There accident has occurred at Lister, Ring Road close to the High Court.
The mishap involved a commercial bus en route Ring Road from Apata.
Although no life was lost, occupants who got injured have been taken to hospital for treatment.
Tayo Alonge
Oyo state government has granted semi-autonomy to four state hospitals for more quantitative healthcare delivery.
The hospitals are Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Yemetu, State Hospital, Ring Road, State Hospital, Oyo and the newly commissioned Specialist Hospital, Saki.
Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun disclosed this while briefing newsmen at the end of the weekly executive council meeting.
Dr Olatunbosun explained that the step would improve the standard of secondary healthcare and reduce bureaucratic bottlenecks in purchasing necessary facilities at the hospitals.
Also speaking, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Water Resources, Mr Jacob Ojemuyiwa hinted that the executive council has approved the rehabilitation of Saki-Ogbooro-Igbooho road through the alternative funding approach at the sum of 8.7billion naira.
Mr Ojemuyiwa said the project would be completed within 18 months.
Similarly, Oyo State government has equally endorsed the installation of 58 motorised borehole across the 33 local government at the sum of 312.2 million naira.
Iyabo Adebisi
A middle-aged man, Taoreed Olusola, on Monday, was shot by two yet to be identified men after being attacked on a motorbike on Government House road, Secretariat, Ibadan.
It was gathered that the man was being trailed by the two men from a bank after withdrawing the sums of 150,000 and 296,000 naira respectively.
The two suspected armed robbers were reported to have followed Taoreed closely to the spot, before descending on him to dispossess him of the money.
Taoreed, in the confusing situation, did not however know where to turn to but swiftly passed through the Government House road from where the assailants attacked him, shot him twice and dispossessed him of the money he went to collect in the bank and also made a getaway with the victim’s motorbike.
At the scene of the incident, bloodstains on some parts of the road, indicated that Taoreed crawled to the side of the road where he was helped by passers-by to the Intensive Care Unit of the University College Hospital, (UCH), by the officials of the Oyo State Environmental Task Force in their vehicle.
When contacted on the telephone, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, said he was yet to confirm the incident, noting that he was at an official assignment to monitor the ongoing recruitment exercise by the police.
It was also confirmed that the victim has given up the ghost and his remains have been deposited at the Adeoyo Hospital Mortuary, Ring road, Ibadan.
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