EXPLOSION: Prosecute Perpetrators, Consider Considerable Compensation For Victims — Lanlehin Tells Makinde
Senator Olufemi Lanlehin (Solan) has described the explosion that rocked Dejo Oyelese Street, Adeyi, Bodija on Tuesday, 16 January, 2024 as terrible, pathetic and most disturbing, noting that while he sympathises with victims, he knows that only God Almighty can actually console them. Lanlehin, in a statement by his Media Assistant, Dr. Damola Adeoye, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,...
EXPLOSION: BMU Boss Commiserates With Victims Of Devastating Incident, Prays For Dead Victims
The Chairman BMU global consult limited, Hon. Usman Muhedeen Bamidele has sympathized with the victims of explosion that occurred in Ibadan on 16th of January, 2024. In a statement released and personally signed by the CEO BMU in Abuja yesterday, he described the incident as unfortunate, devastating and heartbreaking. "Our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to all those affected by the...
EXPLOSION: Ajaja Commiserates With Victims, Wants Sales Of Explosive Materials Controlled
The National Secretary of ACCORD, Hon Adebukola Abiola Ajaja has conveyed heartfelt sympathy to the victims of the heart -wrenching and very destructive explosion which rocked Bodija, Ibadan. Dr Ajaja decried the monumental loss of lives and valuable properties trailing the blast. In an emotion laden message in Ibadan, Dr Ajaja commiserates with families, who lost their loved ones, Oyo state...
EXPLOSION: Ex-Oyo Finance Commisioner, Adekanmbi Donates N2.5m, Offers Earth Moving Equipment
Following the devastating explosion that rocked the Dejo Oyelese area of old Bodija in Oyo State on Tuesday night, a former Commissioner of Finance, Budget and Planning, Bimbo Adekanmbi, paid a visit to the site today. Adekanmbi commended the promt actions of the Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, followed by the swift response and interventions of the Oyo State government in...
BODIJA EXPLOSION: Death Toll Rises To 5 As 2 More Bodies Recovered
The Oyo State Government has reported that the death toll resulting from the Tuesday explosion in Ibadan, the state capital has increased to five. The explosion caused extensive damage to numerous houses within a 14-kilometre radius. On Tuesday night, Governor Seyi Makinde provided an update, stating that two deaths occurred on the day of the incident, with an additional victim succumbing...
EXPLOSION: Tegbe Expresses Shock, Commends Makinde’s Response
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election in Oyo South senatorial district, Joseph Tegbe, has commiserated with victims of last Tuesday’s explosion in Ibadan. This was just as the Ibadan Mogaji commended the response of Seyi Makinde, since the unfortunate incident. “I received with shock, the news of the explosion which occurred at Dejo Oyelese street, Old...
Bódìjà Explosion: Laying Bare The Issues | Kazeem Olalekan Israel
Governor Seyi Makinde might continue to play his populist card as much as he likes by showing faux concern about the blast which occurred on Tuesday. But, the truth remains that, taking a critical look at the aerial view of the location which is now in public space, one will understand that there is more to the story than...
Probe, Do More On Ibadan Explosion — Oyo APC Tells Makinde
As residents of Bodija in Ibadan and environs continue to count their losses over the devastating explosions which ravaged their communities on Tuesday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has demanded thorough investigations with a view to unraveling the cause of the incident and the culprits behind it. Fear gripped most parts of Ibadan throughout the wee hours...
Bodija Explosion And Security Gaps In Oyo State | Oludayo Tade
On the ‘roof-top-bar’ of the senior staff club, university of Ibadan, I sat with my professor friend switching between discussions on the social economic conditions and the precarity of our lives as public university lecturers in Nigeria and watching the African nations' cup. We requested for a bottle of coke and mixed it with water, sipped it when we...
Explosion: CSCHEI Urges FG, Donor Agencies, Philanthropists To Support Oyo
In the wake of a deadly bomb explosion in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the Civil Society Organisation on Community Advancement and Humanitarian Empowerment Initiative in Nigeria(CSCHEI), has appealed to the Federal Government, UN- Donor Agencies and philanthropic organizations to lend support to the Oyo State Government as relief efforts begin in the State. The tragic event has caused much...
