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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Ogun State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Land Matters yesterday issued a bench warrant on the former Managing Director of Gateway City Development Company (GCDC), Mr. Kayode Anibaba, an architect. Also to be arrested is the branch Manager of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) in Ogba, Mrs. Abiodun as well as one Mr. […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Robbers terrorising residents of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Monday afternoon, shifted their targets from commercial banks to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, in the town and carted away undisclosed amount of money. The three-man gang stormed the premises of the hospital in a red Toyota Corolla (CE), monitoring when the money made in the day […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun The Central Bank of Nigeria in Ogun State has said the spate of bank robberies poses a threat to quality service delivery to bank customers in the state. The Branch Controller of CBN in Abeokuta, Mr. Adewale Ojoawo, who spoke during the 2011 Dinner/Awards Night […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – Men of Ogun State Police Command yesterday foiled an early morning robbery attempt on Wema Bank along Idi-Iroko road in Ota, Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun State allegedly leaving many of the robbers injured. The robbers, according to the eye witnesses were 10 in number. They were said to […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun A tenant, who allegedly killed his landlord in Ogijo area of Ogun State has been arrested by the state Police Command. He was said to have killed Afolabi Olayinka, 73 after being allegedly hit with a club. Parading the suspect yesterday, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Mr. Nicholas Nkemdeme, said the murder suspect […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By GBENGA ARIYIBI ABEOKUTA – Ogun State police command yesterday paraded 17 suspected armed robbers including six members of the armed robbery gang that allegedly struck banks along Akarigbo road Sabo, Sagamu in the state last month. The state police Commissioner,Nicholas Nkedeme, told newsmen in Abeokuta that, his men have apprehended six members of the […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, December 5th, 2011
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA— Depositors have continued to groan over the closure of commercial banks in Abeokuta and its environs to protest the incessant robbery attacks in which the institutions have lost huge sums of money. Armed robbers in recent time have unleashed terror on banks in towns like Ifo, Ota, Ijebu-Igbo, Sagamu and Ilaro […]
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EFCC Politics, Ogun, State News
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Abeokuta – The EFCC on Monday in Abeokuta filed additional 27 charges against former Gov. Gbenga Daniel of Ogun, who is currently on trial for corrupt practices. Daniel had on Oct. 6 pleaded not guilty to the 16-count charges of alleged stealing of public funds, illegal deduction of local government funds and diversion of public […]
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Ogun, State News
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The Ogun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr Muyiwa Oladipo, has stopped the Eselu of Iselu, in Yewa North Local Government Area, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, from conferring chieftaincy titles on some natives. The commissioner, it was gathered, acted on a petition forwarded to his office by some of the monarch’s chiefs on […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
No fewer than 10 people were killed early yesterday, as dare-devil robbers raided three commercial banks in Sagamu, Ogun State. This came barely two weeks after a similar incident at the Permanent site of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye in Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state, leaving three persons dead among […]