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  • Two arrested for defiling girl in Ogun

    THe police have arrested two people for defiling 14-year-old girl in Obantoko, Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State.

    Abiodun Ishola, 19 and Kehinde Oloyede, 18, were arrested on Saturday following a complaint by the victim, who claimed to be a hairdressing apprentice.

    The victim was going to her boss’ shop.  Abiodun, who was sitting in front of his father’s house told her about the ongoing environmental sanitation exercise in the state and advised her to wait in his father’s house pending when the sanitation would be over.

    It was learnt that while the waiting lasted, Abiodun, cleverly took her bag and kept it inside a room but when the girl wanted to leave, he told her to go pick her bag from the room, not knowing that his friend Kehinde, was lurking around. The duo forcefully defiled her.

    Police spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi, said it was the screaming of the girl that attracted people who rescued her.

    Oyeyemi said the Divisional Police Officer, Obantoko Division, Veronica Osakwe, and some detectives on receiving the complaint, went to the scene and arrested Isola and Oloyede.

    According to Oyeyemi, the suspects had confessed to committing the crime while the victim has been taken to the general hospital for medical examination.

    The suspects would be transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

     

  • Two more people die in auto crash in Ogun

    Barely four hours after an accident on Ogun state stretch of the Lagos – Ibadan expressway claimed 12 lives on Saturday, another auto crash on Abeokuta – Sagamu road, Ogun State, has claimed two more lives.
    The latest accident which occurred at the Siun – Kobape  corridor of the Abeokuta – Sagamu road involved lone Nissan Serena conveying 11 people, including the driver. The vehicle is marked LSD 679 EQ.
    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident, said 11people were involved with two of them dead while four others were injured.
    Akinbiyi added that the vehicle had burst tyre and crashed when the driver lost control of the wheel.
    According to him, both the injured and the dead have been taken to the General Hospital, Ijaiye, Abeokuta.

  • FRSC advises passengers to caution reckless drivers

    The Ogun Command of Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC ) has advised passengers to always caution reckless drivers in order to reduce road crashes in the country.

    The Sector Commander, Mr Clement Oladele, gave the advice in an interview withour correspondent in Ota on Sunday.

    Oladele spoke against the backdrop of the accident that claimed 12 lives while five people sustained various degrees of injury at Fidiwo, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday.

    One of the victims died immediately after arriving at the hospital, making the number of deaths to 13.

    “The accident that led to a head on collision between Volvo Truck and Ford Transit Bus could have been averted if the passengers in the bus had cautioned the driver,” he said.

     He explained that the bus was earlier  flagged down for speeding by FRSC patrol team that noticed the speed of the vehicle,  but the driver ignored the flag-down order.

    The sector commander further said that the driver even abused the patrol team with the use of his hand.

    “Unfortunately, barely driving five minutes from the FRSC Patrol team that cautioned him for speeding, the bus  collided with the truck traveling from the opposite direction,” he said.

    Oladele, therefore, implored passengers to caution drivers with reckless driving habits and wrongful overtaking tendencies to the appropriate channels so as to safe lives and property.

    He also admonished motorists traveling on the Lagos-Ibadan corridor to continue to obey the no overtaking and maximum speed limit of 50 kilometres per hour at the construction site of the road.

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  • Man in court over alleged N7.1m fraud

    A 28-year-old man, Tunde Egbebi, was on Monday brought before an Ota Senior Magistrates’ Court in Ogun, for allegedly defrauding a man of N7.1 million.

    Egbebi, whose address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and obtaining money under false pretences.

    The Prosecutor, Sgt. Chudu Gbesi, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Aug. 14, 2017, at about 10 a.m at Sango-Ota.

    Gbesi said that the accused collected N7.1 million from the complainant, Oluwole Bisiriyi, on the pretext of supplying palm kernel to him.

    He said the accused failed to fulfill the promise and did not return the money to the complainant.

    He said the offences contravened Sections 390( 9 ) and 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.

    The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

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    The Senior Magistrate, Mr G. E. Akan, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.

    He said the sureties should be gainfully employed and must reside within the court jurisdiction.

    Akan also ordered that the sureties should show evidence of tax payment to the Ogun Government and their addresses should be verified by the police.

    The case was adjourned until May 7, for hearing.

  • ‘No going back on Olamilekan’s governorship aspiration in Ogun’

    Against speculation in some political circles that the Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Adeola Olamilekan, has jettisoned his aspiration to run for the seat of governor in Ogun State in 2019, chairman of Sagamu Local Government Yayi Movement and member of the apex body of Yayi Movement in Ogun State, Alhaji Afolabi Dauda Olokun, has said there is no truth in the rumour.

    The rumour has been rife that Senator Olamilekan has decided to dump his governorship aspiration in Ogun State for 2019, preferring instead to go for a second term as senator from Lagos West because of the opposition of Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to his ambition.

    Olokun who spoke with our correspondent in Lagos yesterday said there is no truth whatsoever in the speculation, as there is no going back for Senator Olamilekan, popular called Yayi, on the Ogun State governorship project.

    According to him, “he has not dumped the idea of coming to Ogun State to contest for the governorship seat. He has been on the mission for Ogun State project for the past three years and he has sensitised everybody on it to the level that we are very sure that come 2019 he will become the governor of Ogun State.”

