Tag Archives: Ogun State

Some aggrieved landlords in Ogun State, who are still awaiting compensation four years after the demolition of their buildings under former Governor Ibikunle Amosun for road construction, have appealed to Governor Dapo Abiodun to pay the money, which they claimed is over N500million. Newsmen learnt that the landlords, who spoke under the auspices of Yakoyo-Odozi-Ojodu landlords Association in Ifo South ...

The Ogun State Government has begun extensive rehabilitation of the 32Km Sango-Ojodu Abiodun road. The road is one of the roads which was awarded and abandoned by the immediate past administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. The road, which cut across various border communities between Lagos and Ogun State has been in the state of comatose before the emergence of the ...

Mr. Soneye Kayode, (APC – Obafemi Owode), member, Ogun House of Assembly has appealed to Gov. Dapo Abiodun to fix all bad roads in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. Kayode made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Sunday. He explained that the state of the roads in his constituency ...

Ogun State has the largest number of funded estates in the entire southwest, the Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Ahmed Dangiwa, has said. Dangiwa made this known at an enlightenment programme for the re-admission of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees and members of the Nigerian Union of Teachers into the National Housing Scheme in Abeokuta. ...

African Water Association (AfWA) on Wednesday in Abuja stressed the need for safe drinking water in order to mitigate avoidable diseases. AfWA focal person in Nigeria, Mr. Francis Umemezia, stated this at a workshop on the development of laboratory water and quality assurance manuals. He noted that the implications of drinking unsafe and contaminated water could be disastrous, adding that ...

Some residents of Ijebu-Ode have commended the Ogun government for rehabilitating some roads in the community, saying this had eased free flow of traffic. Speaking with Newsmen on Monday in separate interviews, some of the respondents described the initiative as timely in spite of the fact that the tenure of the Ibikunle Amosun-led administration was rounding off. Reports show that ...

Officials of the Ogun State Ministry of Housing have allegedly demolished 40 houses in Regal Estate at the Magboro area of the State. The exercise came barely three weeks after a similar exercise was carried out by the state government in collaboration with the state Mission to Rebuild (MISTRO) agency in the area. The state government officials had on April ...

Totowu residents in Ogun state have cried out over total darkness, insecurity in the area It was gathered that the community has been in total darkness since 2014 A resident of the area, Afisi Eniafe, said armed robbers take advantage of darkness in the community to unleash terror on the residents After years of living in darkness and insecurity, residents ...

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Senator Kashamu Buruji, has promised to complete all abandoned road projects and provide stomach infrastructure for the people of the state if elected in the March 9 election. He spoke on Tuesday when he visited Olota-in-Council, the Council of Baales and Chiefs, the League of Imams and Alfas, ...

Eight persons were confirmed dead, while a pregnant woman and a child sustained injuries in an accident involving a blue Toyota Corolla Sports car around Ewekoro area of Ogun State, on the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway. Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, confirmed the incident to the newsmen in Abeokuta on Sunday. Akinbiyi explained that the accident, which occurred ...