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  The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Kogi State Chapter, has called on all aspirants preparing for the forthcoming council election to resign their positions in various areas of employment a month before the party primary. It said this was in line with Election Rules and Regulations as contained in the amended Electoral Act. The state IPAC chairman, Illiyas Badanga, made this known in a media statement issued in Lokoja. “IPAC is encouraging all political parties to follow due process as stipulated before and after the election. Election timetables have been distributed to all stakeholders for full details of the election. “Political parties are enjoined to field candidates that has competence, capacity and character to deliver dividends of democracy to the third tire of government,” the statement said.

  Jose Mourinho branded his players 'lazy' and blamed their abject opening weekend defeat to Everton on a lack of intensity. Dominic Calvert-Lewin's soaring 55th minute header was enough to give Carlo Ancelotti's side their first win away to a top six club since December 2013, ending a run of 40 matches. Everton, for whom new signing James Rodriguez excelled, dominated throughout but Mourinho claimed Tottenham's disjointed preparations attributed to a wretched performance.  Mourinho said: 'That is a consequence of bad fitness, bad pre-season.  'Some players didn't even have a pre-season. Some players had a wrong state of mind. I did not like my team today. 'We did not have the physical condition, we had no intensity. Harry Kane has trained with us once. Moussa Sissoko just twice. For different reasons, players have not been able to train.  'We had cases of positive coronavirus tests, we had other players who had to quarantine, other p

  Armed robbers again struck on Saturday along the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi State killing two brothers and injuring a policeman on roadblock duties. The incident which occurred at about 6pm in between Itakpe and Kabba Junction end of the Okene -Lokoja – Abuja expressway forced commuters and travellers to scamper for safety while abandoning their vehicles in the middle of the road. It was gathered that the victims who were brothers and from the central part of Kogi State, went to Lagos for holidays and were on their way back to their station in Katsina State when the incident occurred. Daredevil armed robbers again struck on Saturday along the Okene-Lokoja highway in Kogi State killing two brothers and injuring a policeman on roadblock duties. The incident which occurred at about 6pm in between Itakpe and Kabba Junction end of the Okene -Lokoja – Abuja expressway forced commuters and travellers to scamper for safety while abandoning their vehicles in the middle of the road.

  Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi State Council, has called on the state government to commence rehabilitation and reconstruction of bad roads in Lokoja, the state capital. This was contained in the communiqué issued after NUJ congress in Lokoja on Saturday. The congress, under the chairmanship of Comrade MomohJimoh Adeiza, noted that the roads linking Ganaja Junction to Ganaja Village and Army Barrack to Zango have become a death traps to motorists and other road users. It decried the state of the seven kilometres Ganaja road which has claimed many lives due to motorists driving against traffic to evade deplorable portions of the road. The journalists added that relevant agencies such as FERMA, KOGROMA and Ministry of Works to be mobilised to site to rehabilitate the roads to save the residents and travellers the agonies. The Congress felicitated Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello on his election victory at the Supreme Court. They acknowledged the government’s immense contributions

  “It is unfortunate that we lost the last Governorship election along with the district rerun election to the rigging power of APC.   “Though we challenged both in court, but our judiciary being what they are affirmed the election that witnessed the most physical and scientific rigging in the history of election in the state. “However, we are focused on subsequent elections. We are re-strategizing for the next stage of the election starting from the council election that the state electoral body had just released the date. We are not losing hope because it is not that the party did not perform up to expectation of its supporters.” Omofe also said the party has begun a journey for true reconciliation of aggrieved party members who fell out of the party due to positions. He called on all the party members to join hands with the leadership of the party towards building a more united front that will reclaim the state and other areas, saying Kogi remained a PDP state. Following

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement issued in Abuja, said Buhari came into office when the country was under occupation by terrorists and the treasury was wantonly being looted.   “President Buhari came into office at a time that a swathe of the country’s territory was under occupation, a period when many Nigerian towns and cities, including the capital city of Abuja, were a playground for insurgents. “It was a moment that the nation’s wealth had been looted dry, with little or nothing to show for the nation’s huge earnings, especially in the area of infrastructure,” he said. The minister said it was therefore a cruel irony that those who frittered away a great opportunity to put Nigeria on a sound socio-economic footing at a time of financial buoyancy were those accusing government of not performing. He added that it was unfortunate that those who planted the seed of the insecurity in some parts of the country were the same ones point

  The latest budget circular issued by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning has put the expenditure ceiling of the 2021 pre-bilateral proposal for the Presidency at N10 billion compared with N15.3 billion of the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, revealed this in a statement issued on Sunday by Attah Esa, Deputy Director (Information), in the Presidency. September 1, 2020 circular issued by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr Zainab Ahmed, said ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) had been directed to work assiduously to conclude the budget bilateral meetings as scheduled in order to get the 2021 budget ready for transmission to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari this month.   Federal government agencies in the Presidency have held consultations for the 2021 budget. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Umar, led the 2021 budget bilateral meeti