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For inflicting life-threatening injuries on her eight-year-old stepdaughter, a woman has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command. The suspect, Mrs. Rose James Michael, who resides at 10 Onafowokan Street Ita-Oluwa via Ogijo, is cooling her heels in a police cell for harming Blessing James Michael. She was arrested following a complaint from her…
According to former Senior Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, with the present crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State and the infighting among members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the State, Accord Party is set to liberate Ogun people from the two major political parties. The former Senior…
Ogun State government has set aside the sum of N50billion for the take off the Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology (MAUSTECH), Abeokuta, and the newly established Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia. The state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, disclosed this on Saturday during the Treasury Board meeting for the 2018 budget preparation held at the Obas’…
Baglo and 50 others leave PDP for APC. Baglo, real name Raheem Ajayi is Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s aid. He was Special Adviser to the ex-Governor on Youth and Sports. Ajayi said he and others had elected to team up with the APC following the party’s resolve to field an Ogun West man in the 2019 gubernatorial election. They were…
Nigeria Police worst globally says report. Botswana ranked highest in Africa and 47th globally. The World Internal Security and Police Index International (WISPI) has rated the Nigeria Police Force as the worst police organisation in the world. In its 2016 report, WISPI described the NPF as the worst globally in terms of its ability to handle…
Femi Ogboonikan writing in Thisday Live dissect the revolutionary declaration by the Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun to support Ogun West Senatorial District to produce the next governor of the state which has thrown the state’s political landscape into confusion. The announcement by the governor of Ogun State Ibikunle Amosun, to support Ogun West Senatorial…
The Punch says the Nigerian Senate on Thursday approved the move by the Ogun State Government to obtain a ₦125b or $350m loan from the World Bank. The approval followed the adoption of the report by the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts at the plenary on Thursday. The committee, which is chaired by Senator…
The majority leader of Ogun State House of Assembly, Hon. Yinka Mafe, Wednesday, said he has instructed his lawyers to institute a court action against the Nigerian Police, Ogun State command, for allegedly attacking him late Tuesday night. Mafe told our INDEPENDENT correspondent that no fewer than 50 security officers loaded in eight vehicles bombarded…
A former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has said his trial for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is not a threat to his desire to run for the office of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. Daniel spoke with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday shortly after obtaining his…
Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in an interactive session with newsmen in Lagos at the weekend, speaks on issues of national interest. Recently, the Customs General, Ahmadu Ali, said you have 50 percent PDP members in this administration, he even said they are more than 50per cent and that they have…
