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Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday said a total of N14.2bn was paid out by his government in less than two weeks before the end of December 2016. Aregbesola stated this when the State government opened the year with supplications as the Governor led Muslim and Christian faithful at an interdenominational…

Workers in Osun State returned to work on Tuesday after the Monday public holiday declared to mark the New Year day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the civil servants reported at the state secretariat in Abere and were seen carrying out their routine duties. Some…

The students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho (LAUTECH) is set to begin a mass protest across Oyo and Osun states on Monday, January 9 over the strike embarked on by the workers of the institution which has lasted for over seven months. The Acting Secretary General, Alliance of Nigerian…

The Osun House of Assembly has urged Nigerians to be optimistic as the New Year will be a year of economic recovery. The legislature gave the advice on Tuesday in Osogbo through a statement issued by Mr. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy. Oyintiloye said the…

A lawmaker representing the Obokun Constituency in Osun State, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has described the commencement of the Federal Government Social Investment Programmes, which include Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), school feeding, soft loan for artisan, traders and market women through Government Enterprise and Empowerment and N-power as a catalyst for the…

The Osogbo Progressive Union (OPU) has cautioned communities in the suburb of Osogbo, capital of Osun State against encroachment into Osogbo territory, in the interest of peace and tranquillity, particularly at the Abere area. The OPU, which is the umbrella body for all the indigenes of Osogbo, capital of Osun…

Nigeria’s is a young democracy by any standard. The institutions that serve to nurture and protect due process in a participatory system of government, which ours was designed to be, are very weak, not non-existent. The presidential system of government we run has the Judiciary, Legislature and Executive as its…

Senator representing Osun East Senatorial District, Mr Babajide Omoworare, has called on workers and people of the state to intensify their support for the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the government of Rauf Aregbesola in order to move the state as well as the Nation forward. In his goodwill message…

A soldier identified as Corporal Muritala Ibrahim on Monday battered the Chief Imam of the Federal Prison, Ile-Ife in Osun State, Malam Muritala Akanbi Tadese as the crisis rocking the renowned Islamic movement, Jama’at Ta’awunnil Muslimeen became messier. The soldier who is serving in Maiduguri, Borno State was said to…