Ota Gossip

Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Command has shot one person dead in an ambush with some suspected smugglers at Ebute along Ilaro-Ojodan, Yewa North Local Government Area of the state.

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun has ordered immediate employment of 30 medical doctors and 100 nurses into the state civil service within the next two weeks.

Police in Ogun State have arrested nine members of a cross-border robbery gang, which included three siblings.

FEMI OYEWESO in this report writes that the bad blood generated following the outcome of the recently held primary elections of the Ogun State chapter of All Progressives Congress is threatening its prospect in the forthcoming general elections

Twenty-six aggrieved House of Assembly candidates picked by Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun to run under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have demanded for Justice from the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, to respect the outcome of the legislative primaries and submit their names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

A 31-year-old man, Nwosu Patrick, who allegedly damaged an uncompleted four-bedroom flat, was on Tuesday brought before an Ota Magistrates ‘ Court in Ogun.

Sango Ota – A 42-year-old man, Adebanji Adeniyi, was on Monday brought before an Ota Senior Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly collecting N380, 000 under false pretences. Adeniyi, who lives at No. 18, Ogunrinde St., Iyana-Iyesi, Ota, is facing a count charge of fraud.