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Photo of the day: Senator Abiola Ajimobi swears in wife of PDP stalwart as new Head of Service

Today, May 24, 2019, His Excellency, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi sworn-in the new Head of Service, Mrs. Amidat Ololade Agboola. She is wife of popular stalwart People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Sen. Hosea Agboola aka Halleluyah.

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Oyo workers threaten to embark on strike Friday if govt don’t meet their demands

Oyo State workers on Thursday threatened to commence strike and paralyse government activities starting from tomorow, Friday, May 24, if the state government doesn’t meet their demands. Part of the demands contained in a two-page statement jointly signed by the NLC secretary, Mohamed Ibrahim and the secretary of Joint Negotiating Council, Lukman Balogun, after a…

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Group condemns Ajimobi for allegedly creating bottleneck for Makinde

A socio-political group under the aegis of Oyo Kajola Group (OKG), has warned the outgoing governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, to stop creating policy bottlenecks for the incoming governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde. The group, in a statement issued by its media coordinator, Taiwo Ogunlade, said it had observed that the outgoing government has…

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Oyo Govt workers, students to wear traditional attire in commemoration of this year’s ‘World Culture Day’

The Oyo State Government has directed residents in the state especially students in private and pubic schools as well as workers in the state to turn out in their traditional attire on Tuesday, May 21 in commemoration of the 2019 World Culture Day. The State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun said…

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Ajimobi restores state’s tertiary monthly subventions back to 100 per cent

Oyo state government, led by Governor Abiola Ajimobi has restored 100% monthly subventions to all the state-owned tertiary institutions. This was made known by the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Adeniyi Olowofela on Sunday while featuring on a live radio programme in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. The Commissioner informed that the…

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Oyo Governor-Elect, Makinde again kicks over Ajimobi’s alleged reckless, dubious award of contracts

As it is less than two weeks for the current administration in Oyo State to relinquish power, the governor-elect, Engr Seyi Makinde, has again complained over alleged reckless and issuance of dubious contracts and other less important activities by the out going government. The statement cited as one of the examples the case of the…

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Our 8 years rule in Oyo has recorded landmark achievements, says Ajimobi’s wife

The wife of Oyo State Governor, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi on Monday in Oyo State Government House, Agodi, Ibadan said the administration of her husband, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has recorded a landmark achievements in the state. Mrs. Ajimobi who stated this while distributing Ramadan welfare materials to homes and Local Government area in the state added…

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Late Olatoye Sugar’s brother condemns Ajimobi for facilitating release of suspected killers of his brother

Mr Olajide Olatoye, the elder brother to the late Federal Oyo lawmaker representing Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Olatoye Temitope otherwise know as sugar, has accused governor Abiola Ajimobi for facilitating the release of the killers of his brother. Olajide made this accusation on Thursday in his speech, during the lying in…

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Seyi Makinde kicks as Ajimobi agrees to pay Oyo workers N30,000 new minimum wage

The out-going Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has agreed to pay the N30,000 new minimum wage while the governor-elect, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday revealed that the state cannot pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000 just signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Makinde, he intends to negotiate with the…

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Oyo Govt to meet state’s NLC on Monday to negotiate new minimum wage

•Gov. Abiola Ajimobi The Oyo State Government said that it had opened its doors for negotiation on the minimum wage in response to an earlier letter from the the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in the state. The government also congratulated the newly elected officers of the labour union led by Comrade Titilola Sodo as Chairman…

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