Bomb threat: UI students disrupt examination over Boko Haram

Security men checking vehicles entering the University of Ibadan (UI) following a bomb scare at the university ... yesterday.

IBADAN – Students of the University of Ibadan, Wednesday, disrupted their second semester examination following the alleged non-response of the authorities to protect them from threats by Boko Haram to bomb the school.

Boko Haram threatens to bomb UI, UNIBEN, 18 others

Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Adewole

IBADAN – DISSATISFIED with its unchallenged bombing activities in the North, Boko Haram has threatened to extend the reign of terror to the southern parts of the country.

Deadly Floods: 102 die in Ibadan – Red Cross

Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi

Friday’s flooding in Ibadan, Oyo State killed at least 102 people, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

12 dead, many swept away as flood ravages Ibadan

The damaged Odo Ona Elewe Bridge with sympathizers and victims

No fewer than 11 persons were feared dead, with many others swept away by flood in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, following a Friday downpour that lasted about six hours.

‘Military used Adesanya, Ige, others to kill June 12’

Military used Adesanya, Ige, others to kill June 12

Former Chief Security Officer to the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza al-Mustapha, on Wednesday resumed his judicial testimony with damning ‘revelations’ of how the military used chieftains of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, to scuttle the agitation to deannul the June 12 1993 presidential election.

Ajimobi vs Alao-Akala: Drawing a fresh battle line

Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala

(PUNCH) - Three months after the governorship election, OLALEKAN ADETAYO writes that the political rivalry between the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and his predecessor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, is yet to abate:

Expect harsh economic measures, Jonathan tells Nigerians

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, told Nigerians, especially the business community, to expect harsh economic policies in the journey towards economic growth.

Attack on Awolowo family: Count me out -Tinubu

Tinubu

•Former gov writes HID
After a week of media bashing, former Governor of Lagos State and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has written the spouse of the late sage, Chief Mrs HID Awolowo, saying he had no hand in the media attack on the Awo family.

CCB gives public officers 2-week ultimatum to declare assets

AKURE — THE Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, has issued a two-week ultimatum to political office holders and top public officials who failed to appear before it during the verification exercise of their income and assets to do so or face the wrath of the law.

No corper for trouble spots

The Oyo State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps, Mr. Gabriel Ibe, has announced that the management of the agency will no longer post corps members to crisis- prone areas in the country.

Police kill three MASSOB activists, injure 60

View of central Owerri, Imo state's capital city

• One killed in NURTW clash in Ibadan

OWERRI - Police on Monday shot dead three members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) in Owerri and injured 60 others as they celebrated 44 years of the declaration of Biafra.

Bomb blast rocks Maiduguri as five die in fresh Ibadan violence

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim

Five persons were feared dead when gunmen suspected to be members of the Oyo State Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers engaged in a shootout around Iwo Road area of Ibadan, the state capital on Monday.

Akala, family travel abroad...as Daniel, Ohakim believed to have fled

Adebayo Alao-Akala

Perhaps to avoid the preying inquiry of the anti-graft agencies, the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, travelled out of the country last night.

Mob destroys PDP secretariat, attack excos in Ondo

Scores of obviously enraged members of the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday, took over the premises of their party secretariat on Oyemekun Road, Akure and sacked the workers and members of the state Working Committee.

Fashola undertakes pre-shipment inspection of trains in Canada

Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN)

Ahead of his inauguration for a second term in office, Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has pressed forward to continue work on the state’s light rail programme as he undertook a pre-shipment inspection of the trains in Canada to be used by Ekorail, the operators of the programme.

GNU will kill Nigerian democracy, says Akande

Chief Bisi Akande

ABUJA - The National Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, has said that the Government of National Unity (GNU) proposed for the next dispensation will kill the country’s democracy.

ACN sets agenda for govs, govs-elect, bars members

LAGOS - FOR those who will be governors from May 29 under the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, it will not be business as usual as the party will next week unfold the direction they should toe in delivering dividends of democracy to their people.

Oyo Governorship Polls: Jubilation halted in Ogbomoso as Ibadan goes agog

The jubilant atmosphere in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, in the early hours of Wednesday in anticipation of victory for the state governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, in the state governorship election disappeared as soon as it was announced that the governor lost the election.

Earlier in the day, many Ogbomoso indigenes had taken to town, declaring that the governor had been re-elected.

Akala fails to make history, floored by Ajimobi

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate in Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi

... As ACN makes a clean sweep of all the south western states

Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate in Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi has wrested power from incumbent Governor Christopher Alao Akala of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The electorate expressed their preference for Ajimobi through the ballot box in the governorship election conducted on Tuesday.

Scrap NYSC Scheme - Ogun Commissioner...As 150 NYSC Indigenes Return

Amidst tears of joy by scores of members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) who returned to Ogun, their home state from Bauchi yesterday, the state Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Olukoya Adeleke-Adedoyin, has canvassed scrapping of the scheme, urging the Federal Government to have a re-think of the programme.

The commissioner spoke shortly after 150 members of the NYSC serving in Bauchi arrived Abeokuta, the state capital.