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Senator AbdulFatai Buhari is a man of integrity, that has contributed to the human development through his various empowerment and humanitarian schemes since he ventured into active politics, but it is strange and embarrassing that he abandoned his constituency project that could have been utilized for the great benefit of youths and students of Ogbomoso South Local Government Area of Oyo State, in this digital age. In 2003, BAF as popularly called put smile on the faces of people(parents and students) through the scholarship scheme for his constituency. He paid the National Examination Council (NECO)fees for all the SSS 3 students in Ogbomoso South,North,Orire Federal Constituency when he was representing the constituency at the green chamber in Abuja, an effort which is laudable and great. This gesture suppose to be consolidated in this era. Buhari,as the Chairman,Senate Committee of ICT and Cybercrime,built an ICT center during his first tenure as Senator of the Federal Rep...

Commercial operators in Oyo State have been granted an extension of two weeks to comply with the state law instructing them to paint their vehicles in the colour of the state for commercial purposes. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority, (OYRTMA),Dr Akin Fagbemi stated this while speaking with newsmen in his Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan.  Dr Fagbemi said the step became necessary due to pleas from commercial operators for their inability to meet up with the two weeks ultimatum earlier granted them across the state. Dr Fagbemi while pleading with the operators to comply within the stipulated time advised them to take advantage of the government’s subsidy on the cost of painting in the agency as against what is obtainable elsewhere.

In response to the exodus of his party chieftains and members to People’s Democratic Party, ADC governorship candidate, Senator Olufemi Solagbade Lanleyin has affirmed his membership commitment in ADC and described the ADC party members who had ported to PDP as citizens exercising their civil right. In a release available to press on Tuesday, Senator Lanlehin explained that, in a situation where there is freedom of association, he as a ADC chieftain his not ruling out his future association with other political parties, groups or camps. PRESS STATEMENT LANLEHIN REMAINS IN ADC Events of the last 12 hours, wherein fellow compatriots in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Oyo State Chapter, have elected to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has necessitated that Senator Olufemi Lanlehin (SOLAN), clears the air, particularly to defray all rumours and innuendos, as well as assuage the feelings of fellow stakeholders, numerous supporters, loyalists and well...

The  National Youth Service Corps  (NYSC) has abruptly ended activities at orientation camps across the country. The Batch A orientation camps for graduates started last week, March 10, and were supposed to last for 21 days. Corps members in the camps were, however, shocked when they were told in the middle of the night that the camps had closed and they were all to receive their letters to places of primary assignment. The corps members said they were told this was due to the coronavirus crisis. We started receiving letters to our places of primary assignment at about 1a.m. today, a corps member serving in Gombe told  PREMIUM TIMES . Another serving in Plateau said they started receiving theirs very early on Wednesday. The decision may have been influenced by yesterday’s resolution of the presidential task force that large public gatherings should be discouraged across the country. The task force also banned foreign trips for public of...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111 on Tuesday urged Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo state and Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State to cede the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso to one state and end the joint ownership agreement of the university. Alaafin who gave this advice while receiving members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Oyo state Council led by its Chairman, Alhaji Ademola Babalola in his palace, maintained that there is no way two states can manage a university successfully in Nigeria. The university, which is currently owned by both Oyo and Osun states was established in the early 90s and has been in ownership crises in the last few years. But, Alaafin while speaking on the array of issues including the LAUTECH crisis, ongoing ASUU warning strike among others, insists that the best way to solve the crisis at LAUTECH Is to end the joint ownership agreement of the university by the two states. Oba Adeyemi added that...

The Immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and Bulama have been inaugurated as deputy national chairman and national secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC. At the event were the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Victor Giadom; and the APC National Vice Chairman (North West) are among early callers at the APC National Working Committee meeting scheduled for 12 noon. The NWC had on Monday night scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, to be presided by its national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole. The announcement of the meeting came a few hours after the President, Muhammadu Buhari approved the postponement of the party’s planned National Executive Committee. The Court of Appeal in Abuja had on Monday halted the March 4 verdict of the Abuja High Court suspending Oshiomhole as the party’s National Chairman. A three-member panel of the appeal court led by Abubakar Yahaya ordered a stay of execu...

Former Oyo State deputy governor, Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja alongside 2019 gubernatorial aspirant of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Engineer Remi Oseni on Thursday defected to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Arapaja who is Nigeria’s former ambassador to Jordan made this known on Tuesday, after closed doors meeting with the Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde and former Osun State governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. Speaking , Arapaja revealed that he’s happy to be back to where he belongs, adding that it is like returning home to support the present administration in Oyo State. He said, “it is like returning home, and that is exactly where we belong. We just believe that we need to work together with the present administration under Engineer Seyi Makinde and move the state forward.” Other stakeholders who followed Arapaja to the PDP are former Oyo State House of Assembly Minority Leader, Mr Akeem Ademola Ige; former Chairman, Ibadan No...