Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Tuesday, disclosed that his administration met five functional ambulances serving the entire state when it assumed office on May 29, 2019. Abiodun, who declared that his administration placed high premium and value on the health and emergency response as an important sector in the state, […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta A United Kingdom (UK)-based development agency, Prosperity Fund, has expressed its readiness to offer technical assistance to Ogun State in its efforts at putting in place an efficient and sustainable transportation system. This, according to the agency, would fast-track the socio-economic development of the state. Speaking during the presentation of the report […]
On Tuesday, health workers in Ogun State decried the state’s high level of insecurity, lamenting that all parts of the state were becoming unsafe. In separate interviews with newsmen, state branches of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, as well as the Nigerian Medical Association, reported this in justifying their decision to go […]
Abiodun Taiwo The abducted Head of the General Hospital, Imeko in Imeko/Afon local government area of Ogun State, Dr. Oladunni Odetola, and a nurse identified as Mrs. Bamgbose had been released by their abductors. It was gathered that the medical personnel were released on Monday night. It will be recalled that Odetola and Bamgbose were […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Gunmen have abducted a medical doctor, Oladunni Odetola alongside a nurse identified as Mrs. Bamgbose, in Ogun State. Daily Times gathered that Odetola, the head of Ogun State General Hospital, Imeko, Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state. They were kidnapped on Wednesday night by unknown gunmen while driving along Abeokuta-Imeko road. […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta The Ogun State Government has cleared the air on domestic debt owed by the State, saying the figures given to it by the immediate past administration did not capture the entire liabilities it left behind. The government said not less than N50billion in financial liabilities were not accounted for in the financial […]
Two suspected armed robbers, Jerry Chuckwedu m’ 23yrs and Tomiwa Olawale m’ 22years, pictured above, have been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command, for allegedly robbing a gold merchant of golden chains and rings valued at six million naira at gunpoint. Confirming the arrests to newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, […]
STEPHEN GBADAMOSI, IBADAN The Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has announced the commencement of recruitment into public primary and secondary schools. According to a statement by the state Commissioner for Education Science and Technology, Professor Abayomi A. Arigbabu, on Tuesday, ” the ministry announces the commencement of the Ogun State Teaching Experience […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole on Thursday paid a courtesy call on the Governor of his home state, Ogun, Prince Dapo Abiodun. The meeting started as soon as the former two-term lawmaker arrived at the Oke-Mosan secretariat around 4:12 pm, the two leaders went into a closed-door […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Worried by the recent kidnapping of students in schools by bandits in some parts of the country, the Ogun State Government said it has beefed up security in all its schools across the State. The State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun stated this yesterday when he received members of the House of Representatives […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Sunday night kidnapped two female students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ayetoro Campus, Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Daily Times reliably gathered that the incident occurred at about 9 pm on Sunday, when the suspected bandits stormed the Igbole Aibo Quarter area […]
Dare Kadiri, the embattled Deputy Speaker of the Ogun Assembly, has been impeached for alleged “gross misconduct.” He is the member representing Ijebu North State Constituency 2 in the State Assembly. A petition calling for Kadiri’s resignation was signed by 22 lawmakers last week. The plot to sack him thickened on Monday, according to reports from […]
By Joy Joseph A female leader of an armed robbery gang, Tolulope Olufemi, and her accomplice, Oshilaru Biodun, have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, for snatching a pastor’s Toyota Pathfinder jeep. Daily Times reports that the suspects and their other gang members at large, armed with guns and other dangerous […]
STEPHEN GBADAMOSI, IBADAN A former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, has appologised to his supporters and explained why he had to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at short notice. Daniel was a frontline member of the PDP, having ruled Ogun State on the ticket of […]
Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Hoodlums suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Friday night launched an attack on Orile-Igbooro in Yewa North local government area of Ogun State, killing no fewer than four persons. Vanguard reliability gathered that houses were set ablaze, while several people sustained varying degrees of injuries in the said attack. Speaking on the […]
…It is fake news, says son …It was a case of strayed cow, say police By Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta There was palpable tension across parts of the country, especially the South West, as news filtered out in the early hours of yesterday that the country home of Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, in the Abeokuta […]
*State denies inviting him to help fight insecurity Abiodun Taiwo, Abeokuta Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, on Monday stormed Ogun State, insisting that killer-herdsmen must vacate Yorubaland. Igboho, alongside his supporters arrived in Abeokuta, the state capital and immediately proceeded to some trouble areas in Yewaland in Ogun West Senatorial […]
Joy Obakeye A Magistrate Court in Ifo local government area of Ogun State, has sentenced a sixty year old man, Bakare Buraimoh, to six months imprisonment at the Ilaro Correctional Centre, Ogun State, for assaulting one Abiodun Fakoya, a staff of Ikeja Electric (IE) attached to its Olowora Undertaking Office. The judgement was delivered on […]
A soldier, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, on Saturday, assaulted a young lady who was dressed in a manner he considered indecent. The incident happened around 9:47 am at Oju-Ore in the Ota area of Ogun State. The lady, who was clad in a pair of shorts and white knitted coverup, was trekking […]
Some members of a robbery gang which invaded Christ Apostolic Church at Gudugbe Alagbon area of Wasimi in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, have been arrested by the police. Daily Times gathered that suspects who allegedly assaulted worshippers before dispossessing them of their valuables during a vigil, reportedly abducted Mrs. Mojisola Atolagbe, a worshipper before escaping […]