Lokoja in a sentence

He listed the properties slated for sale to include: the Confluence Beach Hotel, Lokoja; Kogi Hotels, GRA, Lokoja; Kogi State Liaison Office, Ikeja, Lagos GRA; Kogi State Liaison Office, GRA, Kaduna; and Lokoja International Market, Lokoja.

September 23, 2020 was a black Wednesday for residents of Kogi State; no fewer than 30 of them were feared roasted in an inferno resulting from the explosion of a fuel laden tanker at Felele, outskirts of Lokoja on the Abuja-Lokoja-Okene/Kabba expressway.

Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Prince Matthew Kolawole has been elected as the President of the oldest Club in Nigeria, Lokoja Club 1901 at the Annual General Meeting of the club held in Lokoja yesterday.

He gave the ruling on the bail application before a Lokoja High Court on Thursday in Lokoja.

Tragedy struck on Monday when a lecturer with the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Mr. Yakubu Nataala, reportedly slumped and died at his Kogi Poly quarters’ residence in Lokoja.

Abubakar made the pledge while addressing a mammoth crowd at the Kogi Confluence Stadium, venue of the PDP Presidential Campaign rally in Lokoja.

A statement issued by his media aide on Monday, Mr Onogwu Mohammed in Lokoja, said that the governor made the remark while receiving PDP defectors from Adavi Local Government Area of the state.

Gabriel’s birthday celebrations took place at the Ministry of Mercy orphanage, Crusher, Lokoja, shown in love and generosity to children who were under the care of other persons.

In a press release made available to newsmen in Lokoja on Sunday, Comrade Bala Oma said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu “is a mere placeholder for the real winner of the elections, Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party”.

In a statement issued in Lokoja by Bello’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Onogwu Muhammed, the governor urged the people to align themselves with the universal values of peace, kindness, love and respect for others being promoted by the Islamic faith.

In the letter, Mustapha said, “I am directed to refer to your letter dated February 10, on the upgrade and takeover of FMC Lokoja to a Federal Teaching Hospital, 2023.

Kogi west has seven local government areas- Kaba Bunu, Kogi/Koto Karfe, Mopa Muro, Ijumu, Yagba East, Yagba West and Lokoja.

Ofili was arrested over the interception of his consignment containing 106,800 pills of tramadol sent to him from Onitsha, Anambra state, along Okene-Lokoja highway.

Oluwabukola said her husband went to Lokoja with copies of his medical reports to appeal for a reversal of the deployment.

Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, was involved in a ghastly motor accident on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

Senator Melaye disclosed this during an interactive session with Kogi State women, youths and sectoral leaders at his residence in Lokoja, Kogi state capital.

Staff of Lokoja Local Government Area have endorsed the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 11 gubernatorial election in Kogi State, Alhaji Ododo Ahmed Usman.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that from Koton Karfe, the bus was heading to Lokoja from Abuja on Sunday morning but lost control and rammed into the tanker on the other lane.

The Speaker was accompanied to the decoration ceremony by the members representing Lokoja I, Kogi/Kotonkarfe, and Ajaokuta State Constituencies, party stalwarts and other.

Alhaji Yunusa Sule, the Secretary of Ebiraland Traditional Council, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lokoja on Sunday.