Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out an application by former President Goodluck Jonathan seeking an order setting aside the subpoena issued to him to appear in defense of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh. The court presided over by Justice Okon Abang, also dismissed…
According to The Nation, the seedy Ijebu-Igbo, the Headquarters of Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, boils on Monday morning following a pre-dawn killing of a member of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria( RTEAN ) identified as Seyi. Angry residents and transporters as a early 7:am bunched up at the popular…
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 residents of a Ogun community of Makun Omi have declared that the they never attacked the neighbouring community of Atijere in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. The people of Atijere on Wednesday staged a protest in Ondo State capital, Akure against alleged attack by the youths in the Ogun community, alleging that…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, said it had arrested additional 21 fleeing militants in the creeks of Arepo, Fatola and other parts of Lagos, bringing the total number of arrests to 40. The agency stated that the ongoing operation against pipeline vandals would not stop until all the miscreants were arrested. The NSCDC…
Some allegedly vandals, responsible for attacks on communities in Lagos and Ogun states in recent times are now escaping in their numbers to communities in the Ilaje and Ese-Odo local government areas of Ondo State. Investigations on Monday showed that the insurgents, who escaped the intensified aerial bombardment by the Nigerian Air Force of their…
The Nigerian Air Force, NAF has released a video of how its fighter jets destroyed suspected militants, who are said to be armed pipeline vandals strongholds at Arepo, Ogun State. The strikes were part of aerial operations to dislodge militants that have terrorised riverside communities of Ogun and Lagos states in recent times. See video…
There was palpable fear everywhere yesterday among residents of some coastal communities in the Arepo axis of Ogun State as guns boomed in the creeks, fueling suspicion that troops might have clashed with militants. The military head of operation in the area has however assured that there was no cause for alarm and that lives…
A new Police Commissioner, Ahmed Illiyasu has formally took over control of the state police command, Elewearan in Abeokuta, he promised that the peace and security of the state will not be compromised. Mr. Ahmed Illiyasu visited the state governor, Ibikunle Amosun, immediately after assuming duties. Mr. Illiyasu who was appointed and posted to Ogun…
According to a Punch Newspaper report, a bricklayer, Ola Ibikunle has been caught when he was strangling a 4-year-old-girl, Eniola whom he has just abducted. Eniola and her 11-year-old sister, Opeyemi, were following their father Segun Quadri, to a church around 2pm on Tuesday, July 26. The father was said to have gone some distance…
