Tag: Ogun State

A kidnap syndicate made up of members of the same family has been apprehended by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command. This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement yesterday. He said the family members were nabbed following a series of kidnap cases within Sagamu and its environs in the year 2020. According to him, �The Command�s Commissioner, Edward Awolowo Ajogun, gave a marching order to the Area Commander and all the Divisional Police Officers in Sagamu to fish out…

Pandemonium broke out at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu-North LGA of Ogun State when some villagers waylaid some policemen, abducted four and shot the Divisional Police Officer, (DPO).  It was gathered that the trouble started after a team of policemen disarmed some hoodlums following a complaint by the village head that some hoodlums were in possession of firearms.  It was further gathered that the village head had earlier petitioned the police, complaining that some people within his community were in possession of firearms, which they use to terrorise the…

Ogun State Police Command has busted a baby factory located at Ofada area of Mowe, Ogun State, rescuing 11 women and four children. The Police Spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, while parading the girls and a man suspected to have been the one impregnating the girls told newsmen. in Abeokuta, that the operator of the baby factory under the name of: Nwademma motherless home, one Mrs Florence who is now on the run, had once been arrested for the same criminal act and charged to court after which she was granted…

A septuagenarian, Hunsu Sunday, has been arrested by the men of the Ogun State Police Command, on Thursday, over allegations of impregnating his 15 year-old granddaughter. The 70-yr old man, according to a statement by the Command�s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was apprehended based on a complaint made by a relation of the victim, at the Ado-Odo Division. The complainant, in the statement reported that the victim had been living with the suspect, since the demise of her mother. The victim was said to have informed the relation…

In what seemed a myth but a reality occurred at Abeokuta, Ogun State, as Pa Israel Akojede and his wife, Mama Esther both died a few hours apart having lived together in marriage for 72 years. It was reported that their demise occurred at Gbonagun Obantoko area of Abeokuta, had Pa Akojede reported dead around 3 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, while his beloved wife died a few hours later having got the news of her husband�s death. Pa Akojede, was 103 years, while Mama was 98 years. The first…