Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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The 2023 budget has been enacted by Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun. In order to maintain the momentum of his administration’s “Building Our Future Together Agenda,” Governor Abiodun promised to see that every provision of the measure was fully implemented. “This budget reflects the preferences of the residents of Ogun State. I can guarantee that…
Akin Osuntokun, the new director general of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, claimed he took the position without any bias toward any particular religion or race. He also denied rumours that he might have pushed for or advocated for his new position. In response to inquiries from The PUNCH, Osuntokun discussed how he would handle…
•Ensures justice for the family •Orders law enforcement to take swift action against offenders •Delegation of Sanwo-Olu visits departed family •NHRC asserts that officers carrying weapons must be psychologically stable •LERSA urges police to stop killing innocent Nigerians. Deji Elumoye, Michael Olugbode in Abuja and Segun James in Lagos President Muhammadu Buhari has denounced the…
Ayodele Falomo, 56, and his son Ayoola, 23, have been charged by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly attacking a doctor over the loss of a family member. The two were charged with assaulting the victim, Dr. Pelumi Somorin, who works at the Federal Medical Center, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, in front of the Abeokuta Chief…
The displeased students voiced their dissatisfaction with several other recent vice-chancellor regulations using the trending hashtag #AgboolaWhy on Twitter. Some Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State students have taken to Twitter to protest Professor Agboola Johnson, the university’s new Vice Chancellor, for raising the school’s transcript cost from N8,000 to N40,000. A user named…
According to the Ijaw Youth Council, the Federal Government of Nigeria failed Bayelsa State on Tuesday by failing to adequately address the humanitarian catastrophe brought on by the flood calamity. This comes as the council has called for the resignation of Sadiya Farouq, the minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management, and social development, for saying…
ROYAL OAK, Mich./ATLANTA, Ga., Nov 8 (Reuters)-Americans in closely contested elections on Tuesday decided whether Republicans would take control of Congress, which would give them the authority to obstruct much of President Joe Biden’s agenda over the next two years. Despite Democratic warnings about the erosion of abortion rights and the eroding of democratic norms,…
After an eight-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Senator Shehu Sani criticised the Federal Government’s decision to pay lecturers only half of what they were paid. Senator Sani, who served as Kaduna Central’s representative in the National Assembly from 2015 to 2019, claims that no member receives a pay cut for being…
The United Kingdom has issued fresh security advice to its citizens in Nigeria or who may be considering traveling to the country. The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in its updated foreign advisory asked its citizens to avoid at least 12 states in Nigeria, while saying some other states should be visited only if…
In its efforts at curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Ogun State Government has embarked on regular youth empowerment, identification of key population, aggressive community HIV testing, strong referral linkage of identified cases, engagement of media to transmit prevention and other HIV related messages among others, towards achieving epidemic control. …
