Ogun in a sentence

This is totally unacceptable, this is not the Ogun State we know, this is not the Ogun State we have lived in, this is not the Ogun State of our future.

Dangote had initially chosen Ogun State for the site of the refinery, which was inaugurated on Monday, in Lagos, but discussion broke down between Ogun State government and the billionaire businessman, leading to the relocation of the project to Lagos.

Every successive government has always marginalized the zone, while Ogun East and Ogun Central take the lion’s share of state and federal appointments.

It would be recalled that in September last year, the Ogun State Government resisted plans by the Ondo State government to install traditional rulers in the Ogun communities of Irokun, Obinehin, Idigbengben and Araromi seaside.

He also announced the setting up of Ogun State Human Rights Complaints Reporting Portal that will be accessible to all citizens of Ogun State to upload documentary and audio / video evidence of cases of abuse.

In the twilight of the Amosun-led administration in Ogun state, the media was awash with the heartrending stories of the sufferings of the staff of Tai Solarin College of Education, Ogun state.

Revealing his agenda for the people of Ogun State, Hon Adebutu x-rayed the state of affairs in the gateway state and posited that Ogun people made a huge unintentional mistake in their choice in 2011.

The senator representing Ogun East, Mr Buruji Kashamu, has insisted that he remains the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State, despite the December 18 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Ibadan, Oyo State.

You are the Director General of the Ladi Adebutu Campaign Organisation for the Ogun State governorship election, but there is a clamour by the Aworis and Yewas, which is Ogun West to take over the leadership of the state in 2019 and you are from there.

A 22-year-old HND 1 female student of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Isoyo Iveren Susan was on Saturday 15th April arrested opposite 2nd Gate of the institution for dealing in illicit drugs.

Abiodun, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress), was declared the winner by Prof Kayode Adebowale, the state returning officer in the March 18, 2023 governorship election in Ogun State.

Abiru in his lead debate said that a number of communities close to the coast lines in Ikosi-Isheri and Agboyi-Ketu in Lagos and other communities in Ogun State had always experienced flooding whenever the Oyan River Dam was opened.

A high-stakes search is underway in Ogun State as law enforcement races against the clock to apprehend a four-member gang responsible for an audacious armed robbery.

All his scheming to be nominated as the Vice-Presidential Candidate to Abiola was resisted by the SDP governors, led by Chief Odigie John Oyegun, Alhaji Bukar Abba Ibrahim and Chief Segun Osoba of Edo, Yobe and Ogun States respectively.

A resident, Akinde Raman, noted that the refuse could be a breeding ground for the spread of diseases especially cholera which cases had been recorded in Ogun State.

Ashaye said, so far 840 pilgrims from Ogun State have been airlifted out of 1,234 pilgrims for this year’s Hajj.

At this juncture, Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) moved a motion nominating Akpabio, while Solomon Olamilekan (APC Ogun West) seconded the motion.

Chairman, Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Ogun State, Wale Olanrewaju, said: “With the current economic hardship in the country, Nigerians should not go beyond their limit.

Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, Ogun State Hospital Management Board, Dr. Wellington Ogunsanya, identified character and honesty as two key factors needed to progress in life.

For instance, he built a 24-stall market in Eruwon, his hometown in present-day Ogun State, and handed it over to the Ijebu-Ode Local Government in 1989.