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  • Motorists driving against traffic to undergo psychiatric test – FRSC

    The Ogun State Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC)  on Wednesday said motorists driving  against traffic would be subjected to psychiatric test.

    Mr Clement Oladele, the Sector Commander of  the FRSC in Ogun, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota.

    According to him, any driver caught driving against traffic during the forthcoming Easter would also be prosecuted for dangerous driving.

    The sector commander further said that such erring drivers were liable to pay N50,000 as fine or risk imprisonment.

    “FRSC is hereby warning motorists against  such nefarious acts  in order  to check loss of lives and property, ” he said.

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    Oladele also said the FRSC had embarked on a special patrol for the Easter to reduce the discomfort of motorists travelling during the festival.

    He said that the command had  reached an agreement with the construction company, Julius Berger Plc, to open the barricaded section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway  in order to ease vehicular movement.

    Oladele further said that FRSC personnel would keep vigil  at strategic locations to check the excesses of motorists during the Easter.

    He implored motorists to maintain  their vehicles and plan well ahead of their trips while refraining from night journeys.

    NAN

  • Easter: FRSC advises motorists

    The Itori Unit Command of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun State has advised motorists to drive cautiously and deist from exceeding speed limits, to avoid unnecessary road accidents during the forthcoming Easter celebration.

    Mr Sunday Oko, the Unit Commander, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota, Ogun, on Monday.

    NAN reports that Christians worldwide will be marking the Easter season from April 19 to April 22, which brings to an end to the Lenten period, and also commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

    Oko stressed the need for motorists to keep to all traffic rules and regulations specified in the National Road Traffic Regulations in 2012, and warned that any motorist found violating the regulations risks arrest.

    He also urged commercial drivers and other motorists to put their vehicles in good condition before embarking on any journey during the Easter.

    Read Also: FRSC cautions officers against chasing erring motorists

    “FRSC implores drivers to desist from speeding, dangerous overtaking, driving under influence of alcohol and even under-age driving during Easter festivities.

    “Motorists must adhere strictly to the maximum speed limit of 100 kilometres per hour for private vehicles and 90 kilometres per hour for commercial drivers

    “We must drive to stay alive, and so drivers must avoid night journeys as well.

    “It is a good thing to be law abiding, and so motorists must obey traffic rules and regulations so as to make our highways safer for all,” he said.

    NAN

     

  • Two die as vehicle rams vehicle into truck in Ogun

    Two persons died on Saturday evening when a private vehicle conveying them rammed into a stationary truck at Danco Filling Station (Ogun State) corridor of the Lagos –  Ibadan expressway.

    The private vehicle – Volvo jeep marked SGM 858 AA was said to have rammed into a Mack truck with registration number MUS 762 XD parked by the roadside.

    Read also: FRSC debunks reported death in Ibadan accident

    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, stated the driver of the volvo car was over speeding and crashed the vehicle into a stationary truck.

    Akinbiyi added that the vehicles involved in the accident have been towed to the Sagamu Divisional Police Headquarters, Sagamu while the deceased were evacuated to the morgue of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH),  Sagamu.

  • Ogun, Lagos to get Joint Development Commission – Abiodun

    Ogun state Governor-elect, Prince Dapo Abiodun has disclosed his administration and of that of his counterpart in Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo – Olu had mulled plans to establish a “Joint Development Commission” to drive the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of both states.

    He said the proposal is also geared towards enhancing rapid development and transformation of border communities of the two neighbouring states.

    Abiodun also disclosed that improved security and upgrading of infrastructures would form parts of the major thrust of his government in the Gateway state.

    The successful entrepreneur, oil magnate and real estate player spoke on Friday during a  “Strategic meeting” with the state chapter of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) and other members of the Organised Private Sector at the factory of the Flour Mills in Agbara, Ado-Odo-Otta local government of the state.

    The Governor – elect was accompanied to the meeting by the Deputy Governor-elect, Engr. Noimot Oyedele – Salako, Otunba Rotimi Paseda, ex – Deputy governor in the state, Prince Segun Adesegun, immediate past Youth and Sports Commissioner, Mr Afolabi Afuape, Senator Gbenga Obadara and Hon. Babatunde Olaotan among others.

    Abiodun said he would resuscitate the Ogun State Road Maintenance Agency (OGROMA) within 100 days of being in office to address the deplorable township and inner city roads across the state.

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    OGROMA, the initiative of the administration of Governor Gbenga Daniel, which perfected the art of roads repairs and rehabilitation in the state, was phased out by Governor Ibikunle Amosun hours after he took his Oath of office in 2011.

    Abiodun stressed that he would also build industrial parks and farm settlements across the three senatorial districts.

    According to him, all uncompleted projects by Amosun’s administration would be completed because Ogun State tax payers money have been invested in such projects.

