Tag: Ogun
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Nurse arrested for aborting incestuous pregnancies in Ogun
Days after police in Ogun State detained a pastor, Oluwafemi Oyebola, who allegedly impregnated his daughter three times and procured a family planning procedure to stop further conceptions, the nurse who helped out with the procedures has also been apprehended. Nurse Ogundimu Monilola said she is Assistant Chief Matron at the State General Hospital,…
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COVID-19 patient gives birth in Ogun
A 28-year-old COVID-19 patient has successfully put to bed at the State Hospital, Ijaye in Abeokuta. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, confirmed this on Wednesday while congratulating the health workers who took delivery of the patient’s baby at the hospital. She said that a dedicated team of doctors, midwives and other health…
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COVID-19: Ogun schools, worship centres, others remain shut – Abiodun
The Ogun State Government on Friday set up a committee to fashion out guidelines for ”a safe reopening” of schools. The immediate objective is to ”allow certificate classes to resume and write their examinations,” although all schools remain shut for now, it said. It said available data and opinions of experts “continue to indicate that…
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Lagos, Ogun, Edo record high figures of Coronavirus infections as toll hits 7526
Nigeria has been hit with 265 new cases of Coronavirus, with the overall total now standing at 7,526. In the figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Saturday, Lagos topped the chart with 133 new cases, while Oyo ramped up 34 new infections. Edo recorded high figures, with 28 fresh cases,…
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Graphic Photo: Bleeding pregnant woman dies while awaiting police clearance at checkpoint
There was pandemonium at Ibiade in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the state after a pregnant woman identified as Waidat Adedeji, on Thursday afternoon, died at a police checkpoint on her way to the hospital for delivery. According to reports, the woman who was being taken to the hospital on a motorcycle, died at…
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COVID-19: Again, Abiodun extends lockdown in Ogun
The Ogun State Government says it will extend the current lockdown in the state by another one week. Gov. Dapo Abiodun made this known while addressing journalists on Friday evening in Abeokuta. He said it had become expedient to further add another week to the lockdown in view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases…
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Bakare offers Church facility to Lagos, Ogun as isolation centres
Founder and Senior Pastor, The Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Tunde Bakare has offered part of his church facilities at Akilo, Ogba area of Lagos to the Lagos State Government to be used as isolation centre for the treatment of Coronavirus patients. Bakare commended the state government, well meaning Nigerians and corporate bodies for the…
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JUST IN: Doctors commence warning-strike in Ogun
Doctors in Ogun State under the auspices of Association of Resident Doctors, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH) have declared a three- day warning strike. The strike begins on Sunday after a 21- day ultimatum and another seven-day ultimatum notifying State Government on the needs for appropriate remuneration for doctors in OOUTH as they battle…
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Man, son held for murder of herdsman in Ogun
A farmer in Ogun State, Mr. Kolese Womiloju, 45, and his son, Taiwo Womiloju, 25, have been arrested by police for hacking a herder Abubakar Sidi Usman, 32, to death. Father and son were said to have first attacked the herdsman with a ring laced with charm on April 22 which immobilised him and while…
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‘Double wahala’ in South-West over handling of Buhari’s expired palliative rice, Covid-19 pressures
Like the immortal lyrics of Afro legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, ‘double wahala for dead body and the owner of dead body’, some South West governors were at the weekend faced with double jeopardy of handling the burden that comes with supposed expired palliative rice sent to the region by President Muhammadu Buhari-led government while still struggling…