Oyo State Governor Engr Seyi Makinde has reiterated that education remains an integral part of his administration. Makinde stated this on Sunday at the dedication of Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye Global Mission Centre and Governor Udom and Martha Emmanuel Global Mission Plaza on Sunday. The Governor stressed that if he were to choose one of the four cardinal pillars on which to build the economic recovery plan for Oyo State, he wouldn’t hesitate to choose education. His words: “I want to thank my father, Bishop Wale Oke Specially and to congratulate you on the successful hosting of the 38th annual…
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In a bid to forge an indivisible unit in Oyo state All Progressives Congress (APC), ahead of the 2023 general elections, various warring factions in the party met on Saturday at the residence of the chairman of the reconciliation committee and a former Governor in the state, Otunba Christopher Alao Akala. The meeting provided an avenue where several members of the party expressed their grievances and gave recommendations for the party to be united. Among those in attendance at the meeting were governorship candidates and other aspirants of the party in the last election, Bayo Adelabu, Joseph Tegbe, Olusola Ayandele,…
…as Sports minister Sunday Dare rallies support for party’s stakeholders to unite The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, has canvassed for support in the Oyo State All Progressives Congress, APC, declaring that unity was more important than personal ambition. Speaking during a stakeholders meeting of the party in Ibadan on Friday night, the minister charged party leaders present on the need to reposition the APC for victory in the state ahead of 2023. Participants at the stakeholders meeting who were drawn from across the three senatorial districts, aligned with the minister’s position The minister urged that…
The Oyo State Government is set to commence house-to-house enrolment in communities in the State, in the bid to encourage rural dwellers to buy into the State Health Insurance Scheme. The Executive Secretary of the Oyo State Health Insurance Agency, OYSHIA, Dr Sola Akande, disclosed this in Ibadan. The Executive Secretary of the Oyo State Health Insurance Agency, OYSHIA, Dr Sola Akande, revealed that the initiative, which had always been in the outline of the Agency, was borne out of the fact that community-based health insurance is a flavour of the Oyo State Health Insurance Scheme and the Governor Seyi…
In recognition of his outstanding performance through provision of various people-oriented projects and programmes, the caretaker chairman, Omi-Apata Local Council Development Area , Hon Sheriff Adeojo has been awarded the gold award of excellent performance by an NGO Life Value Awareness Leadership Secure Initiative. While delivering his address during the presentation of the award, the president of the NGO Ambassador Oladipo Musbau said ” Life Value Awareness Leadership Secure Initiative has been watching the activities of the chairman diligently since his assumption of office and observed that he has been discharging his leadership qualities in giving dividends of democracy to…
…..Board to Decide Cut Off Mark Oyo State Post Primary Schools Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has released the 2020 results of applicants who participated at the CBT examination which was rounded off a week ago. The chairman of the commission, Pastor Akin Alamu in a phone conversation with GOALPOACHER NEWS this Saturday confirmed that individual result has been released. When quizzed on why the percentage for the cut off mark were not stated. Alamu said the board in a bid to ensure transparency would meet to deliberate on the the percentage for the for the cut off mark. He noted…
…Says Opposition Candidates Were Barred From Purchasing Forms A fresh fact has emerged why the legal suit of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) in Oyo State against their dissolution by the present administration was turned down by the Appeal court. The Appeal court, sitting in Ibadan recently affirmed the sack of the former council chiefs by the administration of governor Seyi Makinde on May 29th 2019. While responding to questions on a radio programme tagged ‘Bottomline’ on IBR 92.5Fm in Ibadan, the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun said the purported May 12th…
….commends partners on human capacity devt in health sector The Oyo State government, on Friday, received medical equipment comprising 60 antenatal and postnatal treatment equipment as donations from the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Oyo State branch and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, who received the equipment from the two organisations on behalf of the state government at the Ministry of Health, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, expressed gratitude to the donors. He also commended…
As part of effort by the Oyo State Government to ensure clean and healthy environment, the Oyo Waste Management Authority led by the chairman, Prince Seun Moronfolu Adelore was on environmental sanitation monitoring exercise this Saturday morning to some major parts of Ibadan. While speaking with GOALPOACHER NEWS correspondent after the exercise,Prince Adelore said the agency would embark on another round of subtle enforcement with the view to complementing the efforts of the environmental task force. His words: “His Excellency, Engr Seyi Makinde just inaugurated Environmental Task Force headed by AC Francis Ojomo, we will also undertake another subtle enforcement…
Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has congratulated the president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, following his re-election as the president of the bank for another term. Makinde in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa, stated that the victory was well-deserved adding that the world class technocrat, remains a pride to Nigeria and the Yoruba race. The governor added that Adesina has raised the standards and brought about immense growth in the multilateral development finance institution, in the last five years of his first tenure. The statement quoted Governor Makinde as saying that he…