Tag: Oyo State

A Deputy Commissioner of Police serving with the Force Criminal and Investigation Department, Alagbon, Lagos State, Gbolahan Oyedemi, on Monday, ...

A private jet carrying 10 people, including VIPs, overshot the Ibadan airport runway in Oyo State capital. According to an excellent source, the event occurred on Friday at about 11 a.m. at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The plane with the registration number N580KR missed the runway and skidded into a nearby bush. Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to ...

Concerning unpaid pensions since their retirement 44 years ago, hundreds of Nigerian retired soldiers—who had defended their nation during the 1966 Civil War—took to the streets of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. Bonnie Tunes, the kind and talented singer, aspires to be a computer engineer, but music comes naturally to her. Armed with signs bearing a variety of messages, the former soldiers questioned if they had earned their current situation after giving their lives in defense of the nation. Speaking with journalists at its state headquarters, Agodi-Gate, in Ibadan, the National Coordinator of the retirees, Cpl. ...

Oyo state governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointment of Prince Afolabi Ghandi Olaoye as the new Soun-elect of ...

The ongoing Egungun celebration in the city was suspended on Sunday by Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, a famous traditional monarch in Nigeria and the Olubadan of Ibadanland. It was reported that the monarch directed the suspension of the traditional rites after several reported cases of violence, ...

Rashidi Ladoja, former Oyo State Governor has filed a suit against Governor Seyi Makinde, the state attorney general and 11 ...

A 41-year-old manager of SEAP Micro-Finance Bank Saki, Sola Ogungbe has reportedly committed suicide in his Iseyin home. Ogungbe was said to ...

Security operatives have been stationed in strategic parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The areas include Sango, Roundabout, Mokola ...

On April 18, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari assented to the National Minimum Wage Act, 2019. But four years later, controversies ...

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo explained why replacements have not been announced for Aalafin of Oyo and Soun of Ogbomosoland, ...