Ogun state

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...

Update on Ogun plaza demolition: Ex- Governor’s wife slams Ogun govt, calls it executive recklessness, lawlessness

Following the demolition of her five-storey plaza, Mrs Olufunke Daniel, the wife of ex-Ogun Governor, Sen. Gbenga Daniel, has blasted Gov. Dapo Abiodun...

20-year-old man nabbed for killing father for rituals in Ogun

A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killed his father for rituals in Oshoku Village in Ijebu North Local Government Area of...

Brainsick-man decapitates octogenarian, “neutralized” resisting arrest

Iperu community, the country home of Ogun Governor, Dapo Abiodun, was overcome with grief on Friday as 32-year-old man, David Shodola, severed an...

Nigerian Army busts Ghanaian, truck driver, impounds truck load of smuggled ammunition from Mali in Ogun

The troops of 192 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, operating in 81 Division area have intercepted a truck loaded with smuggled ammunition from...

Ex-Ogun Gov. Osoba at 84: Tinubu extols media icon, describes him an exemplar in politics, journalism

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated veteran journalist, elder statesman and former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, on his 84thbirthday, saying his...

With his Midas touch, Ashiru redefines OICL’s trajectory, fortunes

By Femi Soneye “Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before...

Woman douses self in petrol, roasts over Microfinance bank’s N70, 000 debt

The precarious and entrapping economic situation has claimed the life of a middle-aged woman in Abeokuta, Ogun capital, as she doused herself and...

Ogun PDP governorship primary: Supreme Court orders retrial of Jimi Lawal’s suit

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Monday dismissed an appeal filed on the nomination of the Ogun State PDP’s governorship candidate further deepening...

$350,000 wire fraud in U.S.: Ogun Governor’s Special Assistant, Abidemi Rufai, enters guilty plea

  A Special Assistant to Ogun Governor,45-year-old Abidemi Rufai, arrested in connection with massive wire fraud against Washington state’s pandemic relief efforts has...