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Senator representing Oyo Central at the Senate, Teslim Folarin has said it was unnecessary to subject former governors and those who have served in the Senate to what he called painful screening. He said this is because they deserve respect and honour, having been entrusted with huge responsibilities in the past. The screening of ministerial nominees, including some former governors and senators by the Ninth Senate has generated mixed reactions. Some Nigerians have criticized the current Senate for allegedly being an “executive rubber stamp” on 17 ministerial nominees. The 17 ministerial nominees were said to have been treated with special favour when they were asked to take a bow and go, without passing through thorough screening, as others. Folarin said unknown to many, the Senate has its internal workings, rules and traditions. Addressing reporters at the weekend in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, at a “thank you party” he organised for his constituents on his electo...

Panic in Egbeda area of Ibadan as residents ran for cover as NURTW members clashed on Sunday. According to The Nation, members of public picked race after deafening sound of gunshots boomed at the weekend. The Nation reports that two factions of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) were alleged to taken to the streets, with guns, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, as they engaged in violent clash. It was learnt that trouble started when a former chairman of the union in the state, Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxiliary), in company of some of his men and two officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps invaded the house of an estranged aide, Musliudeen Muideen, with guns, axes and other dangerous weapons. It was gathered that apart from beating and shooting Muideen, members of his household including his brothers were dealt with, as residents who had sporadic gunshots fled. Auxiliary had since denied the allegations, sa...

  Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde said on Sunday that the Governors of the South West Region have agreed to launch a new security architecture in August. Governor Makinde, who was speaking at a special thanksgiving service in honour of his mother, Madam Abigail Makinde at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Yemetu, Ibadan, said that Oyo State will equally launch a state-wide security system before his 100 days in office. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, quoted Governor Makinde as saying that the Governors of South West states have been meeting to find lasting solutions to the security challenges in the region. The Governor said: “I and other Governors of the South West, have met on how to launch a new security architecture before the end of August 2019. The first 100 days of this government will be on the 5th of September and before the 5th of September, we will launch a new security architecture in Oyo state.”  Go...

Oyo State Government has decried the slow pace of ongoing FGN-UBEC/SUBEB projects in all the nooks and crannies of the State. The State Chairman, Universal Basic Education Board, Dr Nureni Adeniran expressing the dissatisfaction during his on-the-spot inspection to the sites of the project at the Ogbomosho zone area of Oyo State. The Chairman, while speaking at the sites of the projects in Ogo-Oluwa, Ogbomosho North, Ogbomosho South and Oriire LGAs, promised that the Board will ensure speedy completion of the projects and sanction any recalcitrant contractor who takes his work with levity hands. In a statement by the media Officer to the SUBEB, Mr Olamide Adeniji quoted the Chairman “I am not happy with the situation of projects in Ogbomosho zone. The Government of Oyo State will ensure these projects are completed, so we expect these contractors to come to our office and give us reasons why these projects have been abandoned”, he concluded. He therefore summoned a...

Ayefele Narrates How He Was Childless For 25 Years Before Welcoming Triplets Popular gospel singer, Yinka Ayefele has shared his life experience after he was childless for 25 years before welcoming his triplets few weeks. Ayefele stated this at an annual gospel programme organised by Love of Christ Generation Church C&S London tagged ‘The Comforter.’ Church C&S London, prophesied that he would welcome his own children soon. “I met Iya Adura in 2018 in London. She told me that if I believe all things are possible. I have never had a child and I don’t have a child anywhere. I have been married for 25 years. “In 2018, I went to Clapham, London, and she took me to a room and told me about great testimonies in her life. Initially, I just considered those testimonies as one of those things men of God said. She told me that God said I would have my children. That there is nothing God cannot do. I believed her and I can tell you that I am a testimony today. I ...

The nominee from Oyo state and an Executive Commissioner of the Nigerian Communications Commissions, Sunday Dare, has explained how the commission is working hard to fight kidnapping and other bandits in the country. Mr. Dare stated this while being screened by members of the National Assembly on Thursday in Abuja. When Ovie Omo-Agege, deputy senate president, asked him if the sanction in the NCC act is enough to curb non-registration of SIM cards by telecommunications operators. He said tackling kidnapping is a collective effort. He said the Nigerian communications commission (NCC ) is working with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to ensure that proper database is kept to curb crime. He also explained that, very often, the NCC finds that the biometrics are not done properly, certain fields of the registration forms are missing, and in most cases, the pictures used are fuzzy. Explaining further, he said the NCC is currently working with the NIMC...

