Ibadan Indigenous Media

22/05/2025

*2025 Democracy Day Loyal Walk for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu*

In Accordance with the initiative of APC YOUTH LEAGUE National Headquarters loyal walk for Tinubu bid for 12th June, 2025 the Democracy Day, we are calling on youth to conglomerating With APC YOUTH LEAGUE to throw weight at President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his RENEWED HOPE AGENDA.

This event will bring ample number of youth from the nock and crannies of the country to rally support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his vision and status co beyond 2027

This walk will be a demonstration and testament of the exceptionality and uniqueness in the leadership style of Bola Ahmed Tinubu which is a result true democracy

We hope to have your presence and support to voice this sound and the echo of the wave to the world as a solidary to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration

Together we can make the Tinubu Loyal Walk 2025 a reality declaring our solid support to Bola Ahmed Tinubu not only as a walk but a work towards a great future as students and the country a whole

Yours in the Progressive move

*Com. Wareez Akolade Nurudeen
*Com. Taiwo Lawal

06/07/2024

Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, was among the newly inaugurated Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) . The Council, which is chaired by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was inaugurated in Abuja on Thursday.

08/05/2024

Ilorin is not Hausa or Fulani territorial area.

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Hundreds of years ago, there was a forest called Oko-Erin, there were many elephants in this bush, that was why it is called Oko-Erin [elephant forest], only the brave and powerful hunters live in this forest. Òjó Oníṣekúṣe [Ojo the promiscuous], who was from Ijesha, was the first hunter to arrive Oko-Erin he was a brave and powerful hunter. Ẹ̀mìńlá from Ìlá- Ọ̀ràngún also came and met Òjó Oníṣekúṣe in this forest; he was a powerful hunter too.

Both Òjó Oníṣekúṣe and Ẹ̀mìńlá do not live at Oko-Erin, they only hunt for a while and return to their family. Ọláderin arrived Oko-Erin after Ẹ̀mìńlá and Òjó Oníṣekúse. Ọláderin has a hut in this forest; he was the leader of all the elephant hunters at the time and he was the first settler at Oko-Erin. He was from Oyo Alaafin. Whenever his co-hunters returns from hunting, they took some rest at Oladerin’s hut, Oladerin was so powerful that both humans, elephants, and other animals fear him. Laderin has a big pot of concoctions, when he enters this pot, he can turn into any type of animal he desires. That was why he was referred to as Ola di erin [Oladerin.] There was a stone used for sharpening their machetes at Oladerin’s hut, whenever their machetes got blunt; they took it to Oladerin’s hut to sharpen it on this particular stone. while heading to Oladerin’s hut to sharpen their machete, if anybody asks them where they are going, they would say “mò ń lọ lọ irin mi lọ́dọ̀ọ Láderin” [I want to go and sharpen my machete at Laderin’s place] they used to call this stone Ìlọ irin [a sharpener]Ilorin derived its name from this stone.

The stone they used for sharpening their machetes is still at Bámidélé house in Ilorin today. Ojo onisekuse was said to have fled Oko-Erin because of his promiscuity, he was fond of sleeping with his daughter and family, and this act is forbidden when he was caught, he had to flee Oko-Erin. Eminla went back to Ila-O
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08/05/2024

Yesterday May 7, 2024, Honorable Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adekola Adelabu, represented the President on the Corporate Council on Africa, in Dallas at the US -Africa Business Summit 2024.

08/05/2024

08/05/2024

BBC Yoruba ṣe àtúpalẹ̀ ohun tó fa ìjà láàrin Obafemi Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola èyí tó bí ogun Wẹ́tiẹ̀ àti Ìṣubú ìjọba alágbádá àkọ́kọ́, àti ẹ̀kọ́ to wà nínú rẹ̀ fún ìjọba alágbádá kẹrin.

07/05/2024

*Privatisation problems*

The power minister told his guests that those who acquired the Discos when they were privatised, lacked the required expertise and financial capacity.

Adelabu said, “Our problem started from the privatisation era. Not that the privatisation has a problem in itself, but its implementation and ex*****on have robbed the process of its laudable objectives.

“We believe that people who bought the power companies do not have the required expertise to run the utility firms. Secondly, they were not buoyant enough in terms of financial buoyancy to pay for the power plants.

“All of them used bank loans to pay for the assets. And we all know that the power business is a long-term business. It is not something you recoup your capital and make profit in a short time. So they were all under pressure to repay the bank loans that they used to acquire the power companies.

“This is why today a number of them have been taken over by their lenders, either AMCON or the banks, both local and internation.

06/05/2024

Nigerians React to improved Power Supply!

06/05/2024

A view of Mapo Hall in Ibadan from Mapo road. It was completed in 1929 at a cost of £24,000 during the era of Oba Shiyanbola Ladugbolu, the Alaafin of Oyo and Oyewole the Baale of Ibadan.

06/05/2024

FG unbundles TCN, hands national grid to new company....

The new system operator, NISO, will be directly in charge of the network, especially the troubled national grid and other related market contracts controlled from Osogbo.

A fresh order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) will, in the next 30 days, create the Nigerian Independent System Operator of Nigeria Limited (NISO), leading to a split of the Transmission Commission of Nigeria (TCN).

05/05/2024

LAYING AXE TO THE ROOT

Long-standing obstacle on the highway of human progress is like a big tree producing poisonous fruits. It is the sacred duty of the reformer to lay axe to the root of this tree and then sow new one that would produce good fruits.
Let us subordinate our passions to the perceptions of the intellect in passing verdict upon the current Government and her Federal Ministry of Power. The ardor of the assailants is determining the vigor of the defender. Shareholders and beneficiaries of the Status Quo are not easily overcome. Success is assured by God's Grace.

05/05/2024

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History of Ibadan !

Ibadan came into existence in 1829.[2] According to local historians, Lagelu, the Jagun (commander-in-chief) of Ife and Yoruba's generalissimo, left Ile Ife with a handful of people from Ife, Oyo and Ijebu to found a new city, Eba Odan, which literally means 'between the forest and plains.' According to HRH Sir Isaac Babalola Akinyele, the late Olubadan (king) of Ibadan (Olu Ibadan means Lord of Ibadan), in his authoritative book on the history of Ibadan, Iwe Itan Ibadan, printed in 1911, the first city was destroyed due to an incident at an Egungun (masquerade) festival when an Egungun was accidentally disrobed and derisively mocked by women and children in an open marketplace full of people. In Yorubaland, it was an abomination for women to look an Egungun in the eye because the Egunguns were considered to be the dead forefathers who returned to the earth each year to bless their progeny. When the news reached Sango, the then Alaafin of Oyo, he commanded that Eba Odan be destroyed for committing such abominable act.

Lagelu was by now an old, frail man; he could not stop the destruction of his city, but he and some of his people survived the attack and fled to a nearby hill for sanctuary. On the hill they survived by eating oro fruit and snails; later, they cultivated the land and made corn and millets into pap meals known as oori or eko, which they ate with roasted snails. They improvised a bit by using the snail shells to drink the liquefied eko. Ultimately, Lagelu and his people came down from the hill and founded another city called Eba'dan.

The new city instantly grew prosperous and became a commercial nerve centre. Shortly afterwards, Lagelu died, leaving behind a politically savvy people and a very stable community. The newly enthroned Olubadan made a friendly gesture to the Olowu of Owu by allowing Olowu to marry his only daughter, Nkan. Coming from a war campaign one day, the raging Odo Oba (River Oba) would not allow Olowu.