A Mitsubishi pickup van on Friday knocked down a nursing mother backing a baby and holding another child at Odeda on the Abeokuta/Ibadan road, killing both the mother and baby.
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo lamented recent poverty index which ranked Nigeria as one of the poorest countries in the world Obasanjo wondered why Nigeria with about 180 million population would be ranked above India which has 1.3billion population
Abeokuta – Maruf Afuape, the Ogun State Commissioner for Youth and Sport has dissociate himself from attack on Governor Ibikunle Amosun of the state by his (Afuape) supporters.
Abeokuta Mr Idowu and two suspected accomplices, Alfa Bamgbola Edun, and, Matthew Odunewu, had perfected plan to kill the young man for ritual at Oriyanrin area of Abeokuta.
The meeting was organised by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission in collaboration with the Partnership to Engage, Learn and Reform, a programme of the Department for International Development.