Tag: Abeokuta
NLC pickets petrol stations
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Ogun state chapter today picketed some filling stations in the state over hoarding…
Primate Akinola: My abductors took my shoes, my shirt
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The immediate past primate of Anglican Church, Peter Akinola who was abducted by gunmen in Abeokuta yesterday and…
Lai Mohammed: Jega’s credibility gone with Anambra poll
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta As controversy continues to dog the 16 November governorship election in the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra,…
Danjuma gives N500m to youth training centre
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Businessman and former defence minister for Nigeria, General T.Y. Danjuma, has announced a donation of N500m for…
3 fake herbalists docked for 419 fraud
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Three fake herbalists were on Tuesday docked at the Isabo Magistrate court, Abeokuta, Ogun state, western Nigeria…
Police give robbery suspects hot chase
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta There was palpable fear today within Abeokuta, capital of Ogun state, western Nigeria, when men of the…
Akinola blasts clerics, urges Jonathan to justify election
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Former Archbishop and Primate Metropolitan of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and former President of the…
Man arrested for setting fire on six youths wet with petrol
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Six boys were set ablaze by a middle-aged man Tuesday night in Ago- Oko area of Abeokuta,…
D’Banj, Olamide Ready To Rock Abeokuta
Abeokuta will this weekend host some of Nigeria’s favourite artistes on the 8th leg of Star Music Trek. On 27…
Soyinka to Nigerian students: ‘don’t be discouraged’
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerian students, especially those residing in violence-prone areas of the…
ASUP strike: Amosun offers mediatory role
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of the western Nigerian state of Ogun has assured students of polytechnics in the…
Police quiz more officials over WAEC fees fraud
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Over 20 officials from the Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology have been arrested by…
Amosun locks out deputy, aides over lateness
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta There was drama at the Oke Mosan, the secretariat of the government of the western Nigerian state of…
Amosun Flags Off Climate Protection Project
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, southwestern, Nigeria has declared his government’s readiness to support the initiative…
Anenih: Obasanjo remains PDP leader
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Chief Tony Anenih, Chairman Board of Trustees of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party has declared that the…
Obasanjo reconciles PDP factions
Members of the various PDP factions in the western Nigerian state of Ogun on Monday, held a closed-door reconciliatory meeting…
Rumpus after 2 students killed by hit-and-run driver
Two freshman students of Nigeria’s Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNNAB), were killed on Friday by a hit-and-run motorist, now…
Governor Amosun’s House Gutted By Fire
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta A room in the personal home of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Nigeria’s Ogun state was this afternoon…
Praises for Obasanjo as he turns 76
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta President Goodluck Jonathan has described former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a true father and elder statesman, reassuring…
Obasanjo preaches on the value of leadership
Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday identified lack of quality leadership among other factors as major hindrances to development…
ThisDAY honours exceptional retired teachers
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nigeria’s Thisday newspaper has recognised some prominent retired teachers and administrators for their past services to Nigeria.…
Hoodlums On The Rampage In Ogun, Injure 7
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Hoodlums went on the rampage Thursday in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, southwest Nigeria. They invaded two motor…
Governor Amosun dangles carrots to investors
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Government of the Western Nigerian state of Ogun says its reform programmes and policies in all sectors…
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Man dies watching Nigeria-Ivory Coast match
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta An engineer with Nigeria’s Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA collapsed and died yesterday in Abeokuta, capital of…
Obasanjo launders Image
BY ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lately been keeping himself in the limelight through public functions and critical…
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In pictures: The official opening of Abeokuta’s First flyover
The official Opening in Abeokuta, capital city of Nigeria’s gateway state of Ogun of the N2.4 billion Ibara / Oke-…
Jonathan, Tukur, Okorocha extol Obasanjo
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta It is still some six weeks away to the 76th birthday of Nigeria’s former leader, Olusegun Obasanjo,…
Obasanjo a living legend, says Kufuor
By Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Former president of Ghana, John Kufuor has described Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo as a prophet being…
PDP Honours Obasanjo With Reception
Despite the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, both at the state and national level, the Southwest zone of…
Obasanjo Causes Stir At Remembrance Day
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo caused a stir this morning at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration in Abeokuta, Ogun State,…