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As he attains the Platinum age of 70 on October 10, 2024, Professor Is’haq Olanrewaju Oloyede’s public service trajectory has marked him out as a rare breed Nigerian, who is apparently immune to the general malaise bedevilling the nation’s socio-economic milieu. Here is a university don whose entire public service record radiates transparency, accountability, single-minded commitment to service excellence, administrative acumen, dogged commitment to the achievement of set goals, undiluted integrity, effortless exhibition of leadership by example and unapologetic insistence on fairness to all! In the face of a national feeling of hopelessness, despondency and unending apprehension over whether anything good could ever come out of Nigeria, fuelled by a near general belief that the country is probably primed for failure or even decidedly doomed to perdition, the actions of a few exceptional Nigerians tend to elicit a glimmer of exultation. The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matricu

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, This afternoon, begin a three-day warning strike over a long detention of their colleague in the den of kidnapper, poor welfare, among others. Details..

  The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, OYOSUBEB, has officially released results, of its just concluded computer-based tests. This was disclosed by the Executive Chairman of the Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran, which was made available to the journalists on Wednesday in Ibadan. In the statement Dr. Adeniran said the Board has set minimum cut-off marks for qualification to the next stage in the recruitment exercise. Dr. Adeniran said the cut-off mark in the exercise, is 50%. The cut off mark, according to him will set the tone for the recruitment process. He further advised all candidates to log into their portal, as their results have been posted there already. Dr. Adeniran reiterated the Board’s commitment to enhancing educational infrastructure and services in the State.

    It was outrageous on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, as one of the wards in the University College Hospital Ibadan refused treatment for a sick newborn baby, over his mother’s refusal to remove her Niqab. This Incident brought about responses and counter-responses from different stakeholders and individuals. Some wish the incident should be settled within the hospital environment, while some call for the suspension of those officers involved in it. A petition was also written to the Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, on the issue, demanding to look into the absurd event within his jurisdiction. Father of the child, while expressing dismay at the revelations, said on his Facebook page: He was made to pay some bills before those attending to them informed his wife that she could not be allowed access to the ward with her veil. He said; “I don’t know how to put this but I can’t let it go. They just rejected my 4-day-old baby this night aroun

The Osi Balogun of Ibadanland, Oba Lateef Gbadamosi Adebimpe is dead. Oba Adebimpe died on Wednesday after a brief illness. His own father, Oba Gbadamosi Akanbi Adebimpe ruled for six months as Olubadan of Ibadanland in 1976. He represented the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Akinloye Owolabi Olakulehin at the unveiling of the new palace of Olubadan at Oke Aremo in Ibadan North local government area on July 10. The unveiling of the new palace as reliably gathered was his last official outing.   He was conspicuously absent at the coronation of Oba Olakulehin as the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland held at the Mapo Hall. The details of his transition was sketchy at the time of filing the report. 

  President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Professor John Obafunwa as the new Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research. A statement by the Presidency on Monday noted that Obafunwa succeeds Professor Babatunde Salako, whose tenure expires on July 23, 2024. The appointment takes effect from July 24, 2024. The President also extended his appreciation to the outgoing DG for his service to the nation and wished him well in his future endeavours. The statement added, “The President expects the new Director-General to bring his immense wealth of experience and qualifications to bear in this role to further drive the NIMR’s objective of leading research into diseases of public health importance in Nigeria. “The President expects him to develop structures for the dissemination of research findings while providing the enabling environment and facilities for health research and training in cooperation with the federal and state ministries of health.” Obafunwa qualified in m

After eight years in office as Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Babatunde Lawal Salako will be bowing out of office next Tuesday 23 July, 2024 with a remarkable chain of glittering achievements. When he was appointed in 2016, little did the pundits know that his appointment was for a mission: a mission of destiny reconstruction, infrastructural development, reformation, and global visibility of the Institute.      Today, the imposing modern administrative edifice, with the state-of-the-art facilities situated within the serene environment of NIMR is to say the least, a visible testimony to the sagaciousness of Prof. Salako’s leadership qualities. The building which had been abandoned for many years before Prof. Salako’s appointment, attracted the attention of the DG who mobilized men and materials towards the completion of the edifice. Prof. Salako, like present-day mythical king Midas soon turned around waste to wealth and transformed rubbles to b

The Muslim Community in Oyo State, has called on Governor Seyi Makinde,to immediately take pro -active measures to avert a possible breach of security in the state. The call was made in Ibadan on Tuesday in a statement signed by Alhaji Ishaq Kunle Sanni and Alhaji Murisiku Abidemi Siyanbade, Chairman and Secretary General,  Muslim Community of Oyo State. The statement said the problems surrounding the Imamship issue in Ogbomoso and the religious crisis that happened on the day of the last Eid-el-Kabir festival are serious threats to the peace of Oyo State. “In fact, we are sitting on a keg of gunpowder,” the community said. They said Governor Makinde as the Chief Security Officer of the State cannot continue to remain indifferent to the two developments. The statement reads thus  :  ” OGBOMOSO IMAMSHIP TUSSLE The problem of Imamship in Ogbomoso, initially an Ayilara intra-family issue, has snowballed into a crisis now involving the Soun of Ogbomoso and even beyond Ogbomoso. “The Muslim

PRESS RELEASE:   A Young man, Mr Abdulazeez Suleiman, was wounded with his two wives, while some other Muslims sustained injuries on Sunday, 16th June 2024 when a pastor and his gang  (worshippers who invited uniformed soldiers) attacked them while slaughtering their cow for this year's Salah in front of their house at Barracks area of Iseyin, Oyo State. A  Press statement issued on Saturday 22nd of June 2024 by the Oyo State branch Ambassador of MURIC, Mallam Ibrahim Agunbiade. reads: MURIC Oyo State Chapter has watched with great shock and gloom the viral video trending on social media, that contains dastardly acts of harassment and humiliation perpetrated by a pastor and seventeen barbaric and heartless soldiers on the personality of Mr Suleiman AbdulAzeez  when he was slaughtering  sacrificial animal for Eid Adha celebration in his compound on  Sunday 16th June 2024. MURIC confirmed that the main suspect is one, Damilola Stephen a.ka. 'Recruit Soldier' and other sevente

The Oyo State High Court in Ibadan has fixed Tuesday May 21 to deliver judgment in a suit filed by Muslim Rights Concern ( MURIC) and 11 female Muslim students of the University of Ibadan International School Ibadan (ISI) against the school over the refusal of the school management to allow the students to wear hijab on their school uniform. The case was transferred from Justice Ladiran Akintola of Oyo State High Court who was previously handling the matter to Justice M. Ishola.  The parents of the students had dragged the institution before the court on behalf of their children, on allegations that the school infringed on their children’s fundamental human rights by not allowing them to wear hijabs on their school uniform. Justice Moshood Ishola, the presiding judge, had earlier adjourned the matter for judgment after counsel for the parties adopted their processes and presented arguments for and against the suit on Friday, 23rd of Feb 2024. It will be recalled that MURIC counsel, Bar