Immediate past Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Umar Ahmed has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP, over what he described as decision of the party leadership to shut him out of the party.

The Kogi State Police Command has denied reports by Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi west district at the National Assembly, Thursday, that unknown gunmen in uniform (police,SARS and military) fired gun shot at the vehicle in Kogi State just as its asked the Senator to report with the people in his convoy to the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Lokoja.

Kogi State government has condemned in strong term the burning of four of the constituency projects of Senator Dino Melaye in Lokoja the state capital by some arsonists due for commissioning.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kogi State, yesterday, dismissed insinuations that it was granting automatic ticket to embattled Senator Dino Melaye of All Progressives Congress, APC, to lure him to the party.

The Senator representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, on Saturday said that the All Progressive Congress (APC) is ‘Egbe kegbe na bad society… Beast of no nationto…’

Accused, Kabiru Seidu, 31, aka “Osama” and Nuhu Salihu, 25, aka “Small” who appeared before Kogi Senior Magistrates’ Court, Lokoja on Monday, have declared that the allegations against them and Senator Dino Melaye were false.

It is well known that some politicians in Nigeria routinely mobilise area boys or whatever name they go by to agitate electorate and political opposition

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West has asked President Muhammad Buhari to as a matter of urgency, apologize to the National Assembly for allegedly making what he termed, disparaging statements against the integrity of the Parliament when he said some lawmakers have been there for 10 years without doing anything.

Embattled outspoken Senator Dino Melaye has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

We must demand equal treatment of police suspects or accused persons by the police and by the courts

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, on Thursday, adjourned trial of Senator Dino Melaye on the two-count criminal charge the Federal Government entered against him, sine-die (indefinitely).

A High Court sitting in Lokoja in Kogi state has granted Senator Dino Melaye who is representing Kogi West Senatorial District, bail.

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, refusal to appear before the Senate on the spate of killings across the country and the inhuman treatment allegedly meted out to Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, the Senate, vote of no confidence on the IGP, declaring him unfit for any office.

The Nigeria Police Force have said that the Senate invited the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris because of Senator Dino Melaye contrary to Senator Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi, Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs’ statement that the IGP was invited by the Senate so that he explain what the Police was doing on the spate of killing across the country.

A High Court sitting in Lokoja has adjourned to next week Wednesday to deliver ruling on the bail application for embattled Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye.