THE Ogun State House of Assembly has ratified the nomination of Justice Olatokunbo Olopade as the first female Chief Judge of the state to succeed Justice Oluremi Jacobs, who has attained retirement age. The state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, had on Monday, forwarded Justice Olopade’s name to the Assembly. Her name was ratified following a […]
The long arm of the law has caught up with a suspected fraudster in Ogun after several months of manhunt for him. The suspect, Akerele alleged to be the kingpin of fraudsters in the state was also notorious for duping and extorting money from individuals and corporate bodies within Sango-Ota and Agbara areas of the […]
Villagers from nine communities of Oloke Alli in Ijebu-east Local Government Area of Ogun State, the boundary between Oyo and Ondo states have cried out over alleged killing and maiming of residents by a group of hoodlums. Led by their traditional ruler, Baale Titilayo Odusanya, the affected communities, which include Oloke Alli Central, Owode Alli, […]
GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State yesterday swore in 17 commissioners and 13 Special Advisers,urging them to hit the ground running. Among those sworn in were the children of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka and late Hubert Ogunde while late Moshood Abiola’s daughter Hafsat was sworn in as a Special Adviser. The governor in his […]
TWO thousand workers employed by the immediate past administration in Ogun State were sacked, on Wednesday, by the administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. But, the government, in a reaction by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, denied the sack, saying that the workers were directed to re-apply before they could be absorbed […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday explained why it might be difficult for the state government to immediately commence the payment of the N18, 000 minimum wage. Addressing over 100 paramount and traditional rulers yesterday at the Obas’ complex, Abeokuta, the state capital, Amosun lamented the financial position of the state, adding that the […]
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday, kicked against the on-going payment of taxes to Lagos State government by the Ogun indigenes working in Lagos state. Amosun said this in a brief interview with airport journalists at the residential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, where he had gone to receive President Goodluck Jonathan […]
IMMEDIATE past Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Wednesday, returned to the country from United Kingdom close to three weeks after he left Nigeria. He arrived aboard a Boeing 747 British Airways aircraft that landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, around 6.30 pm . The former Governor, however, declined comments, when […]
FOR the two and a half hours that the trek lasted, traffic came to a crawl. The whole of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital stood still all through the route of participants. After about 10 minutes of trekking by prominent persons led by Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his wife, Funso, the Deputy Governor, Prince Olusegun […]
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, former Ogun State governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Union (NUPENG), Frank Kokori among other notable pro-democracy activists were conspicuously absent yesterday during the June 12 Democracy Walk and Rally in Abeokuta. Soyinka, Osoba and Kokori were billed to address hundreds of […]
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