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To lessen the financial burden of transportation during the yuletide, the Osun State Government has offered to provide free Christmas and New Year train services for its citizens who would want to return home to celebrate with their relatives. The Osun government is extending the welfare gesture to residents despite…
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Eminent legal practitioners have described the bench warrant of arrest issued by a magistrate, Olusola Aluko, against a paramount traditional in Osun State, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, as a joke taken too far. Yusuf Ali, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA)…
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We unequivocally condemn first, the actions of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) towards the protest embarked upon by the students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) on 9th December, 2016. They were reportedly shooting at the students sporadically and tear-gasing them, Are Police really our friends like they portray…
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has celebrated his first anniversary on the throne. A researcher/author Oluwaseun Okunnuga, has written a compendium on the monarch’s efforts to unite the Yoruba. ADEGUNLE OLUGBAMAILA writes on what inspired Okunnuga. A researcher, Oluwaseun Okunnuga, has taken note of the efforts…
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Osun state police commissioner Fimihan Adeoye has said that he was not aware of any bench warrant of arrest against the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi. The police boss said he has not been briefed about the development and warned that the police should not be dragged into Obaship…
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An Osun State Chief Magistrate Court has issued a warrant of arrest against a first class traditional ruler in the state, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi after he failed to show up in court to defend allegations against him. The arrest warrant is coming days after Chief Magistrate,…
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Osun State House of Assembly has finally cleared the insinuation surrounding the bailout loan amounting to 34.988 billion Naira which was given to the state by the Federal Government. The clearance by the Assembly followed the presentation of the report of investigation on the 25.871 billion Naira given to the…
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The wife of the Osun State Governor, Mrs Sherifat Aregbesola, has asked children to endeavour to be close to God Almighty especially at this period of Christmas. Mrs Aregbesola made the appeal on Tuesday at the 2016 end of Year Christmas celebration and fanfare with the children held at the…
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By Kazeem Ugbodaga Fifteen years after the murder of the nation’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, activists, social crusaders, politicians, lawyers and others have begun to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a fresh probe into the gruesome murder of the elder statesman….
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The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday called on parents that the decision to conduct qualifying examinations into the state’s newly built mega high schools is aimed at getting the most serious students into the schools. He said any student that qualifies to be enrolled in the school…
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