Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Wednesday signed the state’s revised budget of N174 billion for 2020 into law. The governor appended his signature on the document at a brief ceremony held at the Government House, Agodi in Ibadan. The reviewed budget was passed by the State House of Assembly for assent on July […]

GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State declared on Tuesday that he would keep ensuring that his appointments are made based on merit rather than ethnic and religious biases.

As he swears-in ex-NLC chair as Perm Sec, Governing Councils of state-owned tertiary institutions The Governor of Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde, declared on Tuesday that he would keep ensuring that his appointments are made based on merit rather than ethnic and religious biases. The governor, who stated this while performing the swearing-in ceremony of […]

By Dayo Johnson – Akure DESIROUS to go into the October 10 governorship poll as a united family after the primary, the Oyo state governor Seyi Makinde on Sunday met with the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN and other governorship aspirants seeking reconciliation. Vanguard gathered that governor Makinde […]

The Progressives Front (PF), a group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, says the proposed N100 billion bond being sought by Gov. Seyi Makinde is inimical to the state’s development. The group said this in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Olugbenga Olayemi, and Secretary, Wale Murphy, on Saturday in Ibadan. […]

AS a step towards ensuring food security and combating hunger in Oyo State, Governor Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, disclosed that his administration would remain steadfast and resolute in the pursuit to grow the state’s economy through agribusiness ventu

THE All Progressives Congress(APC) in Oyo State, yesterday, said it has uncovered fresh plots by Governor Seyi Makinde to add to the debt profile of the state through what it called needless borrowing of N100 billion styled bond by the governor to finance some projects.

THE All Progressives Congress(APC) in Oyo State, yesterday, said it has uncovered fresh plots by Governor Seyi Makinde to add to the debt profile of the state through what it called needless borrowing of N100 billion styled bond by the governor to finance some projects.

By Adeola Badru GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, in his bid to ensure a hygienic environment, has set up a new environmental task force with a view to curbing environmental nuisance and indiscriminate dumping of refuse in the state. This was disclosed on Monday, by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Dr Bashir Bello […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has confirmed that the state has recorded 2,106 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections. Out of these, he added that 1,080 tested negative and have been discharged. He disclosed this on his Twitter handle. Out of the number, he added that   22 people have died […]

By Adeola Badru GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, at the weekend, said his administration took the opportunity of the novel Coronavirus pandemic to strengthen the state’s health care facilities. The governor made this known at the commissioning of the upgraded Agbami Isolation Centre, Jericho, Ibadan. Makinde, while berating the previous administration’s non-commitment to enhanced […]

  By Bashiru Babatunde June 25, 2020, was a very sad day for many indigenes of Oyo State as the sad news of the death of Senator Abiola Ajimobi, immediate past governor of the state filtered in. Only last December when he turned 70, Ajimobi was full of life but he took ill as the […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has directed the execution of a drainage masterplan under the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project within the next 18 months. This came just as he hinted that victims of the flooding that happened on Tuesday would be relocated to a new site. The governor, […]

Gov.  Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has described the death of foremost Ibadan businessman and philanthropist, Chief Bode Akindele, as a great loss to the state and Nigeria as a whole. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the late Akindele died on Monday morning in Lagos, barely 24 hours after the burial of […]

WIFE of the late immediate past governor of Oyo State, Florence Ajimobi on Sunday attacked the deputy governor of the state, Engr Rauf Olaniyan, over Governor Seyi Makide’s noncommittal to Ajimobi’s bereaved family.