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Authorities of the Gateway (ICT) Polytechnic, Saapade, Ogun State have shut the institution following the worsening security challenges around the polytechnic. The institution also indefinitely put on hold the ongoing semester examination until “the security situation improves.” The Nation gathered the school was shut on Wednesday as students’ battle with robbery and rape cases around…
The Ogun State Police Command on Wednesday paraded suspected kidnappers of students of Olabisi Onabanjo University Ayetoro campus and the community leader in the state, Chief Tajudeen Omotayo.The police also paraded a suspected kidnapper who sold an AK47 rifle to an undercover police operative for N1m. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Edward Ajogun,…
No fewer than five persons were confirmed dead while two others sustained various degrees of injury in an auto crash involving four vehicles around Iperu, on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State.The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, Ahmed Umar, confirmed the accident to newsmen in a statement in Abeokuta yesterday. Umar…
State governor Ogun Dapo Abiodun has been trying to get more passports points to make it easier to collect passports in the state.Abiodun specifically said the state is entitled to have at least four passport offices in Hilaro, Abeokuta, Sagamu and Ijebu Ode. Speaking in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, and receiving Plenipotentiary Deputy for Immigration, Doris Braima,…
It is with a heavy heart, worry about Nigeria, and a sense of impending doom that I am sending this message to my colleagues in the media. They will write about us, just as they wrote about our colleagues in Rwanda; that we fanned flames of ethnic hate, to consume our country. Let me begin…
DEJI LAMBO examines the increasing cases of attacks and kidnappings on commuters and motorists on the Long Bridge, the efforts of stakeholders and their expectations from the government to tackle the problem Connecting Lagos and Ogun states together is a six-kilometre bridge that emboldens criminals to brazenly disregard the rule of law during nocturnal hours. Under…
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A few days earlier, after doctors in Ogun state gradually tackled the kidnapping of their colleague, another tragedy struck yesterday when two nurses were confirmed dead in a car crash on the Lagos-Abeokuta highway. An individual accident with a white Toyota Hiace with registration number OG 49 A07 occurred on Sunday in Akinale village, Ewekoro…
Nobel laureate, Prof Vole Soyinka, yesterday warned employees of the Southwest Security Network, code-named Amotekun, in Ogun state not to abuse their power. “If you (Amotekun) abuse your uniform before the Ogun (iron god) hits you, we will definitely take care of you,” said Soinka. He recalled the opening of the State Amotekun Corps which…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Ogun state government to work with waste management investors to help the country achieve a cleaner environment. This was said by Obasanjo when a team from the State Waste Management Agency (OGWAMA) visited him at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta on Thursday. He praised Governor…
