Family of 5 found dead in Abeokuta

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A Family of 5,  a father, mother and their three children were found dead in their house yesterday Friday August 15th at Temidire Community, in Sabo, Abeokuta North LGA of Ogun State. The dead people have already been identified as Aliu Adeboye, his younger wife identified as Iya  Aliya and 3  of Adeboye's  6 children. 
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ABEOKUTA

Abeokuta is the capital of Ogun State and a vivid city merged with cosmopolitan vibes.  The town offers low cost of living, cheap housing, quality educational facilities and modern amenities. Residing in Abeokuta is reasonable and diverse. Enjoy cheap amazing foods, stellar public transportation and excellent healthcare facilities. You can live  like as a king in Abeokuta, make more, spend less and save more.

  

Abeokuta: Court remands man, 32, for defiling 3yr-old-girl

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ABEOKUTA-A Magistrate court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta has remanded a-32-year-old Kazeem Odetayo in prison for allegedly defiling a-three year-old girl.
The acussed was reported to have inserted his finger into his victim’s private part on June 1, 2014 at Agbegilere street, Itoku, Abeokuta.
The Prosecutor, Inspector Sunday Eiggbejiale told the court that the acussed enticed the victim with snacks before he defiled her.

OBJ, Boko Haram families met in Abeokuta -Sani

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A Northern-based activist and President of Civil Rghts Congress of Nigeria, Mallam Shehu Sani, declared on Wednesday that the meeting between ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo and family members of Boko Haram insurgent was to open a new channel of dialogue with the sect.

He added that the meeting, which held in Abeokuta, was aimed at finding a way of releasing the abducted Chibok schoolgirls.

The activist, who confirmed to be part of the meeting in a statement in Kaduna on Wednesday, noted that the meeting was meant to fashion out a fresh understanding to resolve the crisis of insurgency bedevilling the country.

Blood Pool in Abeokuta as APC factions clash

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No fewer than 40 persons sustained various level of injury on Friday within a bloody clash between rival factions of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ogun state. The fracas, occurred around 4pm at the state Secretariat of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) , one of the legacy parties that fused into APC at Leme along Abiola, Abeokuta. The party's Secretariat which includes been repainted in APC colour was damaged although some cars parked in leading weren't spared as members of the factions used guns, cutlasses, broken bottles in addition to other dangerous weapons freely during the clash.

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Electrocution Kills Policeman, One Other In Abeokuta

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Two people including a policeman have been confirmed electrocuted in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.

The remains of the two victims who lost their lives at the constructions site in Isale Igbein area of the state were later taken to the morgue of the State Hospital in Ijaye.

It was gathered that a young boy who was identified as Moses 17, emerged from the Police Barrack in front of the Government House to scavenge for useful materials in the rubbles which was used by the construction company to fill the ditch at the site.

Moses, whose father, a police officer was recently killed by Armed Robbers in Abeokuta has succeeded in gathering some iron rods from the site and was on the way back home when the rods touched and high tension cable and he was electrocuted.

Twenty People Cheat Death In Abeokuta Accident

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Twenty people, among who were two babies, escaped death when the 18-seater passenger bus in which they were travelling swerved off the road and finally plunged into a ditch at the Aro end of Lagos-Abeokuta expressway in Abeokuta yesterday.

The accident, which involved a blue colour Mazda bus with registration number Ogun XE 413 TTD was on full speed when it got to the speed breaker at the Aro Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Abeokuta where it suddenly swerved off the road into the ditch.

Masquerade Arrested By Police In Abeokuta For Murder

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The ancient city of Abeokuta was thrown into pandemonium on Monday after a masquerade allegedly shot dead an Islamic cleric identified as Lateef Sabiu during Egungun festival.

The attack on the Islamic cleric led to a reprisal attack as Islamic youths allegedly razed down a building belonging to traditional worshippers in protest against the murder of one of their members.

The 22-year Islamic Cleric was allegedly shot dead Sunday evening while he was on a motorcycle during a ‘stop and search’ in Ijaye area of the city.

62-Year-Old Man Defiles His 10-Year-Old Stepdaughter In Abeokuta

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A 62-year-old man, identified as Alabi Ibraheem, has been accused of having sex with his 10-year-old stepdaughter in Abeokuta. Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer (PPR0), Muyiwa Adejobi, who confirmed incident, also described it as barbaric.