Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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On Friday night, a collision between a tanker and two cars occurred at Lafenwa area in Abeokuta, Ogun, resulting in the death of four individuals. Mrs. Florence Okpe, the Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, confirmed the tragedy to reporters on Saturday. According to Okpe, the tanker driver’s excessive…
The Department of State Services, DSS, arraigned four suspected terrorists in Ogun State on Wednesday. They appeared before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Isabo, Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State. On December 9, 2022, the suspects Aliu Abubakar, Abubakar Usman, Abubakar Amadu, and Adamu Aliu were apprehended. They were arraigned in a suit marked MISC/15/2023,…
A middle-aged woman in Abeokuta, Ogun State has alledgedly set herself ablaze in her rented apartment over her inability to settle a loan of N70,000 she took from a microfinance bank popularly known as LAPO. Available reports say the decead known as Mama Dada got burnt beyond recognition as the entire building located at the…
Ogun: Banks disobey CBN orders and put old Naira bills in ATMs
Some alleged hoodlums have set fire to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office at Iyana Mortuary in Abeokuta south, the capital of Ogun State. According to the DAILY POST, the hoodlums scaled the outer gate, stormed inside the grounds, and set fire to the INEC building from the back. They were claimed to have…
Tinubu in Abeokuta. The presidential candidate and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, paid a courtesy visit to the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the Presidential Library in Abeokuta this morning. Photos of the visit of Tinubu in Abeokuta Below are some the photos of the…
The Senate passed a bill to create the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday in plenary. A bill to construct the Federal College of Education in Gwoza, Borno State, was also passed by the Senate. The legislation were passed as a result of the Committee on Health and…
Several people were feared missing, killed and properties worth billions of naira destroyed by flood waters, on Friday, following a torrential rain in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. In Ijebu Ode, a thunderstorm that accompanies the rain in the town was alleged to have killed three men. Areas affected in Abeokuta included Kuto, Ijaiye, Amolaso,…
A church in Abeokuta the Ogun State capital, Treasure House of God, last weekend, fed and gave out cash and other items worth millions of Naira to 4,700 less privileged people in the gateway state. The beneficiaries of the charity gesture include widows, widowers, youths, students and the physically challenged in line with the corporate…
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…
