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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
-Punch The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begun investigation into allegations of forgery, fraudulent conversion and obtaining the sum of N400m by false pretence against Mr. Adeyeye Ogunwusi and his firm, Metropole Interproject Limited. Ogunwusi is one of the contestants for the vacant stool of the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Osun State. In a petition […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Oyo, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Katsina (right) and some officers of the state command at the fake currency factory. | credits: NAN ADVERTISEMENT The Oyo State Police Command has discovered a place in a remote village of Ibadan, where thousands of fake pounds, euros, dollars and other foreign currencies were being […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Corp Marshal, FRSC, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi Seven passengers reportedly died while 23 others were injured in a multiple accident which occurred at Danco filling station area along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday. It was gathered that those that died were four males and three females. The accident, our correspondent learnt, involved four vehicles – a […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Ekiti, Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, State News
Friday, January 9th, 2015
By Clifford Ndujihe & Dapo Akinrefon With states like Ekiti (E), Lagos (L), Ogun (O), Ondo (O), Osun (O) and Oyo (O), the six South-West states can also be described as ELOOOO states. The word elo in Yoruba, the indigenous language of South-westerners, means how much. The issue of elo or how much will play […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Armed Forces, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Oyo, State News
Friday, January 2nd, 2015
By Adewale T. Akande | Barcelona, Spain | Jan. 2, 2014 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GOOD PEOPLE OF OYO STATE Good day and compliment of the season to all sons and daughters of Oyo State. Precisely on the 3rd of February this year, Oyo State clocked 38 years. In 1976, our able State was […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
The Lagos State Police Command has detained two Fulani herdsmen, Mohammed Umar and Manu Hassan, for allegedly robbing motorists on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Our correspondent learnt that Umar and Hassan, who were herdsmen from the Ngaski area of Kebbi State, were arrested by soldiers attached to the OP MESA while they were robbing some people. […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Nasarawa, Ogun, Oyo, Party Politics, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Top Stories, Yobe, Zamfara
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Tambuwal, Ambode, others win APC governorship ticket FOR the All Progressives Congress the 2015 contests got underway on Thursday with state chapters electing their governorship candidates. The APC governorship candidates for the 2015 polls, as they emerged on Thursday, include Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto); a Fellow of the Institute […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Oyo, Patience Jonathan, State News
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Ben Agande, Abuja. The first Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has said that she is neither an elected official of government nor a member of the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party as such could not have directed that a former governor of Oyo state, Rasheed Ladoja be accomodated by the party in the state. […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Sunday, October 12th, 2014
The scene of the incident | credits: Photo: Olufemi Atoyebi At least 11 people lost their lives while several others sustained varying degrees of burns after a tanker laden with petrol burst in flames around Molete Market, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. An employee of the Nigerian Tribune, Mr. Samson Oyewole, and an eight year-old girl […]