Tag:Kogi State

Agric & Biotech

Kogi urged to knock out poverty, land degradation with palm oil production

Solidaridad, a solution-oriented civil society organisation, has called on the Kogi State Government to promote massive palm oil production to curb poverty and land...

Michael Simire - May 31, 2023

Disaster Risk Management

HYPPADEC engages Kebbi stakeholders on flood mitigation, constructs N220m erosion control facility in Kogi

The Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) is meeting with stakeholders in Kebbi to evolve measures to mitigate the effects of floods in...

Michael Simire - May 7, 2023

Disaster Risk Management

Rainy season: Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa move to forestall flooding

Director-General, Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Alhaji Ahmed Inga, has said that the agency has commenced meetings on how to mitigate floods as the...

Michael Simire - February 7, 2023

Human Welfare

Floods: IFAD-VCDP donates water pumps, inputs to 261 farmers in Kogi

The Federal Government, through the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP-AF), has distributed water pumps and inputs to 261 farmers in Kogi State to enhance...

Michael Simire - December 27, 2022

Cover

Kogi communities lament environmental woes amid mining company, govt neglect

Okobo and neighbouring communities in Kogi State of Nigeria have been facing environmental risks from 11 years of coal mining, despite signing a Community...

Michael Simire - November 13, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

Group urges govt’s intervention as flood submerges Ibaji, other LGs in Kogi

A socio-cultural group, Iko Udama, has appealed to the Federal Government for more intervention as flood submerges Ibaji, Idah and several other local governments...

Michael Simire - October 2, 2022

Disaster Risk Management

Flooding: Kogi rice farmers raise alarm over destruction of farmlands

Rice farmers, who are beneficiaries of the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), have cried out over the destruction of their farmlands by flood. The farmers,...

Michael Simire - September 29, 2022

Water & Sanitation

Flood: NEMA deploys mobile water treatment plant in Jigawa, others

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has deployed mobile water treatment plants in Jigawa, Benue and Kogi states. Mr Nafuta Mahmood, NEMA’s Head of Water...

Michael Simire - September 26, 2022

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