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If Tinubu is not your candidate in the next election, please, do not read this. I understand that like Selectivity Theory in Mass Communication, Nigerians will be selectively exposed to candidates in the 2023 presidential election, they will selectively assess them and they will selectively choose them. If another candidate is your choice, I am…
Traders on Ogun State’s Lambe-Matogun road have recounted their losses after a fuel tanker exploded on Saturday, destroying their shops and properties. The fire is said to have destroyed five shops worth millions of naira, including electricity cables. According to residents, the petrol tanker crashed around 8 a.m. The residents had put out the fire…
President Muhammadu Buhari paid glowing tributes to the late Professor of Geography and Urban Regeneration, Akin Mabogunje, on Saturday, describing him as a distinguished public policy expert, an advocate of good governance, approachable and extremely humble to all who met him. At the church service for Mabogunje’s burial on Saturday in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State,…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has dismissed allegations of discriminatory charges in the issuance of passports at its northern and southern offices. The Service claims that the observed cost disparity is facilitated by the different passport regimes being run concurrently at its offices in a post on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “They are…
It has been revealed that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) charges more for the issuance of passports in the country’s southern region than in the north, highlighting accusations of regional favoritism under President Muhammadu Buhari. According to a Ogun Today review of the offerings on the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) website on Thursday, there is…
Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun State, has promised to repair one side of the 32km Sango-Ota-Ijoko and Olambe-Akute-Alagbole roads in the state’s Ado-Odo Ota and Ifo Local Government Areas by December. The governor assured residents that his administration would repair one side of the 32km road’s existing dualised section by December. Abiodun, who made the…
Following the threat of an attack by suspected bandits, residents of Ogere and Isara in Ikenne and Remo-North Local Government Areas of Ogun have been paralyzed. Our correspondent learned that a message purportedly written by bandits planning to attack the communities of Ishara and Ogere was being circulated. “I was in a prayer group yesterday…
In Sagamu Local Government, Ogun State, a commercial motorcyclist collaborated with other men to gang-rape an 18-year-old female passenger. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area, Ogun, according to reports. Emmanuel Thompson and Joshua Godwin, two of those who had forceful intercourse with the teenager, were arrested, according to police. Read…
The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANs), Asefon Sunday, said the extension of the strike by ASUU because of their six months salary showed that they are wicked and heartless because 85 per cent of their demands have been acceded to. Sunday said: “We met with the executive secretary of the NUC…
Veteran Yoruba film actor, Dele Odule, on Tuesday joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Ogun Today reports that Odule joined the PDP at an event held in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State. Read also: Ogogo’s family rejects Doyin Kukoyi as 3rd wife, says house Odule was received into the opposition party by…
