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  • Ibadan building collapse: Oyo govt. to investigate, sanction culprits

    Ibadan building collapse: Oyo govt. to investigate, sanction culprits

    The Commissioner for Lands and Housing in Oyo State, Mr Olusegun Olayiwola, says the state government will investigate the cause of the collapse of a four-story building at Bodija area of Ibadan that occurred on Thursday morning.

    Olayiwola said this when he led some government functionaries to the scene of the incident.

    He said erring person or persons would be fully sanctioned after investigation, to serve as deterrent to others.

    Speaking with newsmen during the inspection, the commissioner observed that substandard materials were used for the construction.

    He noted that land allocated for the building project was not suitable for the kind of structure being built.

    Olayiwola added that the contractor handling the project failed to follow established procedures for constructing buildings in the state.

    The commissioner promised to present the Ministry’s findings to the deputy governor for necessary action.

    He, however, enjoined developers in the state to always engage the services of professionals whenever they wanted to construct buildings, in order to avoid disaster.

    Newsmen report that the structure under construction collapsed in the early hours of Thursday, leaving at least seven persons injured. 

  • Oyo Govt Congratulates UI on Ranking, Urges More Partnership For Development

    Oyo Govt Congratulates UI on Ranking, Urges More Partnership For Development

    Oyo State government has congratulated the University of Ibadan on its recent ranking as the highest ranking university in the country.

     

    The State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo said this when he paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka at his office on Thursday.

     

    Oyelowo said the ranking was a testament to the conducive learning environment of the institution and harmonious relationship among the stakeholders in the University of Ibadan.

     

    He used the opportunity to call on stakeholders in the university system in Nigeria to emulate the University of Ibadan to achieve excellence.

     

    “Let me take this opportunity to congratulate the Vice Chancellor on behalf the State government and the University of Ibadan on its recent feat of emerging as the highest ranked University in Nigeria in the global ranking.

     

    “This is a testament to the conducive learning environment and harmonious relationship between the stakeholders in University of Ibadan, I dare say Sir, that if not for the discordant relationship between the council and management of my own University, University of Lagos, we would have given University of Ibadan a run for it in the global ranking.

     

    “The lesson being that unity in diversity of various interests in the University community is sine qua non for all academic excellence.”

     

    He called on managements of Nigerian Universities to urgently resolve existing differences and disputes in their institutions and evolve suitable parameters towards the reopening of their schools like it was done in Oyo State.

     

    In his response, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka appreciated the visit and commended the State government for its collaborative efforts alongside the University of Ibadan to achieve development in the State.

     

    He stated the readiness of the University to continually partner the State in the areas of research, legal institution and in the area of tourism.

     

    He later visited the faculty of law in the university where he met with the leadership of the faculty and discussed issues of legal collaboration between the university and the State’s Ministry of Justice.

     

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  • COVID-19: UCH denies receiving N118m from Oyo govt.

    COVID-19: UCH denies receiving N118m from Oyo govt.

    The University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has debunked the claim by the Oyo State Government that it gave the hospital N118 million to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The spokesman of UCH, Mr Toye Akinrinlola, refuted the claim in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan.

    “The attention of the management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has been drawn to the content of a press release from the Oyo State Government that the sum of N118 million was given to the hospital to fight against the COVID 19 pandemic.

    “The press release quoted the Oyo State Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinola Ojo, as saying the said amount was released to UCH.

    “We contacted some officials of Oyo State for a clarification on this, but it seems there is a misunderstanding in the difference between the College of Medicine of the University of Ibadan and the University College Hospital Ibadan.

    “It therefore behoves the management of the UCH to put the record straight.

    “We hereby state emphatically that the University College Hospital, Ibadan, did not and has not received any monetary donation from the Oyo State Government,” he said.

    Akinrinlola said that the only aid the hospital had received from the state government in the fight against the pandemic was 250 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

    He said that all services rendered by the hospital against the dreaded virus were strictly humanitarian.

    “The Chief Medical Director of the UCH is a member of the Oyo State COVID 19 Taskforce.

    “He should know if any money was given to UCH outside the 250 pieces of the PPE given to the hospital.

    “All other services rendered to Oyo State by UCH have been strictly humanitarian and no financial benefits have accrued to the hospital.

    “The UCH has been able to cope with the rigours of the pandemic through donations from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) which is an organ of the Federal Government; some corporate bodies, well meaning Nigerians, alumni associations of the hospital, staff and students of the hospital.

