Oyo State
25 Jan 2018
Oyo State government has declared the three-day warning strike by its workers as illegal.
24 Jan 2018
Oyo State Government has declared as “illegal” the three-day warning strike embarked upon by its workers and urged them to resume work immediately. A statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Mr Olalekan Alli on Thursday threatened to effect no-work-no-pay rule on erring workers. The government also debunked the allegation of the…
17 Jan 2018
As part of measures to honour the foremost translator of the Bible to Yoruba language and the first African Anglican Bishop in Nigeria, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Christian leaders across the country have being charged to organize an annual assembly of Christians at his Osoogun hometown in Iseyin local government area of Oyo State. The…
18 Dec 2017
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala and the governorship candidate of the party for 2015 election in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin, to recall how the All Progressives Congress (APC) used and later ‘damaged’ many bigwigs that have helped them in the past.
The PDP…
11 Dec 2017
Security agencies in Oyo state have assured the management of newly inaugurated Technical University (TechU), Ibadan of adequate protection as academic activities take off at the institution.
2 Dec 2017
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has promised that pensioners and workers in the state’s public service would celebrate the coming end-of-the-year festivities...
30 Nov 2017
We are undoubtedly living in extra-ordinary times. The curtain was drawn eventually on the trial of Yewande Fatoki Oyediran, a member of staff in the Department of the Director...
28 Nov 2017
An Ibadan-based lawyer, Yewande Oyediran, was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment by an Oyo State High Court, for stabbing her husband to death on February 2, 2016.
14 Nov 2017
Retired primary school teachers in Oyo State yesterday protested what they described as the insensitivity of the state government to their unpaid retirement benefits.
11 Nov 2017
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has said that the opposition will be “silenced and finally buried” in the next council election, which he said would hold in the first quarter of next year.
5 Nov 2017
Two persons were crushed to death yesterday in Ibadan when a tipper truck conveying sharp sand reportedly suffered break failure along the Moniya-Iseyin road, Ibadan.
1 Nov 2017
A commercial motorcyclist, Adebisi Adesina, aged 43, committed suicide yesterday morning in Oke Seni area of Ibadan, Oyo State capital.