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The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Monday restated that his administration will not renege on its promise banishing hunger and making life meaningful for the people of the state. ‎The Governor at a programme commemorating the 2016 International Day of Poverty Eradication in Osogbo stated that his government…

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has called on Nigerians to stop consuming imported rice, better known as foreign rice, urging them to return to the pre-1980 era when indigenous rice was served only during festive periods. Aregbesola, who also advised Nigerians to embrace family planning, argued that when the…

The building of Federal Secretariat complexes in six states, which stalled for many years, is set to continue, following the approval of N700m by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for their completion. The states are Anambra, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Gombe and Osun, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde…

By Mustapha Aleem Oluwo of Owo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi has charged the government to industrialise the country so as to annihilate bad economy. The monarch who says this with a sense of patriotism gave an escape route for Nigerian to be loss from the loin of recession and bad economy…

Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho may not resume anytime soon despite being at home since June 9 when workers of the university began a strike over non-payment of salaries. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union, and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities in…

President Muhammadu Buhari, in a move to resolve the crises currently ravaging the All Progressives Congress, APC, met with some close associate of the party’s National Leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu behind closed at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari who returned from a three-day working visit to Germany over the weekend…

The traditional ruler‎ of Iwo Land, Oba Abdul Rasheed Akanbi, has initiated the rehabilitation of the long abandoned 44-kilometre Osogbo – Iwo – Ibadan road. Relief appears to have come the way of road users in the area as the project is expected to bring ease to the myriad of problems often…

By Mustapha Aleem Arguably, the feud between the country and recession got almost dopper in recent time as it is believed in some quarters that it is not just slugging it out the country and its citizens today. According to the Hon Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, Nigeria is in…

By Mustapha Aleem Some men of the Peace corp attached to the Muslim Middle school 2 in Oke Osun, have been alleged of taking lashes at two students of the school. It was gathered that the students, after they had gone out of school to get food at lunch break,…