Ogun state

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Fresh herdsmen attack in Ogun: Two killed, schools, hospitals shut

  Owode-Ketu and Ijoun communities in the Yewa North Council Area of Ogun State have been turned into a theatre of war following...

Ogun records first petrol tanker tragedy on its flyovers

    Ogun State recorded its first petrol tanker fire on Tuesday since the flyovers were constructed by the immediate past administration of...

Just in: For fairness, justice:Ogun government suspends commissioner over alleged sexual harassment

Pending an independent investigation, Ogun State Government has suspended the Commissioner for Environment, Mr Abiodun Abudu-Balogun from office over alleged sexual harassment of a...

Ogun monarch hauled before court over right to stool, indigeneship

  The installation of Oba Joshua Aminu Amusa, the Olu of Idanyin in Agbara area of Ado-odo/Ota Local Government of Ogun State has...

Hoodlums rage: Ogun Police Command thanks monarchs, youths for forming human shields around police stations, public properties

  As peace, law and order have been restored to Ogun State after weeks of #EndSARS protests and hoodlums’ rage, the State Police...

#EndSARS arson: Southwest governors to youths: Defend our land, people against incursions 

Aftermath of infiltration of #EndSARS protesters resulting in property destruction and carnage in the Southwest, the six Governors in the states are now...

Five internet fraudsters bag 192 months imprisonment

By Boye Ajayi Five internet fraudsters in Abeokuta, Ogun capital, are to spend 192 cumulative months behind bars, a court ruled on Friday....

BBNaija’s winner, Laycon, excites home state Gov. Abiodun, felicitates with him

Excited by his successful outing at 2020 BBNaija lockdown show, Ogun Gov. Dapo Abiodun has congratulated Mr Olamilekan Agbelesebioba with the stage name...

Man felled by trigger-happy Customs officers’ bullet, command blames hoodlums 

    By Boye Ajayi A man, Atanda Idowu Moses, who was shot by trigger-happy Customs operatives in Oja Odan area of Yewa South council area of Ogun State on Saturday, has died, according to a Persecondnews investigations.   The deceased, was until...

Ogun workers rattle Gov. Abiodun’s 15-month-old administration with strike 

    The labour unions in Ogun State have called out workers on a week warning strike to press home their demands including...

Knife-stabber faces trial, gets N100, 000 bail 

  By Boye Ajayi For knife-stabbing a man during a brawl at a village in Ogun State, a 25- year-old man, Obinna Ubah,...

In Ogun, lndependent Marketers now to sell petrol at N162 per litre

  The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has directed its members in the Southwest to sell petrol at N162 per litre....

Buruji Kashamu (1958 -2020) By Reuben Abati 

        Then let them laugh and rejoice in our man’s ill-luck. Alive perhaps they felt no need of him, but...

Kashamu’s interment: Mass of people violate COVID-19 protocols to pay last respect

    A concourse had on Sunday massed at the late former Senator Buruju Kashamu’s Ijebu-Igbo country home in Ogun State to pay...

Ojowo-Ijebu monarch, Banjo, expresses condolences on Kashamu’s demise

  More prominent Nigerians have continued to send condolences to the government and people of Ogun State on the death of ex- Senator...