Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, has no doubt won the heart of both the young and old in and outside politics across the divide with noiseless but purposeful rejig of Nigeria’s polity, through sincere Infrastructural remold of the state and other enviable feats. He is one of the few governors in Nigeria today and most especially in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) doing great things,by changing the political landscape with genuine people oriented policies and actions. I make bold to say that I am glad a thoroughbred model of Yoruba ‘Omoluabi’ has indeed emerged,our youths have no excuse not…
Author: Goalpoacher
Following the arrest of 75 – year -old Isikilu Wakili, an alleged notorious kidnap kingpin in Ayete /Kajola community of the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State by men of the Oodua Peoples Congress , the residents insist that never again will Wakili be allowed to return. In this interview with Punch Correspondent, a youth leader in the community, Ganiyu Omirinde , talks about the ordeals of many years cohabitating with cattle herders We learnt that you led a team that took a letter to Isikilu Wakili in Kajola weeks before he was arrested by the OPC .…
The time flies so they say as everything still looks like yesterday when the 14 visionary Youths’ and Students’ Leaders met on the 29th July, 1999, at the Coffee Room, Obafemi Awolowo Hall, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. This historic meeting which impacts are still being felt Internationally till today was presided over by my humble self while it was vice – chaired by Miss Toyin Ajao, the former Chairperson, Mozambique Hall of female Residence, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife. Below is the attendance of the meeting of highly determined Aluta Boys and Girl representing the interest of…
The Caretaker Chairman of Afijio West LCDA and the emerged candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Afijio Local Government, Hon. Sunday Akindele Ojo, popularly called SAO, has commended leaders and members of the Party for the trust they had in him and their unflinching support in making him the party’s choice as chairmanship candidate in the forthcoming Local Government elections in the state. Hon Akindele appealed to other contestants to join hands with him in delivering dividends of democracy to the people of Afijio local government. He noted that election is not a do or die affairs and…
We are constrained to add our voice to the on-going debate on the propriety or otherwise of the decision of the Oyo State government to employ the services of a consultant to manage revenues from public tertiary institutions in the state. It is our view that both the government and Joint Action Committee of Trade Unions across all state-owned public tertiary institutions should work on the same page in ensuring that there is proper accountability in the management of funds. We do not want to presume that there are interests within the labour unions who are antagonistic to a procedure…
#ThankYouGSM Seyi Makinde In Oyo State, they perpetually saddle themselves with homework that doesn’t edify-attempt to burst the GSM Bubble. But Governor Seyi Makinde is doing good! Why are they not impressed with the good work? The GSM sins: He defeated them at the polls; he launched an audacious development agenda; he takes the welfare of workers and pensioners to heart and he is determined to take the state from poverty to prosperity (P2P). He is returning the Pacesetter status of Oyo-First Landfill in the country; First concrete road in the state- 12km Awotan-Apete-Akufo road in the state; first ultra-modern…
Cases of gender-based violence will no longer be treated with child’s glove in Oyo State as the government has vowed to invoke the law against perpetrators of gender-based violence. The State Rapid Response Team on Gender Based Violence said, it has recorded 692 cases of Gender Based Violence between the months of March 2020 and February, 2021 with highest number of physical abuse, rape and child labour cases reported. The team, which is under the State’s Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Inclusion also reported abandonment, defilement, attempted rape, rescued and intimate partners violence cases, which the victims were majorly…
On January 1, 2012, the Sunday Tribune featured an article with the title “Awotan (Apete): Agony of a dumpsite neighbourhood.” It was a narrative of the pains and agonizing experience of people living around the popular Awotan dumpsite in Ibadan, Oyo State. The author of that piece, which was cited in some environment-related publications including the Waste Atlas 2014, was at the time a rookie Tribune reporter by the name of Moses Alao. Nine years after the succinct narration of the agonizing lifestyle of Awotan residents was exposed to the world through the instrumentality of the pen of this writer,…
The Chairman , Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission , OYSIEC , Aare Isiaka Abiola Olagunju , SAN , has charged residents and prospective voters in the state who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter’s Cards to visit INEC office for collection without further delay . Aare Olagunju, also enjoined all and sundry not to conspire with anyone to violate electoral laws on election day but troop out en masse and exercise their civil rights accordingly. The Commission boss, while speaking on a radio program tagged ‘ Kajose ” at the weekend in Ibadan , re- affirmed the readiness of…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in Oyo State, Senator Ayo Adeseun has mocked some bigwigs in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had thought they could force Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde to do their bidding as soon as he became the Governor of the pacesetter state. Adeseun who contested the PDP gubernatorial primary election with Makinde in 2018 said a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, a member of the House of Representatives from Ibarapa Central and Ibarapa North, Hon Ajibola Muraina, former House of Representatives majority leader, Hon Mulikat Adeola and Alhaji Bisi Olopoeyan…