    He pledged to provide conducive environment for businesses to thrive with improved security and Critical infrastructure.

    He said: “I have known the governor-elect in Lagos state, Babatunde Sanwo Olu for a long time and we have both agreed to set up a Joint Development Commission to enhance  transformation at our border areas and also to enhance the IGR of the state.

    ”Any uncompleted projects by the outgoing governor will be completed during my administration.”

    The chairman of the state branch of MAN, who is also the Managing Director, Rite foods Limited, Mr Saleem Adegunwa, said MAN would work “hand-in-hand” with the government to construct Atan -Agbara carriage road.

    ”We are really excited about the presence of the governor- elect, because we believe his administration will favour us.

    ”It is when there is enabling environment that we can be able to generate more funds for the government,” he said.

     

  • Amosun’s govt owes N170m deductions, Ogun Poly workers allege

    Academic and non-academic workers in Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday alleged that Governor Ibikunle Amosun – led administration owed them N170 million unremitted pension deductions.

    According to the workers, Amosun is also planning to disband the three unions operating in the polytechnic as well as sack their executive officers.

    The branch Chairmen of Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), Kola Sopade; the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) Babatunde Osifalujo; and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) Kola Olawunmi stated these in a statement yesterday.

    But, The Nation sent message to the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the governor on Information and Strategy, Rotimi Durojaiye, for the state government’s reaction, but he was yet to respond as at the time of going to the press.

    The unions have been at loggerheads with the state government over the conversion of MAPOLY to Moshood Abiola University of Science and Technology (MAUSTECH) and the establishment of Ogun State Polytechnic in Ipokia.

    They advised the governor not to take any action that would further pauperize them.

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    According to them, their offence was that they demanded what were their legitimate rights.

    The unions said they were not averse to the laudable idea of transmuting MAPOLY to MAUSTEC or establishing Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia, or oblivious of the economic, social and political importance of setting up a higher institution in any community.

    They, however, said the welfare of their workforce should also matter to the governor.

    The unions noted that the embargo on admission of students into MAPOLY, which has crippled its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from where the school was self-sustaining, hurried transmission of the polytechnic into a university without willingness to fund it, non-payment of outstanding salaries and allowances, withholding of N170 million pensions deductions among other issues were creating unsavoury situation.

    The unions noted that no worker in MAPOLY is sure of his/her appointment status as there is no definite direction as to what happens to the institution’s personnel since MAPOLY had been decreed to have expired.

    They alleged that it was not clear whether MAPOLY is transiting to MAUSTECH or MAPOLY is transiting to Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia.

    They, however, appealed to the public and well-meaning people to prevail on the governor not to embark on any action that would worsen their plights.

  • Ogun Police burst child-stealing syndicate

    The Police in Ogun state have arrested three members of child – stealing syndicate; who steal children from unsuspecting parents.

    The suspects are Kate Njoku, Joy Okorie  and Onyeka Joseph (male).

    Temidayo Ajayi, one of the children recovered from the suspects was abducted with his brother in Sagamu July 2018.

    He has since been reunited with his parents while efforts are on to recover his brother from the gang.

    Members of the syndicate were found to have succeeded in stealing eight children from different locations across Ogun State and sold them to their prospective buyers in Anambra State.

    The syndicate’s mode of operation entails using two of their members to disguise as couple looking for an apartment to rent, most especially in a place where the target children reside.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made these known in a statement on Wednesday, said the manhunt launched for members of the syndicate led to the arrest of the three.

    Read Also: Three die as trucks collide in Ogun

    Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), added that the anti-kidnapping/cultist unit who were given the mandate to crack the syndicate, embarked on high technical investigation which paid off when the principal suspect, one Mary Paul was tracked to Ondo State where she is on trial and remanded in prison custody.

    According to the Police spokesperson, following a synergy with the Ondo Command, relevant information was extracted, leading to the arrest of three other members of the gang directly involved in stealing of eight children across Ogun State.

    “Three out of those children were subsequently recovered from them.

    The suspects have all made useful statements to the Police on how they stole the children and sold them to their accomplices in Anambra State.

    The Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, has ordered a thorough investigation of the case with the view to bring other members of the syndicate to book.

    He equally appealed to parents to take the security of their children serious by not leaving their wards to the care of a total stranger,” Abimbola stated.

     

  • Three die as trucks collide in Ogun

    Three persons on Monday died in Ogun State when a tipper conveying granite rammed into the rear of a Sino truck marked NSR 89 YQ, killing three occupants in the tipper.

    The Iveco tipper truck had just left a quarry site in Isara area of Remoland and was hurrying to Lagos to off load when the driver lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the Sino truck marked with emblem of a cement firm, a source told The Nation.

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    The driver of the cement firm truck was unaffected, the source added.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun state Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, told The Nation that the accident vehicles were taken to the Police Motor Traffic Division at Ogere.

