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Dr. Spencer Onuh gets NSRDA appointment

Our former Chairman Dr Spencer Onuh has been appointed as the Director, Centre for Satellite Technology and Development at the National Space Research and Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria. This is great news and we would like to congratulate him for this wonderful achievement and wish him all the best on his new venture. Please try and call him to [...]

Summary of our latest meeting

Igala UK had the second congress meeting of the year at the All Saints Community Centre. Big on the agenda was Igala day 2010 which has been fixed for 26th August here in London. The executive also introduced plans for a Health programme to be launched later this year.  It was also Igala Uk’s turn [...]

Media watch: SSA Pledges Succour for Rural Women

By Innocent Idajili The newly appointed Senior Special Assistant to Kogi State Governor on Rural Women Development, Mrs. Zanaib Mohammed, has said that her priority would be to empower rural women and reduce poverty to the barest minimum in the state. Entrepreneurship development of women, she revealed, would be placed on the front burner in [...]

Lt. Col Adegbe appointed ADC to President Goodluck

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed one of our very own Lt. Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe as his aide-de-camp (ADC). Adegbe graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna , in September 1995 as a member of the 42 Regular Course. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Masters in Intelligence and International [...]

Igala student named as one of Britain’s 30 most outstanding black students

We received great and inspring news over the weekend that Marcus Edino, a PhD in Energy and the Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University, was named among Britain’s 30 most outstanding black students in the National Union of Students (NUS) Powerlist ‘Future Leaders 2010’. Marcus came to the UK in September 2007 on a scholarship sponsored [...]

Ebira Union Hosts Kogi State Associations

The Kogi State Union UK (KSUUK) was on 3rd April hosted for the first time by one of its member unions, the Ebira Union at the All Saints Community Centre, Old Kent Road London. The new format for KSUUK meetings requires that every member association of KSUUK host host its general meetings on a rotational [...]