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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…
The 1992 set of the Association of Mass Communication Students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, have told the Mass Communication students of the institution to explore how to become media entrepreneurs instead of looking for white-collar jobs. Officials and members of the set, known as AMACOS ’92, said this on Tuesday when they came…
After a pulsating fight in the male 64kg category of the tournament, Dayo Daniel was declared winner over Kasali Moshood. And, was later voted as the best boxer of the tournament for his impressive performance. Daniel is of Champion Boxing Club while Moshood is from PLC Boxing Club. The tournament which held last weekend at the…
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has sought the support of residents, especially market men and women, in its drive to salvage the state from environmental problems. He urges them to always maintain a clean environment at all times. The Governor who was represented by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief…
The Ogun State house of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s new nominees for the post of Commissioners II &IV in the State Civil Service Commission following their screening earlier in the day. The new commissioners are Mr. Mojeed- Ekelojumati and Adeleke Micheal Adebayo. The Assembly had earlier screened the nominees during a…
The long outstanding staff co-operative deductions non-remittance in Ogun State seems resolved now. The State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has approved the total sum of N4.5 billion for the payment of co-operative deductions arrears to all categories of workers in the state. Mr. Wale Oshinowo, the Commissioner for Finance disclosed this on Tuesday in Abeokuta while…