Oyo State Government has disbursed Two Hundred and Eighty Million Naira as payment of gratuity for One Hundred (100) retired civil servants for 2012 on Grade Level 1 to 17 in the State. The State Head of Service Mrs Ololade Agboola made this known during the symbolic presentation of cheques to 2012 retired civil servants held at Gratuity Hall, former Ministry of Establishments and Training building Secretariat Ibadan.   She admonished retired civil servants to process their retirement papers on time so that they could collect their gratuity on time, noting that government would only process payment for those that had earlier processed their retirement documents. The Head of service, who was represented by the Acting Permanent Secretary Mrs Adejoke Eyitayo urged retirees to stay away from fraudulent people who always negotiate a certain percentage to facilitate the payment of their gratuity which they had earned legitimately. Agboola added that retired civil s...

The Governor of Oyo State, Engr Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makimde has submitted his list of Commissioner nominees to the Oyo State House of Assembly. The list was submitted to the Speaker Rt. Hon. Adebo Edward Ogundoyin on Wednesday 24th October 2019 by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Oyebisi Ilaka. The Speaker of the Assembly, Adebo Edward Ogundoyin, read the governor’s letter containing the names and request for legislative approval to constitute the state executive at a plenary session on Thursday. Ogundoyin listed the commissioners-nominee to include “Mr  Adeniyi Farinto, Mr Adewuyi Adebisi, Hon Muyiwa Jacob, Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo, Barr Olasunkanmi Army, Barr Seun Asamu. Others are “ Barr Raman Abdul-raheem, Chief Bayo Lawal, Mrs Olufunmilayo Orisadeyi, Dr Basiru Abiodun Bello, Hon Wasiu Olatunbosun,  Prof Dauda Kehinde, Mr Akinola Ojo and Hon Kehinde Ayoola. The speaker said: The commissioners listed should submit copy of their CV and credenti...

Tanko Muhammad, the new head of Nigeria’s judiciary, has said that vicious termites destroyed his primary school certificate. Mr Muhammad said the termites invaded his home in Bauchi State in 1998 and devoured all documents inside beyond recovery. “No portion of the certificate was salvaged,” Mr Muhammad said. The claim was contained in an affidavit which the top jurist submitted to the Senate last week to be confirmed as the head of the Supreme Court. The specific affidavit has been circulating on social media since Monday night, but PREMIUM TIMES has obtained additional credentials relating to Mr Muhammad’s confirmation from parliamentary sources. Mr Muhammad swore the affidavit on February 13, 2002, while he was a judge at the Jos Division of the Court of Appeal. He became a Supreme Court judge in 2007. President Muhammadu Buhari nominated Mr Muhammad as the Chief Justice after he controversially removed Walter Onnoghen in the lead up to the 2019 general elections. ...

Governor Seyi Makinde has forwarded the names of his would-be commissioners to the Oyo State House of Assembly. This is coming close to two months after he was inaugurated. The ‘sealed envelope’ is expected to be open and read by Speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin, at plenary tomorrow. Gov. Makinde hasn’t been having it easy dealing with nomination especially as it relates to coalition parties. Recall that the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Zenith Labour Party, ZLP; Social Democratic Party, SDP and others had endorsed Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, against Oloye Adebayo Adelabu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. On the list are a former speaker of the state Assembly, Right Honourable Kehinde Ayoola; a  former member of the Assembly, Honourable Adeniyi Farinto and former council chairman, Wasiu Olatubosun. Some of the newly listed nominees included Mr Seun Asamu, who is the 32-year-old lawyer son of Senator Monsurat Sunmonu; Director General of Seyi...

The new General Officer Commanding (GOC), 2 Division of Nigerian Army, Ibadan, Maj Gen. Anthony Omozoje,  on Tuesday pledged that the army would curtail all security challenges confronting areas under the division. The New GOC gave the promise while taking over the command of the division from Maj.-Gen. Okwudili Azinta, at the division’s headquarters in Ibadan. The GOC assured citizens of the six states that his officers would work professionally and responsively in protecting the area and country, saying they would be on top of security challenges in the area. According to him, it is when the country is secured that the government will be able to function well and the country will prosper. He urged the officers to always put in their best and shun nonchalant attitude in order to justify the responsibilities given to them. “The challenges and task still remain and I implore all to maintain keen awareness of where we are as an army and nation, and what we need to...

