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A 14-year-old schoolgirl has been killed after she rolled onto her iPhone’s broken charging cable while she slept. Police in Vietnam is still to determine if the product which killed 14-year-old Le was a genuine Apple wire or a cheap imitation. Le Thi Xoan was electrocuted when she was exposed to the live wires of…
Ahead of the 2019 governorship election in Ogun State, the Ijebu-Remo Governorship Agenda Elders Forum, yesterday, picked Ogun State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Otunba Bimbo Ashiru as its consensus candidate. Ashiru was said to have defeated former Deputy Governor, Segun Adesegun, Senators Gbenga Kaka and Olorunnimbe Mamora, Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Olumuyiwa Oladipo,…
Some concerned residents of Agbara industrial area have urged the Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun to fix the deplorable Agbara-Atan road to prevent further deaths that occur on the road. Agbara Industrial Area is home to foremost multinational firms, like GSK, Nestle, Unilever, P&G, Flour Mills of Nigeria, Hayatt, Reckitt Benckiser and dozens of others.…
Protest has greeted the admission of three suspected kidnappers to bail by an Ogun Magistrate’s Court, sitting in the Owode Egba area of the state. The defendants – Habibat Oyesanya, 52; Olubunmi Tajudeen, 36 and 40-year-old Morenike Shittu – were granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum by…
Dangote Noodles Limited, a unit of Nigerian company Dangote Flour Mills, has sold two production lines in Ikorodu and Calabar, to rival pasta maker De-United Foods Industries, maker of Indomie Noodles. The transaction is valued at 3.75 billion Naira ($12.26 million). De United said it has signed an agreement with Dangote Noodles to buy the…
Oronna Ilaro Festival is a celebration of the triumph of the Ilaro people of Ogun State. Africans are best known for festivals because of the need to celebrate after series of combative issues that have affected the society through wars, slavery, and colonialism. These festivals have distinct and undisputed historical backings, rich cultural heritage and…
Two suspected ritualists have been arrested by men of Ogun State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl, Taye Gusau, in Idosemo, Ipokia Local Government Area of the state. After killing her, they decapitated the body, cut off the hands and intestines. It was gathered…
In a move to keep to his promise to the chieftains and loyalists of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to appoint more ministers to his cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari is considering a tentative proposal to restructure some of the ministries, appoint eight new ministers to his cabinet and reshuffle the cabinet, THISDAY has learnt. A…
THE Senator representing Lagos West and governorship aspirant in Ogun State, Senator Olamilekan Adeola popularly known Yayi has explained why both the previous and incumbent elected governors in Ogun State were produced from Lagos State. Senator Adeola said hardly would any democratically-elected governor, who had served in Ogun State, claim not to have roots in…
The federal government of Nigeria on Tuesday redeemed the promise to reward D’Tigress for winning the 2017 Afrobasket in Mali. According to Nneka Anibeze, media adviser to Sports Minister Solomon Dalung, each player got N1m while the five coaches got N500,000 each. Dalung said sport in Nigeria was moving to greater heights through the support…
