Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Sango Otta – The entire Sango-Ota area of Ogun state is now engulfed in protest. As a result, Vehicular and human traffic along Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway in that axis has been hampered, as rioting youths and rice sellers in Sango-Ota market are said to have blocked both sides of the road at Ota, just before the…
Adebisi Akinrin-mola man killed rival over girlfriend in Ijebu Igbo. The 43-year-old, Adebisi Akinrin-mola, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for killing one Ademola Asimiyu over a girlfriend. According to reports, the suspect reportedly claimed that the deceased accused him of snatching the woman from him and has been warning him to…
No less than 10 fake doctors have been dragged to court for allegedly operating illegal medical facilities in the state by the Ogun State Government. The state Commissioner of Health, Babatunde Ipaye, disclosed this on Monday to PREMIUM TIMES in Abeokuta. Mr. Ipaye said the suspects were arrested during a monitoring of medical facilities across…
Online reports indicate the Alake and Paramount ruler of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo has been dragged before an Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta over a chieftaincy title. The four Chiefs, who dragged the Alake to the Court are; the Oluwo of Kemta, Chief Abayomi Rotimi; the Odofin of Kemta, Chief Ayinla Bankole;…
No fewer than 168 clinics and hospitals have been put under lock and key by the government of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State. According to reports monitor online by Ogun Today team, the action of the government follow refusal of the health facilities to revalidate or register the affected clinics and hospitals. Mr. Babatunde…
Ogun students are currently protesting what they termed the poor educational policies of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, berating Police for alleged members’ harassment. The Save TASUED and Fund Education Coalition (STAFEC), a group of student organisations across the country, has embarked on mass protest Monday morning. The coalition yesterday said the cancellation of the mass protest…
Otunba Dayo Adeneye, the Ogun State Commissioner for Information and Strategy in an interview with Cletus Akwaya and Kazeem Akintunde of Leadeship newspaper, spoke on how the state government has been able to attract huge investments and turn around the fortunes of the state: On the recently launched School feeding programme, what are the plans…
An 18-seater danfo bus with full load passengers has plunged into an uncompleted bridge in the Alagbole area of Ogun state. PUNCH Metro learnt that three passengers died while 14 others, including a pregnant woman, sustain serious injuries in the crash which occurred about 1pm on Thursday. Eight of the victims were said to have…
A week after a U.S. court insisted on his extradition for drug related offences, Nigerian senator Buruji Kashamu has been accused by some lawyers of alleged threat to their lives. A group of lawyers in Ogun State petitioned the state Commissioner of Police over alleged threat to their lives and attempted murder by Mr. Kashamu,…
The Ogun State House Of Assembly during plenary Tuesday passed a bill to upgrade Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Ojere, Abeokuta to a University of Science and Technology. Mr Adeyinka Mafe, the house Majority Leader, moved the motion for the third and final reading of the bill and was seconded by the Minority Leader, Mr Olawale…
