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The Urgent call for Revitalization

The deplorable condition of the Ajuwon Akute in Ifo Local Government Area (LGA), Ogun state, stands as a bleak representation of neglect, presenting manifold challenges and symbolizing the infrastructural deficits plaguing may communities. The road, a major thoroughfare in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun state, has long been a subject of concern for residents, commuters, and businesses…

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How Suspected Ritualists Slaughtered Commercial Sex-worker For N100k In IFO LGA

A suspect, Raman Akande, arrested in connection with the death of a commercial sex worker in the Ifo area of Ogun State, has narrated how he and two others allegedly killed the victim for ritual purposes. Akande, in a confession video made at the police station, disclosed that he participated in the killing of the commercial sex worker after one person identified as Ifa promised him a reward of…

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RESPONSE TO FALSE ALLEGATIONS CONTAINED IN PRESS RELEASE OF ONE MRS. FUNMI OBASEKI.

Our attention has been drawn to several online publications, more particularly, a publication contained in the encounter news titled “14 Days After Leaving Office, Ex-Ifo LG Chair, Vice ‘Illegally’ Removed Street-Name Signpost, Allegedly Threaten Victim’s Life".

The reports revealed that one Mrs. Funmi Obaseki had accused the ex-council Chairman and vice chairman of removing her street name signpost on August 7, 2024, 14 days after leaving office.

The allegations are unfounded, false, and a calculated attempt to manipulate and distract people from the focus of showing their interest in Hon. Dapo Adebesin, who is currently pressing forward for the Chairmanship position of Ifo Local Government.

The following represents the facts in this matter:

1) Mrs. Funmi Obaseki claimed she submitted a letter to apply for street naming in Ifo Local Government, but the letter submitted by her didn't pass through my table.

2) After an investigation on the subject matter, Mrs. Funmi Obaseki submitted a letter that was forged without the consent of the community Chairman, which is one of the procedures to follow. After she claimed that the chairman had approved her interest in securing a new name for the street. Findings show the community chairman knew nothing about her actions as the letter she presented on behalf of the chairman was forged.

3) The letter that was submitted by Funmi Obaseki came from her with a street name address to apply for another street name on the same street. Her motive is to apply for a change of name. This later became an issue between the previous street owner and her, which led to the intervention of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman.

4) Still dissatisfied with the outcome of sharing the edge of the street with her as the owner of the street later shows up. The local government can't take sides as expected by Funmi and the council find a means to settle the matter. Funmi Obaseki was assigned the side portion to be covered, and that led to removing the signpost attached to her name to another location that is free and falls to the location of her house.

5) Mrs. Funmi Obaseki proceeded to start harassing and intimidating the Chairman and the Vice Chairman with all sorts of words, which later led to her social media and newspaper publication claiming that Hon. Dapo Adebesin was threatening her life with thugs.

We are using this medium to inform the good people of Ifo Local Government and Ogun State as a whole that Hon. Dapo Adebesin has not in any way issued any form of threat either verbal or written to Mrs. Funmi Obaseki and it was a surprise seeing someone who claimed to be an elite to be circulating a news of threat to her life when there is none.

Government is continuity and if in any way Mrs. Funmi is not satisfied with the way the case was settled by giving her a portion from the location, she has every right to contest that with the appropriate authority who are at the affairs of the council not by displaying her actions in form of blackmailing those who knew nothing about the processing but coming onboard to settle the matter peacefully.

Hon. Dapo Adebesin never came across the file of Mrs. Funmi during his time in office, not until when the matter surfaced for settlement. His intervention in the matter is for settlement and peacemaking between Mrs. Funmi Obaseki and the street owner.

The Chairman and the Vice Chairman successfully had a meeting with both parties for proper dialogue that led to the separation of portions and division of the street from the center edge. This was the only time Hon Dapo Adebesin visited the location, and since then, no visitation has been made after he left office to the said location, as claimed by Mrs. Funmi Obaseki in her press release.

In conclusion, on the financial aspect, all funds claimed that were paid by Mrs. Funmi Obaseki were paid directly into the council account, not a personal account, and that is enough for her to understand that her dealings are not with individuals but with the council officials. She can easily lay her dissatisfaction to the appropriate quarter in the council and stop the blackmailing mission that can't provide any solutions for her.

