Makinde approves promotion, payment of gratuity for 97 officers dismissed by Ajimobi’s administration
GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, yesterday, approved the promotion and payment of civil servants dismissed in 2012, by the immediate-past administration who were recalled by the present administration.
Calming storm after Ajimobi: Why Makinde should sheathe sword
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 […]
Flood Disaster: Oyo govt to relocate victims
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, […]
Oyo loses foremost industrialist as Makinde mourns
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 […]
Ajimobi’s death: Wife fumes over Makinde’s noncommittal to family’s agony
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.
ONDO 2020: Makinde, Mimiko in closed-door meeting ahead of governorship poll
GOVERNOR Seyi Makinde of Oyo state weekend met with the immediate past governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko ahead of the October governorship election in the state.
Oyo council member tests positive, 169 discharged after testing negative
The Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has confirmed that one of the two inconclusive COVID-19 results for members of the Oyo State Executive Council, has returned positive after a retest was carried out. This is just as the Governor, who is also the chairman of the COVID-19 task force of the state confirmed that about […]
Delay in Ajimobi’s burial: This wicked lie must stop ― Oyo govt
The Oyo State Government has strongly denied insinuations that it is responsible for the delay in burying the immediate past governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who died on Thursday. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the insinuations amounted to a wicked lie. The […]
EDO 2020: Governors Bala Mohammed, Makinde lead PDP primary committee
Secondus, Makarfi, Mark, Nwodo in Primary appeal panel By Clifford Ndujihe TO ensure a fair and credible governorship primary in Edo on Thursday, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has set up a five-man committee led by Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed. He will be assisted by […]
Oyo Govt apprehends father for assault on 7-yr-old daughter
Oyo State Government on Friday said it had rescued a seven-year-old girl who had been a victim of physical abuse, torture, and assault by her father. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Inclusion, Alhaja Faosat Sanni, in a statement in Ibadan on Friday, described the incident as an inhuman treatment meted out to an innocent […]
Over N1bn loss: Filling station manager counts loss over Makinde’s demolition
THE General Manager, Assets Oil, and Gas, Ojoo in Ibadan, Okediji Adekunle, on Wednesday said the owner of the company lost over N1 billion to what he called, unjustifiable demolition of the filling station.
