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Ogun State Government has threatened to sanction fake pharmaceutical operators in the state, says it would no longer tolerate their illegal activities in the gateway state. Dr Kayode Oladehinde, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health said this during the 8th Mandatory Orientation Programme for Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors in the state. The programme was…
Oba Musliu Ademola Eletu-Asorota, the new Onitele of Itele-Ota in Ogun State’s Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, has revealed that people causing havoc in the town are non-indigenes. According to him, those who oppose communal harmony are out to milk the people and deprive them of their birth rights. Oba Eletu-Asorota, in an interview with newsmen,…
Happiness Odeh, a student at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY) in Abeokuta, was purportedly killed by her kidnappers. According to reports, Odeh won the Miss MAPOLY beauty pageant on August 3, 2022. On Tuesday evening, the ND2 Mass Communication student was kidnapped on her route to Ipara Remo. The beauty queen was kidnapped along Iperu…
Ogun APM candidate, Mr Olutosin Jolaoluwa, has said he would not withdraw from the race. In his letter written to the National Chairman of the APM and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Jolaoluwa, the governorship hopeful stated that he remains the authentic candidate of APM in Ogun State. Reports that former Ogun State…
Prince Dapo Abiodun, the Ogun State Governor has said that residents in the border areas in the state always live in fear as a result of people who move into the country, perpetuate crimes and cross back to their countries. The governor, therefore, called on officers and men of the Nigeria Immigration Service to collaborate…
On Monday, July 25 2022 hundreds of youths and women in the sleepy town of Ijebu Ode, Ogun State held a rally in celebration of athletics hurdler Tobi Amusan, who became the first-ever Nigerian athletics world champion and record holder, The PUNCH reports. Ijebu Ode-born Tobi Amusan, 25, ran a time of 12.12secs – shaving…
The Awujale and other royal fathers in Ijebuland on Monday unanimously endorsed Governor Dapo Abiodun for a second term in office. Leading other traditional rulers, the Awujale and Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, was quoted by the Nigerian Tribune as saying: “You have worked assiduously these past three years and three months…
Abeokuta Club at 50 Faces at the 50th anniversary of Abeokuta Club held in Abeokuta, the State Capital. The club is a social and cultural club that became a movement shortly after its inception. Today, Abeokuta Club has become one of the leading social clubs in Nigeria. The clubhouse is based in Abeokuta, the capital of…
APC Ogun state has berated an ex-governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun over his comment that Governor Dapo Abiodun rigged the 2019 governorship election. The party said Amosun, a chieftain of the APC, was suffering from “political amnesia and out-of-office loneliness.” APC, in a statement relesed in Abeokuta on Saturday by its Publicity Secretary,…
The Ogun State cargo airport will be ready for flight operations before the end of this year, 2022. With the runway almost completed, the airport will be ready to receive its first plane before December. This was revealed to the media by the state Commissioner for Information, Abdulwahab Odusile while taking a group of selected…
