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The Onpetu Of Ijeru, Oba Sunday Oyediran, Lagbami Osekun 111 led the ijeru kingdom on friday to celebrate the 2020 Odun Oba festival (formerly Odoje festival) with prayers, praise and worship. This year is 180th edition of the festival. The Odun Oba festival was a traditional event that is remarkable because it was celebrated in a Christian way. The festival was a medium to showcase the rich culture blended with Christianity in Ijeru kingdom, Ogbomoso south, Oyo state. The 2020 Odun Oba festival held on friday in Orile Oje, with the Onpetu wearing the “Aare crown” couple with the power of God to prayer for people who graced the festival, which has become yearly holy pilgrimage in the kingdom.The monarch used the occasion to offer prayers in the name of Jesus for people, Ijeru Kingdom, Oyo state and Nigeria and also offer praise and worship to the king of kings on the altar of praise. Indeed, thousands of relatives, well-wishers and princes and princesses of Ijeru Kingdo...

Oyo State Government on Friday said that two suspected cases of corona virus in the state speculated in some media reports tested negative. The two cases, according to the government, did not even test positive to any of coronavirus or Lassa fever, and the suspects who were earlier quarantined are improving health-wise. The government also said the state was on high alert following the confirmed case in neighbouring Lagos State. The government spoke through the state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, while responding to questions from journalists during a press conference to update the media on the efforts of the government at ensuring that the virus did not enter into the state. Saying the press conference became imperative in view of the proximity of Lagos to Ibadan, Bello said the state had deployed adequate resources to its facilities in case of unforeseen circumstances. Stressing that no case of the corona or Lassa fever virus had been reported in the s...

Popular Ogbomoso  photographer, Mr Fagbemi Bukola Olaoye popularly known as Bukky Gold is dead. Mr Fagbemi who has been missing for the past two weeks was later confirmed to have died in a motor accident when coming from Lagos to Ogbomoso. According to a reliable source, 'Bukky Gold' went to Lagos exactly two weeks ago to cover a programme and he has gone missing since then. Since Saturday January 25, all his three lines was said to have been switched off. He left Ogbomoso for Lagos on Friday, January 24, 2020.

At the 16th induction ceremony of the university at its College of Health Sciences in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Friday, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Michael Olufisayo Ologunde, announced that the university had offered an automatic employment to the best graduating medical student in the 2018/2019 academic session, Dr. Rachael Aderonke Kolawole. The VC, who disclosed that Kolawole was employed as lecturer ll, promised that LAUTECH will continue to appreciate and recognize hard work. Fifty two graduates of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso were on Friday inducted as medical doctors. Ologunde further promised that LAUTECH will not relent to produce the best manpower for Nigeria, saying what “the nation demands from us as an educational institutions of world class standard is that cultivate the habit of commitment because we pride ourselves in excellence, integrity and service.” In attendance at the ceremony were the Regist...

  Lawmakers in the Houses of Assembly of the six south west states have in consensus rejected the request by leaders of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) to recruit its members into Amotekun, a security structure established by the southwest governors. Some state Assemblies though allowed the participation of MACBAN in the stakeholders public hearing, none of the states accepted the incorporation of MACBAN in the Amotekun operations. Ekiti State House of Assembly was the first to pass the Amotekun bill. Ondo and other states have got to advanced stage of legislation on Amotekun. However, it was gathered that the Speakers of the six State Assemblies could not reach a consensus at the meeting of Speakers in Ibadan on Thursday, which was convened to harmonise the Amotekun bill across the various states. It was gathered Miyetti Allah leaders, at the public hearing of the Oyo State House of Assembly, declared support for the establishment o...

Lagos APC Publicity Secretary, Mr Seye Oladejo,has reacted to the statement credited to Oyo state Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde that the All Progressive Congress, APC, should be ready for eviction in the state.  In a swift reaction, Oladejo said, “My candid advice to Governor Makinde is this Igbo proverb that ‘those whose palm kernels were broken for them by some benevolent spirit should learn to be humble.’ His Excellency is apparently still excited that he managed to attain his dream office after series of electoral defeats. “He needs not forget that he leveraged on the storm in the Oyo state APC family. However, his lack of experience in governance at any level has become apparent with nine months of false starts and lack of developmental ideas. It will take more than the still-born unity among gangsters to take Lagos State from the path of progressive governance.” Chairman, Reconciliation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Governor of Oyo Stat...

