Tag: Ibadan
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Ibadan to have 32 ‘smaller Obas’ as Olubadan retains paramount ruler title
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State Friday vowed to implement every recommendation put forward by the judicial Commission of Inquiry on the review of the existing 1957 (1959) Declaration of Olubadan of Ibadanland and Other Related Chieftaincies in Ibadanland, promising to begin the implementation next month. Receiving the formal report of the commission at the…
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Graphic photos: Pregnant woman, 2-year-old son electrocuted in Ibadan
It was a tragic Sunday, June 11, 2017 as sympathisers gathered to mourn the death of a pregnant woman and her two-year-old son who were electrocuted at the Alare Compound of Aremo in Ibadan North-East LGA. The incident reportedly happened when the woman was spreading some clothes she had washed on a line at her…
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Gov. Ajimobi launches ‘paperless’, e-governance initiative
Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Monday launched e-governance initiative to promote fast, efficient and service-oriented process of governance in the state. The governor launched the initiative at the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) centre in the governor’s office in Ibadan. Ajimobi said that technological innovation would help government do things faster and improve…
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Court remands six suspects over murder of Ibadan army school commandant
A magistrate court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Wednesday ruled that the six suspects who allegedly robbed and murdered the Commandant of the Command Day Secondary School, Apata Ibadan, Colonel Ekok Anthony Okey be remanded in prison custody. Okey was murdered on December 11, 2016. The six persons who were arraigned before…