By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Ogun State Police Command has arrested five suspected members of a ritual gang, which specialises in exhuming corpses from graves and removing body parts for rituals. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement in Abeokuta on Sunday,...
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An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, on Friday, sentenced a 21-year-old man, Abeeb Magaji, to 14 years imprisonment for attempting to steal from the court’s premises in Isabo. Magaji, whose address was not provided, pleaded guilty to the three-count charge of intent to commit felony, unlawful damage and causing breach of...
A woman, on Sunday, died on her way to church, after falling off her husband’s motorcycle at Fajol axis of Obantoko area in Abeokuta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident happened as the husband of the deceased lost control in the process of avoiding a...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Police command in Ogun State have arrested three suspects over an alleged attempt to kill a police officer, Akinpelu Sunday, while carrying out his duties at Orile Imo in Obafemi- Owode LGA of the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the...
A couple – Kehinde Fatinoye and Bukola – has been killed in a mysterious fire incident shortly after returning from a New Year/Crossover service in Abeokuta, Ogun State. According to the police, a suspect has been arrested in connection with the death of the duo who reside in the...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two brothers for allegedly kidnapping a woman and her nine-year-old son for ritual purposes. The suspects were arrested following information received by policemen at Oja Odan Divisional Headquarters that the two brothers were allegedly in negotiations over the phone to sell a...
African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed the report that it has opted to work with another political party for the 2023 general elections because it no longer has candidates. National Chairman of the party, Chief Ralph Nwosu, made this known at a news conference on Monday in Abeokuta. He...
Ogun have been officially announced as the next hosts of the National Sports Festival (NSF), their second hosting after their first one in 2006. Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare, made the announcement on Saturday in Asaba during the closing ceremony of the 21st NSF. Dare said five...
The Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, says it has seized goods worth N4.88 billion between Feb. and Dec.6 in the state. The Area Comptroller, Bamidele Makinde, made this known during a press conference in Idiroko, Ogun, on Wednesday. Makinde said that the command, during the period under...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Ogun State Police command has arrested a 27 year-old suspected Yahoo boy, Obeta John, for allegedly killing his girlfriend, one Idowu Buhari, an HND1 Mass Communication student of Gateway polytechnic Saapade. The Police Public Relations Officers , SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that the attacks on its offices in some parts of the country won’t deter it from holding the 2023 general elections. Yakubu said this on Tuesday in Abeokuta during an assessment tour of its office recently attacked...
The Police Command in Ogun says it has arrested a 36-year-old suspected, Sikiru Ajibola, who allegedly raped 5-year-old boy to death in Ogijo area of Sagamu local government. SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Saturday. Oyeyemi...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has asked passengers to report commercial drivers carrying petrol in gallons to its officials in order to avert loss of lives in the event of accidents. The FRSC Unit Commander in Ota, Ogun, Mr Ahmed Umar, gave the advice in an interview with...
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal filed by the PDP on the lingering legal battle on the nomination of its governorship candidate in Ogun State. The apex Court ordered that the suit instituted by Mr Jimi Lawal, a governorship aspirant, be remitted to the Federal High Court...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 45-year old carpenter, Segun Omotosho, who allegedly beat his wife, Olubukola to death in Ogun State The Police spokesman, CSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Monday. Oyeyemi said detectives arrested...
Four persons lost their lives when a Toyota Sienna bus ran into a moving Sino truck from the rear on Abeokuta-Sagamu expressway on Thursday. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesperson, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta on Friday. Akinbiyi explained that the...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Abeokuta South local government area of Ogun, located at Iyana Mortuary area of the state capital was gutted by fire in the early hours of Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the facility was allegedly set on fire...
Ogun residents and supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) staged a solidarity walk in Abeokuta on Tuesday. It was designed to show their support for the presidential and governorship bids of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun, respectively. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
An accident involving a Mazda car and two motorcyclists at Oke-Odan, on Ota-Idiroko Expressway on Friday took the lives of a nursing mother and her baby. Spokesman of the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed accident when he spoke with the News Agency of...
A former employee of Wema Bank, Akinyele Ogunpola,40, was on Thursday docked in a Chief Magistrates’ Court, in Abeokuta, for allegedly stealing N70million from his employer. The defendant, is charged with conspiracy and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Olaide Rawlings, told the court that the defendant committed the offence...