Tag: Ibadan
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Cancer, major cause of deaths, morbidity in Ibadan – UCH
Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, says cancer remains one of the three major causes of morbidity and deaths in the hospital in the last three years. Otegbayo said this during the opening ceremony of a three-day workshop organised by the Pharmacy Department of the hospital. The…
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[UPDATED] Rescue operations commences at collapsed building in Ibadan
Barely two days after a three-storeyed building collapsed in Lagos State, killing 20 people, another building has collapsed at the Bode are of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. According to reports reaching TNG, people are trapped and are still making phone calls under the rubbles. According to witnesses, no fewer than 23 persons were trapped…
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BREAKING: Another Building Collapses In Ibadan
Barely two days after a three-storeyed building collapsed in Lagos State, killing 20 people, another building has collapsed at the Bode are of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. According to reports reaching TNG, people are trapped and are still making phone calls under the rubbles, but there is no equipment to rescue them. Details later….
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Raging Fire Consumes 42-Passenger Mass Transit Bus On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
A 42-seat mass transit bus was on Monday morning razed by a raging fire along the Lagos-Ibadan Express way our correspondence gathered that no life was lost due to the incident which started after smokes was discovered to be coming from the driver’s side of the bus. According to some eyewitnesses who raised the alarm,…
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Election: Hoodlums kill one person in Ibadan
One person was killed by some suspected hoodlums trying to snatch a ballot box during Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Ibadan. An eyewitness, who identified the victim as Monsuru Hamzat, said the incident happened at Ward 2, Unit 13 and 14 Polling Centre in Ibadan South East Council area. The eyewitness said the…
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Tragic! Another killers’ den uncovered in Ibadan, many bodies found [video]
A killers den has been once again uncovered in Ibadan, Oyo state on Monday, February 11th. According to reports, the killers’ den was uncovered by a resident who lives along Iwo road. A resident of the area who just bought a piece of land around the newly built road safety station in Iwo road went…
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New Year Tragedy! 30 die in auto crash in Ibadan
There was pandemonium on Monday night near Bola Ige International market along new Ife-Ibadan expressway, Gbagi, Ibadan, Oyo state capital about 15 minutes to the new year as 30 reportedly died in a fatal motor accident. It was gathered that the victims were crushed to death by an oncoming trailer from Iwo road axis which…
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President Buhari felicitates Olubadan at 90
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday felicitated the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, on his 90th birthday holding on Sunday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President congratulated the royal father for a life well lived as he turns a nonagenarian. Buhari extended warm greetings to…
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Ibadan monarch plead for release of his abducted twins
Oba Lekan Balogun, the Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland has pleaded with the abductors of his 5-year-old twins to release them. The kidnappers had on Tuesday stormed the Akobo residence of the Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland, and made away with his set of twins, a not and a girl. Sources closed to the family gave the hint…