The Oyo State Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for COVID-19, will, on Wednesday, begin the community-based testing drive in Ibadan, the state capital. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the EOC released a schedule showing activation dates for samples’ collection sites. According to the schedule, three samples’ collection sites will be activated on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in Oluyole, Lagelu and Ibadan South-East Local Government Areas, LGAs. The samples’ collection sites to be activated on Wednesday are Olomi Primary School, beside Adaramagbo Primary Health Centre, Alegongo Community Primary School…
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The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, headed by Governor Seyi Makinde, stated on Tuesday that it was yet to relax the ban on religious activities and the curfew imposed as a result of the pandemic. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, confirmed that the Task Force made its position public after a two-hour online meeting. The statement added that the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force is still evaluating the situation in the state and, therefore, would not be able to follow the decision by the Presidential Task Force, which relaxed the ban…
The Southwest and Oyo State Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), has eulogized the outgoing Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Shina Olukolu for his exemplary leadership during his stay at the command, saying that the Command and Southwest PCRC will never forget him in the history of PCRC. Penpushing reports that the Southwest PCRC, chairman, Alhaji Mogaji Ibrahim Olaniyan while speaking on Tuesday at the Oyo State Police Command headquaters, Eleyele, Ibadan during a senthforth party organized by the Oyo PCRC for the outgoing Commissioner of Police of the Command, Shina Olukolu, noted that PCRC has benefited a lot…
Oyo state Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde has been urged to inaugurate members of the State Security Network, otherwise known as Amotekun corps. The call was made this Tuesday by members of the Oyo State House of Assembly during plenary. The lawmakers argue that the takeoff became expedient owing to incessant bloody clashes between farmers and cattle herders across the state. GOALPOACHER NEWS had reported yesterday that armed cattle herders on Sunday invaded three villages in Akinyele local government area, the villages includes, Ikereku, Pade, Olanla and Babalola, killing three people, two of the deceased were were ward chairmen at…
As part of activities in commemoration of his first year in office, the governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, commissioned the newly-renovated ALGON Comprehensive Health Centre, Eyin Grammar, Ibadan. The governor maintained that the top goal of his administration is to make primary health care system functional and affordable, noting that the government will continue to invest in the primary healthcare system. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted him as also urging residents of the community to enrol in the Oyo State Health Insurance scheme as officers begin…
The tougher the battle, the sweeter is always the victory. Since the first major illegal step taken by the Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde to dissolve the elected local government administration in the state less than 24h hours after his swearing in, the government has ever since perched on a tight rope like the proverbial bird. And in order to survive and wriggle out of its self inflicted trap, Gov. Makinde administration , in the past one year, has been wobbling and fumbling from one illegality to another, denial, acceptance, lies and blackmail to survive. All subsequent…
Lagos, Monday, May 31, 2020 President Mohammadu Buhari’s claim that late dictator, Sanni Abacha stole $1b contradicts the figures earlier released by his own officials, the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, (ASCAB) led by prominent Nigerian human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana said on Monday. ASCAB described as inconsistent the President’s statement contained in an article he wrote for the international magazine, Newsweek adding that the $1b quoted by Buhari is barely one fifth of the total amount top officials of the same government claimed to have recovered from the late military henchman. ASCAB said the President’s article…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the release of a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, from prison. Kalu was jailed for 12 years on December 5, 2019, after he was convicted of N7.1bn fraud alongside his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited, and a former Director of Finace at the Abia State Government House, Jones Udeogu.
…says Awotan dumpsite being re-modelled to international standard The clean and green initiative of Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo state has created 12,000 direct jobs for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled income earners in Oyo State, through the on-going rehabilitation at Awotan dump site. The Contractor handling the Clean & Green project, Mr. Idowu Salawu said this while speaking with Journalists at the site today. Mr. Salawu, whose company, Macpresse West Africa Ltd. is handling the rehabilitation of Awotan and Ajakanga dumpsites revealed that the project has birthed 500 registered private companies that are engaged in refuse collection at the…
Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Oloye Teslim Folarin, said he has nominated constituency projects worth Five Hundred Million Naira (N500m) between 2019 and 2020. He has equally facilitated the inclusion of some dilapidated roads in the State for rehabilitation. Pacesetternews reports that the federal lawmaker made the disclosure on Tuesday while reacting to the sorry state of roads at Gbaremu-Idi-Obi and Odo-Omi Olosun Bridge. Oloye Folarin said, “I am aware the roads in question have caused a series of accidents leading to deaths. The painful experience of drivers and other road users along that axis necessitated the inclusion…