Dated This 22nd August 2024

DAI MEDIA

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No Administration Can Fix Ogun Roads In Eight Years, Says Dapo Abiodun

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has called for patience amid criticisms of his government over the conditions of roads in the state. The governor said this on Monday after an on-the-spot assessment of roads in Ifo Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. “I want to implore our people to be patient with us. We cannot reconstruct all the bad roads in three years,” the governor said. “In fact, no…

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Elderly landlord impregnates tenant’s teen daughter in Ogun

Police in Ogun State, has arrested a septuagenarian landlord, simply identified as Adesina, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his tenant’s 14-year-old girl on Akegbeyale Street in Ifesowapo Akute, Ifo local government area of the state. According to media reports, the 71 year old man was caught having sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old girl in the house bathroom. The minor was said…

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Pandemonium as Motorcycle Riders, ‘agbero’ clash Some commercial motorcyclists and transport union tax collectors, popularly known as Agbero on Wednesday clashed at Akute Bus Stop and Alagboole in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State over a hike in ticket prices. The PUNCH reported that there was pandemonium in the area as shops were shut down and some properties were destroyed, while residents and traders in the area scampered to safety. A stranded commuter, identified simply as Garba, told the newspaper that the motorcyclists were fighting a just cause. He said: “It is unreasonable to increase their ticket price from N700 to N1400, considering the cost of fuel. Where will they get money from? This cannot continue.” Whwn contacted, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said the command was aware that some properties were destroyed, but they were yet to know the extent of the damage. ”They (motorcyclists) can have a peaceful protest, and they can bring their complaints through their different unions to the police. This particular gathering is illegal,” Odutola said.

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Two men drowned while swimming in Ogun river

Two young men from Lagos who were in Ogun State for a programme at a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Onikoko have been reported to have drowned while swimming in a river at Itori. The tragedy reportedly happened on Monday. Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer in Ogun, Omolola Odutola, disclosed that a member of the church, Adebayo Adeosun, had reported at the station at about 6:30 pm, “that some boys numbering seven who came from Lagos on the 27th of August for his church inauguration, left the church premises to swim, and got drowned in the process.” According to Odutola, the two victims were Femi Akinola, 32, of Odo Eran, Itire, and Tunde Falade, 35, of Kola Alagbado, both in Lagos. Their bodies were recovered from the tides and rushed to the health centre in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, “where they were unfortunately confirmed dead by a medical doctor on duty.” The Divisional Police Officer, CSP Olayemi Jacob, had detailed his team to visit the scene upon receipt of the report and ascertained that there were no signs of violence or foul play suspected. “Their remains have since been evacuated to Ifo General Hospital for autopsy reports and later deposited in the same mortuary,” she explained. Read the full article

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Woman are pushed to death for unpaid debts by Microfinance Staff.

Microfinance staff in Ogun State on may 10. four employees of Zefa Microfinance Bank, located in Abule Ijoko Lemode District of Ifo Local Government, were arrested over the death of Vivian Omo, a 50-year-old woman who is a wife to one of their debtors. According to a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, sp abimbola oyeyemi, trouble began when bank staffers approached the deceased’s…

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4 ZEFA MICROFINANCE BANK STAFF MORTGAGE THEIR FREEDOM FOR CAUSING DEBTOR'S WIFE DEATH .

On May 10, 2023, police in Ogun State detained four employees of ZEFA Microfinance Bank, located in the Abule Ijoko Lemode area of Ifo Local Government, in connection with the murder of Mrs. Vivian Omo, the wife of one of their creditors. SP ABIMBOLA OYEYEMI, Ogún State Police PRO revealed that the problem began when ZEFA bank employees went to the deceased’s house to request payment on a loan…

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Assault: Court grants Portable bail, remanded till conditions are met

Our reporter/ Singer Habeeb Okikiola aka Portable was on Monday granted bail by a magistrate court in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. This followed the singer’s arraignment by the Ogun State Police Command on five counts bordering on assault before the court presided over by the chief magistrate, A.S Shoneye. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Delivering his…

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Gunmen Invade Ogun Communities

Gunmen Invade Ogun Communities

Residents of Abule-Oko, Agbado, Olaogun, and Ijoko communities in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, were under attack on Friday, as gunmen invaded the communities. Tribune  Online learned that the hoodlums stormed the communities at about 8.00 am on Friday morning. Although three persons were shot at by the gunmen, no life was lost. The State Commander of the So-Safe Corps, a security…

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Dapo Abiodun Breaks 21-Year Junk on Abeokuta-Ota-Lagos Road

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun on Friday flagged off the construction of the 70-kilometer Abeokuta-Ifo-Ota-Lagos Expressway with a pledge to complete it in 18 months. #image_title The governor, who performed the flag-off at Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area, noted that the road is significant not only to Ogun State but also to Lagos State and the nation, as it provides a thoroughfare…

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RESPONSE TO FALSE ALLEGATIONS CONTAINED IN PRESS RELEASE OF ONE MRS. FUNMI OBASEKI.