    Debunking the rumour that Yayi has decided to run for a second term in Lagos West Senatorial District instead of the governorship seat, Olokun said emphatically, “he is not coming back to Lagos, he has done enough in Lagos and he has now decided he would come to Ogun State to help his people.”

    While confirming that Governor Ibikunle Amosun is against Yayi’s ambition, Olokun said it is not new as the governor did it before when Yayi wanted to contest for the Ogun West senatorial seat, but that what God has destined to be, will be.

     

  • Glamour, excitement as drum festival begins in Ogun

    The 2018 edition of the annual African Drums Festival began yesterday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, with glamour and excitement.

    There were colourful dances by troupes, who danced to drums, which depicted the unique but diverse Africa’s rich cultural heritages.

    The festival, an initiative of the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration, has as its theme: “Reviving our culture in drums.”

    About 25 of the 36 states, 60 private cultural troupes and many African countries attended the opening ceremony.

    Amosun said the festival, the third edition, has assumed an international dimension, fostering unity and boosting socio-cultural and economic development of Ogun State.

    Troupes from Ghana, South Africa, Benin Republic, Mali, Togo, Ivory Coast, among others, entertained and competed for prizes.

    Dignitaries including the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III and Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, attended the event.

    Others are Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, Obong of Calabar, Etubom Ekpo and Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle.

  • 2019: Obasanjo, Falae, others meet in Abeokuta

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae, on Tuesday meet privately in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, to deliberate on how to form mass coalition political forces capable of wresting power at the centre from President Muhammadu Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC).
    Obasanjo who is spearheading the Coalition of Nigerian Movement (CNM) received Falae at his  Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta by noon,
    quickly went into a closed door discussion with his guest.
    Also in attendance are two-time governorship candidate and current aspirant in Ogun state, Gboyega Isiaka, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr  Shina Kawonise and  former Special Adviser on Public Communication to ex – President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe.

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  • Ogun pensioners to sue State Govt. over alleged pension law violation

    The Nigerian Union of Pensioners, Ogun Council, said on Tuesday that it would institute a legal action against the State Government over its alleged violation of the Pension Laws.

    The state Chairman of the union, Mr Olujimi Odukoya, made this known at news conference in Abeokuta.

    Odukoya said that the union would institute the legal action to seek redress of the alleged injustice meted to the retirees.

    He alleged that Gov. Ibikunle Amosun had unconstitutionally scrapped the Bureau of Local Government Pensions and it activities were taken over by the office of the state Accountant-General.

    The chairman also claimed that the state government had contravened the guidelines of defined gratuity payment and introduced another guideline based only on basic salary, rent and transportation.

    According to him, government had failed to comply with the constitutional provision on review of pension alongside the civil service salary every five years.

    Odukoya said that the contravention of the pension laws had led to poor pension management in the state and left pensioners in the state in sorry state.

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    “Retired primary school teachers have continued to clamour for the review of their pensions from 1991 to 2010 while their gratuities had remained unpaid from 2011 to date.

    “Like the retired primary school teachers, the gratuities of state pensioners were paid up to June, 2013 only.

    “The union had been rejecting these violations of the pension laws but the state government had gone ahead with its illegal act,’’ he said.

    The chairman said that the retirees would also embark on strike to register their displeasure.

    “Many people may wonder if it is possible for pensioners to embark on strike, but we shall let them know that we have our own way of embarking on strike.’’

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  • We spent N170bn to rehabilitate federal roads – Amosun

    Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun said on Thursday that  his administration had  spent about N170 billion  to rehabilitate federal roads across the state since  2011.

    Amosun made this known while fielding questions from members of Civil Society Organisations who held an interactive session with him at the June 12 Cultural Centre in Abeokuta.

    He said that the state could not wait for the Federal Government which had to fix many of such roads across the country while the people of the state suffer.

    “We do not have federal citizens, we only have federal roads and our people have to make use of the roads,” he said.

    Amosun,  who pleaded for a refund,  called on the Federal Government to hand over some of the federal roads to states so that they could  fix them  through investors and toll them.

    He said the rehabilitation would be more effective and faster if some of the roads were ceded considering the number of federal roads being handled by Federal Government.

    Amosun commended the Federal Government for the ongoing rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, noting that” the project is up to 70 per cent completion.”

    He also commended the Federal Government for approving funds  for the rehabilitation of the Lagos-Abeokuta road.

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  • Six people feared dead in Ogun violent cult clash

    At least six people are feared dead in a bloody fight between two rival cults late Sunday and on Monday morning in Ijebu-Igbo in Ogun.

    Among the victims are a bricklayer and a family of three, who were caught up in the crossfire between the rival groups.

    Eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the melee broke out shortly after two separate political meetings between rival political groups ahead of the 2019 general elections at the local government secretariat.

    Four persons were allegedly shot dead during the clash while two additional victims got killed in a pre-dawn reprisal on Monday.

    The fight which began at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday at Oke Sopen Road spilled over to Oke Agbo and Ojowo areas with gunshots fired intermittently.

    Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the joint taskforce of security operatives had been deployed to restore calm to the area.

    Oyeyemi assured residents that the situation had been brought under control and advised them not to panic.

    “As soon as we got wind of the situation, special forces were dispatched to the location to restore calm and as we speak, the security personnel are on alert to prevent a recurrence.

    “We will ensure that the perpetrators are all brought to book. We want to also assure residents that they need not be afraid. We are on top of the situation,” he said.

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