Ogun State
MAPOLY may expel 49 final year students over fake results
… reinstates SUG executive No fewer than 49 Higher National Diploma final-year students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic may be expelled, following a result verification process that exposed the alleged use of fake National Diploma results. It was gathered from a result verification update released by the polytechnic that the students had allegedly presented fake ND […]
Police arrest fake officer for defrauding POS operators in Ogun
A fake police officer identified as Bukola Olabode, who specialised in making fake transfers to Point of Sale, POS operators and residents in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested. The suspect, aged 25, who dressed in a police camouflage uniform, was caught after trying to defraud a POS operator identified as […]
Court refuses to postpone Ogun LG poll
The Ogun State High Court, sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Tuesday, dismissed a request by 16 political parties in the state seeking to postpone the proposed local government elections indefinitely. Delivering judgment in AB/577/2024 Action Alliance & 15 Ors v. OGSIEC & Anor, the presiding judge, Justice T. A. Okunsokan, rejected the claims […]
Ogun govt shuts Obada Grammar School, suspends principal over student’s death
The Ogun State Government has shut down Obada Grammar Institution in Obada, Idi-emi, following the death of Monday Ariyo, an SS2 student of the school. DAILY POST reported that Ariyo died last Friday at the Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta, after a teacher allegedly flogged him 24 strokes of the cane and asked him to perform […]
Ogun: Woman allegedly cuts husband’s manhood during dispute
A 28-year-old woman identified as Yemisi Ogunlana has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State police for allegedly cutting her husband’s manhood during an argument. Yemisi was reported to have used a sharp object to cut 31-year-old Idowu Adebowale in the Oko-Oba area of Ogijo. This was contained in a statement by the command’s […]
My abductors brutalised, dumped me by roadside — Ogun journalist
A freelance journalist, Oluwatosin Oshibanjo, who was recently abducted by some unidentified gunmen in his Ijebu home in the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been found. Oluwatosin’s mother, Tokunbo Bakre, confirmed to our correspondent in a telephone conversation over the weekend that he was found unconscious by some motorcyclists in the Ijebu-Ode […]
Ogun begins recruitment of 1,000 teachers
The Ogun State Government is set to recruit another batch of 1,000 teachers to fill existing vacancies in public schools in the state. The exercise is being coordinated by the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in conjunction with the State Teaching Service Commission, the State Universal Basic Education Board and the Ogun State […]
Panic as fire wreaks havoc in Ogun community
An early Wednesday morning fire incident along the Ibafo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, triggered by a petrol tanker fire, has destroyed vehicles worth millions of naira, as well as houses and animals, leaving residents in a state of panic. Several individuals also sustained varying degrees of injuries. Newsmen visited the scene, gathered that the […]
Ogun To Ban NURTW Activities Over Planned Protest
At the weekend, the Ogun State government threatened to ban the activities of members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) over planned protests in the state. The government said it would not surrender and allow any group to threaten the peaceful atmosphere in the state. The government’s position was in reaction to […]
APC youths condemn Ogun councillorship candidate’s murder, demand justice
The Ogun State All Progressives Congress Youth Leaders’ Forum has condemned the killing of the councillorship candidate for Abeokuta South Local Government in the forthcoming November 16 local government elections in the state, Adeleke Adeyinka. Adeyinka was killed by some assailants suspected to be cultists at Jide Jones area, Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta on Saturday at […]