Ogun school building collapses after heavy rainfall

A one-story school building in Agbado, in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state collapsed on Saturday afternoon during heavy rainfall. It was gathered that the affected building contained ten classrooms belonging to Agbado District Comprehensive High School in the Ifo area of the state. The building collapsed after the heavy rainfall on Saturday […]

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Mega crisis looms in Ogun APC as top chieftains’ aides wrangle

A serious political crisis is brewing in the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State as aides of the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and former governor Gbenga Daniel, disagreed over alleged anti-party activities during the last elections in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared Abiodun, who ran on the platform of the APC, winner […]

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Lagos-Abeokuta Road: Residents seek Sanwo-Olu’s urgent intervention to save lives

Ile-Epo Market axis of the road Lagos State Government appears to have forgotten some sections of the mainland part of the state in the area of infrastructure. While Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu was busy campaigning for his reelection since last year, motorists and other road users on the Agege-Abeokuta expressway – from Ile-Epo Market, Oke-Odo, to […]

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Lagos-Ibadan expressway: Oyo, Ogun police deploy personnel over kidnappings

Oyo and Ogun states Police Commands have deployed tactical teams on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway over the recent incessant kidnappings on the road. The development is followed by the commands’ move to restructure and remodel their security architecture. According to a statement by the spokesperson for Oyo State Police Command, SP Adewale Osifeso, on Thursday, the […]

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World Teachers Day: Abiodun showers cash, house gifts on teachers, administrators, schools

As part of activities marking the 2022 World Teachers Day, the Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has rewarded teachers, school administrators and schools that have excelled in academics with houses and cash gifts. He also offered employment to the wife of departed Mr Sunday Ogunjimi, a teacher in Odeda Local Government Area who slumped and […]

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World Habitat Day: Abiodun suspends penalties on illegal building

Gives 30 days ultimatum to regularise documents Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has suspended all penalties imposed on people who build without approval just as he gave a 30 days ultimatum for them to regularise their building documents. In his speech at this year’s World Habitat Day celebration with the theme, ‘Mind the Gap; Leave […]

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Abiodun splashes Tobi Amusan with multi-million naira house, N5 million cash gifts

Abiodun, right; and Tobi Amusan A multi-million naira house and N5 million cash gifts have been splashed on the World, Commonwealth and African 100 m hurdles champion, Oluwatobi Amusan, by her home Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun. The governor, who hosted the star athlete at his Oke Mosan office on Tuesday, while announcing these jumbo gifts, […]

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Ogun communities lament decades of darkness as electricity project rots

No fewer than 53 communities in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have lamented the hardship of living in darkness for more than 100 years despite a World Bank Electrification Project in the area. The landlords, residents, and business owners, who spoke to our correspondent, said they had never enjoyed power supply […]

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Ogun PRP governorship candidate, David Bamgbose dies

Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), in the 2023 general election, Prof. David Olufemi Bamgbose has died. It was reliably gathered that the 54-year-old philanthropist and Professor of Education died on Friday at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta where he was admitted to after a brief illness, six days after […]

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