‘On getting to the station, the two arrested suspects made a shocking revelation that the so-called victim was the person who planned with them to kidnap him’ A 23-year-old man, Edward Okache has been arrested by operatives of Ogun State Police Command for faking his own kidnap. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that after faking a
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, identified as Opeyemi Ganiyu, for allegedly beating his mother-in-law, Abosede Oyewole, to death. Ganiyu was arrested on Wednesday in the Atan Ota area of the state after he reportedly pounced on the deceased for trying to mediate in a fight with his wife and in
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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 2019 senatorial candidate of the party for Ogun East, Engr Adeola Sosanwo, has left the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Sosanwo who in the 2019 Senatorial poll lost to the APC candidate, Senator Lekan Mustapha by a small margin, said
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A 46-year-old man, Olatunji Sobola, has allegedly stabbed his 38-year-old wife, Monday Sobola, to death over a claim of infidelity. The suspect, an official of Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State, was arrested on Saturday, February 13, at Owode-Egba in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. The state Police Public Relations
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Mr. Tosin Ogunbodede, Chief of Protocol to Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has reportedly died alongside his driver from an accident. Ogunbodede passed on about a fortnight Akeredolu’s Commissioner for Regional Integration and Special Duties, Prof. Bayonle Ademodi died after a protracted illness. Multiple sources within the government confirmed Ogunbodede’s sudden passage to newsmen
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The Ogun State Police Command said on Thursday 2,735 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers and other criminals were arrested between July and December in the state. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, stated this when he paraded 47 suspects arrested for armed robbery, cultism, human trafficking, and murder, among others at the command’s headquarters in
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According to the Police, a private secondary school teacher in Ogun State, Mathew Adebayo, has admitted to serially raping a 15-year-old candidate during the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The teacher has was arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for unlawfully having carnal knowledge of an under age. Spokesman for Ogun
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…Seeks State government, IGP intervention over alleges DPO complicity A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ) has exposed an alleged violation of social distancing law of Ogun State government nay Federal Government of Nigeria over the outbreak of the global Pandemic Coronavirus code named COVOD-19. The group in
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The Ogun State, chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association has raised the alarm over the possible spread of COVID-19 in the state. It, therefore, asked the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, to lock down the state for at least two weeks in view of the increasing cases of COVID–19 across the country. The State Chairman of the association,
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A traditional ruler in Ogun State, Oba Akintunde Akinyemi, the Eselu of Iseluland in Oja-Odan, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of the State, has said he will release his traditional warriors against Fulani herdsmen if the government refuses to stop them from wrecking havoc in his community. He said, “Since I have been on
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A four-year-old boy, Hamod Adeniran, has been rescued from three men, who allegedly lured him out of his mother’s shop and abducted him in the Arepo area of Ogun State. It was gathered that the kidnappers were about to board a bus with Hamod at the Arepo bus stop on Friday, when some persons, who
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