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An 18-seater danfo bus with full load passengers has plunged into an uncompleted bridge in the Alagbole area of Ogun state. PUNCH Metro learnt that three passengers died while 14 others, including a pregnant woman, sustain serious injuries in the crash which occurred about 1pm on Thursday. Eight of the victims were said to have…
A week after a U.S. court insisted on his extradition for drug related offences, Nigerian senator Buruji Kashamu has been accused by some lawyers of alleged threat to their lives. A group of lawyers in Ogun State petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over alleged threat to their lives and attempted murder by Mr. Kashamu,…
Francis Mobolaji Odesanya, commissioner of police in the Rivers State Police Command is dead. He was aged 56. According to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Odesanya died after a brief illness. He was on admission at Sterling Hospital Ahmedabad-Gujarat in India. The Ikenne-Ogun state born police officer joined the Force on the 1st…
The Ogun State House Of Assembly during plenary Tuesday passed a bill to upgrade Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Ojere, Abeokuta to a University of Science and Technology. Mr Adeyinka Mafe, the house Majority Leader, moved the motion for the third and final reading of the bill and was seconded by the Minority Leader, Mr Olawale…
The Ogun State Government has started the implementation of the APC led Federal Government programme of free meal for primary school pupils. The ceremony for the take off of the programme in the state took place on Monday in the the state capital, Abeokuta. At the ceremony on Monday, the State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun…
Coalition of students unions in Ogun state have planned a mass protest over hike in fees in the State higher institutions and poor funding of public education institutions generally by the state government. According to Sahara Reporters, the coalition, STAFEC (Save TASUED and Fund Education), the umbrella body spear heading the mass protest planned it for February…
300 Died In Akwa Ibom Church Building Collapse according to Punch newspaper report, a student of the University of Uyo, Department of Communication Arts, Uduak Effiong, who said she lost three of her course mates to the sad incident that occured at Reigners’ Bible Church Int’l Inc, along Uyo Village Road, Uyo, the state capital. She…
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, narrowly escaped death by a whisker on Saturday as church building crumbles. The church involve is Reigners’ Bible Church Int’l Inc, Uyo Village Road, Uyo collapsed during service. The sad incident which left about 200 worshipers dead. Sources said took the efforts of the governor’s security officers…
The residents of a Ogun community of Makun Omi have declared that the they never attacked the neighbouring community of Atijere in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. The people of Atijere on Wednesday staged a protest in Ondo State capital, Akure against alleged attack by the youths in the Ogun community, alleging that…
Barrow, Gambia’s president-elect said Saturday that the outgoing leader who now rejects his defeat at polls has no constitutional authority to call for another election, and he asked President Yahya Jammeh to help with a smooth transition in the interest of the tiny West African country. Yahya Jammeh’s surprise turnaround late Friday was certain to…
