Oyo govt, MAN collaborate to enhance haulage fees compliance
By Adeyinka Adeniran The Oyo State Government, through its Ministry for Investment, Trade, Cooperatives, and Industry have partnered with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) to sensitize its members on the proper payment of haulage fees. The decision was reached when the Commissioner for Investment, Trade, Cooperatives and Industry, Adeniyi Adebisi, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Olajide...
2025 NECO: Oyo govt warns against exam malpractices
By Adeyinka Adeniran The Oyo government has urged all students to eschew any form of malpractices during the ongoing National Examination Council examination. The new Chairman Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mrs. Oladipo Olubukola gave the charge during the monitoring exercise to some secondary schools across different zones in the state on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Olubukola noted that the Teaching Service Commission...
How Makinde’s policies transformed Oyo’s night economy, reduced energy poverty in two years- Energy Commissioner
By Adeyinka Adeniran The Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Professor Dahud Shangodoyin, has explained that the policies of Governor 'Seyi Makinde in the energy sector have combined to transform the night economy and security of the state in the last few years. Shangodoyin maintained that through the Oyo State Electricity Regulation Law, the Light-up Oyo Project, the SMART LED Solar...
Oyo 2025 supplementary budget scales first reading at state Assembly
By Adeyinka Adeniran A supplementary appropriation bill totalling ₦270,854,500,000 for the 2025 fiscal year,before the Oyo State House of Assembly has scaled through its first reading on Wednesday. The Bill, it was gathered aimed at addressing critical funding gaps in both recurrent and capital expenditure for the state. The bill, titled "A Bill for the Supplementary Budget of Two Hundred and Seventy...
Agribusiness: We’ve attracted N46.6bn investments, supported 46,000 smallholder farmers, OYSADA DG says
...As state/FCMB set to give N1.5bn support to agripreneurs By Adeyinka Adeniran The Director-General of the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) and Executive Adviser to Governor 'Seyi Makinde on Agribusiness and International Cooperation, Dr Debo Akande on Wednesday said that the state government has attracted about N46.6 billion investments into the state through agribusiness. He maintained that Governor Makinde's vision to...
Oyo govt concludes 2025 Omititun free health mission
By Adeyinka Adeniran The Oyo state government, through the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, concluded the final phase of the 2025 Omituntun free health mission for different categories of citizens in the state. While speaking at the last stage of the programme, organized for both Public/Civil Servants, held at the Secretariat, Ibadan, Commissioner for Health, Dr. Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi said the free...
Court convicts social media influencers for Naira abuse in Ibadan
By Adeyinka Adeniran Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has convicted two social media influencers, Bukola Arike Rufai and Abdulateef Ayinde Jimoh for abusing Naira notes. The convicts were prosecuted on a joint one-count charge that bordered on currency mutilation by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The charge...
OYCSDA funds new 60 micro-projects in 30 communities in Oyo
By Adeyinka Adeniran The Oyo State Community and Social Development Agency (OYCSDA) on Tuesday, distributed funds to 30 communities across the state. The Micro-Projects, which are based on 'felt-need' importance from each community are under school construction or renovation, community health center's construction or renovation, erosion control as well as provision of portable water. In his keynote address at the training and...
Group urges Kwankwaso to return to APC, says return is home coming
By Adeyinka Adeniran A group of Nigerian professionals both home and in the diaspora under the aegis of Tinubu Nigeria Network (TNN) has urged former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC), as part of efforts to rebuild the party ahead of the 2027 elections. In a statement by the Director General Hon....
New Month: AWA seeks unity, progress in Oyo
By Adeyinka Adeniran A senatorial hopeful in Oyo Central, Alhaji Wasiu Ademola Alli (AWA), has extended warm greetings to residents of Oyo State as they welcome July, a new month of promise. In a statement he personally signed, AWA wished the people renewed hope, abundant blessings and lasting peace across homes, noting that the state remained a land of possibilities despite...
