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Lokoja, Nov. 30, 2024 Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, has assured Salem University Community of a secured and safe environment for conducive teaching and learning. The governor gave the assurance at the 6th Convocation ceremony of the Institution held on Friday 29th of November, 2024 in Lokoja. The University graduated 497 students at the combined 6th Convocation ceremony. 471 first degree graduates and 26 post graduate students.  Forty two (42) students graduated with first class division, 247 with second class upper division, 176 with 2nd class lower division while 6 students came out with 3rd class division. Speaking at ceremony, the governor said his administration would sustained the security being enjoyed by the University in  order to ensure a safe environment for teaching and learning. Ododo, who was represented by the State Commissioner for Education Hon. Wemi Jones, FCIB said the State Government has obligation to make sure that the Univers...

Following the successful completion of first term as chairman of Kogi state chapter of Nigeria Union of Pensioners, members of the Union has renowed the mandate of Engr. Clement Ohida for another term of four years.  The election which came in form of affirmation was supervised by a delegation from the national secretariat of the Union Abuja, a high powered kogi state government delegation led by the Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo,Secretary to Kogi State Government, Mrs Folashade Ayo Arike, kogi state head of civil service, pastor Elijah Evinemi had their representatives in attendance,Special Adviser to the governor on Labour matters, Comrade Onu  Johnson Edoka, past leaders of the Union and labor leaders from other union bodies actively participated the epoch making the delegate conference. . The pragmatic action of the senior citizens of Kogi state in taking the unanimous decision to returned Engr.clement Ohida un-oppose at a well  celebrated ceremony held in Lo...

By Stephen Adeleye  Lokoja, November 29, 2024 The Association of Residents Doctors (ARD) in the service of Kogi State Government, has expressed their gross dissatisfaction over the non-implementation of the approved new salary structure, CONMESS 2024. The doctors, after an emergency meeting of the association on Friday in Lokoja, also expressed their displeasure over the non-payment of arrears of new minimum wages for October 2024 as promised by the Government.  The ARD President of Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) Lokoja, Dr Ameh Friday, who spoke to journalists on behalf of the doctors shortly after the meeting, appealed to Gov. Ahmed Ododo to wade in and intervene. According to him, doctors in the service of Kogi State Government have strongly expressed their gross dissatisfaction over the non-implementation of the approved new salary structure, CONMESS 2024, "Members who attended in their numbers, aired their grievances for being excluded from the minimum ...

By Stephen Adeleye  Lokoja, November 29, 2024 The Association of Residents Doctors (ARD) in the service of Kogi State Government, has expressed their gross dissatisfaction over the non-implementation of the approved new salary structure, CONMESS 2024. The doctors, after an emergency meeting of the association on Friday in Lokoja, also expressed their displeasure over the non-payment of arrears of new minimum wages for October 2024 as promised by the Government.  The ARD President of Kogi State Specialist Hospital (KSSH) Lokoja, Dr Ameh Friday, who spoke to journalists on behalf of the doctors shortly after the meeting, appealed to Gov. Ahmed Ododo to wade in and intervene. According to him, doctors in the service of Kogi State Government have strongly expressed their gross dissatisfaction over the non-implementation of the approved new salary structure, CONMESS 2024, "Members who attended in their numbers, aired their grievances for being excluded from the minimum wage impleme...