RESPONSE TO FALSE ALLEGATIONS CONTAINED IN PRESS RELEASE OF ONE MRS. FUNMI OBASEKI.

Our attention has been drawn to several online publications, more particularly, a publication contained in the encounter news titled “14 Days After Leaving Office, Ex-Ifo LG Chair, Vice ‘Illegally’ Removed Street-Name Signpost, Allegedly Threaten Victim’s Life".

The reports revealed that one Mrs. Funmi Obaseki had accused the ex-council Chairman and vice chairman of removing her street name signpost on August 7, 2024, 14 days after leaving office.

The allegations are unfounded, false, and a calculated attempt to manipulate and distract people from the focus of showing their interest in Hon. Dapo Adebesin, who is currently pressing forward for the Chairmanship position of Ifo Local Government.

The following represents the facts in this matter:

1) Mrs. Funmi Obaseki claimed she submitted a letter to apply for street naming in Ifo Local Government, but the letter submitted by her didn't pass through my table.

2) After an investigation on the subject matter, Mrs. Funmi Obaseki submitted a letter that was forged without the consent of the community Chairman, which is one of the procedures to follow. After she claimed that the chairman had approved her interest in securing a new name for the street. Findings show the community chairman knew nothing about her actions as the letter she presented on behalf of the chairman was forged.

3) The letter that was submitted by Funmi Obaseki came from her with a street name address to apply for another street name on the same street. Her motive is to apply for a change of name. This later became an issue between the previous street owner and her, which led to the intervention of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman.

4) Still dissatisfied with the outcome of sharing the edge of the street with her as the owner of the street later shows up. The local government can't take sides as expected by Funmi and the council find a means to settle the matter. Funmi Obaseki was assigned the side portion to be covered, and that led to removing the signpost attached to her name to another location that is free and falls to the location of her house.

5) Mrs. Funmi Obaseki proceeded to start harassing and intimidating the Chairman and the Vice Chairman with all sorts of words, which later led to her social media and newspaper publication claiming that Hon. Dapo Adebesin was threatening her life with thugs.

We are using this medium to inform the good people of Ifo Local Government and Ogun State as a whole that Hon. Dapo Adebesin has not in any way issued any form of threat either verbal or written to Mrs. Funmi Obaseki and it was a surprise seeing someone who claimed to be an elite to be circulating a news of threat to her life when there is none.

Government is continuity and if in any way Mrs. Funmi is not satisfied with the way the case was settled by giving her a portion from the location, she has every right to contest that with the appropriate authority who are at the affairs of the council not by displaying her actions in form of blackmailing those who knew nothing about the processing but coming onboard to settle the matter peacefully.

Hon. Dapo Adebesin never came across the file of Mrs. Funmi during his time in office, not until when the matter surfaced for settlement. His intervention in the matter is for settlement and peacemaking between Mrs. Funmi Obaseki and the street owner.

The Chairman and the Vice Chairman successfully had a meeting with both parties for proper dialogue that led to the separation of portions and division of the street from the center edge. This was the only time Hon Dapo Adebesin visited the location, and since then, no visitation has been made after he left office to the said location, as claimed by Mrs. Funmi Obaseki in her press release.

In conclusion, on the financial aspect, all funds claimed that were paid by Mrs. Funmi Obaseki were paid directly into the council account, not a personal account, and that is enough for her to understand that her dealings are not with individuals but with the council officials. She can easily lay her dissatisfaction to the appropriate quarter in the council and stop the blackmailing mission that can't provide any solutions for her.

