The people of Kumapayi, Olodo, under Ajorosun community at Egbeda local government in Ibadan have commended the governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde for fulfilling his electoral campaign promises, especially in the area of provision of portable water. A borehole project which was done under the Oyo State Clean Water Project, anchored by the State’s Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) in collaboration with Latter Day Saints Charity (LDS Charity) was commissioned on Tuesday. Speaking on behalf of the community, the zonal Chairman, Kumapayi Community Development Association, Mr Giwa Buraimoh said the people of the area would always…
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…Governing Council Chairmen Nominated by JAC ….Swears-in Comrade Sodo as Permanent Secretary The Governor of Oyo State, Engr Seyi Makinde on Tuesday inaugurated the the governing of councils of the state’s tertiary institutions, with a charge to the council members to reposition the institutions. The institutions are, The Polytechnic Ibadan, Oke Ogun Polytechnic Saki, Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, College of Education Lanlate, Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo Ora. Makinde noted that in as much the state continues the drive towards the expansion of the economy, most of the institutions would also benefit…
….Market Leaders Express Dissatisfaction as Lock-up Shops Are Built On Car Park Designation The Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin has assured traders at the popular Gbagi international Market, Ibadan that Governor Seyi Makinde will improve facilities in the market inline with his election campaign promise. Hon Ogundoyin gave the assurance when elders and leaders of the textile Market visited him in his office. The traders led by the Chairman, Council of Elders and Board of Trustees, Gbagi Market, Ibadan Alh Mukaila Adebayo were at the Speaker’s office to present some of the challenges confronting the market,…
Parents of over 400 new 2019/2020 Jambites who were given admission into the University were asked to leave due to their lateness to pay school fees. This are student who passed IJMB, passed post IJMB, paid acceptance fees, done their departmental registration, they have been receiving lectures and along the line they were told not to pay into the school portal because the portal was hijacked and some were told by their L A to finish departmental registration before paying schooi fees into the University portal. But unfortunately, the University portal was closed and the management refused to open it…
Two of the State government tribunals on Monday, tried 40 persons for indiscriminate refuse dumping and lack of proof of registration with authorized waste evacuators, as well as those caught contravening laws restricting movement of persons during sanitation hours. The fine sentences, according to the State Ministry of Environment, varied according to offences, with the minimum being N2500 and maximum N10, 000 per offence. The State, in its bid to comply with the (environment focused) goals 6, 11,13, 15 of the SDGs, the Oyo State government has recommenced the prosecution of violators of the Oyo state environmental laws so…
Oyo State government has on Monday, announced tax relief packages to private and corporate businesses in the State to further cushion the effect of the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic on the State’s economy. The State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinola Ojo made the announcement at Ibadan, during a Press Conference on the Implementation of Tax Compliance Relief Programmes for Individual Taxpayers and Businesses in Oyo State. The programme witnessed the presence of captains of industries and representatives of the corporate and professional bodies at the Western Hall of Oyo State House of Assembly in Ibadan. Akinola said the State administration, under…
…….Opening of National Headquarters in Ibadan The leader of Yoruba World Congress, Professor Banjo Akintoye on Saturday addressed Journalists in Ibadan on a violent free Yoruba Nation can be achieved, he spoke on the state of insecurity in Nigeria and other challenging issue…. Creation of the Yoruba Nation Without War, Violence and crisis. How achievable? Yes, it is achievable, it would be achieved. We have established a presence in the diplomatic world by joining the UNPO and that has created an access for us to be in lot of places in the international community as part of the process. We…
Senator Teslim Folarin of Oyo Central Senatorial District has donated food items and cash gifts to some selected private school teachers and accident victims in Oyo Central Senatorial District. He also reiterated his commitment to inclusive and quality representation in order to improve the standard of living of his constituents. The Federal lawmaker’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Com. YSO Olaniyi said Oloye Folarin was reaching out to accident victims and selected private school teachers in Oyo Central Senatorial District who were neither relieved by governments nor paid salaries by their school managements during months of the lockdown occasioned by COVID-19…
The recent startling revelations of misappropriation of funds and extra budgetary spending of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, calls for concern and it has shown that People of the Niger Delta Region are their own enemies, and not really the system of Government in Nigeria. This also applies to Nigeria as a whole. The former Minister of Petroleum Resources, who is having a running battle with the EFCC presently, Mrs Diezzani Madueke, also hail from the same Region, apart from notable others. The major problem over decades with the Niger Delta Zone and Nigeria at large is bad leadership…
AN Ibadan-based media practioner, Mr Nurudeen Alimi, has written a letter to the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Joe Nwachukwu Enwowu, seeking the reopening of the suspended investigation into an alleged trafficking of his son (name withheld). Alimi, in the letter submitted at the Commissioner of Police’s office on Friday, of which copies were made available to journalists in Ibadan, on Sunday, stated that sometime in October, 2017, he got a hint that his estranged wife, Mrs Kehinde Alimi, as they were still legally married at that time, but now known as Ms Kehinde Yusuff, visited the Nigerian Immigration Service,…