Not less than 50 vehicles, 75 Okadas and 40 persons were apprehended and taken before the State Environmental tribunal for violating the environmental sanitation laws. The enforcement team was led by the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Abdulateef Idowu Oyeleke who led the enforcement team alongside the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Bashir Olanrewaju, Chairman Environmental Task Force, ACP Francis Ojomo, Special Assistant to the Governor on Environment, Engr. Ademola Aderinto, Director of Environmental Health Services, Security operatives, among others during the monthly sanitation exercise along Bodija Secretariat road in Ibadan. The Commissioner said it is worrisome,…
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A coalition of Yoruba groups , Igbimo Apapo Yoruba Lagbaye , says 100 senior advocates of Nigeria and other prominent lawyers would be raised if Yoruba rights activists , Sunday Adeyemo , popularly known as Sunday Igboho , is taken to court over his action . The group said this in a statement on Friday reacting to the position of the opposition of a human rights lawyer , Femi Falana , to the eviction notice issued by Sunday Igboho. The PUNCH reports that Igboho had issued a seven – day quit notice to Fulani in Igangan , Ibarapa area of…
Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko has warned those exhibiting lawlessness and committing crimes with impunity, that laws of Nigeria will be enforced on them whenever they are caught, no matter the position they hold in the society. The police commissioner talked tough on Friday during an emergency stakeholders’ meeting summoned in the wake of recent crises in the state. Among those at the stakeholders’ meeting were state heads of Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Road Safety Corps, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Nigeria Immigration Service. Others at the meeting were the…
I can see encomiums on the masses of Oyo State on the night that the newly acquired buses of Oyo State government entered the tollgate in Ibadan can not be denied that the dwellers in the state are ready to be transported through Iwo road, Challenge and Ojoo area of Ibadan land gives me the joy that infrastructural facilities are really developing in pace setter state. Nevertheless, there is always rooms for improvements and I need to lend my voice on how things can be handled in a civilized manner. The current Pacesetter Transport Services bus as a case study…
Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-West geopolitical zone have urged all members of the party to come together and join the moving train of the party under the leadership of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The party called on the PDP chapters in the six states of the zone to strenghten the party ahead of the coming congresses, charging those in attendance to go back home and mobilise more people to join the party. The South-West PDP leaders, in a resolution endorsed by its chairman, Hon. Dayo Ogungbenro, equally appreciated Governor Makinde for calling the…
The Oyo State Government has disclosed that National Monthly environmental Sanitation exercise would hold tomorrow, Saturday, 30th January, 2021 According to a statement issued and signed by the Hon. Commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Abdulateef Idowu Oyeleke, the sanitation exercise holds between the hours of 6:00am and 9:00am and there shall be total restriction of both vehicular and human movement except for those on essential duties. The statement directs all the Chairmen of Local Government and Local Council Development Areas to ensure compliance in their respective domains as it is expected that citizens utilize the…
The Caretaker Chairman of Latoosa LCDA, Hon. Kazeem Adewale Oshoniyi, has dedicated his award of excellent service to God, Gov Seyi Makinde and the people of Latosha LCDA in Ibadan North Local Government. Oshoniyi made this known shortly after receiving the award from Merit Communication, Ibadan, on Thursday, 26th of January, 2021. The Chairman was awarded for excellent performance for the Best Ten LGAs/ LCDAs in Oyo State. He used the occasion to express his gratitude to Governor Engr Seyi Makinde for giving him the opportunity to serve and thanked the royal father and entire traditional stool of Latoosa LCDA…
The Seriki Fulani of Igangan , Oyo State , Saliu Abdulkadri , has disclosed that he is on a short visit to the north while his family members have settled temporarily in Ilorin , Kwara State. Abdulkadri and his men moved out of Igangan in the Ibarapa North – West Local Council Development Area of Oyo State on Friday after the expiration of the seven – day eviction notice given to killer herdsmen in the community by the Yoruba rights activist , Chief Sunday Adeyemo , aka Sunday Igboho. Abdulkadri stated that he was received by his kinsmen in Ilorin…
The beneficiaries of the the Youths and women empowerment programme have been advised not to sell equipment given to them. The Executive Governor of Oyo State, His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde stated this at the empowerment programme organized by Aare Latosa LCDA held at the Council Secretariat. Makinde stated that his administration focused majorly on youths and women empowerment in order to raise the standards at the grassroot. The Governor who was represented by Hon. Tajudeen Babatunde aka Double T said all adorations are to God Almighty for seeing this administration through, through gradual fulfilment of the electioneering campaign promises.…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has expressed optimism about possibility of a speedy resolution of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West. In cognisance of the significance of the South West to the survival PDP, Governor Wike said all stakeholders interested in the progress of the party will not relent in the pursuit of peace in the zone. He made this assertion when he met with the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde and other leaders of the South West PDP at the Government House, Ibadan on Thursday. Governor Wike explained that there ought…