An auto crash on the Ijebu Ode-Ore Road of Ogun state on Friday, killed two persons while three others were injured.
Another auto crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Saturday, also killed two persons while five others were injured.
Spokesperson of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, Mrs. Florence Okpe, stated in Abeokuta on Saturday that one of the corpses of Friday’s accident was handed over to its family.
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The second corpse was deposited at the morgue of a hospital Ijebu-Ode to where the injured were taken, she stated.
She added that Saturday’s crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was a lone accident caused by excessive over-speeding by the driver of the Toyota car which summersaulted.
“The accident claimed the lives of a woman and a female child.
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“Seven persons were involved in the lone crash in which five persons sustained injuries,” Okpe stated.
The injured victims were taken to a hospital in Sagamu while the deceased were deposited at the morgue of the same hospital.
Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. As a Nigerian state, Ogun is the second most industrialised state after Lagos, with a focus on metal processing.
It has good road and rail connections to the harbours in Lagos and Lekki. Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1986, lives in Ogun.
Ogun State is predominantly Yoruba, with the Yoruba language serving as the lingua franca of the state.
The dominant religions in Ogun State are Islam and Christianity although a certain amount of traditional religion is still practiced.
Ogun State is noted for being the almost exclusive site of Ofada rice production. Ogun is also home to many icons in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.
