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Ogun police command this morning disrupted attempt by Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development to use the International market in Owode Yewa, Ogun State for the installation ceremony of the chieftaincy title of ‘Otunba Fiwagboye conferred on him by the Olu Of Owodeland, Oba Dr. Rev. Mathew Sunday Akindele,…
Community resists plot by Amosun to a demolish borehole being built by Ladi Adebutu. The inhabitants of Ilugoke area in Iperu Remo, Ikenne Local Government of Ogun State yesterday resisted plot by the State government to stop work and demolish a borehole being built by Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu, Chairman of House Committee on Agriculture and…
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…
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the November/December 2016 Senior School Certificate Examinations results with Ogun state topping the performance chart. Addressing Journalists at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, said the release of the results barely 60 days after the exams were conducted, was…
An emergency facility to enhance child health care services has been commissioned in Ogun State, to give a leap to the desire of the state government for qualitative and affordable healthcare delivery. The facility, a ‘one stop-shop’ for child care delivery built in the State General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta, is equipped with State-of-the-art facilities including…
The NUT pulls out of planned NLC strike in Ogun state. The Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Ogun State Chapter has pulled out of the proposed protest scheduled for today against the state government over non-payment of 2016 salaries. The NUT also dissociated itself from a purported legal action against the State government over 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…
Online reports indicate the Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo has been dragged before an Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta over a chieftaincy title. The four Chiefs, who dragged the Alake to the Court are; the Oluwo of Kemta, Chief Abayomi Rotimi; the Odofin of Kemta, Chief Ayinla Bankole;…
