Governors of the six Southwest states will meet with police chiefs on Wednesday ahead of Thursday’s inauguration of Amotekun, the region’s security outfit. Operation Amotekun is primed to curb armed banditry, kidnapping for Read More
There was a violent protest in the ancient town of Akesan in Oyo State as a popular market went up in flames in the early hours of Sunday. Wares worth several millions of naira were Read More
At least three persons died in Oyo Town following gunshots by the security operatives after people protested the failure of the firefighters in the town to stop a ravaging fire Sunday morning, witnesses have told Read More
The joint security outfit, “Amotekun,” initiated by the six governors in the zone which would commence work on Jan. 9, 2020 will have its operational centre in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, Read More
Member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo West local government, would not forget December 25, 2019 in a hurry. It was a day their leader, Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, marked his 52nd birthday Read More
Oyo State government has announced its readiness to prosecute twenty-five offenders caught driving under the influence of alcohol. The State has lately announced its resolve to conduct alcohol breath test on any driver that violated Read More
Nigeria would have been a sane country if there exists a strict adherence to the rule of law if opinions are aired without regard to ethnicity, political and religious affiliations, party loyalty in particular, inter Read More
The police has arraigned a 45-year-old scavenger, Kamorudeen Salau, before an Iwo Road Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing Christmas decoration materials recently erected by the Oyo State Government. Salau, whose address was not Read More
A socio-cultural group – the Eminent Club of Nigeria, Oke Ogun – has raised a fresh alarm that Oke Ogun area of Oyo State remains the least developed part of the State “having suffered neglect from past Read More
