Tag: Ajimobi
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Ajimobi warns traders against street trading
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has warned that traders who prefer to display and sell their wares by the roadsides instead of moving into the neighbourhood market stalls freely allocated to them by the state government will soon lose them. Ajimobi while restating the government’s decision against street trading during an unscheduled visit to…
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May Day: We’ll clear 4months salary arrears, Ajimobi assures Oyo workers
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has promised to spare no effort in ensuring that the state clears the four months outstanding salaries of workers in the state. He made the disclosure in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr Yomi Layinka on Sunday, ahead of the commemoration of 2017 Workers’…
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Ajimobi ruling Oyo with impunity, despotism – Shittu
…Says the governor does not invite him for stakeholders meeting Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, has said that the Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi was ruling the state with impunity and dictatorial tendencies. The minister stated this while featuring on a programme on television at the weekend. The enraged minister said: “This impunity…
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Drama as Ajimobi lists brother, ex-gov’s son among 57 LG caretaker chairmen
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has listed his younger brother, Mr. Teslim Ajimobi, son of ex-governor of the state, Chief Adebayo Alao Akala, Mr. Olamijuwonlo Akala among the 57 nominees sent to the state Assembly for confirmation as caretaker committee chairmen in state. The list of the 57 nominees was read at the plenary…
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Oyo NUT commends Ajimobi over appointment of Education Secretaries
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State Wing, has commended the governor of the state, Senator Abiola Ajimobi for the re-appointment of teachers as Education Secretaries for the 33 Local Government Universal Basic Education Authorities. The union gave the commendation in a letter addressed to the governor and signed by its State Secretary, Comrade Waheed…
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Oyo receives N7.2bn Paris Club excess deduction – Commissioner
Oyo State Government has confirmed the receipt of N7.2 billion as its share of the Paris Club excess deductions. Mr Toye Arulogun, the State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, made this known to newsmen in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Federal Government approved the sum of N522.74 billion to…
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8 months strike: NANS gives Ajimobi 7-day ultimatum to reopen LAUTECH
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has given Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, a one-week ultimatum to reopen the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) or face a mass protest. NANS also handed Prof. Francis Otunta, the Vice-Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, a seven-day ultimatum to resign for maladministration.…
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LAUTECH to get N500m lifeline, as Ajimobi reassures protesting students on planned reopening
Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, suspended the State Executive Council meeting to calm the frayed nerves of students of shut Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, who staged a peaceful protest to the Governor’s Office, Ibadan, on Monday. The governor said he suspended the meeting to address the students because of his concern…
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APC won’t rig Feb. 11 LG election in Oyo State, Ajimobi assures
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not rig the Feb. 11 Local Government election in the state. Ajimobi stated this on Friday at the Empowerment Programme of Sen. Monsurat Sunmonu held at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan. ‘’We won’t rig the local government election. We…
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We need to formulate, implement survival strategies to end recession in Oyo – Ajimobi
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says the state needs to evolve survival strategies in the areas of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), restructuring and blocking of financial loopholes. Ajimobi stated this in Ibadan on Wednesday at the inter-religious service organised by the state government. He said that it was only through the initiation of such…