Ogun state

First time ever, Ogun state budget hits trillion naira mark, about N300bln higher than 2024 budget

Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun has presented a jumbo size budget of N1.05 trillion to the state legislature for 2025. Presenting the appropriation bill...

Horror: Former Ogun councillor shot in the head on bike

Suspected cultists killed Mutiu Akinbami on Friday, a former councillor in the Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Akinbami, popularly known...

Ogun raises minimum wage to N77,000, takes immediate effect

Gov. Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has offered to pay N77,000 as the state’s minimum wage for the lowest-paid employee, way above the...

Major breakthrough as Polytechnic produces electric tricycle in Ogun

“My expectation now is to see how we can take the tricycle to the industry. Let me also tell you that this is...

Gov. Abiodun flags off harvest of 200-hectare plantation, Ogun now rice-producing state

Ogun State has joined the league of rice-producing states in the country with the flagging off of the harvest of 200 hectares at...

Bureaucratic bottlenecks stalled reconstruction of Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta Expressway – Gov. Abiodun

Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun has said bureaucratic bottlenecks stalled the reconstruction of the Lagos-Sango-Abeokuta Expressway. Abiodun also promised that the Agbara-Lusada-Atan road would...

Gov. Abiodun lauds police for securing Ogun State

Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun has praised the Nigeria Police Force for its efforts to secure lives and properties in the state. Abiodun gave...

Landlord slumps, dies during heated argument with tenant over rent arrears

Benjamin Apeh, a landlord in Ogun State, allegedly suffered a fatal collapse during a heated dispute with his tenant over outstanding rent. The...

Fresh crisis rocks Ogun APC with Gov. Abiodun and Sen. Daniel in standoff over projects

…says his comment represents a hallucination of a serial failure All is not well with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun...

One-time journalist and bureaucrat, Kehinde Onasanya is Ogun State’s new Head of Service

The Ogun State Government has named Mr. Kehinde Olufemi Onasanya, a one-time journalist, as the new Head of Service. Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun...

Tragedy as woman jumps off speeding boat in Lagos

A woman who boarded a boat from Igando in Alimosho area of Lagos to a riverine community in Ogun State, has committed suicide...

Ex-Ogun Commissioner, Odusile, summoned by Ogun Assembly over alleged N92m fraud

The immediate past Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Waheed Odusile, the former Permanent Secretary, Mr. Abiodun Awere; and the Director of Finance and...

Ogun CP visits shot Nollywood actor, Ijaduade, vows to punish trigger-happy cop

Nollywood actor and Director, Azeez Ijaduade, who was shot “accidentally” by a police man in Iperu in Remo area of Ogun State on...

Decomposing mutilated body of missing 12-year-old boy found five days after missing in Abeokuta

Six days after he was declared missing, the mutilated body of a 12-year-old school boy, who was an apprentice in a barber’s shop...

Ogun guber tussle: APC’s Gov. Abiodun, PDP’s Adebutu know fate Sept. 30

The Ogun State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal will deliver judgment on Saturday, September 30 on the petition filed by Mr. Ladi Adebutu of...

LG funds diversion: Ogun council chairman’s running battle with Gov. Abiodun lands him in prison

Aftermath of his impeachment, the Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government in Ogun State, Mr Wale Adedayo, has been hauled up before an...