Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) on Monday, urged the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to probe the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, over violent and inciting statements. The governor was captured on video where he appeared to have used some inciting words against his political opponents in the state which has become
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As Nigeria commenced its vaccination against the lethal coronavirus infection on Friday, Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has said he won’t receive the vaccine even as his colleagues are expected to receive shots of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days. Bello spoke on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme . He also said there
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The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has dissociated itself from a statement by a member and Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, about coronavirus conspiracy theories. Governor Bello had in a recent address said that the COVID-19 vaccines being produced in less than one year are used to introduce new diseases that will kill many. Reacting to
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The Presidential ambition of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State got a boost on Thursday as the Niger State House of Assembly endorsed him. The Niger State lawmakers also said it was the turn of the North Central geopolitical zone to produce the next President of the country come 2023. The assembly made the endorsement
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has reportedly divorced his third wife, Hafiza. Vanguard reported that this was confirmed few days ago in a remark he made while receiving an award of honour from the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS). The Governor appreciated his wives, Hajiya Amina Yahaya Bello and the First Lady, Hajiya
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The Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Mathew Kolawole, has solicited the support of legislators across the country for Gov. Yahaya Bello’s ambition to become the President of Nigeria in 2023. Mr Kolawole stated this in Jos during a visit to the Speaker of the Plateau House of Assembly, Abok Ayuba, and his colleagues to
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The Kogi State Assembly has urged Governor Yahaya Bello to contest the 2023 Presidential election. The lawmakers made the call after passing a motion to this effect during plenary, in Lokoja, on Wednesday. House Majority Leader, Hassan Abdullahi, while moving the motion said the call was predicated on the sterling performance of the Governor since
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has revealed that Governors of the 36 states received N1billion each from the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Government to cushion the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. He made this revelation on Tuesday while featuring on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily. Yahaya Bello also revealed that the Governors also signed a Memorandum
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Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello has expressed his support for the walk for peaceful protest against the dehumanizing brutality against citizens by the FSARS, police and other security agents. In his message to the Nigerian youths, Governor Bello, described the protest movement against the brutal conducts of the FSARS and other security agencies as a
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Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has on Thursday accused politicians of playing games with the lives of Nigerians amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The governor made this known while hosting the Board of Trustees of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, who paid him a visit in his office in Lokoja. The governor said COVID-19 was not
Read moreThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has queried Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello over his “manifest laidback” attitude towards COVID-19 prevention and management protocols, “resulting in spread and avoidable deaths in the state”. In a statement made available to The DAILY VENDOR, Kola Ologbondiyan,National Publicity Secretary of the party said “Our party is deeply worried over
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the comments by Kogi state Governor Yahaya Bello, that some PDP governors were planning to cross over to the crisis-ridden All Progressives Congress (APC), as childish, laughable and pathetic. The party lampooned the Governor’s claim as a desperate attempt to divert public attention from the imminent mass exodus
Read moreThe Government of Kogi State has rejected the index cases of COVID 19 in the state announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, insisting that the state had yet to record any case of the pandemic. In a press statement on Wednesday, the commissioner for health in the state, Dr. Saka Haruna Audu, described
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The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, has affirmed Yahaya Bello as the winner of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state. The petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate in the election, Musa Wada was dismissed by two of the three members of the panel.
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