Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Feelers from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State have it that plans are in top gear to suspend Chief Derin Adebiyi, the factional Chairman of the party in the state backed by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun, over anti-party activities. Read also: Ogun PDP guber tussle: Sowunmi wins at Appeal Court Multiple sources at…
Amosun, others announced Biyi Otegbeye as ADC Ogun State governorship candidate. Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s supporters have unveiled their African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate. Barrister Biyi Otegbeye, an indigene of Ogun’s Yewa South Local Government Area, is the candidate. Read also: Obasanjo Reply To Buhari: Why Muslim-Muslim Ticket Dangerou Alhaji Olatunde Awonuga of Ogun Waterside Local…
Ogun has begun paying N202 billion compensation for properties demolished by Amosun. The Ogun State government will begin paying compensation to owners of properties demolished by Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s administration in order to expand some road projects across the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun has already approved that compensation payments begin to alleviate the sufferings of…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria extended a six-month strike on Monday. A source within ASUU confirmed that the resolution of the striking university lecturers’ National Executive Council (NEC) meeting was to extend the strike. Read also:Photos, video at Gbemiga Abiodun Education Programme He did not, however, say how long the union…
Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State, has called on wives of government functionaries to come up with innovative ideas to bring more empowerment programs and raise the pedigree of women in the state through the Spouses of Ogun State Government Functionaries Association (SOSGFA). This call was made by Abiodun in his office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta,…
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has sworn in seven new Commissioners to his cabinet. Oludotun Taiwo (Forestry), Ganiyu Hamzat (Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs), Olufemi Ilori Oduntan (Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs), Abayomi Hunye (Community Development and Cooperatives), Motunrayo Adeleye -Oladapo (Culture and Tourism), Oladimeji Oresanya (Environment), Jami (Rural Development). Dr Oluwatoyin Taiwo, the former…
Tinubu and Wike are allegedly meeting in France for possible collaboration. Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike is reportedly meeting with All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu in Paris, France. According to sources, the meeting will also include Benue Governor Samuel Ortom, Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde, Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, and other PDP stalwarts loyal…
More groups have continued to form solidarity fronts in support of the presidential ambitions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Nigeria Diaspora for Asiwaju (NDA), an international political support group, held an event in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, over the weekend. Dr. Akin Badeji, Director-General of…
Bayo Onanuga, a former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Dele Alake, a former commissioner of information in Lagos state, and Festus Keyamo, minister of state labour and employment, will head the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council. While Onanuga was appointed director of media and publicity, Alake was announced as…
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has denied reports that he endorsed the presidential ambition of the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu, when he recently visited him in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. In a statement by Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Saturday, the former president said the statements coming from those claiming to…
