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By Editor The management of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) has attributed the suspension of two of its staffers to breach of professional conduct. The Director General, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC), Mr Wale Idowu on Tuesday said the two employees of the Corporation were suspended for acting against…

By Editor The Osun state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party has described the Supreme Court decision on the lingering leadership tussle in the party as a good omen for the future of the party and democracy in Nigeria. A statement issued and signed by the Osun State Chairman of…

ABUJA – The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, sacked Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The apex court, in an unanimous decision by a five-man panel of Justices, handed leadership of the party to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Working Committee, NWC, of…

Omowunmi, wife of Chief Bisi Akande, the former governor of Osun State, is dead. She died today at the University College Hospital in Ibadan. She was aged 73. The cause of death has not been revealed by the family. Omowunmi and Bisi Akande got married 51 years ago, with the…

By Femi Makinde A series of protest by workers and students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, on Tuesday forced Justice David Oladimeji of an Osun State High Court sitting in Ede to reverse a ruling he gave that an ex-Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof….

By Femi Makinde Two workers of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation have been suspended indefinitely by the management of the corporation for allegedly calling Governor Rauf Aregbesola an unprintable name on a WhatsApp group, You and I. The duo were alleged to have taken to the social media to celebrate…

Ademola Adeleke, senator-elect for Osun west, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not practise democracy. Adeleke said this while speaking with journalists after collecting his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The senator-elect said he followed the required electoral process and emerged unopposed in the…

Reprieve has come the way of 220 victims of the recent crisis in Ile-Ife, Osun State, as the Dangote Foundation yesterday donated a sum of N50 million to them to cover part of the losses suffered during the mayhem. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and the Emir of Kano,…

The governor made the appeal on Monday at the inauguration of the Oyo State Education Trust Fund (ETF) held at the Governor’s Office in Ibadan. Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has appealed to striking teaching and non-teaching staff of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, to end their…