Fire disaster hits four shops in agbeni market, Ibadan
No fewer than four shops with goods worth several millions of naira has been destroyed in a fire disaster at Jamoje Compound, Agbeni, Ibadan. According to Our correspondent, The inferno started in the early hours of today,(Monday), and efforts by residents and shop owners within the vicinity to put out the fire was to no avail leaving the affected traders lamenting their losses. The timely arrival of the officials of federal and state fire service prevented the spread of the fire to neigbouring stores and residential buildings. A resident Mr kehinde Ayinla and a trader who identified his name as
I escaped while the officer was talking – Ibadan Serial Killer Reveals
The man suspected to be behind series of killings and rape of women in Akinyele area of Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Sunday Shodipe, has revealed to police how he escaped from their custody after his initial arrest. Shodipe, who was arrested on July 17, said he decided to escape when he realised the police officer guarding him, who he simply identified as Officer Funsho, was engrossed in a chat with another officer at the station. Shodipe explained that the female Divisional Police Officer, who was recently deployed to the station, ordered Funso to allow him to take his
UCH Ibadan Chief Medical Director tests positive for coronavirus
The Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, has said that he tested positive for coronavirus. He made this known in a statement personally signed by him on Sunday morning. The statement read, “Unfortunately, my result returned positive on Saturday afternoon and I remain in isolation as I am not symptomatic. All staff who have been in contact with me and other participants during this period have been advised to immediately proceed on self-isolation pending the time they get tested.”
Hoodlums Attack Atiku’s Wife In Ibadan
Wife of a former Vice president and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Titi, was on Friday evening attacked by suspected political thugs at Sarkin Sasa house in Ojoo area of Ibadan, Oyo State.Mrs. Abubakar had arrived in the city two days ago to solicit support for her husband’s presidential bid.The Punch reports that an eyewitness said she had had a fruitful discussion with Sarkin Sasa and the Hausa community in the area when the hoodlums attacked her convoy.Some of the supporters in the convoy were said to have been injured in the attack.A chieftain of the PDP in
