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Headlines, Ogun, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, State News
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Abuja – A former Governor of Ogun, Chief Gbenga Daniel, on Wednesday in Abuja appealed to former President Olusegun Obasanjo for forgiveness, if he (Daniel) had in anyway erred against him. He made the appeal at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National headquarters, where he formally announced his return to the PDP. Daniel, who was […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Ogun, Party Politics, State News
Saturday, September 27th, 2014
There are strong indications that aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress in the South-West, especially Ogun State, are set to dump the party next week. Saturday PUNCH’s investigations showed that the planned defection would be led by former Governor Olusegun Osoba’s group in the APC. It was gathered that the group, which had reached out […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye The Ogun State commissioner of police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, has said the command arrested 220 armed robbers and killed 37 others during shootouts with his menbetween January and September 2014. The police boss, who spoke at the state police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, during a parade of some suspected cultists and robbers, […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
By Daud Olatunji ABEOKUTA —SXTY-FIVE days after an Islamic cleric, Abdul Ganiyu Jumah and his wife, Muinat, were reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen at their residence, they were found at the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS in Ogun State. The couple, who were residing at 27, Fagbemi Street, Ijoko, in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Policemen attached to the Ibafo Police Division of Ogun State, on Saturday recovered the decomposed body of the manager of a commercial bank, Mr. Habeeb Olatunde, at an uncompleted building at Arepo. PUNCH Metro learnt that Olatunde, who had been declared missing since June 18, allegedly committed suicide. The policemen, led by the Divisional Police […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, July 7th, 2014
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, of Redeemers University along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, for allegedly killing his father, Mr. Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The incident, according to the police, occurred on Tuesday, July 3, at their residence on Canaanland Street within the Redeemed Christian Church of […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
THERE was pandemonium around communities in Agbado Railway Crossing in Ogun State, on Tuesday, as angry train passengers destroyed the newly-inaugurated multi-million naira luxury passenger train. The destruction took place less that 24 hours after it was inaugurated by the Federal Government in Lagos. Many people, including officials of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), were […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
A scene of an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. | credits: File photo Nine passengers were burnt beyond recognition after fire gutted a Lagos-bound commercial bus on Warewa Long Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday. PUNCH Metro learnt that nine others sustained injuries in the accident which occurred around 4pm. Although police […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Friday, April 4th, 2014
There was pandemonium in the Akinremi Estate, Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday after some youths discovered a baby factory around Vulcaniser Bus Stop. The incident comes barely two weeks after eight women were rescued from a baby factory in the Akute area of the state. Eyewitnesses told PUNCH Metro that the youths, who thought […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, March 13th, 2014
The Ogun Police Command said on Thursday that it arrested a 38-year-old man, Adelani Ayomide, for being in possession of a bag containing 18 human skulls. A statement by the command’s spokesperson, Mr Muyiwa Adejobi, issued in Abeokuta said Ayomide was arrested on Thursday along the Ado-Odo-Owode road at about 6.48 a.m. during a routine […]
