Category: Oyo State

The Olubadan designate, Oba Rashidi Ladoja has urged Ibadan residents to make peaceful co-existence their watch word. He gave this advice during a meeting with the Council of Traditional Baales in Ibadanland, held at Olubadan Palace, Oke-Aremo Ibadan, on Wednesday. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Olubadan, Gbenga Ayoade, in Ibadan, the […]

Oyo State Signage and Advertising Agency, (OYSAA) will soon remove all illegal, and debtor advertising structures in the state. The agency’s Director General, Hon. Oludolapo Esho Ajanaku disclosed this in his office. Underscoring the imminent enforcement exercise, he said that most outdoor advertising practitioners are yet to fulfill their obligations as regards revalidation and debt […]

The incoming Olubadan, Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja  Olakulehin’s mourning begins Members of the Olubadan-In-Council are expected to commence the process of installing the 44th Olubadan, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, The 21 day mourning of the departed Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, began on Tuesday. This signals off the performance of the traditional ceremonies by the […]

Oyo State Government has issued land allocation letters to cashew merchants based at the Ultra-Modern Business Complex in Ogbomoso. While presenting the certificates in his office, the Commissioner for Investment, Trade, Cooperatives, and Industry, Hon. Adeniyi Adebisi, emphasized that this event marked the resolution of a prolonged land regularization process between the merchants and the […]

sets July 21 deadline  Oyo State Government has given the  final warning to traders at the Ogunpa Central International Market, Ibadan, to vacate the roadsides. It gave July 21 as the deadline for them to voluntarily vacate, and when it will enforce their vacation. Also, the government warned the traders to maintain proper setbacks for […]

Ten state coordinators, and 33 local government commanders have been sworn in to beef up security in Oyo State. Their specific mandate is to enhance grassroots security towards fostering community-based security across the 33 local government areas of the State. Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Inclusion, Mrs. Toyin Balogun, stressed this mandate while administering […]

Oyo State Government has vowed to complete all ongoing infrastructural projects statewide before the end of the Governor Seyi Makinde administration in 2027. The Deputy Governor, Barrister Bayo Lawal, gave this assurance during an on-the-spot monitoring visit to ongoing projects under the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP). He monitored two major project sites: […]

The passage of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin, in the early hours of Monday July 7, 2025,  has shifted attention of the ancient city’s unique traditional institution and people to a former Governor of Oyo State, High Chief Rashidi Ladoja. Oba Olakulehin, who ascended the throne in July 2024 as the 43rd Olubadan, […]