Oyo - Ogunwatch

Delayed arrival of electoral materials hampers Oyo local government elections

Additionally, as at the time of filing this report, only two police officers were present at Polling Unit 7, raising concerns about security and the integrity of the election process.

April 27, 2024

Metro

AAC warns gov Makinde against violence ahead of Saturday election

The African Action Congress (AAC), Oyo State Chapter, has issued a stern warning to Governor Makinde, cautioning against any attempts to disrupt the upcoming local government elections in Oyo State.

April 25, 2024

Politics

Yoruba Nation militias arrested while invading Oyo state government house

**Headline:** Police Arrest Twenty Suspected Yoruba Nation Agitators for Invasion of Oyo State Government Secretariat **Body:** In a significant development on Saturday, twenty individuals suspected to be affiliated with the Yoruba Nation

April 14, 2024

Metro

IBEDC gives reasons for poor power supply in Oyo, Ogun, others

The company acknowledged the challenges faced, attributing them to low gas supply to generating companies, vandalism, energy theft, and routine maintenance works conducted by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

March 10, 2024

Metro

Court Jails 17 internet fraudsters in Oyo, Ogun

The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of seventeen (17) internet fraudsters to various jail terms. They were jailed between January

January 30, 2024

Metro

I got fresh human head, hands from Islamic cleric, suspect says

The suspect, remorseful yet candid, disclosed to journalists that he acquired the gruesome remains from a Muslim cleric named Waheed, whom he met at a Maolud event. Kolawole, struggling to provide for

November 11, 2023

Metro

LAUTECH students sue gov Makinde over faculty relocation

While a date for the hearing of the case has not yet been scheduled, the court papers, dated Monday, October 30, have identified additional defendants in the lawsuit, including the state's Commissioner

November 6, 2023

Education·Politics

Court jails 41 internet fraudsters in Oyo, Ogun

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan Zonal Command has convicted and sentenced of forty-one online fraudsters to different jail terms in the Oyo and Ogun States, respectively. After entering guilty

November 3, 2023

Crime

Sunday Igboho urges stop to resurgence of farmers’ killings in Oyo and Ogun

Yoruba nation advocate, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, commonly known as Sunday Igboho, has urged security agencies to put an end to the recent surge in suspected herdsmen’s attacks on farmers in Iwere-Ile community

October 23, 2023

Politics

INVESTIGATION: on Ijebu Ode-Ibadan road where police collect daily N100 offering from drivers(video)

Traveling through Ogun and Oyo state, through the Maamu border, in an undercover investigation carried out by an Ogunwatch reporter, it was discovered that there exists at least, 7 police blocks and

May 17, 2023

Investigations