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  • Former CU VC, Prof Obayan, for burial Monday

    Burial plans for former Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, Ota Ogun State, Prof Aizeanta Obayan, have been announced.

    According to information made available to The Nation on Tuesday, a service of songs would hold at the Canaanland Idi-Iroko road in Ota on Monday between 2 and 4pm while interment would follow immediately.

    Celebration of life service holds the following day at the same venue by 10am.

    The late Professor of Guidance and Counselling was also a former Vice chancellor of Landmark University Omu-Aran Kwara State.

    Both institutions are owned by Winners Chapel pastored by Bishop David Oyedepo.

    She died of an unknown illness on Tuesday last week.  She was 59.

    News of her shocking death filtered through the two universities where she once held sway, throwing everyone into grief.

    Until she breathed her last, the late Obayan was the Director of CU’s Africa Leadership Development Centre (ALDC).

    Described as a very active, humble and amiable personality by friends and colleagues, Obadan had not been active as she used to be since last October shortly after ALDC held its annual Covenant-International Conference on African Development Issues (C-ICADI), the fourth in the series.

    Since then, there have been speculations bordering on her whereabouts, especially her non- appearance in major events by CU until her shocking demise last week.

    Barely a year ago, Obayan won a case at the Supreme Court against the University of Ilorin, her former employer.

    The case had dragged for 19 years.

    Obayan was employed as a lecturer in UNILORIN Department of Guidance and Counselling.

    In 1999, management of the university terminated her appointment for failing to report for work after the expiration of the additional one-year leave of absence.

    Obayan challenged her sack in court and eventually won at the Supreme Court February last year.

    Barely two years ago, the deceased also lost her husband Mr. Adetokunbo Obayan in August 2017.

    Before he died, Adetokunbo was the CEO of Adetokunbo Obayan and Associates, a management consultant firm.

  • I won’t be an ungrateful Governor – Dapo Abiodun

    The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun state, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has assured residents of Ogun state that he would not disappoint them if elected to govern the state.

    Prince Abiodun gave the assurance while speaking during his campaign tour of Sagamu Local government Area, where residents of Sotunbo community defiled the heavy downpour to give him a rousing reception and support.

    The residents came out in their hundreds as show of solidarity for the governorship  ambition of  Abiodun but subtly protested their  neglect since 2011 by Governor Ibikunle Amosun – led administration in the state.

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    While promising them of participatory decision making in his choice of project execution, the Iperu born prince and governorship hopeful sympathized with them on the deplorable situation of the roads and other infrastructure in the zone.

    He noted that the area’s proximity to Lagos should be an added advantage for speedy development pledging to take Sagamu to its deserved height.

    “Our words are our promises and our promises are sacred to us” He concluded,” he said.

    He emphasized that the kind of support given to him should be replicated to all APC candidates across board assuring that the party would reciprocate the gesture with good governance.

  • Five pupils die, two injured in Ogun auto crash

    Five female pupils died and two others were injured on Saturday morning when a unmarked Toyota Avensis car they boarded crashed at the Olorunsogo stretch of the Abiola Way, an arm of the Abeokuta inner city roads.

    It was gathered that the car had eight passengers.

    The car suspected to have been driven by a drunk driver, was sighted “speeding” and “driving dangerously” which witnesses said led to a tyre burst before it careened “uncontrollably” unto a side of the road.

    The Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps(TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, stated that victims have been evacuated to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta.

    Akinbiyi attributed the cause of accident to “over speeding, dangerous driving and burst tyre leading to loss of control” even as he suspected that the driver who had escaped from the accident scene, was probably drunk at the time.

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    “The number of occupants can’t be ascertained as at the time the rescue team got to  the scene, but certainly there must be a driver who drove the vehicle and escaped from the scene.

    “Number of people presumed to be involved in the accident is eight. The driver presumed to have escaped from the scene before the rescue team arrived.

    “Number of injured: two males. Five are presumed dead –  five young females(between the  ages 11 and 22). Four other persons were later brought to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta, who were said to be in shock after receiving the death of the students.

    “All victims met at the scene were taken to the FMC where the presumed dead were taken to the morgue while the injured and those in shocks are being attended to at the FMC. Traffic was  not affected as the vehicle involved is off the road,” Akinbiyi said.

  • ‘Police watch as billboards, posters of Abiodun are destroyed in Ogun’

    Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organisation (DACO) on Thursday lamented the increasing vandalization and illegal removal of billboards, posters and other campaign items of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Dapo Abiodun, in various locations of Abeokuta Local Government by people suspected to be agents of the state government.

    DACO  said the steady vandalization of Abiodun’s campaign billboards and posters took a new dimension last week and peaked on Monday this week with the alleged damage and removal of one of the billboards located at OPIC junction in Oke – Ilewo, Abeokuta, with armed policemen keeping vigil while the unlawful acts lasted.

