Ogun state

Ahead of party primaries, Ogun Commissioner resigns, indicates interest in House of Rep.

In conformity with the nation’s Electoral law, Ogun Commissioner for Rural Development, Mr Taiwo Oludotun, has resigned his job and joined the race...

After a year-long trial, woman sentenced in Ogun for hiring thugs to beat son’s school principal, teacher

For her unruliness and causing a breach of peace at her son’s school, a parent has been convicted by a magistrates’ court in...

Nearly 27 years after, new Orimolusi of Ijebu-Igbo, Oba Jaiyeola Adebajo, gets staff of office Feb. 23

  After about two and a half decades, the ancient city of Ijebu-Igbo in Ogun State will come alive on Wednesday, February 23,...

Declare national war on ritual killings, Reps tell

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh     Worried by the ritual killings that have assumed a national dimension, the House of Representatives...

Four teenage ritualists, who beheaded a girl, sent to prison in Ogun

  The four teenage ritualists who butchered a teenage girl, Sofiat Okeowo, for money rituals are now cooling their heels in prison in...

Horrendous crime: 4 Secondary School students under 20 years, kill, dismember girlfriend, roast head for ritual in Ogun

        In Abeokuta, Ogun State, another horrendous crime has been committed by some secondary school students, who after snuffing a...

Ogun community chieftaincy row: Monarch killed in cold blood, roasted

    The Monarch of Agodo village in Ewekoro council area of Ogun State, Oba Ayinde Odetola, was on Monday murdered by some...

Lagos-Lekki Deep Seaport ready in few months,  80 percent completed

    The Lekki Deep Seaport will be delivered on schedule as construction work has reached about 80 percent. The project, according to...

Ex-President Obasanjo bereaved, loses ancestral home monarch, Olowu of Owu Kingdom, Adegboyega Dosunmu

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lost the monarch in his ancestral home in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Olowu of Owu kingdom, Oba Adegboyega...

Ogun State Attorney general

Ogun Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniran, quits

  The Ogun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Akingbolahan Adeniran, has quit his job. The news of his resignation dominated...

Man’s erotic WhatsApp message, “Good morning babe”, to housewife lands him in court

  For allegedly making love overtures to a married woman through a WhatsApp message, a 38-year old randy man, Sikiru Oluwaseun Jamiu, has...

Violent parallel APC State Congress in Ogun as Gov. Abiodun, Amosun battle for party’s soul

      The rivalry between governor, Dapo Abiodun and his predecessor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun was reenacted on Saturday as both factions of...

Tragedy strikes in Ogun as retired Army General and ex-governor, Olurin, exits the world

  The death of a one-time Military Governor of old Oyo State, retired Man.- Gen. ldowu Adetunji Olurin, has thrown his country home,...

Poor mum sells two daughters for N300,000

  Dirt-poor 35-year-old mother, Blessing Ebuneku Agoro, has been apprehended by the Ogun State police for allegedly selling off her two biological underage...

Gas explosion destroys ex-Governor Gbenga Daniel’s hotel in Abeokuta, two dead, others injured

A third gas explosion has hit Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, within one week and this time, it shattered Conference Hotel, owned by former...

Ogun Government disowns, suspends Abidemi Rufai, governor’s aide, over theft of U.S. $650 million unemployment benefits

Following the arrest of Abidemi Rufai, a Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, in U.S. for alleged Washington state’s $650 million unemployment fraud,...