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Oyo Govt Shuts down Illegal Tertiary Institution In Oke-Ogun   The Oyo State government has ordered the immediate closure of Oke-Ogun College of Management Sciences and Technology, Iseyin. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem, said the institution was shut down for non-compliance with registration procedures. Abdu-Raheem, while sealing off the college, urged proprietors of schools to always do the needful in their quest to establish schools. He said this would avoid unnecessary embarrassment for both the state and the proprietors. The commissioner, had earlier last month, invited and directed the Proprietor of the College, Mr. Adewale Owoseni, to remove all billboards with the inscriptions of the school until the needful is done. Connected with INSTANTnews on Watsapp                        08102022907 He, therefore, affirmed the state government’s commitment to ensure d...

Health: Oyo Health Workers’ Union To Begin Seven Days Warning Strike Monday The Oyo State Chapter of the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) will commence a 7-day warning strike on Monday, 24th June, 2024. The notice of the warning strike was disclosed by the Union President, Comrade John Fabunmi on Sunday. He noted that the seven days industrial action will involve all the members of the Union across all health institutions in the state including ministries, departments and local government areas. Comrade Fabunmi disclosed that the strike action is imperative to press further the demands of the Union, revealing that the Union has reminded the state government of its grievances but nothing was done to assuage the situation. The letter reads: Connected with INSTANTnews on Watsapp                        08102022907 Re: Notification of Industrial Action ”Sequel to our letter with ref. No. OYSC/MHWUN/AD/INDU.ACT/05...

Botswana Maize, Fashola Farm Settlements Mere Media Noise – Oyo APC Slammed Makinde  The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has berated Governor Seyi Makinde over his alleged failure to come up with concrete actions capable of assisting the state to fully explore its potentials in agriculture and other key sector of the economy in the last five years as this has resulted in food crisis and high rate of unemployment in the state. Experts have heaped the blame of palpable food crisis and inflation in the country on government at all levels even as they warned that the trend might take a worse dimension in the coming years on account of lip service being paid to the promotion of agriculture, environment and security. In a statement issued on Thursday and made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, Oyo APC posited the claim by Gov. Makinde, as contained in his recent statewide broadcast, that his government had lifted 20,000 household f...