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Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, has announced the appointment of Dr. Folashade Ayoade as the Secretary to the State Government. Ayoade, was the SSG in the last eight years of the immediate past Governor, Yayaha Bello. The governor also announced Ali Bello, a nephew to Yahaya Bello, as the Chief of Staff. The new CoS to the Kogi governor is being prosecuted by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 18 counts bordering on money laundering and misappropriation of about N3 billion.

The counsel for the second and third defendants, Abdulwahab Mohammed, also a SAN, informed the court of his application for the...

5 min read Despite glaring evidence of acute under testing for coronavirus in Kogi, the state governor, Yahaya Bello, claims a widespread testing campaign ia being undertaken in the state and nobody has been infected. Reaffirming his controversial claims that there is no coronavirus infection in the state, Mr Bello, in an interview aired on Channels TV on Sunday said, “in Kogi, we say we have no COVID-19 and actually as a matter of fact, we have no COVID-19.” The governor has repeatedly criticised the coronavirus response strategy in Nigeria, a situation that pitted him ag...