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ORANMIYAN FESTIVAL CONTROVERSY: Alaafin dares Ooni

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Sunday, September 9th, 2012

By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN AS the controversy over the celebration of Oranmiyan deity rages between the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, and the people of Ile-Ife in Osun State, the monarch has decided to go on with the celebration irrespective of the disapproval from Ile-Ife. Though, Alaafin has decided to keep mum over the […]

Tears, sorrow as fire guts Ibadan market

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Traders at Labaowo Market, Ogunpa, in Ibadan North West Local Government of Oyo State were on Wednesday thrown into confusion and sorrow when a section of the market was razed by fire. Wailings of the traders generated emotions as little could be done to salvage some of their belongings. It was learnt by our […]

NNP’s statement on the brutalization of its columnist by soldiers

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]

NNP columnist brutalized by errant soldiers in Ibadan

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, Oyo, State News Sunday, July 29th, 2012

What looked like a normal day in Ibadan, Oyo State, turned out to be a nightmare in the early hours of 22nd of July 2012 at around 2.30am when about six soldiers of the Nigeria Army in uniform attached to the PHCN Capital Building at Ring Road Ibadan went berserk on an unprovoked savage […]

Car thieves invade Ibadan Poly •Steal 6 vehicles in one day •Police stall robbery attack in Osogbo

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, Oyo, State News Friday, June 15th, 2012

THERE was confusion at the North campus of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday, as no fewer than six cars were stolen before dawn. The vehicles, according to a source, were three Honda cars, Honda CRV, Nissan Primera and Peugeot. The robbers, numbering about 12, were suspected to have arrived on the campus on […]

Oyo sacks 3,000 workers for forgery

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

June 11, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade, Ibadan Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi | credits: Oyo State Government said on Sunday that it had sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification among other offences. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said the workers were sacked to […]

Tragedy Again On Lagos/Ibadan Expressway: Tanker fire burns 24 vehicles

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

By Daud Olatunji It was another tragic day on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, yesterday, as 24 vehicles were burnt after an articulated vehicle carrying fuel fell and caught fire. In the resultant gridlock, thousands of passengers, including the wife of the governor of Oyo State, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, and a former deputy speaker of Ogun State House […]

Alao-Akala: Judge rejects EFCC’s private prosecutor

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines, Oyo, State News Friday, May 25th, 2012

Date: Fri, 05/25/2012 – 14:53 Justice Akintunde Boade of the Oyo State High Court yesterday in Ibadan said it was unconstitutional for the EFCC lead counsel, Chief Godwin Oblah, to engage a private prosecutor to represent him in court proceedings. The judge was giving a ruling in the alleged N11.5 billion scam suit instituted by […]

Oyo floats endowment fund for Yekini’s children

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, Soccer, Sports, State News Monday, May 7th, 2012

The Oyo State government has set up an endowment fund for children of the late Nigerian ex-international, Rashidi Yekini. This was made known yesterday after the state executive council meeting by the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Hon Dapo Lam-Adesina. According to him, the endowment fund, which will be strictly for the children of the […]

Crime flashpoints in Ibadan uncovered

Posted by admin Oyo, State News Saturday, April 14th, 2012

April 14, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade Residents of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, have witnessed a surge in crime in the last few months. During that period, there was an increase in armed robbery attacks, political violence, rape, bloody feuds within the local transport unions, carjacking and other criminal activities. The development led to […]