The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Monday struck out the vote buying allegation, levelled against Governor Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Ladi…
The Agura of Gbagura, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oba Babajide Sabur Bakre, is dead. News reports that the monarch joined his ancestors on Wednesday at a Lagos hospital where he was treated for an undisclosed ailment. An inside source in Gbagura…
A four-man armed robbery gang struck Abeokuta’s Oke-Sokori axis on Friday, carting away two Ghana-Must-Go bags allegedly filled with dollar notes. It was learnt that the suspects, who were armed with rifles, also covered their faces with masks during the…
The Ogun State Government has shut down some roads in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, in preparation for Governor Dapo Abiodun’s second term inauguration. Abiodun’s inauguration holds today at the MKO Abiola International Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta. Consequently, the Traffic Compliance…
The So-Safe Corps in Ogun State on Thursday apprehended a suspected cultist who had been terrorizing the state. A statement by the So-Safe Corps spokesman, Moruf Yusuf, quoted the Corps Commander, Soji Ganzallo, as saying that the suspect was arrested…
The Ogun Command of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has advised people to refrain from engaging in hooliganism during the forthcoming general elections. The Ifo Unit Commander of FRSC, Mr Joseph Akinsanya, gave the advice in an interview with the…
…vandalise bank, political billboards, posters Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The peace enveloping Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital was on Tuesday shattered as angry youths took to the destroying public infrastructure in protest of the scarcity of the new redesigned Naira notes…
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, on Friday, sentenced a 30-year old man, Dauda Salako, to three years’ imprisonment for stealing a Bajaj motorcycle. Salako, who resides at Oju Aremo Street, Oke Ijemo area of Abeokuta, was arraigned on a count charge…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta The re-construction of Kemta-Ilugun-Somorin-Obantoko road in Abeokuta by the administration of Governor Dapo Abiodun has reached 80 per cent completion stage. The 6.9km road serves as a major bypass linking Obantoko with Kemta-Idiaba. Repair work on the…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo and other African leaders on Monday met and deliberated on how to strengthen democracy in West Africa. They met at the opening session of of…
