Tag Archives: Ogun State

Ogun Government on Monday said it would spend N41. 8 billion on road construction across the three senatorial districts of the state in 2019. The state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Olamilekan Adegbite, said this while defending his ministry’s 2019 budget proposal before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation. Adegbite said the state government had also earmarked N5billion ...

Cement price in Nigeria is as erratic as our power situation. It changes at a moment’s notice. As a matter of fact, cement is one of just a handful of consumer products in Nigeria that its prices changes indiscriminately without even a pin-point cause. The effect this unstable market behavior poses for the ability of an average Nigerian to own ...

The Ogun Government said it had spent N18.6 billion on the construction and provision of roads across the state between January and August. Arch. Olamilekan Adegbite, Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, said this while playing host to the House Committee on Works and Infrastructure, on oversight visit to the ministry in Abeokuta. The commissioner attributed the slow pace ...

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state has given reasons that hinder Ogun State Government’s plan to reconstruct Atan-Igbesa-Agbara road, saying the Federal Government’s failure to cede the road to the State Government seriously impedes all efforts towards reconstruction of the said road. Reports show that Atan-Igbesa-Agbara road is a strategically-structured economic road which serves as a linkage road between Nigeria ...

C of O – Mr. Rotimi Adeniyi has recently stopped using the mirror because his reflection scares him – hollow eyes, wrinkled face and all the external signs of ageing. The mirror reminds him of how gray he has gone and it worries him. In another year, Adeniyi will be 60 years old and also bid farewell to his life ...

The Ogun Police Command on Wednesday arrested one Landlord called Adegbite Taoreed for allegedly robbing one Wale Okeyingbo of his car. Taoreed was arrested with one other accomplice, Taiwo Raheem, in Soyoye, a suburb of Abeokuta. Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun Police Public Relations Officer, paraded the suspect at the premises of the Federal State Anti Robbery Squad, Magbon, Abeokuta. Oyeyemi ...

The headmistress, Loral International Boarding Nursery and Primary School, Agbara, Ogun State, Mrs. Christiana Oraka, has decried the deplorable state of Agbara/Igbese road, which leads to the school, saying it is one of the challenges of the school reputed for high standard of education. Speaking at the school’s 40th anniversary and “Family Day” celebration, Oraka called on Ogun State government ...

No fewer than five persons were feared dead and property worth millions of naira destroyed on Friday night, as flood wreaked havoc in some parts of Abeokuta, Ogun capital. The downpour, which started around 4 p.m. and stopped by 9 p.m, caused river channels in the capital city to overflow their banks resulting in loss of lives and sweeping away ...

Ogun State government has threatened to sanction residents and owners of properties across the state over poor sanitation. They urged them to ensure their structures are not overgrown with weeds, saying, anyone found wanting would be sanctioned appropriately. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Bolaji Oyeleye, said owners or residents of bushy properties, who refused to clear ...

The Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Olamilekan Adegbite, has attributed the success recorded by the State government in infrastructural development, to the detailed and voluminous blueprint of government before it came into office. Adegbite who stated this in a statement by the spokesperson in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Ayokunle Ewuoso, said the governor had constituted ...