By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has inaugurated the 9-member Oyo State Elders’ Council, calling on its members to provide his administration with robust suggestions and feedback from across the state. The Council, which has its members drawn from all the zones of the...
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The Oyo State Government on Thursday in Ibadan ordered the reopening of 23 schools across the Atiba, Afijio, Oyo East and Oyo West Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. This was after the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr Bayo Lawal, met with several actors in the boundary crisis...
Members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP on Wednesday, visited Gov. Seyi Makinde to commiserate with him and people of Oyo State over the Jan. 16 explosion in Ibadan. The BoT led by its chairman, Sen. Adolphus Wabara, met the governor at his office, State Secretariat...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) certificate of a mining company indicted for Tuesday’s explosion in the Bodija area of Oyo State showed some foreign names as owners. Makinde, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has called on the people of the state to remain calm over the explosion that occurred on Tuesday evening in Ibadan. Makinde, while addressing newsmen on Wednesday in Ibadan, said that his government would do everything possible to provide succour to everyone affected...
Oyo Government says two persons lost their lives while a total 77 others suffered varying degrees of injuries in the explosion that rocked Bodija area of Ibadan and its environs yesterday night. Gov. Seyi Makinde made the disclosure in Ibadan on Tuesday when he paid a visit to...
Oyo State Government has said that the Accountant-General of the state, Mrs Kikelomo Adegoke, did not contradict the position of Gov. Seyi Makinde on the payment of judgment debt to the sacked local government chairmen and councillors. The Special Adviser to the Governor, Mr Sulaimon Olanrewaju, made the...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has declared 3-day of state mourning in honour of the late Rotimi Akeredolu, who was Governor of Ondo State and Chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum. The directive of Makinde, who is also the Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, is contained...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has expressed sadness over the death of his Ondo State counterpart, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, describing it as a painful loss to Yorubaland and Nigeria in general. Governor Makinde, stated this in a condolence message issued in Ibadan...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDP-GF) on Monday congratulated Governor Oluseyi Makinde of Oyo State on his 56th birthday. The Chairman of PDP-GF, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, celebrated Makinde in a statement issued by the forum Director-General, Cyril Maduabum,...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has said the state government would not pay the sacked local government chairmen until the Supreme Court orders him to do so. Governor Makinde said this on Saturday in Ibadan while commenting on the garnishee order on state government accounts recently secured from...
The installation processes of the 21st Soun of Ogbomoso on Tuesday, climaxed with the presentation of staff of office/instrument of office to Oba Ghandi Olaoye by Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. Makinde, in his remarks, urged the 62-year-old traditional ruler to take steps that would ensure unity...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that his administration will pay the 13th month salary to workers in the state for the fifth year running, noting that workers will receive the payment before December 31. This was in spite of...
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has been honoured with the Governor of the Year award at the PINK Awards held on Sunday in Lagos. Also, Mudashiru Obasa, Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, bagged a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Sen. Adenigba Fadahunsi, rerepresenting Osun East Constituency,...
Ondo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has approved the payment of N25,000 and N15,000 to workers and pensioners in the state respectively as wage award to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. Makinde announced the wage award while addressing workers who stormed the Governor’s Office on Monday in Ibadan...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), on Wednesday tasked Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State to follow due process in the selection of the next Alaafin of Oyo. Prof. Ishaq Akintola, Executive Director, MURIC, said this in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. “There has been prolonged controversy over...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Oyo State have insisted on having direct negotiation with Gov. Seyi Makinde on demands of the civil and public servants in the state to avert the impending strike. Consequently, it has directed civil and public servants in the state to converge on the Government...
Oyo State government has commenced the issuance of promotion letters to 2,166 eligible civil servants who were promoted in 2021, an official said on Wednesday in Ibadan. The Chairman, Oyo State Civil Service Commission, Alhaji Kamoru Aderibigbe, indicated in a statement that the beneficiaries have been receiving the promotion...
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Ibadan has adjourned hearing of the application by Allied Peoples’ Movement Party (APM) seeking to withdraw the petition challenging Makinde’s victory to Thursday. The APM had approached the tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaration of Makinde of Peoples Democratic...
Governor of Oyo State, ‘Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, attended a meeting of frontline leaders of thought in the pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, stating that he remains committed to the process of ensuring peace, unity and progress of Yorubaland. The governor, who spoke shortly after the meeting held at the...