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Information Nigeria in a report on its site said a notorious thief that have been terrorising the people of Ijagun village in Ijebu Ode has been arrested by the police. According to the Information Nigeria’s reports, the thief who was identified as ‘Joe’, a name he was known with while an undergraduate at the Tai Solarin…
Kashamu used forged certificates to contest and win election into the Senate says Sahara Reporters. Senator representing Ogun East, Mr. Buruji Kashamu has been accused of using forged certificates to contest and win his election into the Nigerian Senate. According to Sahara Reporters investigations, “Mr.Buruji Kashamu, the drug lord wanted in the United States for heroin…
Officers of the Federal agency, Customs were said to have killed a commercial motor driver, Saubana Onila, a father of four, at Sowo village, on the Kobape-Siun-Sagamu expressway when he was conveying bags of rice to some customers in Sagamu. Consequently, scores of protesters stormed the state headquarters of the NCS along Quarry Road in Abeokuta, threatening…
Nigeria Federal Lawmakers have resolved to probe the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) over the raiding and carting away of goods in shops at a rice market in Sango-Otta area of the state. The traders in the rice market accused Nigerian Customs Service of carrying out the raid unlawfully. The Senate came to the decision after…
A High Court in Abeokuta on Wednesday sentenced two brothers, John Kuku, 45, Fabu Kuku, 33, to death by hanging for armed robbery. The two accused brothers who live at OPIC Estate at Agbara in Ogun State, were found guilty of a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery. In her judgment, Justice Olatokunbo Majekodumi…
Three women suspected of murder have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command in Ogijo area of Sagamu Local Government Area of the state. According to a news report monitored online, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in a statement, he said officers of the Command arrested Ruqayat…
Some rice sellers in Sango-Ota market in Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area the State yesterday, alleged that men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, broke into their shops and went away with 18,000 bags of rice in the wee hours of the day. For this reason, traders and youths in the area yesterday, blocked the…
Sango Otta – The entire Sango-Ota area of Ogun state is now engulfed in protest. As a result, Vehicular and human traffic along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in that axis has been hampered, as rioting youths and rice sellers in Sango-Ota market are said to have blocked both sides of the road at Ota, just before the…
Adebisi Akinrin-mola man killed rival over girlfriend in Ijebu Igbo. The 43-year-old, Adebisi Akinrin-mola, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing one Ademola Asimiyu over a girlfriend. According to reports, the suspect reportedly claimed that the deceased accused him of snatching the woman from him and has been warning him to…
No less than 10 fake doctors have been dragged to court for allegedly operating illegal medical facilities in the state by the Ogun State Government. The state Commissioner of Health, Babatunde Ipaye, disclosed this on Monday to PREMIUM TIMES in Abeokuta. Mr. Ipaye said the suspects were arrested during a monitoring of medical facilities across…
