The Ogun State government led by Governor Dapo Abiodun said on Tuesday at least five children have been declared missing at the Stella Obasanjo Motherless Babies’ Home in Abeokuta. In a statement issued by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Abdulwaheed Odusile, the government said its attention was drawn to report on the escape of the
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Pandemonium broke out in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital on Friday, when hoodlums and smugglers held some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service hostage and as well snatched a gun from a female soldier. It was gathered that the incident happened on Friday night and spread to Saturday after men of Nigeria Customs Service intercepted
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A 55-year-old man, Yesiru Salisu has been arrested by Men of the Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police for being in possession of human parts consisting of four skulls, two hands and three jaws in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State. According to the Ogun State Police Command, Salisu allegedly severed the human parts from a Christian
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Daf truck crushed four people to death and injured two others in commercial bus on Saturday afternoon around Capital Hotel area on the Ijebu Ode-Oru Road in Ogun State. The spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Babatunde Akinbiyi who confirmed the incident, said it happened on Saturday. Akinbiyi explained that the accident occurred around 1:15pm
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At least two persons were killed after a tanker exploded on a busy road of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The incident happened today and a driver and a motorboy were reportedly burnt to death. It was gathered that the incident destroyed 35 vehicles parked for sale along the
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A 31-year-old man, Rexlawson Jonson, who allegedly killed his lover, Patricia John around Ibafo area in a hotel room has been arrested in Ogun. The Ogun State police command on Monday confirmed this and the command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement, said the suspect was arrested last Friday. According to him,
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The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said that a truck crushed a middle-aged woman at Onihale area, near Owode-Ijako, Ogun on Thursday. The Owode-Ijako Unit Commander of TRACE, Mrs Temitope Oseni, who spoke on behalf of the Corps Commander, Mr Seni Ogunyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, that
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested four persons for unlawfully being in possession of a human skull. The suspects will be charged to court on completion of investigation. The Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known on Monday, and gave the identities of the suspects as Muyideen Tolubi, Niyi Folorunso, Sonubi Taiwo,
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Olufemi Adediran Abeokuta A middle-aged man, Atanda Idowu Moses, who sustained gunshot injury during a clash between men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and smugglers in Oja Odan in Yewa South local government area of Ogun State has died. A relation of the deceased, Olatunji Olaniran, who confirmed this to newsmen yesterday, disclosed that
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A security guard identified as Solomon Ede has died after he allegedly slept wearing his face mask in his place of work in Alako area of Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday, August 28. It was gathered that that Solomon was well known in the area for never failing to wear his face mask as part
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Operatives of the Ogun State Police command, on Friday morning, shot dead a robbery suspect at the Ijebu-Ife corridor of the Sagamu-Benin expressway. The suspect was killed following a distress call to the police in Ijebu-Ife around 2:45 am that a gang of robbers in military camouflage had blocked the expressway and were dispossessing motorists
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As businesses struggle to stage a comeback after the COVID-19-induced lull, 15 more artisans in Ogun and Kwara states, at the weekend, joined the millionaires club in the Dangote Cement Bag of Goodies Promo Season 2. The star prize winners, mostly artisans and building material dealers, whose businesses have suffered the downside in the wake
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A 16-year-old boy identified as Adeniyi Muhammed has been arrested in Ogun state after being caught with 14 used female panties. Ogun state police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested after a resident of Kano Street in the Ayetoro area of the state lodged a complaint over the theft of her panties on
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A former Executive Chairman of Abeokuta South Local Government, Hon. Dare Gbolahan popularly known as Serubawon, is dead. His death occurred barely two days after the demise of Senator Buruji Kashamu and the former National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Wole Adeyanju. It was gathered that the prominent politician died on Monday in
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A traditional ruler identified as Rasheed Sholabi has been arrested by the Ogun state police command for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his 15 -year- old daughter. The spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this to newsmen today August 6, said the victim had gone to the Owode Egbado police station
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