    In a signed release made available to reporters in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, by Olufemi Oduntan (Director – General, DACO, Abeokuta South) and Femi Ayorinde( Assistant Director, Media and Publicity, DACO, Abeokuta South), they alleged that an estimated N5m worth campaign billboards and posters of Prince Abiodun have been destroyed in the last two weeks in Abeokuta South.

    The duo said the law abiding APC governorship candidate would not want anything that could jeopardize the peace of the Abeokuta South Local Government as 2019 general elections draw closer.

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    Oduntan and Ayorinde, appealed to Governor Ibikunle Amosun to create a level playing ground where all political parties would have the opportunity to sell their manifestoes and programmes to the people of Ogun state through the media of mass communication.

    However, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told The Nation that no police officer would vandalise or tear down campaign billboards and posters of politicians, and advised that nobody should drag the police into politicians’ matter.

    Oyeyemi said if armed policemen were sighted where billboards are being pulled down or removed, it means the Ogun state agency in charge of advertising and signage must be the one carrying out the acts, perhaps in line with its signage regulations.

    According the Police Image maker in the state, the presence of police was to forestall a breakdown of law and order in such locations.

     

  • Road crashes kill 30 in Ogun during Yuletide

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Ogun Command, on Friday, said that 30 persons died in various road crashes during the Yuletide in the state.

    Mr Clement Oladele, the Ogun FRSC Sector Commander, disclosed this in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Education Officer, Florence Okpe, in Abeokuta.

    He said over one million vehicles plied Ogun roads during the Yuletide out of which 63 crashes were recorded.

    Oladele said 305 people were rescued from the various crashes.

    The report detailed the command’s Special Patrol Operation tagged: “Safe Driving, Safe Arrival” covering December 1, 2018 to January 15.

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    “Commercial vehicles accounted for the dominant type of vehicles that plied the expressway, which represented 72 per cent at 726,018 vehicles.

    “A total of 281,612 which represented 27.9per cent of these vehicles were private vehicles.

    “During the Yuletide too, a total of Eight million, seven hundred and twelve thousand, two hundred and sixteen (8,712,216) passengers were transported by commercial vehicles on the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway.

    “The high number of vehicle travels during the Yuletide, can be attributed to the removal of the diversions earlier placed across sections of the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway, especially at Mowe/Ibafo and Ogunmakin/Ogere, respectively.

    “A total of 305 persons are rescued from road traffic crashes that occurred during the Yuletide,” he said.

    The sector commander, while praying for repose of the souls of those that died during the period, commended motorists for their cooperation with the FRSC and other sister agencies for a successful special patrol operations.(NAN)

  • 2019: INEC publishes Kashamu-backed Ogun PDP candidates’ list

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday laid to rest the controversy over the list of candidates for Ogun State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the February 16 and March 2nd, 2019 elections.

    In the final list of Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates published by the Commission on its website, www.inecnigeria.org, the electoral body listed the names of candidates submitted by the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Executive as candidates of the PDP for the National Assembly election scheduled for 16th of February, 2019.

    The Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Executive is the structure supported by the lawmaker representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu, who also doubles as the Ogun State PDP governorship candidate.

    For the senatorial candidates, the list has Apostle Solomon Abiodun Sanyaolu as the PDP candidate for Ogun Central Senatorial District; Engr. Sosanwo Adeola Ayoola for Ogun East Senatorial District and Honourable Odunjo Odunleye Abiodun for Ogun West Senatorial District.

    For the House of Representatives candidates, the list has Barrister (Mrs.) Lanre-Balogun Abimbola for Abeokuta North/Obafemi-Owode/Odeda Federal Constituency; Showunmi Olusegun for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency; Sunmonu Monsuru Olusegun for Ado-Odo/Ota Federal Constituency; Kojeku David Olusola for Egbado North/Imeko Afon Federal Constituency; Ajose Suru for Egbado South/Ipokia Federal Constituency; Adesina Olufemi for Ifo/Ewekoro Federal Constituency.

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    Others are Barrister Taiwo Kabir Shote for Ijebu Ode/Odogbolu/Ijebu North East Federal Constituency; Honourable Adekoya Adesegun Abdul-Majeed for Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside Federal Constituency and Honourable Lawal Alaba Isiaka for Ikenne/Shagamu/Remo North Federal Constituency.

    Reacting, Senator Kashamu described the development as “victory for resilience and the Rule of Law”, saying there was “no victor, no vanquished”.

    He said with the publication of the final list of candidates by INEC, it was incumbent all lovers of the party to close ranks and work to deliver Ogun State for PDP.

    “Like I said recently, we are members of the same family. We may have had our differences in the past.

    “At the end of the day, it is the party that wins; not any individual or group. We have to come together and work to deliver Ogun State for PDP in all the elections.

    “As the governorship candidate of the party, my doors are wide open. I am willing, able and ready to work with all – in the overall interest of our Party and people.”

    Kashamu commended INEC and the judiciary for standing firm on the side of justice and the Rule of Law.

    He wondered what “our democracy would have been without the judiciary which is the last hope of the common man and an upright electoral umpire”.

