Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, announced on Monday that around 30,350 people in the state are currently receiving treatment for HIV/AIDS, with children making up 2% of this group. Dr Coker stressed the importance of preventing mother-to-child transmission and ensuring that children with HIV have proper care and treatment. She also…
This piece responds to Jumoke Ayayi-Omene’s “Between Dapo Abiodun and Social Media Falsehood,” published in the Daily Post, and other similar responses from Governor Abiodun’s image makers to #Dapofixogunroads. The recent article aiming to discredit Hauwa Allahbura, a prominent advocate for the repair of Ogun State’s deplorable roads, is not only misguided but also indicative…
A controversial popular Nigerian singer, Portable, who resides in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State, has criticised the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, over the deplorable condition of roads in Sango Ota and other parts of the gateway state. “In America, cars don’t get dirty or stuck in ditches; we have money in Ogun State, but…
“No govt can reconstruct all the roads in Ogun state in 8 years” – Gov Abiodun I want to implore our people to be patient with us. We cannot fix all the bad roads in three years, Governor Dapo Abiodun Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has responded to criticism over the state of roads…
Police have killed two kidnappers from a group that abducted four travellers on Sunday night along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode highway. The Ogun State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alamutu, announced on Wednesday that police officers killed two kidnappers in a shootout. These kidnappers were part of a group that had kidnapped four travelers on Sunday night along the…
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered security forces to begin a large-scale search for the kidnappers involved in Sunday’s incident on the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode expressway. On Sunday night, around 9 p.m., several people were kidnapped by gunmen in multiple incidents near the Police Area Command and Ilishan City Gate on the busy road. The…
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun trended on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday as people called him out over poor infrastructure, especially roads in some communities in the state. Users on X shared photos showing poor road conditions and infrastructure from various parts of the state, criticizing the governor for not keeping the roads…
Ogun government set to sell rice to workers and residents at 50% discount. Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has said that his administration would immediately begin the sale of rice to residents of the state at half the cost of the commodity to cushion the effect of the prevalent economic hardship. The governor said that…
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, sworn in Mr. Martins Akinyemi as a judge in the State High Court, Mrs. Bolanle Awoyemi, and Mr. Adeniyi Lawal as judges in the Customary Court of Appeal on Tuesday. The governor charged the newly sworn-in judges in the state to be the last hope of the common man.…
Sir Kessington Adebunkola Adebutu, a business mogul and the father of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, has formally written a letter to Governor Dapo Abiodun, congratulating him over last Friday’s judgement of the Supreme Court, which upheld his victory as the winner of the March 18 election. Ladi,…
