As part of effort by the Oyo State Government to see to the peaceful resolution on the issue of #endSARS, the commissioner for youth and sports, Asiwaju Seun Fakorede had an expansive discussion with the conveners of #EndSars in Oyo State. At the end of the 4 hours discussion, the following resolutions were arrived at. 1. Judicial panel should be aired live. 2. Judicial panel should be timely. 3. Transparency during the panel session should be prioritized. 4. Repose confidence in Nigeria Police and rebuild the burnt police station. 5. Decentralisation of Police for the sake of true federalism.…
Author: Goalpoacher
YOUTHS of the All Progressive Congress (APC), in Oyo State, have berated the Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr Akeem Olatunji, over comments against the Deputy National Youth Leader of the APC, Mr Afeez Bolaji, popularly known as repete. Olatunji, had in a statement on Saturday, called on the Department of State Security (DSS), to immediately invite Bolaji for questioning over what it described as inciting comments and plot to lead hoodlums to invade the government secretariat at Agodi, Ibadan, where some COVID-19 palliatives meants for the people of the state are kept. Meanwhile,…
…Operation Burst Denies Killing Armed thugs at the wee hours of Sunday morning invaded Mokola police station with the aim to razing the station. According to an eye witness account who led other youths to resist the hoodlums said one female police Inspector was hacked while the youths mobilised to in their hundreds to repel the hoodlums from setting the station ablaze. Speaking further, the witness confirmed the death of an innocent boy who was hit by stray bullet why the crisis was ongoing. The witness however couldn’t establish who fired the gunshot that killed the boy. He noted that…
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams on Saturday urged the Nigerian youths to embrace peace as the best means to drive home their demand for police reform and other sundry issues affecting the nation. Extolling the rare determination and courage displayed by the youths in the last three weeks, Aare Adams said the Nigerian Youths of today have also written their names in gold for raising their voices against police brutality and standing up to fight against bad leadership. Iba Gani Adams also commiserated with the families of those that lost their loved ones in the course…
The Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content and lawmaker representing Oyo Central Senatorial District in the red chamber, Senator Teslim Folarin has condemned invasion of his Oluyole residence in Ibadan by coordinated hoodlums. Pictures and video clips circulating across social media showed that citizens, led by some hoodlums, burgled the lawmaker’s house and looted over N200 million worth of empowerment materials. Folarin, in a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Comrade YSO Olaniyi, described the attack as “evil, barbaric and unfortunate”. The statement read in part: “The perpetrators of the invasion and looting were not #ENDSARS…
The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the state’s police command and the Department of State Security Service (DSS) to immediately invite the Deputy National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Afeez Bolaji Repete, for questioning over what it described as inciting comments and plot to lead hoodlums to invade the Government Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan. The party stated that by questioning the APC chieftain, security agents would be able to get vital clues from the politician on how a private warehouse belonging to a vendor engaged by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID)…
Oyo state Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has appreciated all particularly, youths, for their cooperation and support during the ENDSARS protests. To this end, he assured that policies would soon be rolled-out to address their grievances while speaking during the solemnization ceremony between son of the Director-General of Operation Burst in Oyo state, Col. Oladipo Ajibola Rtd and Temilade Oyewole, at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (R.C.C.G), Jesus Capital, Oluyole, Ibadan. Governor Seyi Makinde said during the ceremony amidst some cabinet members that he had personal engagements with the youths and examined their demands during the protests which held across…
As Operation Burst Arrest 7 People That Burgled Folarin’s Residence Despite the discontinuation of the #EndSARS protest by the youths, hundreds of hoodlums on Saturday, attacked the residence of the Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Teslim Folarin, and carted away empowerment materials worth millions of naira. Noble FM’s correspondent, Micheal Oladejo, who monitored situations at the Oluyole residence of Senator Folarin, reports that the timely intervention of the operatives of operation burst, compelled the hoodlums to fled the scene. According to our correspondent, seven persons out of the hundreds of yet to be identified hoodlums, ran out of luck…
Hoodlums on Saturday invaded the residence of the Senator representing Oyo Central, Oloye Teslim Folarin located at WCC church side,between Akala road and Oluyole estate. Senator Teslim confirmed the ugly incident on Fresh FM this Saturday in a telephone interview with Mayor Isaac Brown. Folarin noted that over 250 motorcycles, deep freezers, food items among others which he said were meant for empowerment. Details later….
The Government of Oyo State has explained that the palliatives looted by hoodlums in the early hours of Friday, October 23, 2020, at a warehouse located in Akobo area of Ibadan, the state capital, did not belong to the state government. The Oyo State Government maintained that the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde would never short-change the people, urging members of the public to discountenance the allegations and misinformation being spread on social media. The state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters and chairman of the Food Security and Palliative Committee of the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, Chief…