50 Oyo Schools To Participate In FAME Secondary School Leadership Competition 2023
Hundreds of students in secondary schools across Ibadan, Nigeria would be competing at the FAME Secondary School Leadership Competition 2023. The FAME Secondary School Competition promotes leadership education while fostering healthy academic rivalry among Senior Secondary Schools. The programme which is created by The FAME Foundation a leading not-for-profit organization based in Ibadan, Nigeria that is focused on Leadership and...
First Bank GMD, Adeduntan Gets Jericho Business Club’s President Outstanding Personality Award
Dr. Sola Adeduntan, the Group Managing Director of First Bank of Nigeria Ltd, will today be honoured with the Jericho Business Club, JBC, President Outstanding Personality Award. Billed for this afternoon at the Club’s 1b Idi Ishin Road, Jericho, Ibadan headquarters, venue of this year’s annual general meeting, a statement jointly signed by Oloye Remi Babalola and Jide Iyanda, president and...
NIPR Honours Oyetola’s Media Aide, Omipidan
The Osun State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) will tomorrow, Saturday, May 20, honour Ismail Omipidan who is the Chief Press Secretary to the immediate past Governor of the State, Adegboyega Oyetola. In a letter signed by its Chairman, Mr Ademola Adesoji, the Institute said it found Omipidan worthy of the award for being a "visionary,...
Over 8,000 Students Graduate As Ogundoyin Poly Holds Maiden Convocation Ceremony
Eruwa Town in Oyo State was at a standstill earlier today as Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa held its combined maiden convocation ceremony since its establishment as a satellite campus of The Polytechnic Ibadan in 1982 and its assumption of autonomy in 2014. No fewer than 8,000 graduands across the four faculties of the institution were awarded National Diploma and Higher...
Olorunsogo-Akanran Road: Ilaji Boss, Community Leaders Commend Makinde, Task Contractor Ahead Full Rainfall
The Chairman, Ilaji Hotels and Sports Resort , Engr. Dotun Sanusi and a host of other community leaders in Ona Ara local government area of Oyo State on Friday appreciated the State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde for his commitments towards the steady progress of the ongoing Olorunsogo-Akanran road construction in Ibadan. Apart from the Chairman of Ilaji who doubles as...
Ibadan-born Billionaire Wins Abuja Airport Concession Bid
The Nigerian government has successfully concessioned the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja (NAIA) and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano (MAKIA) to a consortium that has Nigerian billionaire Kola Karim as a major shareholder. Special Assistant on Public Affairs to Nigeria’s Aviation Minister James Odaudu said the concessions came after approval from the Federal Executive Council, FEC. The Corporacion American Airport...
Seun Kuti And The ‘Dirty Slap’ On Third Mainland Bridge | Oludayo Tade
It was the musician, Habeeb Okikiola also known as portable who tested the ‘weightier’ between the power of a celebrity and the authority of the state when he thought he was above the law and untouchable. Portable had behaved unruly to policemen who went to his bar to invite him over some allegations leveled against him. Portable’s transformational life...
Underfunding, Dichotomy Hindering Polytechnics’ Growth — Festus Adedayo Reveals At Ogundoyin Poly Convocation
Celebrated columnist, Festus Adedayo, has revealed how underfunding and dichotomy between polytechnics and universities are killing technical education in Nigeria. Adedayo, a Ph.d and lawyer, made this known at the combined convocation lecture of the Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa, AOPE, convocation lecture on Thursday. According the former media adviser to late former governor Abiola Ajimobi, whose lecture was entitled Reinventing Polytechnic...
JUST IN: Buhari Appoints Late Ajimobi’s Former Aide As FERMA Chairman
James Olugbenga Akintola, late former governor Abiola Ajimobi’s special adviser on infrastructure, has been appointed chairman of the board of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA. He was with the Ajimobi administration between September 2016 to May 2019. The agency is a body under the Ministry of Works and Housing. Akintola, who hails from Osun, succeeds Tunde Lemo, who voluntarily stepped down....
JUST IN: History As Splash FM’s Owner’s First Privately-owned Open Varsity Gets License
West Midlands University, Ibadan, owned by Adébáyọ̀ Akande, proprietor of the first private radio station in Oyo State, has been licensed by the federal government. It was licensed alongside 36 other universities. The institution, the first privately-owned open varsity, after the FG-owned National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, is located in Ibadan, but currently operates from Lagos. OYOINSIGHT.COM learnt that the institution...
