Two adult women and a motorcycle rider sustained serious injuries in a road crash involving a truck, a Mercedes Benz jeep and a motorcycle, on Monday in Ibadan. News Men reports that the auto crash occurred at “Azeez Ayinla Bus…
Another fire outbreak struck Ibadan on Sunday, causing significant damage at the well-known Gbagi Market. The blaze, which erupted around 1:23 p.m., destroyed two shops before firefighters successfully contained it, averting a wider disaster in one of the city’s most…
Poperty worth millions of naira, including 12 shops, were on Thursday night burnt by fire at the Agodi Mayegun Cement Store Market in Ibadan. Mr Yemi Akinyinka, General Manager of the Oyo State Fire Service, confirmed this in a statement …
A Travel Agent, Segun Ilemobayo, 34, has been docked in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court Ibadan for an alleged visa fraud. Ilemobayo was on Thursday charged with obtaining money under false pretence and stealing. He however pleaded not guilty to the…
A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan has remanded a 21-year-old man, Abdulahi Sayyid, over alleged theft of roofing sheets valued at N200,000. The President of the court, Mrs S.M. Akintayo, ordered that the defendant be remanded…
The Take-It-Back Movement, alongside various civil society organisations, ignored police warnings and staged protests across major Nigerian cities on Monday, including Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, and Osun state. The protests, organised to express dissatisfaction with the state of the…
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday sentenced 28 – year- old Abdullahi Tajudeen to six months imprisonment for stealing a motorcycle valued at N1.4 million. The Magistrate, Mr Maaruf Mudashiru, sentenced the convict to six months at the…
A dramatic scene unfolded in the Agbowo area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Saturday, 15 March 2025, when two men, Nziwe Nnamdi and Okafor Ifeanyi, were apprehended by security operatives for homosexuality. According to eyewitnesses, local residents had been monitoring…
Business activities at the Ibadan branch of MTN Nigeria were paralysed on Wednesday by a protest staged by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The students’ body, under the Joint Campus Committee (JCC) in Oyo State, carried placards with…
A Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday punished a 27 year-old man, Taiwo Ajala, for urinating in a public place. Ajala was punished after he was caught urinating within the premises of the court. The President…
