MTN Nigeria, a telecoms service provider, has launched its ‘Go Make A Difference’ (Go M.A.D) campaign in Ibadan, to inspire Nigerians to take action for community development. MTN Southwest’s Regional Manager for Customer Operations, Adebajo Onafowa, spoke at the event on Saturday. He emphasised that the aim was to...
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Wife of the former Ondo State Governor, Dr Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has called for greater female representation in Nigeria’s state and national assemblies to promote gender equality. Anyanwu-Akeredolu, the founder of the BEMORE Empowered Girls Foundation, made the call in Ibadan on Saturday during an event organised by the foundation...
By OLA MODUPE, Ibadan – Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde will receive Sierra Leone’s President Julius Bio in Ibadan on Monday. The Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Dr Suleimon Olanrewaju, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday in Ibadan. The statement revealed that President Bio will visit the Fasola...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 55-year-old fake doctor, Moyosore Johnson, in a correctional centre for allegedly causing the death of a woman. Johnson, whose address was not provided, was arraigned on a four-count charge bothering on conspiracy and accelerating cause of death....
Property worth millions of Naira were destroyed on Sunday in Ibadan during a fire incident which ravaged a one-storey building with 10 rooms and three shops. The inferno destroyed household goods worth millions of Naira, while equipment in the shops were also completely ruined. The News Agency of Nigeria...
Catholic Bishops in Africa and Madagascar have called for prayer and fasting to address conflicts across the continent. The bishops, under the umbrella of the Standing Committee of Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), made the call in a statement in Ibadan on Monday. The News...
The Catholic Bishops of Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to be agents of hope in their activities by being “Good Samaritans” to one another. The bishops, in a communique issued at the end of their meeting in Ibadan, urged Nigerians to be driven by the words...
By OLA MODUPE , Ibadan – FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has paid a condolence visit to the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, in Ibadan today, over the death of his elder brother, Sunday Makinde. He was accompanied by former Governors Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom as well as Senators...
By OLA MODUPE , Ibadan – Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced one Olayiwola Oguntade to prison for fraud. Oguntade, a former staff member of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of...
Oyo State Government on Monday in Ibadan said the coronation of Abimbola Owoade as the 46th Alaafin of Oyo would hold on April 5. The state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Mr Ademola Ojo, disclosed this while inaugurating a 25-man coronation committee. The News Agency of Nigeria...
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has declared that the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to back Mr Sunday Ude-Okoye as the party’s National Secretary remained valid. Governor Lawal stated this on Sunday in Ibadan, when he paid a condolence visit to Gov. Seyi Makinde, over the demise...
The Oyo State Fire Service on Sunday said it recovered the body of a 45-year old man from a well at First Women Estate in Akala area of Ibadan. The General Manager of the Fire Service, Mr Yemi Akinyinka, confirmed the incident in a statement made available to newsmen...
A businesswoman, Oluwatoyin Oguntade, on Tuesday told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan to end to her eight year-old relationship with her estranged husband, Olufemi, on Grounds of wasteful spending and frequent battery. Oguntade, a mother of two, lamented how Olufemi sometime lured her into his other...
Kingmakers in Oyo Town on Friday rejected Gov. Seyi Makinde’s appointment of Prince Abimbola Owoade as the new Alaafin of Oyo. The kingmakers, in a letter signed by their legal representative, Adekunle Sobalolu, and addressed to the state governor, declared the appointment of Owoade as null and void; illegal...
Justice Kamorudeen Olawoyin of an Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday adjourned ruling on bail application to Monday in the trial over the stampede in Ibadan in December. Ex-Queen Naomi Silekunola, a broadcaster, Oriyomi Hazmat and a school Principal, Abiodun Fasasi are being prosecuted by the...
The Chairman of Oyo State Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Apostle Joshua Akinyemiju, has urged the Federal Government to implement business-friendly policies to grow the nation’s economy in 2025. Akinyemiju gave the advice in his New Year message made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan...
Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said that the Nigerian Police Force is to be blamed for the deaths of 115 Nigerians during the recent food stampedes in Ibadan, Abuja and Anambra States. Falana stated this in Akure, Ondo state capital while delivering a...
Human Right Activist and Lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN, has urged the Federal Government to compensate the families of those involved in the recent stampedes in parts of the country. Falana stated this on Friday in Akure during a programme organised by the Ondo State Government tagged Akeredolu Leadership...
President Bola Tinubu has felicitated Nigerians on the Christmas celebration, saying the country is on the path to restoration and progress. The President in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday urged the citizens to pray for the nation’s leaders at all levels. “On this joyous Christmas Day, I...
President Bola Tinubu on Monday said that the stampedes recently experienced during palliative distributions across the country were due to poor organisations. The president, who said this during his first media chat, also attributed the mishaps to indiscipline on the part of the beneficiaries of the palliatives. The News...