The Oyo State House of Assembly has called of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, to take urgent steps towards the completion of the Oyo -Ogbomoso expressway, describing the road as dead-trap taking people’s lives and properties at will. Describing security of lives and properties as the most crucial responsibility of the government, the Majority leader, Hon. Sanjo Adedoyin representing Ogbomoso South State constituency while speaking on the motion jointly moved with his colleague, Hon. Wunmi Oladeji representing Ogbomoso North state constituency, noted that the state of Oyo- Ogbomoso road is so terrible that travelers cannot predict safe arrival to their destination, not to talk of possible travel time. Adedoyin emphasized that the countless lives that have been lost to the road which is the only link to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital makes the completion of the dualize route inevitable. He said, “It is sadden how people frequently lost their lives and pro...

The Oyo State People's Democratic Party PDP, has responded to the allegations credited to All Progressive Congress APC, in Oyo State, on recent loan approved by Oyo State House of Assembly, which APC referred to as "One Chance Boss" as "watery and baseless" statement...  In a statement released by PDP Publicity Secretary, Engr Akeem Olatunji, stated that "the recent loan approved by Oyo State Assembly for the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde is to be used to sanitize Oyo State from the odious mess caused by the previous regime of Governor Abiola Ajimobi, therefore, the statement credited to APC is watery and baseless.  He further expatiate that Oyo PDP challenge APC in Oyo State to give details of loans obtained by the last administration of Abiola Ajimobi and clarify to the Oyo citizens exactly what those loans were used for. The era of taking loans and divert it to private pockets or keeping it in private accounts to yield interests and ...

The Speaker,Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin has again decried the unemployability of most Nigerian graduates ,and has therefore called for more entrepreneurial training for the youth to make them skillfully and technically competent to face developmental challenges in life. Hon Ogundoyin spoke at the First Technical University,Ibadan when he led some other lawmakers on a working visit to the institution established about two years ago. The Speaker said it was time for a review of the nation's educational system at all levels to accommodate and make adequate provisions for more technical and professional training which will make the country's graduates to be creator of jobs and wealth for sustainable economic development. Hon Ogundoyin noted that as a university, the First Technical University,Ibadan must carve a niche for itself as a trail blazer in the provision of functional education for technological innovation and advancement. Accord...

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has declared that critics of his style of open governance cannot distract his government from recording giant strides in the State. The governor, who made the declaration while speaking at the inauguration of the South West Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the United Kingdom, said that he was aware why there has been so much searchlight on his person and his administration. In a statement released by Governor Makinde’s Chief Press Secretary, Taiwo Adisa, also quoted the Governor as charging PDP Stakeholders to readily project the good deeds of the party’s office holders in order not to give room, for negative narrative. Governor Makinde, who observed that interest groups in the United Kingdom had played important roles in the politics of Nigeria, said that no fewer than 200,000 Nigerians now live in the United Kingdom. He said that the task ahead of the PDP is to regroup and launch chapters everywhere Nigerians ar...

The Oyo State Deputy Governor, Engr. Rauf Aderemi Olaniyan has commended the state Governor, Governor Seyi Makinde for carrying him along in the decisions he has made so far, noting that this is unprecedented in the history of the state. Olaniyan gave this commendation over the weekend at a reception held in his honour by the Igboho Unity Forum, a Social Cultural Association of Igboho descendants held in Ibadan. According to him, I will be lying if I say Governor Seyi Makinde does not carry me along in the decisions and appointments he has made so far, adding that unlike the immediate past when the “Constituted Authority” was solely charged. Engr. Olaniyan described the present government as a government for all and sundry, noting that they will keep to their promises just as they had sworn to ensure every part of Oyo state becomes developed. According to him, the people of Oyo should expect the dividends of democracy through sustainable growth in the economy. “W...

              Gov Oyetola of State of Osun Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Thursday, said the provision of good road networks is central to the agenda of his administration. He said his administration will continue to build and develop infrastructure in the state. Oyetola spoke at the commissioning of the 228.5km rural roads, rehabilitated and reconstructed under the Osun Rural Access and Mobility Project, at Akeredolu town, along Onikoko-Osi Sooko road, Ile-Ife, Ife-South Local Government. Governor Oyetola, who described infrastructure as the bedrock of socioeconomic development, pledged to fulfill all the electoral promises he made while seeking office. He said, his administration would continue to breathe life into every nook and cranny of the state and ensure proper construction, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads. Governor Oyetola said the decision to embark on mass rural road construction was in re...

Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has begun moves to revive farm settlements established when Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the Premier of the old Western Region. The governor said the nine farm settlements located across the state had ranches, pigsties, ponds, poultry pens apart from the large expanse of land to grow crops. Speaking to our correspondent in an interview through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa, Makinde said the farm settlements would be resuscitated to increase the food production capacity of the state and to boost its economy. The governor said the farm settlements didn’t belong to Oodua Investments like some people think, saying they were property of the state. He said, “Oodua Investments is not the owner of the ranches. Western Region owned the farm settlements. They are not ranches but they are farm settlements owned by states where they are located. “We have nine of them in Oyo State and they are going to be revived. We were i...

The Oyo State House of Assembly has applauded the Oyo State Investment Promotion Agency Bill 2019 brought before the lawmakers by Governor Seyi Makinde as one that will enlarge the economic base on the state and promote investment in all its ramifications. It was part of the submissions of the house at its plenary during the second reading of the Oyo state Investment promotion agency bill,2019. According to the house, the purpose of the agency is to initiate,promote,facilitate and coordinate investment in Oyo state thereby leading to a robust economic activities in the pacesetter state. The Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin said in line with one the cardinal programs of this administration, the Investment promotion Agency will come up with policies that will enable the State Government to work with investors and business partners to develop the natural resources and assets of the state while also exploring the Public Private Partnership and ...

As part of measures to halt the spate of killings and kidnappings in the southern part of the country, the police authorities have concluded plan to scale up the numerical strength of the force by injecting 40,000 part-time constables into the system. As a result, the recruitment of the constables will begin in August, according to findings by Saturday PUNCH. The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, who confirmed the development, explained that at least 50 persons would be recruited from each of the 774 local government areas in the country, adding that the recruitment exercise might kick off in August. As part of measures to check rising insecurity in the face of insufficient manpower in Nigeria’s police force, the Force had in May concluded plans to engage thousands of Special Constables to work with conventional policemen in communities. The police had presented the idea to the state governors who were said to have bought into the scheme. The men, ...

The Chairman of Oyo State Peoples Democratic Party, Alh Kunmi Mustapha, has described the reactions of Oyo State APC to the voluntary declaration of assets by Governor Seyi Makinde at Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, as reckless, unpatriotic, uncivilized and a wicked approach to discourage men of goodwill from partaking in politics. We would recall that Naija TODAY News reported some days ago about Assets worth over N48b, declared by the Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde at Code of Conduct Bureau at the High Court of Oyo State, on May 28, 2019. But, in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Engr Akeem Olatunji, stated that, the party Chairman, Alh Kunmi Mustapha, frown at sycophancy nature of APC Chairman in Oyo State as he was expected to ask questions from his party's candidate in the last election, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, on how he sourced for several billions of Naira he spent lavishly on gubernatorial campai...

The Oyo State House of Assembly says the roles of the Nigerian Army in improving internal security and addressing the rising insecurity in the country are crucial .  The Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Adebo Ogundoyin stated this at the 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Odogbo Ibadan in continuation of the visit of Oyo lawmakers to Service chiefs in the state. Ogundoyin said as the largest in West Africa, the Nigerian Army has continued to bear the brunt of the nation's security challenges hence he called for more supports interms of logistics, training and moral boosting for the soldiers. Further explained that members of the 9th Oyo Assembly were at the Odogbo Barracks of the Nigerian Army today, to seek for a good working relationship with the military in the collective task of securing the lives and properties of the residents of Oyo State. The Speaker maintained that the spate of insecurity has continued to negatively affect the nation...

The Oyo State House of Assembly has yesterday inaugurated standing committee for the 9th Oyo State House of Assembly with Chairmen and members of the committee. Rt. hon. Debo Ogundoyin, the speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly on Thursday morning read the various constituted house committees during the lawmakers’ plenary session . Presenting the names of standing committees for the runnings of the 9th Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Ogundoyin said the step was taken to enhance and promote the working activities of the Assembly. Read Full List of Oyo 9th Assembly standing committees. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNT, FINANCE AND APPROPRIATION CHAIRMAN Hon. Kehinde Olatunde Taofik – Akinyele II VICE CHAIRMAN Hon. Adewunmi Lateef Olayiwola – Oorelope MEMBERS : Hon. Babalola Olasunkanmi Samson – Egbeda Hon. Adedibu Hakeem Adeshina – Iwajowa Hon. Rasak Ademola Abdulahi – Ibadan South East 1 Hon. Adeola Bamidele O. – Iseyin/Itesiwaju Hon. Alarape Ashimiyu Niran – ...