By Dapo Ogunwusi The   scenario in Oyo State has been an enduring strip tease. New factors keep emerging as you are about to live down the previous fare. From such a rich fauna of content, a patriot must always find topic for concern. A debate that was almost getting swallowed by the mire of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) spat is the issue raised by Governor Seyi Makinde himself about the claim by his predecessor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, that he had calibrated a modern system of governance in the state. Makinde pointed at the state of the state to insist that there was nothing modern or glorious about the way the state has been run in the last eight years. I must not fail to award Ajimobi his diadem in history. He is the only fellow in the history of Oyo State to break the second term jinx. Ara Ibadan kii sin eniyan lemeji (Ibadan don’t worship a man twice). That was the legacy that stood before Ajimobi. In doing that, one must ignore the fact ...

On Wednesday night, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) received another batch of 116 Nigerians who volunteered to be repatriated back to Nigeria from Libya. They arrived at the Cargo Wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, late hour Wednesday via Al Buraq Air Boeing 737 Aircraft with flight number UZ 188/26 and registration number 5A-DMG-MJI. One of the returnees, who identified herself as Sola Adeleke, 38 years old, appealed to the Federal Government to deal decisively with human traffickers who mislead Nigerians with fake information on greener pastures outside the country. Adeleke, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo State, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the traffickers subjected their victims to inhuman treatment they would never expose their own children to. The returnee, narrating her ordeal, said she dropped out of school at primary four, adding that her mother approached a neighbour who was known to be helping young...

The government of Oyo State said on Thursday that no life was lost in the attack on the Ibadan Municipal Grammar School, Oke-Bola, Ibadan by yet-to-be-identified hoodlums. A statement by the State’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, which was endorsed by the Commissioner, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye, indicated that the administration would take proactive measures to curb cases of frequent clashes between hoodlums and students of its public schools. The statement quoted the Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mrs. Olabisi Oderinde, who visited the scene of the incident as refuting the report that the clash was between IMG school students and those of Oke-Bola Comprehensive High school. She added that contrary to reports in some sections of the media, no student died during the clash. According to Oderinde, one Usman Olalere, a Senior Secondary School 3 student of IMG school had convulsion during the clash but that he has since re...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Thursday that his administration has started reaching out to former office holders in the state, who have been discovered to have withheld state’s resources, to return same or risk being reported to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC). The Governor, who gave the hint while receiving the chairman of ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye and his management team in his office, said that the state government “expects that the former office holders would cooperate with it and return funds traced to them.” A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted the governor as saying: “We are not here to witch-hunt the past administration or individuals. That is probably why you (ICPC) have not seen a lot of petitions coming from us. But as we have progressed, what we have seen is that some of the resources were mismanaged. “We have been talking to t...

  The Chairman, Reconciliation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, yesterday, said with the move to reconcile aggrieved party members in Lagos State, the All Progressives Congress, APC, should be ready to evict the state. Governor Makinde said this at a reconciliation parley with stakeholders of the party held the Lugard office of Chief Bode George in Lagos. Also present at the meeting were former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori; former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Senator Koforola Bucknor-Akerele; former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Bode George, former Second Republic Transport Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope and others. Addressing newsmen after a closed door meeting, Governor Makinde described the meeting as “mission accomplished.” He said: “As you can see it was mission accomplished. My father (Bode George) and I were able to resolve some of the issue...

Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, OYSROMA, has announced its readiness to collaborate with all the Local Government and Local Council Development Authorities, LCDA administrations in the State on road rehabilitation in order to foster accelerated execution of road repairs in the rural areas. The Chairman, Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, OYSROMA, Hon. Kamil Akinlabi Mudashiru, made this known during the touring of the agency to zonal operational offices at Ibarapa, Oke-Ogun, Oyo and Ogbomoso zones on Thursday. Akinlabi, who was in company of the board members like Hon. Siju Lawal, representing Oyo North Senatorial District, Hon. Matthew Akano from Oyo South Senatorial District, the General Manager, Engr. Mrs Modinat Oduola and management staff of the agency, hinted that the cooperation and support of the local government areas and Local Council Development Authorities as well as the local communities could not be underestimated in planning and execution of road rehabilitati...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Olayiwola Adeyemi lll, has said no amount of spiritual incantation or use of concoctions can cure cancer. Adeyemi said this in his palace when Wife of the Ondo State Governor, Betty Akeredolu, led members of the Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN) on a courtesy visit. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the visit was to thank him for the enormous support given to the BRECAN members in Oyo State during the 2020 World Cancer Day celebration. “No amount of spiritual incantation, concoctions or climbing of prayer mountains that can curb it except periodical medical check-ups and self-examination, which will go a long way in reducing the mortality rate,” the monarch said. He assured Akeredolu of his continuous support to fight breast cancer through consistent and aggressive awareness. Adeyemi said his sister is a victim of the disease and she is still receiving treatment at University College Hospital Ibadan. “She survived it through...

A Bill for an Act to establish the South West Development Commission sailed through second reading in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Sequel to the overwhelming support enjoyed by the bill sponsored by the Speaker, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila alongside 81 other lawmakers across party lines, it was referred to the House Committee on Justice for further legislative action. Some of the lawmakers who spoke in support of the bill include Majority Chief Whip, Hon. Mohammed Monguno; Majority Deputy Chief Whip, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha; Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta); Hon. Henry Nwawuba (PDP-Imo); Hon. Shehu Koko; Hon. Nasir Ahmed (APC-Kano). The lawmakers who affirmed that Lagos State located in the South-West geo-political zone of the country, is the commercial nerve of the country, expressed optimism that the Commission, when set up, would impact on the development of the region and the country at large. As stipulated in Clause 1(3) of the bill: The Commission...

A pupil of IMG Grammar School, Oke-Bola, Ibadan was on Wednesday feared dead while some others were injured during a clash between pupils of the school and those of Oke-Bola Comprehensive High School. Students of the two schools, which are located on the same street, are suspected to be members of rival cult groups, making them clash regularly. According to The Nation,A lawyer, whose office is located near the school, said that the pupils have been clashing daily as from 1:30 pm for several years. He said the pupils started Wednesday’s clash at about the same time but decided to attack some people whose workshops and offices are near the schools, vandalizing their vehicles. He said they specifically attacked an auto-technician workshop near their school. By the time the attack was over, over 10 vehicles have been vandalized. The eye witness said he expected a reprisal attack from pupils of IMG today (Thursday) having suffered a loss on Wednesday. The victim is thought...

The Media Office of the Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has described as false, unfounded and baseless, insinuations being circulated online by someone described as a contractor who had alleged that the state committed intellectual property theft against him in respect of the newly inaugurated Park Management Systems, PMS. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, declared that the claim by the said contractor, Moxharley Nigeria Limited, was baseless and untrue, noting that the Oyo State Government decided to set the records straight, having observed that the said contractor has started orchestrating enormous falsehood and arrant lies in an attempt to drag the name of the state and governor into unwholesome controversy. The statement read: “We will place on record that the said claim of 'intellectual property theft' is hollow, unfounded and merely the orchestrated noise of a misguided claimant. “It was discover...

Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, declared that his administration has been deepening the war against corruption in the state. The governor, who stated this during the commissioning of the Oyo State branch office of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), maintained that upon the realization that his government’s focus to transform the state through the four service point agenda would not succeed if corruption was allowed to retain its hold on the system, it took the fight against corruption seriously. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the governor was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun. According to the governor, the open declaration of his assets, which was beyond the requirement of the 1999 Constitution, as amended; presentation and signing into law of the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Bill, and the inclusive budg...