Oyo state

Oyo Rep. Olaide Akinremi dies at 51, Gov. Makinde grieves

Rep. Akinremi Olaide, also known as “Jagaban,” a member representing the Ibadan North Federal Constituency, passed away on Wednesday, plunging the House of...

Shell signs agreement to build gas pipelines in Oyo State

The Oyo State Government has partnered with Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) to develop gas supply and distribution infrastructure that will deliver gas to...

Security operatives repel local agitators’ invasion of Oyo Govt Secretariat, three feared dead

Three people suspected to be Yoruba nation agitators have met their untimely deaths following their invasion of the Oyo State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan,...

Court sacks ex-RCCG Pastor and Soun of Ogbomoso, Ghandi Olaoye

The newly installed monarch of Ogbomoso in Oyo State, Oba Ghandi Olaoye, a former pastor of one of the parishes of the Redeemed...

Labour protest update: Police disrupt, disperse protesters in Kano, Oyo workers in day two protest

Police in Kano have disrupted the peaceful protest by some groups to express their grievances over the removal of petrol subsidy without measures...

For cutting toddler-girl’s hair and putting incision on her head in school, teacher, cleaner land in court 

For unlawfully and forcefully cutting a toddler-girl’s hair and putting an incision at the back of her head in school, a teacher and...

Notorious online vendors’ robber nabbed in Lagos

Police operatives at Makinde Divisional headquarters in Lagos State have arrested 44-year-old man (names withheld) who is notorious for robbing online vendors. SP...

Mr Adebayo Lawal, Ex-State Justice Commissioner, ls Oyo new Deputy Governor

A new Deputy Governor has been appointed in Oyo State. He is Mr Adebayo Lawal, a lawyer and one-time State Attorney General and...

Breaking: After two days in captivity, abducted Anglican bishop, wife, driver regain freedom

Kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday night on Oyo-Ogbomoso road, the Anglican Bishop of Jebba Diocese, Kwara State, the Rt. Rev. Oluwaseun  Aderogba, his...

Alao-Akala

Breaking: Oyo State ex-Gov. Alao-Akala passes on

  A one-time Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has been reported dead in the early hours of Wednesday in his country...

Gunmen blast Oyo prisons wall, free 837 inmates, 262 recaptured

  Following the blasting of the Nigeria Correctional Service in Oyo, Oyo State, on Friday night, no fewer than 837 awaiting trial inmates...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Tension As Fulani Herders From Oyo State Storm Ogun Communities

  By Boye Ajayi Palpable fear and trepidation have gripped many towns and villages in Ogun State over the influx of Fulani herdsmen...

1,000 Oyo State NDE trainee-entrepreneurs to access CBN/NIRSAL loans with bankable feasibility reports

  No fewer than 1,000 entrepreneurs have been trained by the Oyo State National Directorate of Employment (NDE) preparatory to accessing the loan...

Self-styled liberator, Sunday Igboho, vows to quit herders from Oyo

  In defiance to Oyo Gov. Seyi Makinde’s directive, a self-styled Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, on Friday made good his threat to...

Amotekun, Herdsmen’s Clash Consumes Father, Sons, Houses Razed

  By Boye Ajayi At least seven persons,  including a father and his two sons, have lost their lives in a deadly clash...

After years of intractable funding crisis, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, transferred to Oyo State

  The decade-long crisis of funding that had bedeviled the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso in Oyo State jointly owned by Osun...