As part of efforts to internationalise its programmes and deliver on its mandate of technical and entrepreneurial education, First Technical University (Tech-U), Ibadan has signed a Memoradum of Understanding with Festo Didactic, a world-leading provider of equipment and solutions for technical education. With the MoU, Tech-U has entered a strategic alliance that would see it…

A middle-aged man was yesterday crushed to death by a truck at the Bashorun-Idi Ape junction, Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Eyewitnesses told The Guardian that the man, who was riding a motorcycle, popularly known as Okada, and whose identity is unknown, was heading towards Agodi Gate axis from Iwo road before he met his untimely…

A Few weeks after a fire incident at Onipepeye Bridge, along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, where people were burnt to death, another fire incident occurred on Friday midnight in Orita-Aperin Market, Ibadan, destroying goods worth millions of naira. The Babaloja of the market, Abiodun Hammed, said: “The fire started by midnight on Friday. We immediately called on…

Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has frowned at the poor approach to environmental sanitation in Ibadan metropolis and appealed to residents of the state to properly dispose their waste. Makinde made the appeal in a statement made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday by the Chief Press Secretary, Mr Taiwo Adisa. The governor,…

Operatives of the Department of the State Services (DSS), alongside the Nigerian Army and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), yesterday stopped a rally of the Yoruba Summit Group scheduled to hold at Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State.

Intermittently, cassava producers in Nigeria express frustration and lamentation over inability to sell their fresh cassava roots. Head, Agro-Economy, FEMI IBIROGBA writes on ways the farmers can sell their cassava roots profitably. Every three or three years, industry specialists have observed, the price of fresh cassava root crashes, bringing financial losses to farmers. This intermittently…

Youth Advocates Nigeria, a social welfare and advocacy movement for young people, has reiterated that agriculture is able to increase employment rate by 70 per cent rate in Nigeria if managed well. In a seminar that brought young farmers around the country together in Ibadan, an expert and president of the advocate group, Tolulope Aina,…

The Oyo State Government on Friday said that the chairmen of the 33 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 35 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) were sacked because the election that led to their emergence was illegal. Chief Bisi Ilaka, the Chief of Staff to Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, made the assertion in an…

I had just been posted to Oyo State for the one-year mandatory service to my country. I would forever remain grateful to those who initiated the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. To a large extent, this scheme has helped to detribalise Nigeria and made some of us to view Nigeria as one entity. This…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan has reserved judgment on an appeal filed by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State against the judgment of a lower court that declared null and void, the crowing and coronation of 21 new obas in Ibadanland. The three-man panel headed by Justice Nonyerem Okoronkwo on Monday reserved judgment…

Former Super Eagles Captain, Nwankwo Kanu has canvassed for better use of the newly-built Ilaji Stadium and Resort Centre, saying it has high standard facilities suitable for top sports activities and social events. Speaking during a five-day visit to the Ilaji Soccer Academy located at Akanran, on the outskirts of Ibadan, Kanu praised the proprietor…

A high Court sitting in Ibadan yesterday admitted the Chief Whip of Oyo State House of Assembly, Olafisoye Akinmoyede, who was allegedly linked to the murder of Temitope Olatoye, to bail in the sum of N50 million. Olatoye, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency, was shot dead on March 9…