A commercial motorcyclist and his female passenger have been killed in a crash at the Sango end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The accident involved a motorcycle, tricycle and a commercial bus. While the motorcyclist and the tricycle rider were heading for Sango, the commercial bus was said to be going to the Ijoko area of the state. The three were […]
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Ogun State government has started the demolition of shanties and illegal structures along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and other parts of the state. The State Commissioner for Urban and Physical Planning, Adebola Adeife, who disclosed this in Abeokuta yesterday, said Government’s Taskforce, had during the week demolished over 120 illegal structures erected along the highway.
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The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday arrested four truck hijackers in the Ijebu area of the state, and recovered the truck and the goods inside intact. The suspects had reportedly hijacked a truck with number plate, EPE 72 XJ, loaded with new tyres, in Lagos and were travelling to the eastern part of the country, before they were intercepted […]
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The men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun State Area Command, have impounded seven truck-loads of unprocessed wood, allegedly being exported out of the country illegally. The vehicles, with foreign number plates, majorly of the Republic of Benin, were said to have been intercepted last Friday by customs operatives in the Ijoun area, in the Yewa North Local Government Area […]
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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Ogun State command said some of its men were attacked by policemen while escorting a 33,000-litre impounded petrol tanker to their office around 7am on Friday. NSCDC spokesperson in the state, Mr. Kareem Olanrewaju, said the policemen who were four in number and led by one Inspector Charles, claimed that they were […]
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In order to stop the flouting of traffic laws and wanton destruction of lives on the roads in Ogun State, the governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has said his administration will expedite action on justice.
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Some tipper drivers in Ogun State have protested against alleged extortion by some officials of the state government. The drivers, under the aegis of the First Nigeria Tipper and Lorry Driver’s Association, said they were being excessively charged for every job they undertook. They said they were initially paying N2,600.00 per trip to the officials, but on last Wednesday, the […]
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