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‘You Failed,’ Daniel Bombs Gov Abiodun Over TASUED Adoption

March 28, 2025March 28, 2025 Ganiyu Amodu

Former Ogun State Governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel has described the federal government’s adoption of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, as an indictment of Governor Dapo Abiodun’s government. It will be recalled that the FG, on March 9, announced the adoption of TASUED as a federal university. Daniel, who is the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, commended President Bola Tinubu’s initiative on the university but viewed the step as an indictment of the state government for its inability to maintain the institution. He stated this in an…

How ‘Hit And Run’ Driver Killed FUNAAB Professor

February 18, 2025 Ganiyu Amodu

. Grieving Landlords, Neighbours give details Grieving landlords and residents of Ajebo Road Housing Estate Kemta, Abeokuta, have held Governor Dapo Abiodun – led Ogun State Government responsible for what they called the “tragic and avoidable” loss of Prof. Oladipo Ademuyiwa, who happened to be the latest victim of reckless hit-and-run driver on Prof Wole Soyinka Road within Kemta – Somorin Road. The palpably distraught landlords and residents following the painful exit of one of their own were in agreement that Professor Ademuyiwa would still have been alive today…

Ogun Declares Monday as Public Holiday for Teacher’s Day

October 6, 2024October 6, 2024 Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

What LEAMPS, GUPSA want private schools’ owners, educators to know and do about public holiday on Monday to commemorate day that earlier fell on Saturday Ogun state government has declared Monday, October 8, 2024 as public holiday to commemorate the Teacher’s Day. Platforms Africa reports that the governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, declared this through the ministry of education, science and technology. Though the day fell on Saturday, 5th of October, the government declared Monday, the 7th of October due to significance of educators. 10As/10: Platforms College Students Excel In…

Inside Ogun Politics That Made State Lost $18.5bn Dangote Refinery to Lagos

May 25, 2023 ADEOLA YUSUF

Characters in the politics that cost Ogun state the siting of Dangote refinery have turned toxic tongues throwing tantrums. While the states IGR begins to suffer, none of the actors wants his head to be used to break the proverbial coconut, reports Adeola Yusuf The siting and commissioning of Dangote’s $18.5bn Refinery could have been held on Ogun state soil. And so, it became a reopened wound on Monday, May 22, 2023, when the refinery in Lekki played host to five presidents from West African countries, top diplomats from…

HISTORIC: First Commercial Flight Lands In Ogun Gateway Int’l Airport

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 Gbenga Adeoti

How Valuejet airline test flight made its official landing into the Gateway Int’l Agro-Cargo Airport at Iperu-Ilishan Road at 2:15pm History was on Thursday made as the first commercial test flight made its official landing into the Ogun State Gateway International Agro-Cargo Airport at Iperu-Ilishan Road, Ikene local government, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Platforms Africa reports. The first private aircraft landed at 2.15 pm to the excitement of the Ogun people who had earlier trooped to the airport to witness the occasion. The peak of the day was the…

Fuel Crisis, Naira Redesign Plots Against My Election – Tinubu

January 26, 2023 Abibat Babalola

Details of another country-shaking outburst by the APC presidential candidate in the ancient city of Abeokuta The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday inferred that the fuel crisis in Nigeria and naira redesign by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are plots against his election. Tinubu, who disclosed this during his campaign at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, vowed not to be deterred by the plots READ ALSO: Why I Married My Daughter’s Boyfriend –…

Find Miss MAPOLY Happiness Odeh’s Killers, Ogun Gov Orders Police, Others

August 15, 2022 Ganiyu Amodu

Corpse of the ND2 Mass Communication student, reportedly dumped after she was allegedly raped and killed by kidnaopers, was discovered on Thursday The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has ordered the police and other security agencies in the state to fish out the killers of a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Happiness Odeh. Odeh, who was the school’s beauty pageant winner, was reportedly abducted along Iperu Remo Road on her way to a movie location in Ipara-Remo last Tuesday. READ ALSO: Miss MAPOLY Kidnapped, Murdered Days After Emergence As…

FIRE-FOR-FIRE: Amosun, Abiodun in War of Words Over Ogun Politics

August 7, 2022 Abibat Babalola

▪️ Abiodun A Monumental Failure Was Rigged-In In 2019, He Must Be Voted Out – Amosun ▪️ I Won’t Be Distracted with Self Delusioned Person Who Wants To Play God – Abiodun Fires Back A former governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, has broken his silence over the 2019 governorship election, saying the incumbent, Governor Dapo Abiodun, must be removed from office through the ballot. Amosun said the 2019 election was rigged in favour of the governor, adding that those who rigged the election had apologised to him.…

Nigeria’s Top Petroleum Engr., Dr. Saka Matemilola, Is New Olowu of Owu

July 28, 2022August 1, 2022 Damilola Olonade

Meet former chairman, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and associate Professor at African University of science and technology newly announced as the 14th monarch for ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, ex-Judge of the World Court, Bola Ajibola, and former governor Ibikunle Amosun’s ancestral home The Ogun State Government has announced a top petroleum engineer and an associate Professor at African University of Science and Technology, Dr. Saka Matemilola, as the new Olowu of Owu in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of the state. Platforms Africa reports that Dr. Metemilola, a former…

BREAKING: How I Made Buhari President, Angry Tinubu Says As APC Ticket Cold War Hots Up

June 2, 2022 Abibat Babalola

“Dapo (Abiodun) that is sitting down here, could he have become Governor without me? We were at the stadium, they tore all his posters. Even the party flag, they didn’t want hand it over to him, I was the one who brought it.” For the first time, a leading presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has reminded President Muhammadu Buhari that without him, the president would never have won the election in 2015. In a feat of rage, Tinubu said he singlehandedly made both…