As the scarcity of petrol persists in Ibadan, transport fare has gone up by 100 per cent, newsmen report. However, in spite of the fuel shortage, newsmen observed there were there scores of people at some motor parks, who were set to travel home for this festive season. At the new Ife road park, the […]
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The Federal Executive Council, presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday approved $500m for the purchase of coaches, wagons, locomotives for Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe-Warri railways. The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Ameachi, disclosed this when he briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of the council’s meeting held at Council Chamber of the Presidential […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, said it has resumed loading of petroleum products from Oyo State, with the re-commissioning of its depot in Ibadan. NNPC in a statement in Abuja, said the re-commissioning was in fulfillment of the Presidential mandate of revamping the nation’s critical oil and gas infrastructure for the benefit of […]
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Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday said the Federal Government would deliver a fast and efficient rail service between Lagos and Ibadan by December 2018. Osinbajo, who spoke at the Nigerian Railway Corporation compound in Ebute-Meta, Lagos, during the ground-breaking ceremony, said the project was the segment II of the standard gauge Lagos-Kano rail […]
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The Federal Ministry of Works says the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has reached 40 per cent completion. The ministry had in November said that the work had progressed up to 32 per cent completion. The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr. Godwin Eke, during a tour of the road by engineers supervising the project, […]
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Igbo community in Ibadan under the umbrella of Igbo Community Development Association (ICDA) on Thursday said they will summit to rule of law in response to the order given by the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji on the leadership of Igbo community in Ibadanland. The Olubadan had last Friday endorsed Chief Alloy Obi as the […]
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Forty-six days after the demise of the last Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana, his successor Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, ascended the throne yesterday and immediately tabled a list of his demands before the government. Oba Adetunji who adopted the title of Aje Ogunguniso 1 pleaded for the creation of Ibadan State and the upgrading […]
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