A pastor, Abiodun Sunday, has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his wife, Tosin Oluwadare, in Ido-Ile in Ekiti West LGA of Ekiti State. Daily Trust reports that the Ekiti State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident, said the suspect was with the command and that investigation was ongoing. It was gathered that the …
The Oyo State House of Assembly, through its speaker, Honorable Debo Ogundoyin, has directed its Standing Committee on Security and Strategy to investigate the banditry attacks on Kujifi, Kosobo, Ajirowo villages and some hamlets near Old Oyo National Park Area of Sepeteri in Oyo State, and also implore the state governor, Seyi Makinde, as a matter of urgency, to deploy …
There was mild drama at Papa Eleye, Zone 2, Oluyole local government in Ibadan, when a self-acclaimed prophet, Gbenga Idowu Ogundijo, allegedly smashed his eleven-year-old grandson, Keji Ogundijo, skull with a heavy cub. The incident happened on Saturday, last week. According to the statement sent to this reporter by Olusegun Idowu, who is the commandant of Oluyole Security Network, he …
A socio-cultural group, Council of Yoruba Elders, CYE, has raised an alarm to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to as a matter of urgency save their souls over the high rate of inflation and insecurity in the state. Daily Independent reports that the group made these call during a media parley which was held at the headquarters of the group in …
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has ordered commercial motorcyclists and tricyclists in the state to register under the Oyo State Residents’ Registration Scheme before 31 December, 2023. The governor stated this on Wednesday after the state’s Security Council Meeting. The governor noted that the state has decided to take steps against the menace associated with commercial motorcycle and tricycle …
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja has ordered the remand of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele in Kuje Correctional facility pending ruling on his bail application. The Nation newspaper reports that Justice Hamza Muazu issued the order on Friday following Emefiele’s arraignment and his plea of not …
A sixty-nine-year-old woman, Mrs Olaitan Gbenle, who retired as a Permanent Secretary with the Oyo State Government, was gruesomely murdered in her house along All Saints College Road, Idi Ishin, off NIHORT area of Ibadan between Thursday and Friday last week. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the woman was strangulated after her assailants tied her hands and legs. She was …
A yet- to be identified gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have reportedly killed a commercial motorcyclist, also known as okada, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The sad incident happened on Sunday night at Olorunda Aba town, in Lagelu Local Government Area of the state. According to an eyewitness who prefers annonymity told The PUNCH that the motorcyclist was …
It was a sight of agony and fear as some suspected gunmen allegedly killed one person and kidnapped two others in Sepeteri area of Saki East local government of Oyo State. According to The Chronicler, a Saki-based news outfit reports, the incident happened on Monday morning inside the Old Oyo National Park. Sources said local vigilantes and some security men …
The Police in Oyo State, on Friday, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist simply identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital. Kolawole was paraded at the Command Headquarters at Eleyele in Ibadan North-West Local Government Area of the state, alongside nine others who were arrested for various crimes at different locations within the state. …