    The remains of the dead were evacuated to a private morgue, FOS Mortuary, Ipara, Ogun State.

  • Woman dies, another injured after jeep plunges into river in Ogun

    A woman conveying her daughter to school in Ogun State has drowned on Sunday when the private vehicle she was driving skidded off the dual carriage bridge between Ososa and Odogbolu stretch of the Sagamu – Ore expressway and plunged into the river beneath.

    Her daughter, a student of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun state, was however rescued from the water.

    The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, told The Nation that the vehicle was coming from Lekki in Lagos and going to Ijebu-Ode when the accident happened.

    Akinbiyi added that mother and daughter were the only occupants of the vehicle and that the woman was conveying her daughter, who is a student of TASUED, to school at the time but lost control of the wheel and plunged into the river.

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    “The woman was taken her daughter back to school. As a result of over speeding, the woman lost control of the vehicle and plunged the vehicle into the river.

    He said: “The driver, who is the woman and mother of the lady, lost her life, while the daughter is receiving treatment at the Ijebu-Ode General Hospital.”

    According to him, the accident vehicle has been evacuated from the river and moved to the Motor Traffic Division (MTD) of the Nigeria Police, Odogbolu Divisional Police Headquarters, Odogbolu.

     

     

  • Ogun: Tribunal directs INEC to grant Akinlade, APM access to election materials

    The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, on Monday directed  the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant the candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Adekunle Akinlade and the party, access to the documents used for conduct of March 9 gubernatorial election in the state.

    Justice Chinwe Onyeabor-led three man panel gave the directive at its inaugural sitting, following a motion ex parte brought before it by Akinlade and APM.

    The governorship candidate and APM are challenging the victory of Prince Dapo Abiodun and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), designated as second and third respondents in the Petition marked EPT/OG/GOV/ 01/2019.

    In arguing the application, Counsel for the Petitioners, Mamman Osuman, SAN, who appeared with Ahmed Raji, SAN, told the tribunal that the order being sought was necessary to allow the applicants access to the electoral documents used during the election “with a view to maintaining the petition already filed before the tribunal.”

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    Osuman argued further that the application was filed pursuant to section 151, sub-section 1 and 2 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

    Among other prayers sought were, “An order directing the 1st Respondent to forthwith grant access to the Petitioners/Applicants and their Solicitors, agents, experts and other staff to inspect, photocopy, scan, pay for and obtain certified copies of all documents used by the 1st Respondent for the conduct of the Ogun State Governorship Election held on 9th of March, 2019, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining Election Petition; the said documents being the ones contained in the schedule attached to the Supporting Affidavit to this application;

    “An order allowing/permitting the Petitioners/Applicants (for the purpose of instituting and maintaining an Election Petition) to inspect, scan, photocopy, pay for and obtain certified copies of the electoral documents contained in the schedule attached to the Application, same being the documents that are in the custody of and were used by the 1st Respondent in the conduct of the Governorship Election that took place in Ogun State on 9th March, 2019.

    “An order directing the 1st Respondent to promptly abide by the orders of this court, made in the terms of the Ex parte application.”

    Justice Onyeabor held that the prayers were granted “strictly in compliance to section 151 sub-section 1 and 2 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) and adjourned the case till April 9 for confirmation of service.

  • Panic in Ogun community as farmer kills two

    THE residents of agrarian community of Iwoye-Yewa in Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State are now living in panic.

    It followed threats by a farmer to kill eight more people after he had shot dead two members of the community last Wednesday.

    The grieving community claimed that the farmer identified as Oladosu Nureni allegedly shot the victims – Ajayi Onifade, who until his killing, was the Amuludun of Iwoyeland and Olatunji Ayinla, at different locations.

    The Nation learnt that Nureni, whose house is located few buildings away from that of the late Onifade, shot the victim at close range when he was on his way to farm. Ayinla, who was part of a search team for the suspect, was, however, shot dead by Nureni during a manhunt for him.

    It was learnt that Onifade did not die at the scene of attack. He was rescued and taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta for treatment, but died last Friday.

    Onifade’s eldest child, Seyi, told reporters that the case has been reported at the Ilaro Divisional Police Headquarters, Ilaro, and wondered why the suspect has not yet arrested by the police.

    Seyi urged the police to act fast and apprehend the suspect, alleging that his conduct portends further danger to the community as he kept threatening to deal ruthlessly with anybody, who dared to be part of the search party for him.

    But, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said he was not aware of the incident when contacted.

    Oyeyemi told reporters on phone that he was on his way to Abeokuta from Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, promising to inquire about it from the Ilaro Divisional Police headquarters and revert accordingly.

    But, the PPRO was yet to react to the news as at the time of filing the report.