Dated This 22nd August 2024

DAI MEDIA

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Obasanjo’s Community Gets Secondary School As Sons Bag Chieftaincy Titles

Obasanjo’s Community Gets Secondary School As Sons Bag Chieftaincy Titles

Obasanjo’s Community Gets Secondary School As Sons Bag Chieftaincy Titles

Obasanjo’s Community Gets Secondary School As Sons Bag Chieftaincy Titles

It was celebration galore on Saturday as former president Olusegun Obasanjo joined his kinsmen at his native Ibogun Olaogun village, located in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The occasion was the unveiling of Ibogun Olaogun…

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Lebanon: Colonial Thieves & Conflicting Networks of Patronage I am trying to think how best to write about Lebanon, about the BIGGER picture and the complicated political situation and structure there. It goes beyond the Beirut port bombing or the source of the fertiliser, well beyond the recriminations, and what is actually being reported in the news as well. This is a topic we have covered earlier in NEO, even before Lebanon was so newsworthy. But as with everything, the first rule of a journalist is to not to believe in coincidences. Blast from the Past Let’s just assume readers know all about the current situation, the corruption, the banking mafias and the humanitarian crisis on the horizon. Lebanon is a country collapsing, crashing and burning, and its banking system with it. The country is about to hit rock bottom—at least in the opinion of most pundits. As mentioned in previous NEO articles, the lack of a government isn’t going to get foreign troops out of Lebanon, or stabilise its currency and persuade its neighbours to respect its position. Nor is it going to keep it out of the shadows of Israel and Syria. But having a new government which isn’t backed, or at least tolerated, by public consensus won’t bring about immediate change; it won’t be the magic cure. On the contrary, it will for sure raise new issues, create new groups willing to be bought off and create greater instability, simply because it is easier to fight an enemy you know. Changing the political-sectoral structure of the government, an ongoing issue in Lebanon, isn’t going to prove a panacea for all either – not because no solution would satisfy the Lebanese, but because the very existence of its government system doesn’t satisfy everyone else. But what comes next? At the heart of this system lies a social compact which connects individuals to political leaders based on sectarian identity — Maronite Christian, Sunni Muslim, Shia Muslim, Druze, to name a few of the country’s 18 different religious sects. Each knows its place, and is closely linked to various networks of political and financial patronage—and these have existed from generation to generation. In layman’s terms, if a whole new order is put in place in Lebanon – based on liberal, deliberative politics, not doling out privileges to various religious and ethnic groupings, and with well-delineated representative electoral boundaries drawn up following the first census the country will have seen in decades – most of the confessional groups will most likely lose out, or persuade their supporters they will. The sectorial elites are very entrenched, and run their own self-sustaining networks of patronage, so it isn’t hard to predict how they will react. If something the West recognises as “liberal democracy” is introduced in Lebanon, the elites’ spheres of influence will contract, and their interests will have to come second to those of the locals. At least, that is the theory – as ever, Westerners are unable to understand that “liberal democracy” is itself a sect, run by a particular segment of the population, holding certain approved views, which sustains itself by even more extensive networks of patronage. The elites and the locals are not two separate groups in Lebanon. All the various groups and elites are in some sense local, the outcomes of waves of past immigration and a system which, though antiquated, was questioned far more by outsiders than it ever was by Lebanese, whose only argument is who should have which slices of the cake, and for what reason. The Maronites claim to be the “original” Lebanese, descendants of the Phoenicians. But their claim to being the real Lebanese is no more or less valid than those of the Sunni or Shia populations, or the Druze, or even the Armenians who have a clear, century-long presence in the country—ever since the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans. This is why nationals outside the country simply call themselves Lebanese – they identify more with Lebanon than with the ethnic groups and associated states everyone else tells them they belong to. In the nineteenth century it was often said that the differences between the dominant political parties lay in which gentleman’s clubs their members belonged to, rather than in their ideologies. The differences between Lebanese lie in which networks of patronage they can access, not their religious or ethnic identity. Lebanon has never been a nation-state or national state, so all groups have a more or less equal participation in its identity. No one group can claim that it is the true local population, and the rest are minorities. Everyone is a minority, and it is only the much more recent Palestinian and Syrian immigrants and refugees who might remain out of the social and legal framework, even though they largely migrated there to find one. Trying to upset the delicate balance of interests which holds the country together, when outsiders allow it to, will certainly lead to a great deal of acrimony from almost anyone who has enjoyed any degree of power over the past seventy years and more, who won’t want to give up any privileges and share things with Johnny come lately “newcomers”. As we have learned from too many