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Covid-19 has depleted ranks of Nigeria’s leadership — Obasanjo On By James Ogunnaike Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that the nation’s ranks of dedicated and resourceful patriotic leaders have been depleted by the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic. Obasanjo said that resourceful patriots who served the nation in various capacities including, the late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu, rtd. had succumed to deaths through Covid 19. In a letter of condolence to Mrs. Gladys Nd...

ABEOKUTA - The Ogun Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has directed all primary, secondary, as well as Government Science

Armed Forces Remembrance Day: Shun calls for division, inter-ethnic wrangling — Abiodun On James Ogunnaike Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has called on Nigerians to shun calls for division, insurgency, banditry, and all inter-ethnic, religious, and politically motivated wranglings capable of disintegrating the country. He said they should embrace team-spirit, brotherliness, and compassion for fellow beings. The governor made this call on Friday, at the 2021 Armed Forces Remembranc...

Vice Chancellors of some federal and state universities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, were at daggers drawn yesterday over resumption of universities in the face of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

Vanguard News Sexual harassment: Police conclude investigation on suspended Commissioner On  By James Ogunnaike ABEOKUTA – The Ogun State Command of Nigeria Police said it has concluded the interrogation of the suspended Commissioner for Environment in Ogun State, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, who was accused of sexual harassment by a teenager, Barakat Melojuekun. Vanguard reliably gathered that Abudu-Balogun was grilled by the State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun after the case was transfe...

COVID-19: Ogun State opens oxygen therapy centre On By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Ogun State government on Monday said it has opened an Oxygen Therapy Center to avoid a situation of scarcity of the life-saving consumable. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who made this known in Abeokuta, said that the Oxygen Therapy Center which sits within the Infectious Disease Hospital, Iberekodo, Abeokuta consists of 20 beds of high dependency capacity. Coker said the opening of the Oxygen T...

RISING INSECURITY IN S/WEST: How locals, others frustrate us — Amotekun Commanders On By Dayo Johnson, Shina Abubakar, Deola Badru, James Ogunnaike and  Rotimi Ojomoyela Commanders of Western Nigeria Security Network, WNS, also known as Amotekun Corps, have lamented that absence of cooperation from residents, failed roads and inadequate gadgets are frustrating their efforts at responding accordingly to the rising crime rate in the South-West. They particularly singled out what was called t...

By James Ogunnaike— ABEOKUTA Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has said the war against insurgency can only be successful if credible and adequate information were provided armed forces and other security agencies by members of the public. Abiodun stated this at a special Church service marking this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day at the Cathedral of St. Peter, Ake, Abeokuta. Governor Abiodun, represented by Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, noted that the insur...

Chairman, Premier Lotto, Chief Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu has lost one of his wives. The billionaire’s wife, Chief Mrs. Rosemary Adebutu died Saturday, January 9 in her Lagos home. Rosemary is the mother of Temitope Adebutu whose controversial marriage to Jonwo, one of the sons of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, ended barely a year after. She was said to be hale and hearty but suddenly developed a mild ailment with cold and malaria as symptoms, this weekend. The ailment soon became se...

Vanguard News Infrastructure deficit: Ogun sets up education trust fund On James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has expressed worry over the deplorable state of infrastructure in all the State-owned tertiary institutions. He however disclosed that his government has set up a Tertiary Education Trust Fund to address the infrastructure deficits in the State-owned tertiary institutions. Governor Abiodun disclosed this while commissioning a state-of-the-art 1,500-s...