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By NAN Makinde Williams, the Deputy Director (Research), National Commission for Museums and Monuments, says about 121,000 people visit the Osun-Osogbo Groove annually for the festival. Williams, who is also the Curator of Osun-Osogbo Groove, disclosed this on Thursday in Osogbo during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria….
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By Moroti Olatujoye The National Pension Commission (NPC) has confirmed that the State of Osun and 11 other states in Nigeria are the ones remitting the Contributory Pension Scheme. According to the NPC in a press release placed in one of the national dailies on Wednesday, Osun government was remitting the…
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By Joseph Akanbi A Former Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Economic Planning in the State of Osun and leader of the Bibiire Group, Dr. Adewale Bolorunduro has commiserated with the people of Ile Ife on the demise of Ambassador Olagunju Adesakin, Nigeria’s former envoy to the Peoples’ Republic of China…
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Barely seven weeks ago, the Fulani herdsmen killed over 70 innocent citizens in four communities in Benue state, I watched with the most annoying disgust the decision of seven northern governors visiting our dear president to endorse him for the second term. It was most irritating that one of the…
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The President (Aare Apapo) of the Grand Council of Yoruba Youths (Agbarijo Egbe Odo Yoruba), Awa Bamiji, has urged Southwest governors to emulate Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode by signing into law the use of Yoruba language as official language in the region. In a statement yesterday, Bamiji said this…
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In the next seven months, September 22nd to be precise, the good people of Osun state will decide successor of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the fourth democratically elected Governor of the state. The race is on for Governor of the state who will be saddled the affairs of the state for…
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By Joshua Oladipo An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded eight men, who allegedly robbed people of their phones and motorcycles at gunpoint, in Ilesa Prisons. The accused are Ogunosun Timieyin, 18; Adeleke Shina, 21; Olawopo Daramola, 20; Abidoye Semiu, 20; and Nkemko Steven, 23. Others are Olayiwola…
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Couple holding hands used to illustrate the story [Photo credit: Free Malaysia Today] A 34-year-old man has approached the Igando Customary court for dissolution of marriage after accusing his wife of being pregnant for her boyfriend. Ola Ismaila, an indigene of Ede, Osun State, said he got to know about…
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A former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adebisi Akande, has called on members of the party to support the reconciliation efforts led by former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu to ensure that the party does not “wither away”. The APC chief made the call in a statement made…
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By Guardian The Vice Chancellor of the Redeemer’s University, Prof. Debo Adeyewa, has disclosed that the school has capacity to curb Lassa fever. He gave the hint during the 13th matriculation of the university in Ede, Osun State. According to him, the institution has the capability to contain and eliminate…
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