Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, this Tuesday received the delegation of Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The team was led to the Oyo State Government House, Agodi, Ibadan by the Director- General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu. Receiving the delegation, Governor Makinde urged the NCDC to certify the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture as one of the laboratory testing centres for COVID-19. The Governor, however, pledged the state readiness to join hands with the Federal Government contain the pandemic. In his response, the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said his team…
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Chief Osuolale Abimbola Richard Akinjide, SAN was a Yoruba Nigerian lawyer and politician. Born in the city of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in the southwest of the country in the early 1930s to an influential family of warriors, Richard Akinjide attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6). Richard Akinjide travelled to the UK in 1951 for his higher education and was called to the English Bar in 1955 and later in Nigeria. He established his practice of Akinjide & Co soon after. He was a former minister of education in…
Richard Osuolale Akinjide finally surrendered to death few minutes ago. May his soul rest in peace. Nigeria, Ibadan lost one of her best legal luminaries. In his life time, he was elected into the federal parliament in December, 1959. Thereafter, he became the federal minister of Education. He was the Attorney General and Minister of Justice lead counsel to President Shehu Shagari in the celebrated case Awolowo vs Shagari suit NO: SC.62/1979, delivered by the Supreme Court on 26th December, 1979.
Imo state government does not plan to rename the Imo State University after late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, whose death was announced on Friday. Chief Press Secretary to Imo State governor, Oguwike Nwachuku, in a statement on Monday described the news as fake. The statement reads in part, “Since Kyari passed on, the same persons have been issuing press statements, forging the logo of government and the name of Mr Nwachuku with the intent to deceive Imolites in particular and the public in general into believing their propaganda and fake news to be real. “In…
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has apologised for the violation of guidelines during the burial of Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, in Abuja on Saturday. Kyari tested positive for Coronavirus in March and his death was announced on Friday. Speaking during a media briefing on Monday, Chairman of the Task Force, Boss Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said, “The PTF recognises, regrettably, the unintentional violation of the principles and protocols that form the core of our message to Nigerians at the funeral of the late Chief of Staff.…
As part of efforts to cushion the effects of the sit at home order over the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the Special Assistant to Governor Seyi Makinde on Youth and Sports, Hon Kazeem Bolarinwa, on Monday, distributed relief materials to the elderly and youths in his Local Government, Egbeda, Oyo State. Distributing the food items to about 250 households and underprivileged in the Local Government, Bolarinwa, said the gesture was to ameliorate the difficulties forced on the people by the COVID-19, saying the development has affected the people without social advantage. The Governor aide, said he decided to…
…as govt insists palliatives’ ll end in right hands The government of Oyo State has taken delivery of three truckloads of rice donated by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The Controller of Customs for Oyo/Osun Area Command, Comptroller Helen Ngozi, who made the symbolic presentation to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ibadan on Monday, said that Customs was donating three truckloads of rice each to Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states as parts of measures to cushion the hardship of Nigerians at this period. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde,…
Livingspring Chapel International has joined the lists of donors to the Oyo state government in support of the fight against the novel coronavirus in the state. The Church, presided over by Pastor Femi Emmanuel whose multi-million donation was presented at the Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan on Monday said it is her own way of supporting the great work been done by Governor Seyi Makinde. The items donated includes, wheel chairs, cartoons of drugs, industrial washing machines, All in one computer systems, cartons of handsanitisers, medical equipments, cartons of green and white cannula and cartons of intravenous injections. Making…
The Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA) is set to launch a Joint Rapid Response Team in the State, with the Oyo State Fire Service. This would enhance Oyo State Fire Service’s timely intervention to fire incidents at market places. Speaking today in Ibadan, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority (OYRTMA), Dr. Akin Fagbemi asserted that the Rapid Response Team would put an end to the complete blockade of access roads to the markets by the haphazard and indiscriminate parking of vehicles, noting that this remains a major factor standing athwart the path of fire fighters…
I recently read with some amazement the piece from an obviously ill-informed commentator. My amazement stemmed from the fact that anyone could still be so blissfully ignorant of the levels of aesthetics, technological and content advancement at the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) in recent times. My conclusion was that the commentator in question was on a mudslinging mission and might be acting at the behest of those who are frustrated with the radical changes at the corporation’s radio and TV channels in the past eight months. While the real facts are open and obvious for the populace and…