Oyo State Government, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund, launched a four-year Multi-Sectoral Strategic Plan of Action on Food and Nutrition on Tuesday to tackle malnutrition and hunger among children and women in the state. The state Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning,…
Honourable Wasila Adefemi Adegoke is the youngest commissioner in the cabinet of Governor Seyi Makinde. She is in charge of youth and sports in Oyo State, in this interview with YINKA OLADOYINBO, she speaks on how she has been handling issues relating to the youth, efforts at making the state regain its lost…
The Oyo State Government is set to benefit from a partnership with the United Kingdom Agritech Centre in the area of boosting agriculture and livestock production with science and other technology-based solutions. This is as the Centre is set to build an Agritech Hub inside one of the state’s Agribusiness…
Efficient stimulation of the economy has been attributed to the brilliant performance of Oyo State in Value Added Tax (VAT) contribution. The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Prince Dotun Oyelade, said this while featuring on a Splash FM radio station programme. He said that the reason Oyo…
…Eulogises late brother Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that for Nigeria to beat the poverty trap and become a prosperous country, its economy must be built to weather all storms. The governor added that the country must also raise entrepreneurs and improve the standard of education,…
The Oyo State House of Assembly has passed the State Drug and Health Commodity Management Agency Bill, 2024 into law. The bill brought to the house by the executive was passed into law to address the challenges of uncoordinated drug distribution in the pharmaceutical sector. The legislative activities of the…
Governor Seyi Makinde and the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, are among the dignitaries expected at the 39th Convocation Ceremony of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. Governor Makinde will visit the institution and be the special guest of honour at the event,…
Oyo State House of Assembly has approved Governor Seyi Makinde’s request to seek for the release of the state entitlement on the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) from the federal government. The request was contained in a letter forwarded by the governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde to the House of Assembly and…
The Federal Government has announced the scrapping of all Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary Schools in the country and introduced a compulsory 12-year uninterrupted basic education model after which a Nigerian child can aspire to higher education. With this development, the Nigerian…
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has shared a deeply moving account of his late elder brother, Engr. Sunday Makinde, who passed away on 24th January 2025 at the age of 65. The governor’s emotional tribute came during a service of songs held on Thursday evening at the State Government House Arcade in honour…