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Month: October 2023

Ogbomosoland Consultative Council presents development agenda to new Soun

Ogbomosoland Consultative Council OCC on Tuesday presented a document containing developmental agenda programe for the new Soun of Ogbomosoland Oba Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye Orumogege III. The group formed by the immediate past Soun late Jimoh Oladunni Oyewuni also Innaugurates Oba Olaoye as the grand patron of the council. The spokesperson for the group of prominent…

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Promise Fulfilled: 1533 LAUTECH Students Resume in Iseyin

One Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty-Three 200 Level students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso will resume at the Iseyin Campus, by the end of October, 2023. This is in fulfilment of the promise made by Governor Seyi Makinde during the commissioning of the Iseyin campus, last month. In a statement signed by…

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Oyo will be number one in soya beans production – Makinde

Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has declared that the state will soon emerge as the number one in soya beans production in the country. The governor stated this on Monday when he conducted a facility inspection tour to Amo Farms in Akinyele Local Government and Awe town in Afijio Local Government Area of the…

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Davido and Chioma welcome twins (Screenshot)

Leaked WhatsApp chats have claimed that ace Nigerian singer, Davido, welcomed a set of twin babies with his wife, Chioma. There have been reports making rounds that the singer and his wife, who lost their son in October last year, have welcomed a set of twins.Davido, further fueled the rumors after he hinted at his wife…

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Senator Alli felicitates SAO Petroleum CEO, Oladiti on 70th birthday

Sen. Sharafadeen Alli (APC- Oyo South) has felicitated Otunba Salimon Akanni Oladiti (JP), the Chief Executive Officer of SAO Petroleum on the occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary. This is contained in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Akeem Abas and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Ibadan. Oladiti is a…

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Nigerian man found dead in his room in UAE

A 34-year-old Nigerian man, Okorie Ifeanyi Jude, has reportedly been found dead in his room at Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report.It was gathered that his family in Enugu State has been notified. Meanwhile, one Isaac Obasi said the deceased used…

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CAN, Muslim community, market leaders, artisans, others organize special birthday bash for Dotun Sanusi @ 55

The Oyo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), a cross section of the Muslim Community; the market men and women; artisans and a host of other groups are planning a special birthday bash for Chief Dotun Sanusi ahead of October 17, next week Tuesday when he will clock 55years. Dotun Sanusi, the…

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Details emerge as General Gowon reportedly died

Governorship candidate on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the last general election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi FNIM, OON, has refuted the rumour, making the rounds that former head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), is dead. The former Minister of State for Education, who spoke through his Chief…

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Group Condemns Hospital Mgt, Sends SOS to Makinde, Health Minister over Electricity Crisis in UCH

The Oyo State Coordinator for Greater Oyo State Forum, Mr. Simeon Adeleke on Monday chided the management of the University College Hospital for its Volte-face on the issue of electricity problem at the hospital which was widely reported in April this year but the management denied same, saying it’s blood bank had no issue to…

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Labour demands: Makinde seeks home-grown solution, inaugurates adhoc committee

Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Monday, inaugurated an 11-member adhoc inter-ministerial committee on the harmonisation of various demands by labour unions in the state. The governor, while performing the inauguration at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, called on the members of the committee to be open-minded and to come…

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