The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission is set to arraign the Oyo State Commissioner for Commerce and Cooperative, Dr. Kola Balogun, and his wife, Gbonjubola, for corruption. The couple has since 2007 initiated a legal battle to prevent their trial by the body. According to a statement signed by the ICPC’s […]
THE bribery allegation leveled against the Presiding Judge, Justice Jonathan Shakarho who vacated a restraining order against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognizing Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala as the nominated candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State. has excused himself form handling the case. Justice Shakarho of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, […]
Until one asked what made hundreds of women, who held their chests in fear, running almost naked to various public primary schools in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, demanding the release of their children and wards by teachers, one would have thought the city had been run over by some heavily armed warriors. The situation […]
THE coast became clear for the Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole and the Oyo State governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, to contest the April elections on the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, as the Speaker’s name was substituted for the name of Mr Segun Alawode. This is just as the […]
There was pandemonium in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital as thousands of panic-stricken parents besieged public schools in the metropolis to withdraw their children, following rumours that some pupils died after eating meal allegedly poisoned but provided free by the Adebayo Alao-Akala government. The poison scare was coming even as the rumour mills went abuzz that […]
The Peoples Democratic Party may not field candidates in Oyo and Anambra states during the April general elections as the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday rejected the lists of candidates from the states. Investigations by our correspondents showed that the commission rejected the list from Oyo because the state chapter of the PDP […]
STALLS and shops close to the notorious Ojoo roundabout in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Tuesday, went up in flames, leaving three people, including a woman, with varying degrees of burns. More than 150 stalls, shops, shop-containers and goods worth millions of naira and two vehicles were destroyed in the inferno which […]
More facts have emerged on why the Oyo State government failed to demolish the state secretariat of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the Olomi area of Ibadan, the state capital, on Thursday. Although the authorities had mobilized a team, comprising officials of the state Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State on Wednesday said it rejected three commercials submitted by the Senator Rashidi Ladoja Campaign Organisation because the contents of the materials were “abrasive and capable of attracting replies from aggrieved parties.” The station said it rejected the campaign materials sent by Ladoja, who is the Accord Party’s governorship candidate, […]
Adewale T. Akande, Barcelona, Spain – Jan. 15, 2011 – The recent political imbroglio in Oyo State that caused the gruesome murder of the dismissed Chairman of the state National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Salako (aka Elewe-omo) and two other party men in a local government congress of the People Democratic Party calls […]
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