Seyi Makinde
26 May 2024
The trio of Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos); Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo) will mark the first year anniversaries of their second terms in office on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. While both Sanwo-Olu and Abiodun...
19 May 2024
Olubadan designate, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, has expressed confidence about his medical, spiritual and physical fitness and readiness to be enthroned as the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland.
19 May 2024
Many residents were excited and commended Oyo State government for partially opening the reconstructed Olodo Bridge for vehicular movement.
10 May 2024
Hundreds of illegal structures, including shops, kiosks, warehouses and makeshift stalls were, yesterday, demolished at the popular Ojoo Market, in the Akinyele Local Council of Oyo State.
7 May 2024
Makinde, Adeleke, others move to unite Ondo PDP tendencies GOVERNORS Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Ademola Adeleke (Osun) among other Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders and elders, at a stakeholders meeting held in Ibadan capital of Oyo State on Monday, have expressed confidence that the party would defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in…
29 Apr 2024
The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo have stated that for any country to achieve economic stability, growth, and food security, there must be a collaborative approach. Speaking at the Agribusiness for food security initiative held at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Makinde emphasised that collaboration and…
29 Apr 2024
Candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have won all 33 chairmanship and councillorship positions of the council elections held across the state, at the weekend.
28 Apr 2024
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 28 election in Oyo State, Teslim Folarin, has accused Governor Seyi Makinde and the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC) of perpetrating electoral fraud. Folarin, in a tweet on Sunday, denounced the recent local government elections in the state as a "charade." “What…
28 Apr 2024
The 2024 local council elections held in Oyo State, yesterday, was marred with ‘unprecedented’ low turnout of voters despite the participation of 19 political parties.
26 Apr 2024
A professional group, Omituntun Initiative in the Diaspora (OID), has expressed its solidarity with the Oyo State government and condemned unequivocally the heinous invasion of the Governor's office and the State House of Assembly by the criminal elements of Yoruba Nation agitators recently.
25 Apr 2024
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, yesterday, said his successor in 2027 from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) must be between the age bracket of 50 and 52 years of age.
14 Apr 2024
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has commiserated with the President, Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, over the death of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Areola Oke.