    “I therefore wish to say once again that the UCH is not in receipt of any N118million as claimed by the Oyo State Government,” the spokesman said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyo State Government had on Monday told newsmen that it had spent N2.77 billion in the ongoing fight against the pandemic.

  • How we spent N2.7bn on COVID-19 – Oyo Govt

    How we spent N2.7bn on COVID-19 – Oyo Govt

    The Oyo State Government said on Tuesday that it had spent a total of N2,779,000,000 on the fight against COVID-19 in the state.

    Giving the breakdown after the State Executive Council meeting was the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Akinola Ojo.

    Ojo said a total of N900.5 million was spent on procurement of the COVID-19 palliatives and seedlings; N370.6 million was spent on the upgrade of the Infectious Diseases Centre at Olodo; N453.7 million on securing borders, security trucks and personnel; N118 million as support to the University College Hospital, Ibadan, for COVID-19 tests.

    Also, a total of N614.7million was spent on testing, kits and medical consumables, while N321.2 million was expended on purchase of ambulances.

    He stated further that N156 million was set aside for volunteers as 15,000 hazard allowance from June, backdated to March.

    He puts the donations from individuals and corporate institutions at N1.2 billion.

    Of the N1.2 billion, Ojo said N378.1 million is unspent.

    He said the state government is expecting about N100 million from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

    He added that the state also got N250 million donation from the CACOVID.

  • Oyo Govt. to recruit more teachers soon — Makinde

    Oyo Govt. to recruit more teachers soon — Makinde

    Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, says the state government would soon recruit more teachers to enhance quality education delivery in public schools across the state.

    Makinde stated this at the 90th anniversary of Government College, Ibadan on Saturday.

    He said the recruitment of more qualified teachers in public schools in the state, would go a long way in improving the performance of public schools pupils and students in national examinations.

    The governor reiterated the readiness of his administration to reclaim the lost glory in the educational sector.

    He said government would collaborate with relevant stakeholders that would help the educational system in the state.

    Makinde said that his administration would continue to find other ways to provide free and qualitative education to the people of the state from primary school to secondary

    He said the ongoing distribution of free exercise books and textbooks to pupils and students in public schools in the state, would go round all the schools across the state.

    The governor said that grants would soon be given to public schools, adding that management of such schools should be ready to give account of the grants.

  • TRENDING: Oyo govt demolishes Yinka Ayefele’s radio station valued N800m [video]

    Today, August 19, 2018 will remain a sad for veteran musician, Yinka Ayefele, as Oyo State government demolishes his [Ayefele] Fresh FM, an Ibadan-based radio station valued at 800 million naira.

    The demolition exercise, TheNewsGuru gathered, began around 6’o clock in the early hours of Sunday.

    The location of the station has been a subject of controversy in recent times, with the management of the station and the Oyo State Government locked in a war of words. The government had warned that it would take down the building.

    Ayefele had earlier taken the matter to court and blamed the state government of victimising him.

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  • Oyo govt seals three churches for noise pollution

    Oyo govt seals three churches for noise pollution

    …plans to seal more churches, mosques in the coming week

    …I was harassed by a pastor while sealing one of the churches – Commissioner

    The Oyo State Government over the weekend said it sealed three churches in the state for violating environmental laws government’s prescribed noise level.

    The Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Chief Isaac Ishola, who supervised the sealing of the churches said he was harassed by the General Overseer of a new generation church while attempting to seal off the church for violating environmental laws.

    The commissioner said the General Overseer allegedly molested, harassed and insulted him on the church premises to prevent the sealing of the church.

    He noted that the ministry would no longer tolerate what he called the impunity among religious bodies that were fond of exceeding the prescribed noise level.

    Ishola said: “…I was insulted and harassed (at the weekend) by a pastor, the owner of one of the sealed churches. He refused to comply with the state noise regulations. The pastor refused to attend a meeting when called. In fact, the pastor came out, pounced on me and said I could not seal the church because if I did, it would close my destiny. And I told him that I am a Christian too, but ‘you cannot use Christianity to disturb the peace’ of others…”

    The commissioner urged religious bodies to remove speakers mounted on their buildings, saying doing so violated government’s laws regulating noise in the environment.

    According to him, anybody who refuses to comply will be arrested and the premises sealed, in line with the laws regulating noise in the state.