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Yewa North Traditional Council led by its Chairman and the Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Abdul Azeez Ishola Adelakun, has unanimously agreed to support the governorship aspiration of the Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraju Ishola Adekunbi in 2019. Oba Adelakun disclosed this during a courtesy visit by the Speaker to the traditional council,…
Determined to ensure that the newly-established Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia, has uninterrupted power supply, the state government has concluded plans to install solar power energy at the institution. In a statement issued, over the weekend, in Abeokuta, by Head of Media in the Works and Infrastructure Ministry, Ayokunle Ewuoso, the Commissioner in charge of the…
Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has commended boxing superstar, Anthony Joshua, for successfully defending his IBF heavyweight title on Saturday. British-born Joshua, whose father is a native of Sagamu in Ogun State, defeated Carlos Takam in the 10th round of their bout at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, UK. Governor Amosun, in a statement by the Commissioner…
Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi has explained that the State house of Assembly preferred to serve as a rubber stamp to the State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s government, so as to facilitate good governance. The Speaker who recalled that he had been accused of being a rubber stamp for Amosun said…
Amosun, Dalung storm London to cheer Joshua The Governor of Ogun state, IbIkunle Amosun and the Minister of Youth and Sports Solomon Dalung are among a top Nigerian government delegation who will be at the ringside on Saturday night to cheer Anthony Joshua against Cameroonian-French Carlos Takam in an IBF and WBA challenge billed for…
A 33-year-old woman, Fatima Balogun, was Wednesday, arrested by prison officials as she tried smuggling a mobile phone, hidden in a cooler of soup, to her robbery suspect boyfriend being held at Ibara Prisons, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The woman was reportedly arrested at the prison’s gate lodge by the Special Intelligence Unit of Nigerian Prisons,…
The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, today, urged the general public to desist from using the newly constructed Ogun Standard roads for organizing parties and other social events. TRACE Corps Commander/Chief Executive, Cdr. Seni Ogunyemi, gave the directive in Abeokuta, while reacting to the use of part of Omida axis of the…
A forty years old man allegedly beats wife, Kuburat, 37, to death in the Agbado area of Ogun State on Monday. According to The Punch report, the incident occurred at their residence in Agbado area of the state when the deceased asked her husband for the money she would spend on her younger brother’s naming ceremony.…
The Senator Ibikunle Amosun lead Ogun State Government says it is targeting over N3bn additional revenue from the informal sector of the state economy as it enlists about one million residents from the sector into the tax net. Chairman of the State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Kunle Adeosun, made this disclosure during an interview with…
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…
