government was currently paying workers for doing nothing at Ajaokuta. Belgore, was alleged to have said this in Ilorin during an award ceremony in honour of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba,   AIG Ambrose Aisabor, Corps Marshal of the FRSC and three other alumni of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS) Kuru, Jos.    In a swift reaction the Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ISSSAN) and The Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria (SEWUN) at a joint press conference in the company premises yesterday said the comments were capable of discouraging willing investors and aborting the d

WORKERS of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex have expressed dismay over recent statement allegedly made by the Chairman of the Assets Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), Alhaji Kola Belgore that the Federal Government was wasting N3.4billion monthly vote on Ajaokuta Steel Mill.     The reports credited Belgore as allegedly saying that government was currently paying workers for doing nothing at Ajaokuta. Belgore, was alleged to have said this in Ilorin during an award ceremony in honour of the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba,   AIG Ambrose Aisabor, Corps Marshal of the FRSC and three other alumni of the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS) Kuru, Jos.    In a swift reaction the Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ISSSAN) and The Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria (SEWUN) at a joint press conference in the company premises yesterday said the comments were capable of discouraging willing investors and aborting the dreams of N

By Ismail M. Kabir It has come to our notice the deplorable state of Okengwe general hospital at a period that Nigeria is confronted with the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). During a recent assessment visit to the hospital by concerned citizens of Ebiraland to ascertain areas of need, the hospital was found to be in a highly deplorable, inhuman and unclinical state that demands urgent intervention. Patients lamented the sorry state of the hospital which they blamed on undue negligence on the part of the state government. Patients and their caregivers bitterly complained about inadequate drugs and sanitary materials in the hospital. They also berated the lack of beddings and related equipments required to aid speedy recovery of admitted patients. The hospital which is supervised by Hospital Management Board has evidently not enjoyed structural maintenance for many years. Leaking roofs, bushy premises, damaged plumbing works and deteriorated window frames portr