The University College Hospital, Ibadan has openly announced that it has withdrawn its controversial memo which had mandated some of the patients who were using the health facility to pay a sum of ₦1,000 per day for electricity bills.
Africa Daily News, New York recalls that an internal memo, had mandated that each of the patient using the facility is to pay ₦1,000 on a daily basis. The management of the tertiary health institution said that it took the decision due to erratic supply of electricity in the facility.
It claimed …
Rapists struck again in Sasa area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, killing another female student, Grace Oshiagwu, after molesting.
The 21-year old Grace was said to be a National Diploma (ND) I student of Oke Ogun Polytechnic, Saki, Oyo State.
The incident occurred just two weeks after 18-year old Barakat Bello and 29-year old Azeezat Shomuyiwa were also murdered in Akinyele area of the city.
According to THE NATION, Oshiagwu was raped and killed on Saturday at her parents’ residence around Idi Ori, Sasa.
In a …
Oreitan, who is one of the leaders of the party in Ona Ara Local Government, was said to have been killed by the gunmen Wednesday afternoon.
Sources said the APC chieftain was murdered in his house located at Oremeji Agugu area of Ibadan.
Though, details of his death are scanty, THISDAY gathered that the APC chieftain was murdered after Dhur prayer in a mosque located in his house.
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Oladele said that a Honda Element SUV Jeep, with registration number, KSF 946 DB, drove against the traffic and knocked down two pedestrians waiting to board a commercial bus, killing them instantly and injuring three others.
The FRSC official attributed the cause of the accident to route
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday ordered stoppage of work at Omi-Adio Railway Station under construction on Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line over compromise of standards by the contractor.
Amaechi gave the directive when he observed the non-usage of stone for flooring at the station during his monthly inspection tour of the project, NAN reports.
“One of the benefits of this inspection is what is happening here now. Now, the contractor has been seeing to be doing very poor quality job in this station. We say stop and they have to start afresh.
“The implication is that if …
The Senate on Tuesday canvassed for the upgrading of Ibadan airport to international standard like those in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.
It also tasked the federal government on the need to complete the abandoned multi-million naira Ajaokuta-Oturkpo railway project.
The upper legislative chamber at plenary urged the Federal Ministry of Aviation and other relevant authorities to upgrade the Ibadan domestic airport at Alakia to the status of an international airport with modern facilities.
This was sequel to a motion to the effect moved by Senator Kola Balogun and 37 other senators cross political parties and geo-political zones of the …
The night guards attacked were reported to be working in Yawiri, Idi-isin, Tella, Anifalaje, Apata, Iyana Akanni, and Oju-Irin areas of Akobo where the robbers operated for several hours.
The leader of the security guard in the area, simply identified as Fagbenro, said that a security guard
The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in Ogun State on Saturday said that a man died while nine other passengers sustained various degrees of injuries in an accident on the Lagos- Ibadan Expressway.
Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the TRACE Spokesperson, told newsmen in Abeokuta that the accident involving a Mazda bus and a Mack tanker occurred at 10:15am near Saapade bridge after Ogere.
“The bus marked KRE-495 XA was coming from Ibadan while the tanker with registration number LND-868 XN was inbound Ibadan from Lagos.
“The axis is a diversion zone, with inbound and outbound traffic sharing the outbound traffic …
The Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the first to be constructed in Nigeria and Africa in 1960, shot the country into the world boxing fame in 1962 when it hosted the first world boxing title fight in Africa. The bout saw Nigeria’s Dick Tiger beating America’s Gene Fullmer to win the world middleweight boxing title.
The complex was one of the several infrastructure and institutions that the Chief Obafemi Awolowo government established and programmed to take the region and by extension Nigeria and the Black race to the pinnacle of global emancipation and development.
And from the early 1960s, through …
Akinbiyi explained that the accident occurred around 11am, saying that it was caused by excessive speeding which led to loss of control.
He noted that the commercial bus with registration number DDA 729 XA , after losing control, hit a culvert and summersaulted, adding that the driver and the bus conductor
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Details emerged yesterday about how a reckless car driver triggered the fire incident that claimed the lives of three people, three cars and more than 10 motorcycles in Ibadan during the week.
Also destroyed in the fire incident were kiosks belonging to a motorcycle seller and a lottery operator. The havoc wreaked by the incident according to eyewitnesses would have been worse but for the quick removal of vehicles in a nearby car wash. The operator was said to have quickly driven the vehicles to safety when the fuel started spilling from the tanker.
The 33,000litres fuel laden tanker going …
A tanker laden with petrol on Thursday fell and caught fire claiming two lives and burning four vehicles at Iwo road area of Ibadan around 3:00 p.m.
An eye witness, AbdulAzeez Hammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the tanker which fell and spilled its content, razed no fewer than four vehicles.
Hammed said he saw a man in one of the affected vehicles removing his child from the back of his wife when they saw the fire approaching their vehicle.
The witness said the husband and the child escaped while the fire caught the wife in the …
