Tag: Dapo Abiodun

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

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…

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

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…

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Fuel Crisis, Naira Redesign Plots Against My Election – Tinubu

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 –…

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

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…

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

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.…

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

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…

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

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…

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Ogun Empowers Families on Christian, Muslim Burial Rites for Monarchs

Gbenga Adeoti

Governor of Ogun state, Southwest Nigeria, Dapo Abiodun, has assented to a bill which makes provisions for family members of traditional rulers to “have a say” during the burial rites of monarchs. The ‘Obas, Chiefs, Council of Obas and Traditional Council Law of Ogun State, Bill 2021’ also makes provisions for the selection and appointment of traditional rulers. The bill, which was presented for public hearing in July 2021, had generated some controversy, with some traditionalists insisting that the state was trying to interfere in cultural practices. READ ALSO: Mother,…

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Monarch seeks More Infrastructure for Ota, Ogun Commercial Capital

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Olota of Ota honours Ogun Gov Abiodun with Culture & Tourism Commitment Award   The Olota of Ota, Oba (Professor Adeyemi Obalanlege, Lanlege Ekun II, has charged the government of Ogun state to give more infrastructural development to the city, generally referred to as the commercial capital of the gateway state. Platforms Africa reports that Obalanlege said this during the grand finale of the 2021 Iganmode cultural festival where he honoured the governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun with the Culture and Tourism Commitment Award. READ ALSO: Ota and its Totally…

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‘Surety for Ogun Governor’s aide arrested in US also a suspected fraudster’

Wonuola Olujobi

  United States Magistrate Judge in Eastern District of New York, Ramon Reyes has received a letter from the US Department of Justice, claiming that the surety provided by Abidemi Rufai, the suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, is also a suspected fraudster. Rufai, who was arrested while trying to get out of the US on May 14, has been accused of allegedly using the identities of more than 100 Washington residents to steal more than $350,000 in unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Department…

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