Tag: Abeokuta
Collapsed Shopping Complex: My wife’s condition worrisome-Husband
Abiodun Onafuye, Abeokuta: Mr Fatai Adisa, husband of one of the victims of the collapsed shopping mall at Itoku, Abeokuta,…
Fire guts Kuto market, properties worth a billion naira destroyed
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Properties worth over one billion naira were Tuesday night destroyed at the popular Kuto market in Abeokuta, the…
Obasanjo advises Lagos lawmakers
Eromosele Ebhomele Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday advised members of the Lagos State House of Assembly not to do…
Ogun MDAs begin budget defence Monday
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta In consonance with the provisions of Section 121, sub-section II of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended), the…
FUNAAB promotes 698 staff, gets 22 new Professors
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has approved the promotion of 698 members…
Toddler drowns inside well
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A baby fell into a well and died instantly on Wednesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The…
5 arrested over illegal dredging
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested five person for…
Tobi Akinola set to debut
KAYODE APONMADE Upcoming female gospel artiste, Oluwatobiloba Akinola otherwise called Tobi Biggy is set to release her yet to be…
London Afrobeat Collective tours Nigeria for Fela
Funsho Arogundade For fans of the late Afrobeat icon Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, these are exciting times as the spirit of Abami…
Kashamu, Adebutu, others know fate Friday
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Senator Buruji Kashamu, representing Ogun East Senatorial District will Friday know his fate as the National and State…
Man batters wife, throws her out for rejecting custody of love child
Cyriacus Izuekwe A housewife, Mrs Sinmiat Omowumi Ogunbanjo, has been battered by her husband, Jimmy Omotalabo Ogunbanjo, after she reportedly…
Police arrest fake soldier, Man,37, for defiling girl, 7
Yusuf Muhammed Police Detectives attached to Onipanun Division of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested Ayodele Adedeji of Jackross,…
Ogun to distribute another batch of C of O
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Ogun State Government will on Thursday distribute fresh 1,500 Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) to beneficiaries.…
10 suspected robbers, rapists nabbed in Ogun
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Ten suspected armed robbers and rapists who have allegedly been terrorising Ijebu Ode in Ijebu Local Government Area…
120 suspected cultists arrested in Ogun
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Hard times await suspected cult members in Ogun State, western Nigeria, as the police operatives deployed by the…
Ogun Police declare war on land grabbers
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Ogun State Police Command has declared war on land grabbers and speculators terrotising the state, warning them…
Fake ‘Assistant Editor’ of The News arrested in Abeokuta
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A man, identified as Segun Odofin, who has been parading himself as the Assistant Editor of The News…
Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Aro ranked 6th in Africa, 1st in Nigeria
The Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun state has been ranked best hospital in Nigeria by Ranking Web of World…
Son of assassinated Egba High Chief acusse neighbours of connivance, calls for their arrest
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Mr Oluyemi Oyebade, the first son of the late Oluwo of Ikanna in Abeokuta, Chief Moses Alabi Oyebade,…
Bullion van kills motorcyclist in Abeokuta
The driver of a bullion van attached to one of the new generation banks in Abeokuta, on Thursday, killed a…
Are APC Women Damn Gorgeous Or What?
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Hajia Aisha Buhari is gorgeous, beautiful and graceful. But that’s not all what she’s about, she’s got brains…
Jonathan in no-show at Obasanjo’s Hilltop Mansion
Biodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Many journalists and members of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP were disappointed today as they waited in vain for…
Exclusive: Wole Soyinka reflects on his life at 80
Professor Wole Soyinka gives a broader view of his life at 80 in a scintillating interview with the TheNEWS. It’s…
4 ‘Yahoo boys’ remanded for murder
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje of the Ogun State High Court, Isabo, Abeokuta today ordered four suspected Internet fraudsters…
Obasanjo laments high rate of blindness
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta President Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the high level of blindness across the world, saying this should not be…
Ex-Convict Jailed Again
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta An ex-convict, Saheed Akangbe, 23, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, Isabo,…
In Pictures: Ogun Investors’ Forum 2014
The second edition of the Ogun State Investors’ Forum themed Agriculture and Urban Development: Ogun State…The new Frontier”.
Police arrest alleged fake soldiers in Ogun
The police command in Ogun said on Thursday that it had arrested two suspected criminals parading themselves as soldiers in…
Between Abeokuta And Abuja
By Soyombo Opeyemi On a day the All Progressives Congress, APC, held a hugely successful Congress in all the 236…
Rainstorm Wreaks Havoc In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Heavy rainstorm wreaked havoc in Lagos on Sunday as properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in some…