Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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SIR: Tai Solarin College of Education” (TASCE), Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State has been in the news in the last five years for all manners of reasons. Things reached the climax mid-2017 when the Senator Ibikunle Amosun administration stopped payment of salaries and subvention for good 16 months. The Dapo Abiodun administration assumed the mantle of leadership with…
Traders on Ogun State’s Lambe-Matogun road have recounted their losses after a fuel tanker exploded on Saturday, destroying their shops and properties. The fire is said to have destroyed five shops worth millions of naira, including electricity cables. According to residents, the petrol tanker crashed around 8 a.m. The residents had put out the fire…
Feelers from the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State have it that plans are in top gear to suspend Chief Derin Adebiyi, the factional Chairman of the party in the state backed by former Governor Ibikunle Amosun, over anti-party activities. Read also: Ogun PDP guber tussle: Sowunmi wins at Appeal Court Multiple sources at…
Amosun, others announced Biyi Otegbeye as ADC Ogun State governorship candidate. Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s supporters have unveiled their African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate. Barrister Biyi Otegbeye, an indigene of Ogun’s Yewa South Local Government Area, is the candidate. Read also: Obasanjo Reply To Buhari: Why Muslim-Muslim Ticket Dangerou Alhaji Olatunde Awonuga of Ogun Waterside Local…
Ogun has begun paying N202 billion compensation for properties demolished by Amosun. The Ogun State government will begin paying compensation to owners of properties demolished by Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s administration in order to expand some road projects across the state. Governor Dapo Abiodun has already approved that compensation payments begin to alleviate the sufferings of…
Dapo Abiodun, Governor of Ogun State, has called on wives of government functionaries to come up with innovative ideas to bring more empowerment programs and raise the pedigree of women in the state through the Spouses of Ogun State Government Functionaries Association (SOSGFA). This call was made by Abiodun in his office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta,…
Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun has sworn in seven new Commissioners to his cabinet. Oludotun Taiwo (Forestry), Ganiyu Hamzat (Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs), Olufemi Ilori Oduntan (Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs), Abayomi Hunye (Community Development and Cooperatives), Motunrayo Adeleye -Oladapo (Culture and Tourism), Oladimeji Oresanya (Environment), Jami (Rural Development). Dr Oluwatoyin Taiwo, the former…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State yesterday chastised Senator Tolu Odebiyi of Ogun West for claiming that Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, refused to accept reconciliation within the ruling party. According to the party, the immediate past governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, refused to be reconciled despite the intervention of the revered Awujale…
Tinubu, the APC Presidential Candidate, arrives in Abeokuta for a closed-door meeting with former President Obasanjo.
In a lawsuit involving him, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and two others, the Appeal Court in Abuja ruled in favor of factional governorship candidate of the PDP in Ogun State, Segun Sowunmi. According to the lawyers, the judgement in Sowunmi’s suit against the party, Ladi Adebutu and co, means that unless otherwise ruled, he…
