Oyo state

February 15, (THEWILL) - The Oyo state government on Tuesday disclosed plans to build an airport in the Oke-Ogun zone of the state. The state commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Professor Musbau Babatunde, made the disclosure, in Saki, while...

February 15, (THEWILL) - Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has approved the appointment of Senator Lekan Balogun as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Taiwo Adisa, said the approval follows a...

October 23, (THEWILL) - The federal government has urged the inmates that escaped after gunmen invaded Abolongo Custodial Centre in Oyo State on Friday to turn themselves in. The minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola, in a statement issued on Saturday by...

October 23, (THEWILL) - Heavily armed men on Friday night attacked the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town, freeing an unspecified number of inmates at the facility. Sources said the gunmen stormed the facility around 9.50pm throwing grenades to scare...

October 20, (THEWILL) - Scores of youths in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, on Wednesday, organised a one-year anniversary of the End SARS protests. The #EndSARS protests were held in October 2020, against the activities of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery...

October 18, (THEWILL) - The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled the suspended state congress  in Oyo state for this Saturday, October 23, 2021. It also warned against what it described as a fake list of delegates being circulated on social...

October 16, (THEWILL) -The Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has elected Dayo Ogungbenro as Chairman of the party in the State. Ogungbero secured a  total vote of three thousand, one hundred and ten (3110) votes in Saturday's State Congress of...

October 16, (THEWILL) - The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its ongoing state congress in Oyo state. The chairman of the Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, ordered...

September 30, (THEWILL) - The Oyo state government has asked the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, for a joinder in the suit instituted by the Rivers state government against the attorney-general of the federation in...

September 24, (THEWILL) - Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde has sent a list of ten commissioner-nominees to the state House of Assembly for consideration and approval. Among the nominees were five of the former Commissioners whose appointments were terminated during...