The Oyo State governor-elect, Seyi Makinde, has promised to be governor for all by providing good governance for every resident of the state. Makinde made the promise yesterday while addressing journalists at his Ikolaba House in Ibadan, the state capital. The governor, who was declared winner of Saturday’s gubernatorial election on the platform of the…

No fewer than two people died in a bloody clash between suspected political hoodlums at an All Progressives’ Congress (APC) campaign rally in Igboora area of Oyo State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred immediately after the rally held at the old motor park in Igboora on Saturday evening. NAN…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, visited Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi at the Oyo State Governor’s Office in Ibadan. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Osinbajo arrived the Governor’s Office at 3.20pm, in company with the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Abiodun Odude, and the State Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mr.…

Oyo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governorship aspirant, Seyi Makinde, has challenged Governor Abiola Ajimobi to name the 10 companies he has established in the state. He asked him to state what his 57 foreign trips have attracted to the state in the last seven years. Makinde cited UK, U.S., Middle East and Scandinavian countries…

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo and his Oyo State counterpart, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, have given an assurance of peaceful state congresses of the All Progressives Congress across the country on Saturday. The governors spoke on Friday in an interview with journalists in Benin after attending the funeral mass for late Dr Christopher Abebe at Iruekpen,…

The elders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Oyo State has dismissed a group of people who described themselves as “elders” of the party during a visit to Governor Abiola Ajimobi as a group of pretenders who are nothing near the elders committee of the party. In a statement issued in Ibadan by Alhaji…

Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has stated that no other president in the country has managed the nation’s economy better than President Muhammadu Buhari. The governor spoke in Ibadan on Friday evening while receiving members of the National Congress Committee of APC at the Government House. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the…

The Oyo State Government has reiterated its readiness to partner with more foreign and local investors to promote large-scale livestock farming for economic development. The Secretary to the State Government, Olalekan Alli, representing Governor Abiola Ajimobi, stated this while declaring open the Nigeria Poultry and Livestock Expo held at the International Conference Center, University of…

Local council election slated for May 12, this year, by the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), has triggered both intra and inter party schemings. Since Governor Abiola Ajimobi came to power in 2011, this will be the first council poll to be conducted in the state. The last time residents of the state had…

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan yesterday declared as illegal the installation of 21 new monarchs in the ancient by Governor Abiola Ajimobi.

The Oyo State Government says it will appeal the judgment which declared unconstitutional and illegal the Commission of Inquiry recommending the elevation of some Ibadan high chiefs to Obas. Justice Olajumoke Aiki of Oyo State High Court had on Friday declared the retired Justice Akintunde Boade’s Commission of Inquiry which reviewed the 1957 Ibadan Chieftaincy…

Governor Abiola Ajimobi yesterday presented the 2018 budget of N267, 436,357,912.19 to the state House of Assembly. The "Budget of Stabilisation," was N60.4b higher than the 2017 budget, which stood at N207billion. According to the proposal, the revenue was based on N93.68billion from the federation account, N7.53billion from transfers (LG, JAAC for LGSPD and LGSC),…