Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a teenage herdsman, identified only as Mohammed, with one AK-47 rifle. The suspect was arrested while hiding in a forest with the gun. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following information […]
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A fire service truck entering the library One person has been confirmed dead in an explosion at the Olúségun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The explosion occurred around 11am on Thursday at the Marcque Event Centre within the library. It was gathered that routine cleaning was being done when one of the gas […]
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• Scene of the explosion An infant and two other persons were on Wednesday burnt to death in a fire incident in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Our correspondent gathered that the incident occurred at Oke-Egunya along the NTA Road in the state capital. An eyewitness said that the fire started around 3.15pm following a gas explosion. […]
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Three persons, including an infant, died in a gas explosion in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Wednesday. It was learnt the victims were burnt to death at Oke-Egunya along NTA road, Abeokuta when a technician was trying to service a faulty refrigerator. They were said to have been trapped and unable to escape after […]
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Police Inspector General Usman Baba The Police Command in Ogun has warned hoodlums planning to attack stations in the state to shun such intentions in order not to face wrath of the law. ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), made this known on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of […]
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Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho), yesterday, stormed Ogun State, insisting that killer-herdsmen must vacate Yorubaland. He, alongside his supporters, arrived in Abeokuta, the state capital and immediately proceeded to some troubled areas in Yewaland in Ogun West Senatorial District. His visit was in continuation of his campaign against the marauding herdsmen in […]
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• Governors to meet with Miyetti Allah in Akure over region’s security Southwest states are on red alert following the expiration of the quit notice given to herders by Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. The notice for the herders to vacate the Reserve Forest expired on Sunday. To prevent the herders from moving to their […]
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Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun Eight teachers in public secondary schools in Ogun State died during the first term holiday, which began on December 18 and ended on Monday, with schools resuming across the state. It was learnt that their pupils and colleagues were shocked and sad to discover that the affected teachers did not […]
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Ogun State House of Assembly’s mace was stolen by suspected burglars in the early hours of Thursday. Confirming the incident to newsmen in Abeokuta, Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO), noted that the burglars broke into the speaker’s office through the roof and stole the mace. “There is an unfortunate incident today […]
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Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, has described a video that has gone viral, giving quit notice to the Igbo people to leave Yorubaland, as senseless and one capable of causing destabilisation in the country. A group, Young Yoruba for Freedom, in a viral video had told the people of Igbo extraction residing in the […]
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