other fledgling states or flickering beacons of democracy, be careful for what you wish for. Change for its own sake is not always for the better, especially in complicated parts of the world. This has been a lesson learned in the wake of the so-called Arab Springs. High Wire Act Perhaps the best starting point is to assume that the present Lebanese government is a high-wire act. By any measures it should have failed long ago, even before it resigned, as it represents too many competing and diametrically opposed interests, sects and political agendas, pieced together into a government out of sheer desperation amidst almost impossible political realities. Corruption is endemic, as to a cat who likes to climb trees and claw things. Much of the problem has to do with the fact that Lebanon is deeply rooted in its old colonial past, and its former masters, powers such as France and Turkey, are completing for a place at the table in a bid to retain their historic influence. When Lebanon was the Las Vegas of the Middle East, wealthy and attractive, these powers tried to exert this influence in a much more covert way, not wanting to interfere with the operation of a gravy train. Now those days have gone, they are setting themselves up as the solution to the problems they themselves created by refusing to accept a Lebanese system they were incapable of emulating. From 1920 until its independence in 1943, Lebanon was under French colonial rule, while before that the Ottomans ruled for four centuries. This is why it was predictable that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of “colonial” aims in Lebanon, and called his recent visit to Beirut a “spectacle”, amid growing tensions between Ankara and Paris. The meddling from outsiders has made Lebanon a modern-day Casablanca, full of cross-sections of intrigues. Not only France and Turkey but the US and Israel see it as the beachhead for influencing regional affairs, as if things are not already complicated enough with Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria engaged in an ongoing proxy war within Lebanon’s internal politics. No one wants them there, but if the state isn’t strong enough to protect particular groups of locals from people sponsored by the other side, they have little choice but to put up with the “protection” of people they do not actually regard as representing their interests. Macron and Erdogan have enough problems at home, but prefer meddling in an area that is already a tinderbox, so they can blame the other, and therefore by extension all it represents in their respective countries. All this is contributing to a perfect storm which will leave Lebanon a failed state amongst failed states. What will actually have happened is that everyone else has failed because Lebanon is intrinsically sounder than they are, but it is the Lebanese who will be expected to pick up the pieces. Shallow-minded State While France and Turkey are making worrying bids for renewed influence, the US is trying to call the game from a distance. US motivations are simpler, and easier to understand – the US answer is always, “I blame Iran for the problems in Lebanon,” with a few soundbites about Hezbollah to boot. As ever, this line has everything to do with the US, and nothing whatever to do with Lebanon or the reality of life there. IRAN-Hezbollah is a label of convenience for State Department types and the John Boltons and Mike Mike Pompeos of this world, i.e., the proverbial “shallow-minded state”.It is really interesting to listen to State Department briefings and read press releases. What they don’t say is most revealing, like Pompeo’s statement in the aftermath of the only too convenient fertilizer explosion at the Port of Beirut: “I want to extend our deepest condolences to all those who were affected by the massive explosion at the port of Beirut yesterday. We stand ready to assist the Government of Lebanon – as it grapples with this horrible tragedy. You’ll see the United States announce a number of things we intend to do to assist the people of Lebanon in the coming days.” Such as what? Everything has strings attached, especially when it concerns providing aid to a country during a humanitarian crisis. We only have to look at the developmental model imposed on any country, the USAID Missions and IFO, IMF and World Bank advisers, designed with no other purpose but to ensure the US takes control “lock, stock and barrel”. Let’s hope that a new model evolves (not a feeding frenzy), and one not based on externally imposed structural adjustment policies or economic shock treatment, as if the economy hasn’t been shocked enough. It should be more needs driven, and must not identify the locals as the problem, particularly when you are expecting those locals to vote the way you want them to when your new system is in place. Baking a new cake will require time, and enough time must be afforded for the evolving protest movement and other independent figures to politically organise. Early elections will result in the same sectarian elite getting elected, but then not being allowed to operate, so Lebanon will again be lumbered with the worst of both worlds. To go back and see where it all began, one only needs to check out the secret 1916 Sykes Picot agreement between England and France about slicing up what would be left of the Ottoman Empire after World War One. It would be naïve to think that anyone can get a grasp of what is going on now without understanding the historic intrigues. The Bolsheviks found a copy of the Sykes-Picot agreement when they seized power, and had the audacity to publish it. Lenin called it “the agreement of colonial thieves”. This might also be an appropriate title for what may come in the wake of the resignation of the most recent Lebanese government, and any conditions imposed by the West or the IMF on Lebanon in exchange for a financial lifeline.