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Cult War Leaves Two Dead, Scores Injured In Ogun Communities

Two persons were feared killed and many injured yesterday in an attack and counter attacks by suspected cult groups in four communities – Agodo, Elega, Iberekodo and Adatan, in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. For close to three hours, there was pendomonium in the affected communities. Residents, who came out early, ran…

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Opic Warns Against Illegal Encroachment

Ogun State Property & Investment Corporation (OPIC) also better know as Ogun State Housing Corporation has warned members of the public to desist from unauthorised buying and selling of its landed properties or putting up buildings on any of the Corporation’s estate without necessary approval from it. This note of warning was sounded to members of the…

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Ogun Calls For Voluntary Compliance On Market Sanitation

The Ogun State Government has again called on residents especially market Men and Women across the State to make market environmental sanitation exercise a daily voluntary affair. The State Deputy Governor, Chief (Mrs) Yetunde Onanuga who made the call in a press release described market environmental sanitation as an action geared towards improving the quality…

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Monarch Calls For Unity Among Remo People

According to reports monitored online the people of Remo land have been called upon to make unity their watchword in order to have a fair share of the dividends of democracy being distributed all over the state by the Government. Oba Timothy Akinsanya, the Ewusi of Makun, made the call while speaking with the Sagamu…

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Ogun State Property And Investment Corporation (opic) To Deliver 1,000 Housing Units Annually

The Managing Director, OPIC, Mr. Babajide Odusolu has promised that the corporation under his watch will deliver 1000 units of housing across the OPIC Estates annually.This he said is its organisation way of complementing the State Government efforts at making the State an industrial hub for economic growth. Mr. Babajide disclosed this at a press conference in…

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Ogun Compensates Sagamu Land Owners, Pays N300 Million To Them

Ogun State Government penultimate week paid over N300m compensation to groups whose land was acquired for developmental purposes at Areke village in Sagamu Local Government Area of the state. At the cheques presentation ceremony at the Bureau of Lands and Survey’ office in Abeokuta, Mr. Michael Adewale, the Head, Acquisition and Compensation of the bureau,…

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Gboyega Isiaka Condemns Sack Of Civil Servants In Ogun State

Mr Gboyega Nasir Isiaka who was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate in the last election in Ogun State has described the sudden sack of six civil servants by Ogun State Government over what it called “offensive examination question”, for the secondary school students has been condemned as an “act of wickedness, strange to…

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Oke-aje Market Re-opens

The Ogun State Government has ordered the immediate re-opening of Oke-Aje Market in Ijebu-Ode. The market was ordered closed on Friday following the failure of owners of shops and stalls in the market to comply with the state’s environmental laws. In a statement released by the press officer to the State Deputy Governor, Mr. Femi…

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Ogun Cp Warns Criminals To Steer Clear Off The State

The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Mr Abdulmajid Ali, has warned hoodlums and criminal elements to steer clear of the state or face the wrath of the law. Ali gave the warning when he visited the Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, at his palace in Ijebu-Ode on Tuesday. “I want to let them understand…

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Ogun Deputy Governor Praises The State’s Nuj Information Chapel

The State Deputy Governor Mrs Yetunde Onanuga has commended the State Information Officers for keying into the Senator Ibikunle Amosun rebuilding mission through their various means of disseminating information on various government activities. Mrs. Onanuga gave the commendation when a delegation of the State Information Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists went on courtesy visit to…

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