  • Truck crushes mother, child to death in Ogun

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesman, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun, on Thursday, confirmed an accident that claimed the lives of three in Ogun.

    He said that a Mack truck loaded with soft drinks on Wednesday crushed a woman and her child to death in an accident which also killed the truck’s Motor Boy at Ajibawo in Atan on Sango /Idiroko road, Ogun.

    Akinbiyi told the News Agency of Nigeria that the accident occurred around 5:45pm and was caused by wrongful overtaking, complicated by loss of control by the truck, marked, LSD 563 XW.

    He added that four people were involved in the accident which included three male and one female, saying that two male and one female died in the accident while one person was injured.

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    “In the process of overtaking another truck ahead of it loaded with granite, the edge of the truck loaded with soft drinks entered a ditch which results in its fall, killing a woman and her child selling along the road and the motor boy,” he said.

    Akinbiyi said that the injured had been taken to Oluwalogbon Hospital, Atan before the arrival of TRACE officials while the corpses had been claimed by their relatives.

    He urged motorists to always obey traffic rules and regulations and also avoid excessive speeding and wrongful overtaking.

  • Three die, five injured in Ijebu Ode expressway accident

    Three persons were confirmed dead while five others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Toyota Sienna and Toyota Previea at J3 Junction, Ogbere on Ijebu Ode/Benin Expressway.

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesman for Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abeokuta.

    Akinbiyi said that the accident, which occurred at about 9:33 a.m on Wednesday, was caused by dangerous driving.

    “We learnt that a Preavia bus marked XD 871 KEY coming from Benin and a Sienna with registration number BDG 48 XX coming from Ijebu-Ode were involved in an accident.

    “There were nine passengers in the Previea and six in the Sienna, both were commercial vehicles.

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    “The accident was caused by the driver of the Sienna, in an attempt to make a u-turn, skidded off his lane and rammed into the on coming Previea.

    “The accident claimed the lives of three passengers in the Sienna on the spot.

    “Five others were injured, three of the injured passengers were in the Sienna, while two were in the Previea,’’ he said.

    Akinbiyi said that the injured victims were taken to Ise Oluwa Clinic in Ogbere, while the corpses of the dead were deposited at the morgue in Ijebu Ode General Hospital.

  • Barman bags six months imprisonment for stealing employer’s N165,000

    An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun State on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old bar attendant, Semiu Alabi, to six months in prison for stealing his employer’s N165,000.

    The Magistrate, Mrs A. F. Ojelade, sentenced the accused to six months imprisonment without an option of fine.

    Ojelade said that the sentence would serve as deterrent to others.

    The convict, of no fixed address, had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing.

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    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Gbesi Chudu, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on Jan. 2, at about 8.30 p.m.  at Rock Hotel and Bar, Atan, Ogun.

    Chudu said the accused, which was the bar tender at the hotel, refused to remit N165, 000 proceed of sales of drinks to his employer, one Mr Adebayo Abidoye.

    He said that the offence contravened Section 421 of the Criminal Code, Vol. 1, Law of Ogun, 2006.

    NAN

  • Abiodun promises to end neglect of Ogun border communities

    Ogun State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Prince Dapo Abiodun has vowed to end the long neglect of border communities, if elected.

    Abiodun said over a dozen of border areas such as Isheri, Ojodu Abiodun, Akute, Ajuwon, Ijoko and Agbado among others would experience massive uplift following years of neglect and infrastructural decay.

    The governorship candidate gave the assurance during his ward to ward campaign tour of Ifo Local Government and Ifo State Constituency 11 where he visited the Palace of Alajuwon Of Ajuwon, Oba Nurudeen Egunsola and met with other royal fathers, Baales and residents.

    He said there were plans and policies in place, which he would deploy to develop the area and open them to the rest of the state  and Lagos  when he becomes governor.

    According to him: “This campaign tour has given us the opportunity to move round these border communities and we have seen the level of their infrastructural decay.

    “It is a clear indication that these places have been long neglected and the gap between them and the neighboring Lagos State is too wide in terms of development.

    “Despite these challenges, the acceptability of our party remains very high. Hence, we will ensure we start to ameliorate these challenges immediately we get into the office.

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    “Some of the challenges we have identified which they have also told us are lack of motorable roads; public schools; functioning health centres recreational facilities and other basic amenities like pipe borne water.

    “I am assuring them that all these deficiencies have been captured in our blueprint and they will begin to see a new dawn when we assume office.”

    The entrepreneur and real estate operator was accompanied by his running mate, Engr (Mrs.) Noimot Salako-Oyedele, the party’s candidate for Ifo/Ewekoro federal Constituency, Hon. Isiaka Ibrahim, party’s candidate for the Ifo state constituency two, Hon. Fola Salami and other party chieftains.

    Oba Egunsola declared Dapo Abiodun as the next governor of State, urging his people to stand by all the APC candidates.

    He enjoined the candidates not to forget their promises when they get to office.