Tag: oyo state
Glo, Adeyinka Thrill Ibadan Audience
Globacom partnered with ace comedian, Gbenga Adeyinka, to thrill residents of Ibadan, Oyo State, during the Easter period. Gbenga Adeyinka…
Discord In Accord Party Over PDP Reconciliation
Reconciliation talks between the former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rasheed Ladoja and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have split…
Soldiers, SSS Block Gov Ajimobi’s Aides, Journalists
It was a show of shame Tuesday afternoon in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, southwest Nigeria as soldiers and men…
Southwest And Quest For Regional Unity
On Monday, 13 February, 2012, leaders of the progressives in southwest Nigeria, gathered in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, to form…
Commotion In Oyo House Over Invasion Of School By Customs Men
There was commotion today as the Oyo State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria, continued with the investigation of the SS3…
PDP Wins Rep seat in Oyo
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Mr. Afeez Jimoh Adelowo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has defeated Mr. Lanre Agoro of Action Congress…
Nigerian Governor Promises To Tackle Unemployment
Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has promised that his administration would not relent in tackling the problem of youth…
INEC: Oyo Rep Poll Inconclusive
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the rerun election held yesterday in Oyo State for the Irepo/Orelope/Olorunsogo…
Oyo appoints new coach for 3SC Football Club.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi today appointed Mr. Allen Andrew as the new Coach of 3SC Football Club of Ibadan. The governor,…
NYSC Member Gives Birth In Camp
A female corps member posted to Oyo State for the 2011 Batch C National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme gave …
Oyo Hospitals Get Facilities Soon
The Oyo State government has promised to supply water and electricity to the Yemetu Teaching Hospital and the new hospital…
Commissioner Worries Over Extinction Of Farmers In Oyo
The ageing population of farmers in Oyo State is giving the state government concern, the new Commissioner for Agriculture and…
Human Heads Found In NURTW Secretary’s House
Policemen in Oyo State, South West Nigeria, have found arms and human skulls in the home of Azeez Ejeoto alias…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
Ogun, Oyo States Join The Progressives
On 29 May, the Southwest will officially return to the fold of the progressives, with the victory of the Action…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
How Ajimobi of Action Congress Sacked Governor Akala
With fifty armed soldiers and policemen, providing security cover, the deciding votes in Oyo State from Ibadan South West were…
FRSC Arrests 50 Motorists
The FRSC in Egbeda, Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria on Monday said no fewer than 50 traffic offenders were arrested…
Police Detain PDP, INEC Staff Caught Tampering With INEC Materials
Oyo State Police Command has transferred the Head of Information Technology of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Osunlola…
SS2 Student Has 2 Wives, 7 Kids, Says I Endure Insults Daily
Life has been challenging for 31-year old Islamic cleric, Yekini Akeem, an SS-2 Student of Itabo Community High School, Itabo,…
Poison Scare: Students Boycott Schools In Ibadan
Following the poison scare in public schools in Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday, many parents did not allow their children to…
Alao-Akala Appoints Journalist, 13 Others As Permanent Secretaries
Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State on Wednesday named Mrs. Amoke Dahunsi, a journalist, and three teachers among 14 newly…
Two Victims Of fire Incident Die In UCH
The Head of Public Relations Department of the University College Hospital, (UCH), Mr. Toye Akinrinola today confirmed that two out…
Oyelese, Others Sue Akala
Three Oyo State governorship aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Minister, Elder Wole Oyelese, Hazeem Gbolarunmi and the…
Murder Of Eleweomo: Court Strikes Out Senate Leader’s Bail Application
Oyo State High Court sitting in Ring Road, Ibadan today struck out the bail application filed before it seeking the…
Gov Akala, Police Block Bail For Senator Folarin
Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, and the Oyo State Police Command today opposed the bail application of…
Political Manipulation: OBJ, The Unlikely Democrat At It Again!
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo appears determined to foist his selfish political agenda on Ogun State regardless of the rules and…
Parallel PDP Primaries In Ogun: Olurin, Isiaka Emerge Guber Candidates
The crisis rocking the Ogun chapter of the PDP continued unabated, as two governorship candidates emerged at two parallel primaries…
Murder OF Eleweomo: Police Deploy More Men To Oyo PDP Congress
By Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Following yesterday’s murder of the National Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW chairman, Mr. Lateef Salako a.k.a.…
Thugs Attack Tinubu’s In-law’s Bus In Ibadan
By Moyo Fabiyi Hundreds of thugs in Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday descended on a Toyota Previa bus belonging to Mr.…
Oyinlola’s Thanksgiving Service Revisited
On Sunday December 5 2010, eminent PDP members from South West and other parts of Nigeria including former President Obasanjo,…
Court Strikes Out Charge Against Nigeria’s New Governor
The last chapter  of the  battle over the 2007  Governorship election in Osun state  was brought to a dramatic…