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Ogun Govt Moves To Avert Herdsmen/farmers Clashes In The State

The Ogun State Government is taking proactive measures to prevent clashes between herdsmen and farmers and also ensure that lives and property within the state are safer. Towards this end, the state government has held a meeting with leaders of the various interest groups, including leaders of the Fulani, Hausa communities and Miyetti Allah Cattle…

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Saab Millers, 19 Other Companies Plan $10bn Investments For Ogun

SABMiller, the largest breweries in the world which were acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) a Brazilian-Belgian Group headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, currently leads 19 other firms in fresh investments worth over $10 billion expected to be completed in Ogun state this year, BusinessDay has learned. BusinessDay reports that the fresh 20 companies which cut…

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Trouble In Ifo – Hoodlums Attack Police Station, Free Suspects, Destroy Cars

Trouble brewing in Ifo Lg, Ojodu Abiodun Area to be specific. Policemen attached to the Ojodu Abiodun Police Station in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State were stunned on Sunday as some youths invaded the division and vandalised Station building. The assailants reportedly broke into the holding cell of the station, freed detained suspects…

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Ogun Leads Neco November/december 2017 Results

The National Examinations Council, (NECO) yesterday released results of the November /December Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, after only 38 days of conducting the examinations. This is great a departure from the past during which results were released between 80 and 90 days after the last paper which had always truncated the admission of successful…

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Truck Crushes Two Persons In Ogun State

The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) yesterday said two persons lost their lives in an accident that happened along Atan-Idiroko Road. The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of TRACE, Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, that the accident happened around 9.30 a.m. Akinbiyi said that the truck with…

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Illegal Revenue Collectors Deprive Ogun N5bn Monthly Says Amosun

Illegal revenue collectors caused loss of close to N5bn monthly says Governor Ibikunle Amosun. The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, says the state government has been losing between N3bn and N5bn to the illegal revenue collectors operating across the state. He said this on Monday while marking the commencement of a policy to eradicate duplicity…

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WordPress Ijebu Community Meets Again December 8

WordPress Ijebu Community meets again December 8, it has been announced by the organizers. According to information obtained from the community’s page on Meetup website, WordPress Ijebu Community is a community of local WordPress users, bloggers, developers, designers, and publishers who get together to share their knowledge and experience of the popular web development software,…

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Osinbajo To Lead Others To New Akarigbo Installation

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’adu Abubakar and the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, are to lead many other dignitaries to the new Akarigbo installation ceremony. The new Akarigbo, Paramount Ruler of Remoland is…

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Civil Service Entry Form Sale Begins In Ogun

Civil service entry form sale has commenced in Ogun State. According to a news report monitored on channelstv.com, the Ogun State government has announced the commencement of sale of forms for the 2018 public service entry examinations. The report says the sale of the forms has started since Wednesday, November 29. The report is based…

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