…the tanker rammed into some buildings before it exploded There was palpable panic in Apata area of Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday when a tanker conveying petrol skidded off the road and rammed into shops. The Daily Vendor learnt that residential buildings, shops, cars and a filling station were burnt in the inferno, which started around
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…the state’s Anti-Corruption Agency confirmed the arrest of the serving and retired civil servants The Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency says it has arrested some serving and retired civil servants in the state over a fraudulent contract worth N4.8billion, awarded in 2018. The agency’s chairman, Justice Eni Esan (retired), in a statement, on Wednesday, said the
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…A PDP leader, Femi Babalola said Makinde is also guilty of the points he raised against Atiku Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Oyo State have opposed Gov Seyi Makinde following his declaration not to support the presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. They spoke in Ibadan on Wednesday at the emergency
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…the suspects and others, now at large, armed themselves with knives and cutlasses to rob a resident A twenty one year old man, Lateef Ojo has been remanded in a correctional center by an Iyaganku Magistrate Court, Ibadan, on Friday over alleged conspiracy and armed robbery. Ojo is standing trial on the allegations of conspiracy
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…after raping the victim, the teenagers sent video of the sexual act to another friend Two teenagers have been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl and recording the act on their phones. The two friends, after raping the victim, were said to have sent the video of the
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…Makinde said he would leave the state in a better shape if re-elected. Gov Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says his focus is to move the state from accelerated development to sustainable growth if he is re-elected as governor in 2023. Engr Seyi Makinde stated that his government had in the last three years focused
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‘Makinde, according to the statement, while receiving the defectors, assured them of equal rights and privileges in the party’ Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) said on Thursday that they had officially received defectors from the All Progressives Congress, African Democratic Congress, Zenith Labour Party, Alliance for
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‘It happened opposite the farm settlement. There is a big poultry farm there. So the manager came there to inspect the work’ A farm manager (name withheld), alongside his girlfriend and two other workers, was kidnapped at a farm settlement in Iseyin, Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State. It would be recalled that similar
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‘The Oyo Police Commissioner, CP Adebowale Williams has promised to make examples of the masterminds of the unfortunate attack’ Iganna community in the Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State has been thrown into panic following an attack on the police station in the community. Sources claimed that the attack, which happened on Tuesday night, involved
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Police said on Sunday evening the suspected notorious kidnapper, Iskilu Wakili, who was arrested by the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) in Oyo State has been moved to the hospital over his frail health. Men of the OPC had on Sunday morning arrested Wakili alongside three others at Kajola, Ibarapa North local government area of the
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The Task force in Oyo State on Saturday arrested 40 persons in Ibadan for violating the state’s environmental sanitation law. The team also impounded 50 vehicles and 75 motorcycles during an enforcement exercise in the state capital. The state’s Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Abdulateef Oyeleke, who led the enforcement team, told residents
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Two people have been confirmed dead while several others were injured in a clash between some herdsmen and supporters of Oyo State-based activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, in Igangan in the Ibarapa North local government area of the state on Friday. It was gathered that Igboho’s supporters who have vowed to chase
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An operative of Oyo State Security Network, Amotekun Corps, Ibrahim Ogundele, on Saturday shot a police officer, Fatai Yekini, in the state. The Amotekun operative reportedly opened fire on Yekini when he arrived in the Sanga area of Oyo town with a team of police officers to dislodge participants at a carnival in the area
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Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose, has warned the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to keep off from the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ekiti State. This, he disclosed on Wednesday, at the meeting of the National delegates of the PDP, in Abeokuta, Ogun State. In attendance at the meeting were
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The police have re-arrested Sunday Shodipe, a prime suspect in the series of ritual killings at the Akinyele Local Council Area of Oyo State. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the news to The PUNCH on Sunday. Earlier, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had dispatched additional investigative
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