The Awujale of Ijebu Ode and paramount ruler of Ijebu Land, Sikiru Adetona, is alive, contrary to rumour, the monarch’s cousin and Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria, Bayo Onanuga said. The rumour of the Awujale’s passing started going ...
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Sun re: Yoruba Actor, Olurotimi Ayinde ‘Abu Olododo’ Passes on
Yoruba actor, Olurotimi Isaiah Ayinde popularly called Abu Olododo has died. In accordance with reports, he died today in his hometown Abeokuta, Ogun State following a brief illness. His death comes barely 48-hours after veteran actor and poet Adebayo Faleti died ...
Read More »AMCON takes over Gateway Portland Cement
AMCON has taken over Gateway Portland Cement. Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Gateway Portland Cement Limited. This followed an injunction which the federal high court, Abeokuta, granted against the company on Friday. Charles Adeogun-Phillips, AMCON’s ...
Read More »Badoo Kills Lovers At Ojodu Berger
Suspected members of the Badoo cult early Friday morning killed two lovers in their apartment in Ogun State. A source told our correspondent that the heads of the victims were smashed. The incident happened at a storey building located on ...
Read More »Adeleke’s Burial: Mob brings down canopy on Amosun, Akeredolu, others!
Osun govt, Assembly declare 3-day mourning By Gbenga Olarinoye, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Dapo Akinrefon & Rotimi Ojomoyela IRKED by the presence of Hon. Idiat Babalola, a commissioner-nominee of Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the burial of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, supporters of the ...
Read More »Tension in Osun over Former Gov. Adeleke’s death; autopsy ordered
By Gbenga Olarinoye, Dayo Johnson & Charles Kumolu OSOGBO—THERE was tension in Osun State over the decision to carry out an autopsy on the corpse of the first executive governor of the state, Sen Isiaka Adeleke, who died, yesterday, in ...
Read More »Alaafin Of Oyo, Wole Soyinka, others At African Drums Festival
The 2017 African Drums Festival took place in Abeokuta, on Thursday with beautiful performances and march parade by different troupes, states and countries represented at the event. Ogun State Governor Amosun literally rolled out the drums on Thursday, with the ...
Read More »EsuIsNotSatan: Where to Get Esu Is Not Satan Tshirt
If you are in Nigeria, Lagos, Ìbàdàn, Ogún state and you need to get your own #ÈsùIsNotSatan shirt, please inbox Iyalorisa Omitonade Ifawemimo for yours now (They have just a few left). If you are not in Nigeria and you need ...
Read More »Amosun Rewards Street Sweeper, 3 Others With 2 Bedroom Flat
Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on Monday awarded a traffic warden, a road sweeper and three other civil servants each with 2 bedroom flat, for his or her dedication within their respective jobs. The Governor said he had been monitoring ...
Read More »20-year-old passenger behind bars for killing an okada rider, over ₦50
Abdulrahman Muhammed, has thrown the family of a commercial motorcyclist, Owechu Odeje, 25, into mourning after he allegedly slit the okada rider’s throat, Punchng reports. Owechu was taking Muhammed from Ijaba junction to Ijaba Pipeline, in Ogun State, when the ...
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