Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, has shut the institution and suspended the Students Union Government (SUG) following the violence that erupted in the school yesterday. The Public Relations Officer (PRO), Mr. Adewole Soladoye, stated that the suspension became necessary, as the SUG had failed to obey the rules guiding its activities on campus.…

Much as Oyo State governor, Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, tried to strike a new consciousness in the ancient Kingdom of Oyo or the city of Ibadan, he came short of glory. His efforts to change the people, who seemed so used to impunity, to the old ways of doing things, did not work. Perhaps the…

The Guaranty Trust Bank has refuted the news that a Federal High Court in Awka, Anambra State has granted Innoson Nigeria Limited leave to take over the bank’s properties. The bank said that the judgment allegedly in issue, is a judgment against the account of the Nigerian Customs and Excise Board domiciled with GTBank, and…

Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) has installed Professor Abel Olajide as chairman of its Ibadan, Oyo State, chapter for another two years. In a closed-door meeting yesterday, Olajide was sworn in by members of the electoral committee and by all members of the institute. Having served the chapter as chairman in the last two years,…

The Oyo State governor-elect, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has said that everyone in the state will benefit from his administration. Makinde stated this yesterday while speaking with newsmen during a thanksgiving service at The Cathedral of St. Peter, Aremo, Ibadan, Oyo State. The governor-elect, who said his administration would rely on the wisdom of God and…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) last year recorded a trade surplus of N80.57 billion. However, a deficit of N5.46 billion was posted for January and August. All of these came as cases of pipeline vandalism rose to 2,048 nationwide during the period. The corporation’s Financial and Operations Report for 2018 indicated that the nefarious…

As far as disasters go, last week was not a happy one even for the shell-shocked people of our dear rumbling country. It is true that our ears, and may be our hearts too, are now used to routine news of disasters that we may have become immune to shock. Yet the death on Sunday…

No fewer than 23 persons were trapped in a three-storey building under construction which collapsed in Ibadan on Friday, witnesses said. The incident occurred about 5.30p.m.the witnesses told News Agency of Nigeria(NAN). David Aderibigbe, a witness who lives close to the building site, said no fewer than 23 workers and two food vendors were trapped…

The fact that Nigeria has not been torn apart following the 2019 elections, as some vicious predictions envisaged, shows that the election was successful. There is peace in the land and people are going about their businesses unmolested. There is cause to celebrate the escape from the election windstorm. No doubt, it was not without…

Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Friday sentenced two drug dealers– Suleiman Mustafa and Wasiu Gafar– to seven years imprisonment for trafficking in 601.1 kg of Indian hemp. In two separate judgments, Ayo-Emmanuel held that he convicted Mustafa and Gafar based on the evidence before him. “The quantity of the Indian…

The University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan has rolled out drums to celebrate its immediate past Chief Medical Director (CMD), Professor Temitope Alonge, for his meritorious service to the institution. Alonge, a world renowned Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon credited with wide ranging reforms and other initiatives in positioning the institution as the foremost tertiary hospital in…

The false start in setting up a new national carrier notwithstanding, Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has reeled out achievements of the aviation industry, among them new infrastructure, pension arrears and zero accident. WOLE OYEBADE was there. Excerpts: As an aviator, how would you assess the performance of the aviation industry lately? As…