From Ibadan to Iseyin is 72km. About 8 – 10 police checkpoints Oyo to Iseyin is 42km. More than 6 police checkpoints Iseyin to Saki is about 83km About 10 or more police checkpoints Iseyin to Okeho : About 5 checkpoints Igboora to Igangan : About 5 checkpoints Igangan to Iganna : Around 6 checkpoints No commercial motor or motorcycle can go without without dropping #100 Private vehicles too will have to answer many questions, even with your with your particulars intact. You’ll be questioned to the point of frustration. The worst of them all is Iseyin to Abeokuta. Just…
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…..Unity Necessary To Beat COVID-19 – Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on businesses and lives in general, His Royal Majesty, Oba Semiudeen Orimadegun Kasali, Emugoriade 1, the Adeboruwa of Igbogbo Kingdom, assured his people that it is a phase that will pass. In a message to mark his fourth anniversary as ruler of Igbogbo Kingdom, Oba Semiudeen, stated that in order to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, people need to be united in adhering to the laid down directives by the government and the health bodies. According to the monarch, beyond the effort…
The Chief Press Secretary to Oyo State Governor, Taiwo Adisa has lambasted a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Adebayo Adelabu, describing his analysis on the proposed N100bn bond which was approved by Oyo State Executive Council. The governor’s spokesperson who was a guest on Fresh FM Political Circuit, which was monitored by GOALPOACHER NEWS this Saturday described Adelabu’s analysis as pedestrian. In his word, “the candidate of APC in the 2019 gubernatorial election in Oyo state, Mr Adelabu talking about the issue of bond, loans and finances of the state, I think he should be very…
The caretaker chairman of Akinyele local government, Hon. Taoreed Adedigba Jimoh this Friday embarked on projects inspection alongside his caretaker committee members. He used the opportunity to inspect different projects which cut across all the wards in Akinyele Central. Some of the projects inspected were a motorized borehole at Olomitutu ward 9, 6 rooms toilet and ablution center at Moniya central mosque, a borehole at sawmill area Moniya, Solar street lights in 5 different streets at Moniya in ward 5, an ongoing borehole at Molarere ward 11 and another ongoing borehole at kaninke ward 10 of Akinyele local government while…
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Makinde on Diaspora Affairs, Bolanle Sarumi on Friday revealed that a group of professionals known as OMITUNTUN INITIATIVE IN THE DIASPORA donated a sum of #1 million to the fund raising appeal set up by her office. Hon Bolanle stated this at a press briefing held at the Governor’s Office, Agodi, Secretariat, Ibadan. She noted that the fund raising appeal would be channelled to the repatriation and rehabilitation of trafficked victims who are citizens of Oyo State. “As we speak, there are about 141 of Nigerians that are in Lebanon, 41 of them are…
….tasks traditional rulers for participation Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Friday, inaugurated a 22-member committee on community policing, saying it was in response to yearnings of citizens for local policing apparatus to check rising security challenges in the state. The committee is State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC). At the ceremony held at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, Makinde said that raising the committee was aimed at deepening the security architecture in the state to enable insecurity issues to be nipped in the bud. According to him, the committee would help to bolster community policing to check criminal…
The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Makinde on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Hon Kunle Yusuff MON has commended the lawmaker representing Akinyele Constituency 1 at the Oyo State House of Assembly, Ayotunde Fatokun for the training and empowerment programme organised by his NGO “Ayo Fatokun Foundation” on Thursday at Akinyele in which youths in his constituency were the major beneficiaries of his empowerment programme. Hon Yusuf made this known in a statement signed by him and made available to GOALPOACHER NEWS this Friday reads: “kindly permit me to acknowledge the tremendous efforts and dividends of democracy Hon. Ayo Fatokun has…
Oyo State government has won a case in which it was challenged by a gaming company over business registration, right of regulation and statutory power to control gaming activities in the State. The judgement which was delivered on Thursday at the Federal High Court in Ibadan was instituted by Give ‘N’ Take Limited, a gaming company in Ibadan on the 12th of November 2018, challenging the authority of Oyo State government over regulations and control of gaming activities in the State. In the originating summons dated 12th of November, 2018, Give ‘N’ Take instituted a legal action against Oyo State…
The Chairman, House of Representatives’ Committee on Diaspora, Hon. Tolu Akande-Sadipe K on Thursday said about eighty thousand Nigerians are currently held as sex slaves and in forced labour across the world, in countries like Lebanon, Mali and across the Middle East. Akande Sadipe who said this during plenary in Abuja, condemned the complacency of Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Labour and Employment, which has subjected young Nigerian girls to modern-day slavery, sexual exploitation and organ harvesting among other ills. Mrs. Sadipe also noted that the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the guise of diplomacy is working towards the release…
….Provides Helplines For Citizens To Report Rape, Child Abuse Oyo State government has reaffirmed its commitment to the wellbeing of its citizenry irrespective of their challenges or social class. The State Commissioner for Ministry of Women Affairs and Social inclusion, Alhaja Faosat Joke Sanni, made this affirmation in her office while reuniting a mentally derailed person evacuated during the last routine raiding exercise held recently with his family members. Briefing newsmen on Thursday evening at Ibadan, the Commissioner, who spoke through the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mrs Christiana Abioye said, it was a laudable and commendable efforts for the…