Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has urged Corps members to see their service year as a call to national duty, urging them to be agents of development and advocates of unity across Nigeria. Makinde stated this during the swearing-in ceremony of the 2025 Batch B ‘Stream 1’ Corps members held on Friday at…
Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, has appointed Mr Ademola Aderinto as the Senior Special Assistant on Public Works, while he also appointed Mr Lamidi Kazeem Ajibola as his Special Assistant on Environment. The appointments were announced in a letter signed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Otunba Segun…
As part of ongoing efforts to enhance agricultural productivity and ensure food security in the state, the Oyo State Government, through the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA), has commenced the distribution of critical farm inputs to farmers across key local government areas. This…
The Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, has sentenced Abdulrahman Bello to death by hanging for the brutal murder of Hafsoh Lawal, a final-year student of the College of Education, Ilorin. Delivering judgment on Thursday, Justice Hannah Ajayi discharged and acquitted four other defendants, Ahmed Abdulwasiu, Jamiu…
The Oyo State Government has declared that the planned Ijaiye Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone and the Rungis-styled Food Wholesale Market will transform agriculture and business in Ijaiye, its environs and across Oyo State. It explained that 3,000 hectares out of the 7,581 hectares at the Ijaiye Farm…
The Director General of Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA), Dr. Debo Akande in his efforts to ensure transparency, accountability, as well sustaining orderliness at the ongoing Oyo N-Cares distributions of farm inputs to farmers across the local government areas of the state led other…
The Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, debunked allegations that it had replaced the car park at Bola Ige International Business Complex, popularly known as Gbagi Market, with new shops and extorted money from unsuspecting traders overnight. The state Commissioner for Investment, Trade, Cooperatives and…
Healthcare services across Nigeria face major disruption starting today, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, as 25,000 nurses under the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Federal Health Institutions Sector, embark on a seven-day nationwide warning strike. The industrial action, which began at…
The Olakulehin Royal Family has announced the funeral rites and farewell activities of the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadan, H.I.M Oba Akinloye Owolabi Olakulehin (Ige Olakulehin 1) who joined his ancestors on the 7th July 2025. In a statement from the family signed by his first son Prince Olasunmbo Owolabi…
The Oyo State House of Assembly has confirmed the nomination of the reappointment of Alhaji Kamoru Aderibigbe as the Chairman Oyo State Civil Service Commission along with other four members to paddle the affairs of the commission. This follows a report presented by the Chairman Committee on Establishment and…