Oyo workers to be paid this week – NLC
After months of agony due to unpaid salaries, thousands of workers in Oyo State, will heave a sigh of relief this week, as the state government has agreed with the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour...
View ArticleJAMB policy: Call Ojerinde to order, ASUU tells Buhari
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan chapter, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to call the Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB),...
View ArticleJournalists barred from Oyo Governor’s office
Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, yesterday barred journalists from gaining entry into the Press Centre of the Governor’s office at the Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan. National Mirror learnt that only...
View ArticlePolice avert bloody clash between Ladoja, Ajimobi’s supporters
Some supporters of former governor of Oyo State and gubernatorial candidate of the Accord Party in the 2015 general elections, Rashidi Ladoja, and the incumbent Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, clashed...
View ArticleAjimobi Pays Tribute To Former LAUTECH VC, Late Prof. Akinola Salau.
With deep sense of regrettable loss, the Government and people of Oyo State commiserate with the family of late Prof. Akinola Muritala Salau. The late Prof. Akinola Salau was a blessing to this great...
View ArticleJournalists not barred from gov’s office —Oyo APC
THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has described as untrue, reports that Senator Abiola Ajimobi has restricted journalists from covering activities in his office. The party, in a...
View Article‘JAMB compromised, no longer relevant in admission process’
CHAIRMAN of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan (UI) Chapter, Prof. Segun Ajiboye, has asked the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar, Prof. Dibu...
View ArticleNon release of bailout dashed workers’ hopes —Oyo NLC
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Oyo State Chapter has beckoned on the Professor Yemi Osinbajo-led bailout committee to immediately release the bailout fund to states, noting that the non-receipt...
View ArticleAbsence of governing council stalls selection exercise for new UI VC
The selection exercise for a new Vice Chancellor for the University of Ibadan that would succeed Prof Isaac Adewole has been put on hold for now. The reason for the suspension Daily Sun learnt is due...
View ArticleTribunal dismisses Ajimobi, APC’s motion
The governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has dismissed a motion filed before it by counsel for the state Governor Abiola Ajimobi and the state chapter of the All...
View ArticleWe rape our victims before killing them – Robbery suspects
Six armed robbers, who specialised in raping and killing their victims were on Thursday arrested by the Oyo State Police Command in Ogbomoso after they were traced through a mobile telephone they...
View ArticleIslamic bank to begin operation in S/West
The South-West zonal committee for the operation of Jaiz Bank Plc said the bank would begin operation in Ibadan and other cities in the South-West towards the end of the year after all documents and...
View ArticleCBN staff donate borehole, generator to health centre in Oyo
Staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Ibadan office have donated borehole and generator centre to Ojoo Health Centre in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo state. The bank’s Branch Controller,...
View ArticleOyo Election Petition: Ladoja, Ajimobi set to present witnesses
The Governorship Candidate of Accord Party in Oyo State, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja, and the state governor, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, have been slated to present 202 and 150 witnesses respectively at the...
View ArticleWe’ll clear N11bn debt to workers by October —Ajimobi •We can’t wait for...
OYO State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the accumulated salaries owed the state workers had been reduced from about N17 billion to about N11 billion, assuring that the outstanding...
View ArticlePolice discover another kidnappers’ den in Oyo
The Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mr Muhammad Katsina, on Tuesday said that his command had discovered another kidnappers’ den at Oyagbe area in Oyo town. Katsina said this at a news briefing...
View ArticleResident doctors accuse UCH management of mismanagement
The striking Resident Doctors Association, University College Hospital, Ibadan, has accused the management of the institution of wasting several billions of naira allocated to it by the Federal...
View ArticleMan, 24, docked for scaling fence into Judge’s house to steal
A 24–year old vigilante, John James , was arraigned before an Iyaganku Senior Magistrates ‘ court sitting at Ibadan, Oyo state, on Tuesday for an alleged attempt to steal at a Judge’s residence. James...
View ArticleStudent embezzles niece’s school fee, slits her throat
An undergraduate of a college of education in Oyo State, Olajide Ajayi, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for attempting to kill his niece, who is also his school mate, by cutting her...
View ArticleSketch newspaper staging a return
Sketch newspaper which was last published in the 90s is returning to the newsstands soon. Mr Bode Oyewole, the Chairman, Spark Communications Limited, the firm engaged to revive the moribund...
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