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       The Oyo State Government has called for the World Bank’s investment in its bid to achieve universal access to safe drinking water and mitigate the effects of climate change.   The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Water Corporation, Hon. Elias Adeojo recently made the call during a meeting with some officials of the Bank at the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP), Ikolaba, Ibadan.    He said the Oyo State government is investing strategically in building safe drinking water systems by not only increasing funding, but also putting in capacities to plan, coordinate, and regulate service provision.   Adeojo further revealed that provision of potable water is capital intensive but not profit oriented as the Corporation cannot charge the consumers for production cost.    Hon. Adeojo said, "the Oyo State Government has invested heavily on water facilities across the State but still require external support like grants from the Wor...

  Prophet Joseph Oyewole, the founder and General Overseer of Jesus Is Coming Back Evangelical Ministry, Ori-Oke Olorunsogo, Orile-Igbon, Surulere local government area of Oyo state, is dead. He died after a brief illness. Details later 

  An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ogbomoso has fixed October 3 for judgment in a suit filed by Prince Mohammed Kabir Olaoye to challenge the nomination of Prince Afolabi Ghandi Olaoye by the kingmakers as Soun of Ogbomoso. OGBOMOSO INFO recalls that the Soun of Ogbomoso stool became vacant as a result of the transition of Oba Jimoh Oyewumi on 12 December, 2021. Justice A.K. Adedokun fixed the judgment day after Olaoye’s counsel, Oladapo Atanda, and Kolawole Fatoye, who represented Ghandi and the kingmakers, adopted their processes and presented their arguments for and against the suit marked HOG/27/2022 and filed in July 2022. He asked that the court, among other reliefs, to set aside the nomination and to order a fresh process. The defendants in the case include the Oyo State governor, Attorney General in the state, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Ogbomoso North Local Government, Ogbomoso North Traditional Council and Prince Amos Olawole Olaoye (Mogaj...

    The Oyo state government has sealed FinRel Pharmacy Supermarket and Bakery, Ibadan for violating the Oyo State Veterinary Practicing Premises Registration Regulation 2018, Oyo State Private Veterinary Premises and Veterinary Establishment law, 2017 and Animal Diseases Control Act, 2022. Sealing the premises on Monday in Ibadan, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye said FinRel was operating an illegal veterinary pharmacy and engaging in Veterinary Clinical Services.    He also stated that this can put the health of members of the public in danger.   The Commissioner, speaking through the Deputy Director, (Monitoring), Dr. AbdulRrazzaq Lawal, said the move was in line with the Oyo State Government efforts to curtail and prevent the outbreak of diseases, adding that government would not relent in its effort to ensure safety of lives and properties.    Barrister Olasunkanmi stated that the move was not t...

  Saturday, August 19, was a day Rebecca Oyedotun, would have been one of her happiest day in life, the day every member of her family have been praying to witness, a day when she would have tied the nutpial knot with the man she chose to spend the rest of her life with but alas her dream of marriage did not come to pass. Everything was already in place, Virtually all arrangements have been concluded, some members of the groom family from have arrived Ogbomoso waiting for Saturday when their son Abiodun Oluwadamilare would be joined together with Rebecca Oyedotun as husband and wife but the unexpected happened. At about 10:30p.m. on Friday when the 28 year-old Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State graduate and her friends were having the bridal shower ceremony and she reportedly slumped and was rushed to LAUTECH Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso she was revived and but her condition did not did not stable until she gave up the host Sunday morning. “Everything was s...

                  Michael Olu Abi Coker   Fast-rising digital media company Moac Global Media, a news and entertainment service provider, based in Ibadan, is set to launch its online radio service.   According to its Proprietor and CEO, Mr. Michael Olu Abi Coker, the media outfit seeks to satisfy its teeming audience with new contents at the dial of a button on their devices.   He said the media outfit has concluded preparations to kick-start Power365 FM for listeners in the country and the diaspora.   Mr. Coker said listeners can access the live audio feed for Power365FM, an expansion of MOACTV through a simple download of its app from any mobile phone.   He said the new online platform will live stream events, while interactive content, where listeners can call in, will be made available too.   The CEO added that listeners will also have an option of switching to MOACTV on the same app, after download, whi...

  The Oyo State House of Assembly has called on Governor Seyi Makinde to harness the international business potentials of cashew in Ogbomoso zone by establishing a processing factory or industry for the plant in the area The call was made by the House while deliberating on a motion brought before it by member representing Oriire State Constituency in Ogbomoso, Hon Johnson Ogundele.  The House appealed to the State Government to incorporate Oriire Local Government and the entire Ogbomosoland in its Agricbusiness policy and initiative.  Hon Johnson Ogundele while presenting the motion recalled that one of the requests put before Governor Seyi Makinde during his second term electioneering campaign by the people of his Constituency was for the State Government to help establish a Cashew processing factory in the area.  The motion revealed that the volume of cashew plantation and production in Oriire Local Government and Ogbomoso as a whole is higher than in any other sta...

                             Seyi Makinde The 15-man Palliative Committee on Sustainable Action for Economic Recovery (SAfER) has assured residents of Oyo state that it will start disbursement of palliatives soon. The Committee, headed by the Chief of Staff, Hon. Segun Ogunwuyi has divided itself into 5 sub-committees to fast-track the implementation of the palliatives, as directed by the Governor Seyi Makinde. This is contained in a statement signed by the Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade on Tuesday in Ibadan. Ogunwuyi said the state government was not unaware of the anticipation by citizens to benefit from the palliatives promised by Governor Seyi Makinde to mitigate the impact of the removal of fuel subsidy. The 5 sub-committees are: Sub-Committee on Transportation headed by Alh. Gafar Bello; Sub-Committee on Food Palliatives headed by Hon. Segun Olayiwola. Other sub-committees...

    ...Trains 73 Schools on Livestock, Snailery, Crop Farming   The Oyo State Government has reiterated its policy thrust to develop sports at the primary level, saying its pupils will soon dominate sporting events at the National level.   The Co-ordinating Director, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Mr. Jacob Dairo made this known at the distribution of sporting equipment donated by Oyo State Government, in collaboration with Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) to 82 primary Schools held at the Board's headquarters, on Tuesday.   Mr. Dairo said that the Board is not only poised to restore the leading position by the state in primary sporting activities, but to take school sports to an enviable height in Nigeria.   He revealed that benefitting schools got sporting equipment such as Handball goalposts and net, skipping ropes, table-tennis bats and nets, handballs, Badminton rackets and other equipment distributed to schools in the 3 Senatori...

  By Festus Adedayo  Yoruba have a way with the Sigidi, whose closest modern translation is the robot. So when the Sigidi – a moulded clay effigy – at the height of its self-destruct, asks that it be taken to the river to swim, Yoruba say a catastrophe is in the offing. They render this as, Sigidi nse’re ete, o ni ki won gbe’hun l’odo lo we. Just as the modern robot is credited with the power to take some human actions, the Sigidi too, in the belief of the Yoruba, could. It was one of the insignias of operation of the babalawo. It is puttied all over by clay that is easily dissoluble in water. So, for the Sigidi to ask to be taken to go swim is an invitation to destruction. Those days when African military generals prepared to embark on war expeditions, they began to manifest queer, supra-human and impenetrable behavior. They recoiled from the world and its realities, wore frightening, fearsome visages and immersed themselves in huge pots of metaphysical liquid preparations Yo...