Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Saturday conducted a congress to elect new executives to run the party’s affairs for the next four years in Ogun State despite a court order banning the exercise. The congress took place at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta under the watchful eyes of national officials from the party, the…
The Senator representing Lagos West in the National Assembly, Solomon Adeola has said he had no grudge against Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun but only differed with him in political ideology and belief. Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, also refuted the rumour that he obstructed the $350million loan request from the World Bank by…
According to a report on P.M.News the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi has made it clear that he would not step down for anybody in the race to Okemosan, the seat of government in Abeokuta. The Speaker has expressed his readiness to take over as governor of Ogun State, come…
Ogun State Assembly Speaker, Mr. Suraj Adekunbi, on Wednesday, lauded journalists for their effective media reportage of the State Government activities, policies and programme in the last six years. Adekunbi who spoke shortly after being conferred with an Award of Excellence as the ‘Most Outstanding Speaker in Ogun since its creation in 1976 at the…
A two-time governorship candidate in Ogun State, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, has called on all eligible voters to reject moneybags politicians with inordinate ambitions in the 2019 general election in the state. Just as he said that he would recontest for the exalted seat and win convincingly to serve the people He said this in…
A group, the Ogun West Elders Forum, on Tuesday, insisted that no one or body can impose any governorship candidate on the people of the senatorial district, in its quest to produce the next governor of the state in 2019. The senatorial district had in the 42 years history of the state, had not been…
Yewa North Traditional Council led by its Chairman and the Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Abdul Azeez Ishola Adelakun, has unanimously agreed to support the governorship aspiration of the Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraju Ishola Adekunbi in 2019. Oba Adelakun disclosed this during a courtesy visit by the Speaker to the traditional council,…
Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly, Suraj Adekunbi has explained that the State house of Assembly preferred to serve as a rubber stamp to the State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s government, so as to facilitate good governance. The Speaker who recalled that he had been accused of being a rubber stamp for Amosun said…
Ogun police command this morning disrupted attempt by Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development to use the International market in Owode Yewa, Ogun State for the installation ceremony of the chieftaincy title of ‘Otunba Fiwagboye conferred on him by the Olu Of Owodeland, Oba Dr. Rev. Mathew Sunday Akindele,…
Community resists plot by Amosun to a demolish borehole being built by Ladi Adebutu. The inhabitants of Ilugoke area in Iperu Remo, Ikenne Local Government of Ogun State yesterday resisted plot by the State government to stop work and demolish a borehole being built by Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu, Chairman of House Committee on Agriculture and…
