An Abeokuta court has granted bail to Abass Olalekan, popularly known as Ola Kamara, a Local Government Inspector (LGI) with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Abeokuta South, following his arraignment on charges of conspiracy and attempted procurement of abortion. The 27-year-old officer was detained by police after...
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Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has congratulated the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr Oluwatosin Ajayi, on his commendation by the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI). In a statement issued on Saturday in Abeokuta, the governor described the recognition accorded...
Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka has called on Nigerians to embrace traditional medicine, hailing it as a time-tested and highly effective healthcare system. Speaking in Abeokuta on Wednesday during an event organized by the Ogun State Government and traditionalists to celebrate the 2025 Isese Festival, observed annually on August...
Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL) in Abeokuta has strongly condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for what it describes as an unauthorized and heavy-handed intrusion into its premises. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, disrupted a private event and allegedly violated the rights...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 48 suspected internet fraudsters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The commission in a post via its X handle on Friday, siaid the arrest of the suspects followed...
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has donated N1 million each to the families of 22 athletes and officials from Kano State who died in a road accident while returning from the National Sports Festival, held in Abeokuta. A delegation from Ogun State, led by Deputy Governor Noimot Salako-Oyedele, delivered...
The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) says three people have died while six others were injured in an accident which involved five vehicles on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Adekunle Ajibade, the South-West Area Commander of TRACE, who confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
Containerised shops were destroyed on Tuesday following an explosion involving a diesel-laden tanker behind the Alake Sports Complex in Ijeja, Abeokuta. The explosion occurred just behind the fence separating the Sports Complex from the Ijeja community, triggering panic among nearby residents. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...
Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said that a tipper, allegedly driving against traffic, on Wednesday, knocked to death a woman at Dalemo, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. South-West Area Commander of TRACE, Mr Adekunle Ajibade, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – A 25-year old man, identified as Toye Dominic, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a forest in Alagbodagbo Village, Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Omolola Odutola, confirmed this in a statement in Abeokuta...
No fewer than 16 persons were reportedly burnt to death in a lone accident involving a Mazda bus at Buhari Estate axis on the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway on Tuesday. The spokesperson for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State, Mrs Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident in a statement...
Ogun State Police Command has confirmed that a 19-year-old boy, Oluwaferanmi Olasupo, drowned on Friday in an abandoned quarry pool near Eseke Village in the Odeda Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Spokesperson, CSP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement in on Saturday in Abeokuta. According...
An Abeokuta High Court on Wednesday sentenced 22- year-old Jamiu Malomo to death by hanging for stabbing a sex worker to death. Malomo, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, was convicted on a one count charge of murder. Delivering his judgment, Justice .O. Ogunfowora held that the prosecutor...
The police command in Ogun has arrested Mrs Fatimah Odeale, who inflicted razor blade wounds on a 10-year-old boy, Olasunkanmi Oluwadamilare, for allegedly stealing N600. The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta on Monday. Odutola explained that a delegation from the National Association...
A former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed his deepest gratitude to late U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his instrumental role in securing his release from prison during General Sani Abacha’s regime in 1995. Obasanjo recounted how Carter intervened on his behalf, seeking his release from prison...
Ogun State Police Command has raised concerns over a significant increase in reports of missing persons in the state. The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta on Tuesday. She explained that the command had noticed an unprecedented rise in the number of missing...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of two people and 15 others injured in a lone accident involving a Toyota Hiace bus at Saapade on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The Spokesperson of FRSC in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe, confirmed the incident on Thursday in Abeokuta. Okpe...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Taiwo Yemitan, a suspected ritualist found with a fresh human head and dismembered body parts of a female victim in Lafenwa area of Abeokuta. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – No fewer than 3 student of Olabisi Onabanjo University have been killed in a lone accident along Ilisan-Ago-Iwoye Road in Ogun State. The state police command’s spokesperson, SP Omolola Odutola, who gave the confirmation in a statement in Abeokuta on Saturday, said that the...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 20 local government chairmanship and 236 councillors positions in the council elections held in Ogun on Saturday. The Chairman of the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC), Babatunde Osibodu, announced the results on Sunday at the Commission’s headquarters in Abeokuta....