Oyo state

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...

Ex-Gov. Ajimobi’s wife’s multi-million naira supermarket up in flames

  By Boye Ajayi Few months after Ex-Governor  Abiola Ajimobi died of COVID-19,  his wife, Florence, on Sunday lost her Grandex Supermarket and Stores...

Oversight function: Oyo House of Assembly suspends 13 council bosses

    By Boye Ajayi For failing to submit their performance reports, the Oyo State House of Assembly, in exercise of their oversight...

Tragedy hits Oyo community as landlord, 2 others are swept off after rainfall

  By Boye Ajayi Residents of Igisogba Oke-Odo in Omi-Adio area of Ibadan, Oyo State are currently in grief over three members of...

Oyo council chairman abducted

  By Boye Ajayi As Oyo State is just getting over the #EndSARS protests highjacked by hoodlums, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Iganna...

#EndSARS arson: Southwest governors to youths: Defend our land, people against incursions 

Aftermath of infiltration of #EndSARS protesters resulting in property destruction and carnage in the Southwest, the six Governors in the states are now...

The Day In Pictures: VP Osinbajo, wife at the residence of late Senator Abiola Ajimobi

            PHOTOS; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN and Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo pay a condolence visit to H.E. Mrs...

The Politics Of Ajimobi’s Death by Reuben  Abati 

        Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past...

Former Oyo Gov Abiola Ajimobi Laid to Rest in Private Ceremony at Oluyole Residence

  The late Sen. Abiola Ajimobi was buried at his country home in Oyo State on Sunday, the culmination of days of tributes...

Coronavirus kills former Oyo gov Abiola Ajimobi 

    COVID-19 has killed a former governor of Oyo state Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the latest leader in the country to die of...