The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, announced on Wednesday that the state has not recorded any confirmed cases of Mpox across its twenty local government areas. Coker reported that, as of August 18, the state had recorded 151 suspected cases of Mpox, but none had been confirmed as positive. In a statement released to journalists in Abeokuta, …

Barely 24 hours after a truck rammed into a vehicle and a pedestrian in the Lafenwa area of Ogun State killing four persons and injuring two, another truck has crushed two persons to death in the Papalanto area of the state. The accident according to the spokesman for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, happened in the early …

Ogun State Government has handed over cheques of N100m retirement benefits to 86 retirees of the Ilushin Estate Limited in Ogun Waterside Local Government area of the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Bolu Owotomo, according to a statement released on Thursday, presented the cheques to the beneficiaries at the rubber plantation, Ilushin. Owotomo stated that the payment …

The Ogun State Government on Thursday denied claims that it spent N1trn to reconstruct the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway. The government disclosed this in a statement while reacting to allegations of financial recklessness as contained in a document titled “#Where is our money?” which is circulating on social media. The statement, signed by the Special Adviser on Media to state Governor Kayode …

The Ogun State Government, through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, has embarked on a sensitisation campaign to encourage fair pricing of goods and services in markets. The government has stated that traders in its markets must not use the prevailing harsh economic conditions as an excuse to impose further hardship on the people with inflated prices of …

A drunk truck driver, on Wednesday, reportedly crashed into a bus around the Castinjo/Ola bus stop along the Ota-Idiroko Expressway in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, killing the bus driver and his motor boy on the spot. The spokesman for the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Babatunde Akinbiyi, disclosed this in a statement sent to journalists. Akinbiyi …

The Ogun State Police Command, on Friday, said its officers arrested a 24-year-old man, Gadafi Bala, for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl in Ogijo in the Sagamu Local Government Area of the state. In a statement on Friday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Omolola Odutola said Bala committed the crime on Thursday. The statement read: “A report received from …

There was palpable fear in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on Monday as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Ogun State Parks and Garages Management Board (OGSPAM) clashed over a leadership tussle. Some of the affected motor parks where fracas were reported are Kuto, Lafenwa, Brewery, Ita Oshin, and Obantoko, among others. There were reports …

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has refuted reports of a corps member’s death in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. According to a news report on Monday, the corpse of an adult male, which was said to have been dumped in an isolated bush in Ogijo, was that of a corp member. Addressing newsmen on Tuesday in …

A shuttle bus driver, Philip Fiama, of Sobande Close, Alagbole, Ajuwon in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been reportedly stabbed to death after confronting a co-tenant, Ikem Emmanuel, over an allegation of sleeping with his wife. The incident was said to have occurred on Sunday, around 6.30pm. Fiama, an indigene of Adamawa State, was said to have …