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Police send warning signal to cultist groups over planned celebration of August 8
The Oyo State Police Command has sent a warning signal to some cultist groups over their planned preparations to adopt and celebrate August 8, 2021,...
Oyo to commence residents’ registration Monday
The pilot phase of the Oyo State residents’ registration programme will kick-off on Monday, August 9, 2021, the Special Assistant (ICT) to Governor Seyi...
ÀJÀKÁ ÒKÒ: What We Can Learn From The Dreadlocked ALÁÀFIN
Aláàfin Àjàká òkò was the third Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ who was the only Aláàfin to have ascended the throne twice. He was the senior brother of...
Oyo 60-year-old man lands in prison for alleged rape of girl, 14
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ibadan has ordered that 60-year-old Basiru Ajadi be remanded at the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town over...
Soldier stabs Ibadan tailor for alleged disrespect
A soldier attached to the Letmauck Barracks, Audu Abubakar, has allegedly stabbed a tailor, Ali Abubakar, in the Sabo area of Ibadan, Oyo State, for...
Botched appointment: We’re not partisan, Ooni Advisory C’ttee replies Alaafin
COORDINATOR of the Ooni Advisory Committee, Mr. Akin Osuntokun, yesterday, said members of the group were surprised by last Friday’s botched appointment...
Violence, protest mar APC congresses in Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, others
•Tinubu, Fayemi supporters clash, one killed, score injured Despite the riot act read Friday to all its chieftains in all the states across the country, violence,...
Hoodlums kill one at Ibadan store
Hoodlums reportedly killed one person while many others were wounded when they attacked Shoprite Mall on Ring Road, Ibadan, on Sunday night. An eyewitness,...
Commuters groan as ram sellers, buyers block Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Commuters on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Sunday were stranded as livestock traders caused gridlock on the road. Nationnewslead assembled that in...
South-West PDP kicks as faction opens secretariat
The Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West has condemned the recent opening of a factional Oyo State PDP Secretariat in Ibadan, the state capital. The...
DSS manhunt: Igboho trying to get new passport, flee Nigeria, says FG
The Federal Government has said Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, is trying to acquire a new passport to flee the country. It...
Again gunmen strike in Igangan, reportedly kill Amotekun commander
Residents of Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, were on Friday night thrown into confusion as gunmen struck again, allegedly...
N11.5bn fraud: Alao-Akala, others have case to answer – Court
An Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, on Thursday ruled that a former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others, have case to answer...
Two dead, others injured as truck rams into car on Lagos/Ibadan Expressway
Two people were reportedly killed while two others were injured at the weekend, on the Ogun State axis of Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, after a truck rammed...
DSS manhunt: 10 days after bloody raid, Igboho remains underground
Ten days after a bloody raid by operatives of the Department of State Services on his residence in the Sooka area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, wanted...
My daughter wanted to pay okada rider when truck crushed her to death in Ibadan market – Mum of poly student
Family members, friends, neighbours and other sympathisers on Thursday thronged the residence of Alhaja Fausat Adediran to commiserate with her over the...
Why Southern governors demanded power shift, by Makinde
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has explained the reason behind the decision of the Southern governors to demand the rotation of the presidency among other...
PDP set for congresses in Lagos, Oyo, Osun, others
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approved the timetable and schedule of activities for the party’s...
Five die, four injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident
The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) said five persons died in a traffic accident around Christopher University on the Lagos-Ibadan...
Yoruba nation agitators storm Olubadan’s palace, demand release of those arrested by DSS, police
Scores of Yoruba nation agitators, on Wednesday, staged a protest in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, demanding the release of agitators arrested by the...
