Oyo State government has announced its readiness to launch the State’s Hajj Savings Scheme on Thursday 28th January, 2021, in order to afford the less-privileged Muslims in the society perform hajj without the fear of financial burden. The scheme, which will be launched by the State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde will help Muslims in the State who have the dream of performing the annual pilgrimage under the State Muslim Pilgrimage Board to do so without difficulties as there will be a five years contribution window for beneficiaries of the scheme. The intervention will be controlled by National Hajj Commission of…
Author: Goalpoacher
Two of Yorubaland’s most prized states’ helmsmen – Governors Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and Seyi Makinde – have made very strong but seemingly diametrically opposed positions on the security of their people, making it the most talked issue in the nation today. In recent time, their Ondo and Oyo States have become hotbeds of the scalding hot security crises in Northeastern and Northwestern Nigeria. Flakes of the unending years of savage Boko Haram war in the Northeast are whooshing gently but destructively and settling on Western Nigeria. Fleeing displaced Northerners who escape to the bosom of Oduduwa are stretching Southwest space…
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State , the Inspector – General of Police , Mohammed Adamu , and traditional rulers in the state will visit Igangan , Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state today to deliberate on how to restore peace to Ibarapaland . The Deputy Chairman , Oyo State Council of Obas , Oba Francis Alao , who said this in an interview with one of our correspondents on Saturday, said the meeting was organised primarily to ensure that peace returned to the area . Violence had erupted in Igangan , Ibarapa , on Friday when a…
The Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji, has called on farmers and herders in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State and Nigeria to live in harmony for the unity and development of Nigeria. Adetunji gave the advice on Saturday during the Royal Festival of Praise organised by the Holy Ghost Royal House of Restoration Church in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the event had as its theme” The Gathering of Kings to Praise the King of Kings”. Olubadan, represented by Mogaji Okiti-Aresa, Chief Adeshina Olatunji, said blaming a particular ethnic group for insecurity in the country would…
An appeal has gone to the staff of the Water Corporation of Oyo state to thread the line of peace, patience and not violence in pursuing their demands. The Executive Chairman Water Corporation of Oyo State, Dr Adebayo Adepoju made this appeal at a stakeholders meeting organized to resolve the pending issue with Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUPTRE). Briefing relevant stakeholders at the meeting, the Chairman revealed that the corporation had outstanding deductions arising from a backlog of deductions incurred by the past administration in the state and the increment in the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged leaders of the discredited and fizzling All Progressives Congress (APC) to speak out on President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to go back on their party’s campaign promise of implementing an administrative restructuring for the better governance of our country. Our party also tasks APC leaders to respond to their members in the Senate who, through their spokesperson, Senator Ajibola Basiru, have declared that restructuring, as promised by APC, is only a “slogan”, as well as the revelation that neither the APC nor its leaders had submitted any memorandum for the promised restructuring and devolution…
The Presidency has been advised against the planned arrest of Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho . The National President of Yoruba Youth Socio- Cultural Association, Olalekan Hammed , who said this in an interview with Punch correspondent said arresting Igboho will trigger a crisis in the area . He said Igboho offered to do what security agencies had not been able to do for the people , saying many indigenes of the land had been maimed and killed for so long by herdsmen . According to him , arresting Igboho will make the people lose confidence in the…
The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to the hypocritical tears of Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF) over clashes in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State occasioned by the inimical activities of Fulani herdsmen against indigenous Yoruba people. In a statement signed by Mr Yinka Odumakin, National Publicity Secretary, Afenifere and made available to Tribune Online, it reads “While we have gone to a great length to sue for peace and have appealed to our pained people to be law-abiding even with the daily provocations of the Fulani and harassment of our people, we frown at the very arrogant and insulting…
The Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has said he and his men are not behind the burning of the house and property of the Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, saying the indigenes of the settlement were responsible. Igboho, speaking through his Personal Assistant, Salami Oladapo, told SaharaReporters that the activist spent only about two hours in the town, on the instruction of the police and the soldiers, who were briefed on Igboho’s coming. Violence had erupted in Igangan, Ibarapa, on Friday in the Fulani community, during…
“Those who make peaceful change unattainable, make violent change inevitable”. The people have been pointing accusing fingers at Criminal elements among the Fulani Herdsmen in various parts of the Country for their complicity in the series of Kidnapping, maiming, rapping and killing of the innocent souls and the usual response is that they always claim that their kinsman is Mr President, according to the report. This is a stigma on President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, coined out in an attempt to cause major uprising against the Sitting President because there is no Traditional, Religious and Political Leader that will be happy…