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Police have arrested a family gang of suspected kidnappers for allegedly abducting a 5-year-old boy in Osun State, southwest Nigeria. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, paraded the suspects at the command headquarters in Osogbo, the state’s capital. Mr Adeoye disclosed that the boy was said to…
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The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said that the need to make the Osun society emerge a major player within the new knowledge economy and digital world informs his administration’s dogged battle to revamp education. Aregbesola stated this when he bagged on the 2016 Governor of Year Award…
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The Oyo and Osun state governments have said that they do not plan to increase the tuition fee of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH. This position was revealed to PREMIUM TIMES by the Special Assistant to the Oyo state Governor on Youth and Student Affairs, Bolaji Afeez, and spokesman…
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As news filtered in that the corpse of a 400-Level student of the Osun State University, Ipetu Ijesa Campus, Rofiat Adebisi, who went missing last week had been found in Iragbiji, Osun State, a fresh cloud of darkness descended on Mrs. Marian Ogunlana. Her son, 25-year-old Samuel Eke, a student…
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Market situations in the festive season have further corroborated the economic status of states in the south-west region as observed by Market Place. In Lagos State, the commercial nerve of the country, the experiences across visited markets have further justified the ranking of the state as the fifth-largest economy…
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AS part of its efforts in making banking services available to the nooks and crannies of State of Osun, Omoluwabi Mortgage Bank, Plc, opened another branch in the ancient city of Ilesa. The branch was commissioned by the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who disclosed that…
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Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has appealed to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to minimise the rate of industrial action by its members. Aregbesola made the appeal while receiving the national officials of the association led by its President, Dr Mike Ogirima, on Friday in Osogbo. He said in as…
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Founder of a Non-Governmental Organisation, Brave Women Association, Mrs Matilda Farinde, believes Nigerian women possess the potentials to transform the nation, if empowered and given proper orientation. According to her, women have become “change agents” that should be given chance to contribute to nation building. Speaking at the inauguration of…
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A 72-year-old man arrested in Iwo, Osun state for removing a human skull from a cemetery says he made a mistake. Idris Ajao claimed to be a bricklayer, but said a herbalist Tajudeen Jawesola had assigned him to exhume skulls from graves in the cemetery in return for N10,000. Police,…
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A magistrate court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, to arrest the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and bring him to court on January 6, 2017 The magistrate, Olusola Aluko, gave the fresh order on Friday when the case involving…
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