Ogun State Rural Water Scheme has rehabilitated 50 motorized boreholes, consructed 16 new ones and inaugurated 155 Community Water Boards under the UNICEF assisted water supply and sanitation programme
The State Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, Akogun Kola Onadipe, also said over 144 transformers of different ratings were procured in the last one year
The Ogun state Gateway Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) is to introduce Electronic Tourism (E-Tourism) Navigation Service for tourists and visitors.
The Ogun state Government has employed over 6,000 graduates into the state civil service
This was disclosed by the Chairman Ogun State Civil Service Commission Otunba Babatunde Osokoya while briefing the Newsmen at this Year Ministerial Press Briefing at OKe-Mosan, Abeokuta. (more…)
Two members of the Ogun state House of Asembly, Honourables Titi Oseni and Omosanya Solaja, were yesterday prevented by security men from entering the premises of the Assembly and sitting with their colleagues.
The security officers acted on the orders of House Speaker, Honourable Tunji Egbetokun.
The two legislators are loyalists of the state Governor Gbenga Daniel, and had earlier been suspended from participating in legislative activities during a rowdy session about seven weeks ago.
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Members of the Ogun state house of Assembly may start sitting soon as its Speaker, Mr. Tunji Egbedokun, announced today that the lingering conflict between the Executive and the Legislature arms of government in the state has been resolved.
A TIMELY intervention of men and Officers of the Ogun State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil defense Corps(NSCD) have prevented the complete vandalisation of some pipelines by Oil bunkerers at Imero village in the Ijebu East local Government area of Ogun state.
Two Tankers loaded with petrol stolen from the pipelines were impounded and handed over to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), by staff of the NSCD, yesterday.
Sources hinted that the villagers alerted the NSCD officers on sighting strangers in the area and the para military men quickly swung into action.
Mr. Kareem Olanrewaju, the Public Relations Officer of NSCD confirmed the incident adding that an appropriate action has been taken on the matter.
He disclosed that Mr. Waheed Popoola, the State Commander of NSCD has handed over the two tankers impounded to the state NNPC Head quarters.
A federal Court of Appeal in Ibadan last Thursday directed the President of Court of Appeal to constitute a fresh panel for the retrial of election petition brought by Action Congress’s Ibikunle Amosu against the election of Gbenga Daniel as Ogun state Governor in the 2007 elections
The court dismissed an application filed by Governor Gbenga Daniel seeking an order to restrain the President of Court of Appeal from constituting a panel for retrial of Senator Amosu’s petition.
A Nigeria court had earlier directed the President of the Court of Appeal to constitute another electoral tribunal to trial the petition filled by Amosu against Governor Daniel’s victory, because the first election tribunal constituted was accused of bias
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A Federal Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Monday quashed the verdict of Osun state Election petition Tribunal that confirmed the election of Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as the Osun state Governor just as the same court upheld the election of Otunba Gbenga Daniel as the Ogun state Governor.
Delivering judgement on the Osun case, the Jugdes unamimously blamed the state election Tribunal for miscarriage of justice.
Nullifying the judgment of the lower, the President Judge of the Appeal court, Justice Omage said that the President of Appeal Court should constitute a new election petition Tribunal to retry the election petition of Engineer Rafiu Aregbesola, the Action Congress’s Gubernatorial candidate in the 2007 Governorship elections in Osun state.
The Petitioner, Engr. Rafiu Aregbesola went to the court of Appeal after the Election Petition Tribunal last year upheld the election of Oyinlola as the validly elected Governor of Osun State.
Earlier in the day, the Appellate court upheld the judgment of Ogun state Election petition tribunal that Governor Gbenga Daniel was validly elected, stressing that the Petitioner, Otunba Dipo Dina of the Action Congress did not prove cases of electoral mal practices leveled against the PDP and INEC beyond all reasonable doubt. Holding that the appeal lacked merit
