Friday, May 22, 2026
FB X LI YT
Breaking
UPDATE 🇳🇬⚖️: Kano Rep Alhassan Ado Doguwa denies substance allegations over viral blue tongue clip, insisting it was “sweet blue candy” and blaming political enemies for the controversy. “West Africa is becoming a major global drug trafficking corridor after Nigeria’s $360 million meth lab bust,” Tinubu warns. BREAKING 🌍🔥: Seyi Vibez becomes Africa’s most streamed artist on Audiomack — Oluwaloseyi keeps choking the charts 🥵❤️ BREAKING 🇳🇬⚫: Abia Nursing Student Wendy Achumba Found Beheaded in Imo Apartment – Police launch investigation into brutal killing and begin manhunt for suspects. BIG STAGE 🇳🇬⚽: Ex Internationals Cup Kicks Off in Lagos – Nigerian football legends return to action as veterans light up the pitch in a star packed showdown 💪🏆 “Kidnappings in Oyo were carried out by terrorists displaced by intensified military operations nationwide.” — Defence Headquarters BREAKING 🇳🇬🏛️: Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has reportedly dropped Ambassador Abdulfatai Yahaya Seriki of the Ilorin Emirate axis and is now backing Yakubu Danladi-Salihu from the Baruten/Borgu axis of Kwara North as his preferred successor for the 2027 governorship election. Danladi is expected to face other APC aspirants in today’s party primaries amid rising succession tension within the ruling party. “Enough Of The Bloodshed, Yorubaland Is Under Siege” — Isese Welfare Association blasts South West governors and demands urgent adoption of indigenous Yoruba security and intelligence systems rooted in Ifa tradition, declaring that “our ancestors did not build Yorubaland for criminals to take over” after the abduction of teachers and pupils during coordinated school attacks in Oriire Local Government Area.
NEWS

Oyo Assembly Approves Makinde’s N50bn Loan Request

September 5, 2023 1 min read

The N50 billion loan facility is to be accessed at a concessionary rate of 21.5 percent per annum and repaid for 45 months at a management fee of 0.25 percent.

Approving the overdraft, lawmakers said the N50 billion would enable the state government to finance on-going road infrastructure projects across the state and take care of recurrent expenditure.

Also read at Tuesday’s plenary was the governor’s letter nominating Miss Adegoke Wasilat and Dr Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi as commissioner designates.

Speaker of the Assembly, Honourable Adebo Ogundoyin, asked the two nominees to submit 50 copies of credentials to the Clerk of the Assembly before the end of Tuesday with speculations that the nominees might be screened on Wednesday.