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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Saturday, July 7th, 2012
July 7, 2012 by Segun Olatunji Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps arm squad | credits: The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Friday arrested a suspected female robber, who attempted to steal the sum of N98,000 from a car parked at the Governor’s Office in Oke –Mosan, Abeokuta, […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Olatunji, Abeokuta A bloody clash between some Hausa and Yoruba in Ibese, Yewa North Local Government of Ogun State on Wednesday claimed the lives of three persons and left no fewer than 30 vehicles burnt. Our correspondent, who visited the scene of the crisis on Thursday, learnt that the violent clash between the members of […]
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Ogun, State News
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered that three leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State be remanded for six months in prison for their continued violation of an order contained in a May 2, 2012 judgment of the court. The development added a new twist to the crisis within the […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Justice Charles Achibong of a Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced three chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State to six months imprisonment for flouting a court order. In a ruling on Wednesday, Chief Ireti Oniyide, Tunde Oladunjoye (now media aide to Agriculture Minister, Akin Adesina) and Honourable Fasiu Bakene (all […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
June 6, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 6 Comments The resumption of the trial of former Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday was stalled by the failure of the leading prosecuting witness, Babatunde Adeluola, to appear in court. Daniel is facing 38 counts of corruption, stealing, illegal […]
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Ogun, State News
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
June 2, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 24 Comments The police in Ogun State said in Abeokuta on Friday that their men shot and killed four suspected highway robbers. The suspects were said to have attempted to rob a car conveying plainclothes policemen on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The suspected robbers numbering about seven had in […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA— Tragedy struck, yesterday, after 15 officials of Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, TRACE, in Abeokuta, beat a man identified as Samuel Adoke, to death for driving on a road that is yet to be commissioned. An eye-witness told Vanguard that the incident occurred about 9a.m. at Oke-Sokori when the […]
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
May 12, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta The office of the Ogun State Internal Revenue Service was in the early hours of Friday burgled by hoodlums who made away with N20m. The robbers were said to have broken in through the windows of the Parastatal Building headquarters of the Ogun IRS at about 2am on […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – Hundreds of patients at Federal Medical Centre {FMC},Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital were subjected to untold hardship following the reported superiority tussle between nurses and doctors which has grounded medical services in the hospital last four days. Vanguard’s investigations revealed that, the two medical bodies locked horns since last week […]
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Prince Kehinde Gbadewole Olugbenle, a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG) will,today , be crowned the new Olu of Ilaro,headquarters of the Yewa speaking people of Ogun State. The occasion will also feature the presentation of the staff of office and certificate of coronation by Governor Ibikunle Amosun. Olugbenle succeeds Oba Adekanbi Tella who joined […]