The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has presented its flag to its governorship candidates in Lagos, Oyo and Ogun States ahead the 2019 general elections. The candidates are Mr Ladi Adebutu for Ogun, Seyi Makinde for Oyo State and Mr Jimi Agbaje for Lagos State, who was represented by Mrs Oluwayemisi Busari. The PDP National Chairman, […]
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Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, in a statement by Adedayo Adeneye, the state commissioner for information and strategy, accused Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to hijack the state government. Amosun fell out with the party’s national working committee (NWC) after it chose Dapo Abiodun as the state’s gubernatorial candidate. […]
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A 42 years old man has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping his 16-year-old housemaid. The incident happened at the family’s house at the Government Reservation Area (GRA),Ibara, Abeokuta, the state capital. The Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said the suspect, Abiodun Amosun, a […]
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Ogun State police Command has arrested a 23 – year old man, Taiwo Olatokunbo for killing another man simply identified as Christian over N200 beer. In a press release, the spokesperson for the Police Command, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the police at Igbeba Division from […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has released the sum of N17.3 billion to the Ogun State government from the recent Paris Club refund. The state government promised to offset the backlog of cooperative deductions, gratuity, severance allowances, furniture allowances and other social services. Adewale Oshinowo, the state Commissioner for Finance, who disclosed this during a […]
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The MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta will on Thursday 26th July play host to the final matches for GTBank-Ogun state Principals Cup; the biggest grassroots soccer competition in West Africa. Now in its 6th year, this season’s final promises to be a thrilling encounter between the qualifying teams as they stake their claim to become ultimate […]
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The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested a landlord in Onipanu, Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state, Sunday Omosule, for alleged killing a son of one of his tenants with a pestle. The deceased was four-year-old Joseph Akpan. The landlord had allegedly gone berserk and started […]
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The federal government, through the Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, has appealed to members of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) to call off their ongoing strike action in the interest of the public, with an assurance that all their entitlements would be paid. The Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun also made […]
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A commercial bus on Monday crushed two women to death when the driver lost control at Ifo area on Lagos – Abeokuta Expressway. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta. Mr. Akinbiyi said the accident which happened around […]
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The mysterious death of a 40-year-old, divorced mother-of-four inside a hotel room she and her younger lover has been taken over by the police and her young lover is being interrogated. The younger lover, 36, who hid the corpse and secretly buried her in an uncompleted building in Osara village, Abeokuta, is in police detention. […]
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