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The APC Candidate Tokunbo Abiru has won the Lagos East Senatorial bye-election held on Saturday, 5th December. The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC declare Abiru winner with 89,204 votes while his closest challenger, PDP candidate Babatunde Gbadamosi got 11,257 votes. The Bye-election for the Lagos east senatorial district was conducted to replace the vacant seat created…
(Reuters) – Italian side Napoli’s San Paolo stadium has been officially renamed the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium after the late Argentina striker who led them to their only two Serie A titles and the UEFA Cup, the city’s council said on Friday. Maradona died last week after suffering a heart attack at his home in…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Friday, affirm the conviction and death sentence that was handed to Maryam Sanda, daughter-inlaw to a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Mohammed Bello Haliru. The appellate court, in a unanimous judgement by a three-man panel of Justices led by Justice Stephen Adah, said it…
THE Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, said there was no truth in media reports that former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, transferred N12.5m from the state government account to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), when he was still the governor. In a message…
Barely 24 hours after the presentation of the N339bn for 2021 Appropriation bill titled: ‘Budget of Recovery and Sustainability’ by the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun to the legislative arm for consideration, the bill has scaled second reading after the State lawmakers had a robust debate on the desirability of the bill during today’s plenary presided…
Justice Okon Abang has ordered the remand of Abdulrasheed Maina at Kuje Correctional Centre pending the conclusion of his trial. More details shortly.
A Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis of the state’s agricultural production indicates that Ogun State has competitive advantages in the cultivation of food crops such as cassava, plantain, rice, yam, maize and sweet potato, among others and cash crops such as cocoa, oil palm, timbers, kola nuts, cashew and rubber. Proximity to Lagos,…
Governor Dapo Abiodun has approved a 500 million take-off grant for the state’s Health Insurance Scheme. The state Governor made this known during the presentation of the 2021 fiscal budget at the floor of the State House of Assembly, Oke – Mosan, Abeokuta. He said the strategy was adopted by the administration to further enable…
Police officers in Ogun State have discovered a baby factory at Ofada-Mowe in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the State. Ten victims including four pregnant girls and four children were rescued. The rescued girls are between the ages of 13 to 24 and are from the southern states of the country. One of the victims,…
The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, presented the N339 billion budget for 2021 tagged “Budget of Recovery and Sustainability,” to the Ogun State House of Assembly. This was disclosed by the Governor on his twitter account on Wednesday after he presented the budget proposal to the House. He added that the budget will remain focused on…
