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The wife of the Osun State Governor, Mrs Sherifat Aregbesola, has asked children to endeavour to be close to God Almighty especially at this period of Christmas. Mrs Aregbesola made the appeal on Tuesday at the 2016 end of Year Christmas celebration and fanfare with the children held at the…
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By Kazeem Ugbodaga Fifteen years after the murder of the nation’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, activists, social crusaders, politicians, lawyers and others have begun to mount pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a fresh probe into the gruesome murder of the elder statesman….
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The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday called on parents that the decision to conduct qualifying examinations into the state’s newly built mega high schools is aimed at getting the most serious students into the schools. He said any student that qualifies to be enrolled in the school…
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Three tanker drivers, who allegedly stole 33,000 litres of petrol, was on Tuesday, arraigned in an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun. The three accused persons are: Abdullahi Oladapo, 43; Wasiu Ogunsola, 44 and Gbenga Makinde, 31. The Prosecutor, Insp Monday Ojiezele, told the court that the accused committed the offence…
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An international agricultural exhibition and conference will hold in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, in the first quarter of 2017. The event tagged: “Agritech Nigeria Osogbo 2017” is the first-ever Africa and indeed Nigeria’s largest exhibition and conference on agriculture, farm machineries, dairy, poultry, water technology, livestock equipment, agriculture processing…
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The immediate past Press Secretary in the palace of the Ooni of Ife, High Chief Funmilola Olorunnisola, 66, has passed on after a brief illness. Moses Olafare, the Director, Media and Public Affairs, Ooni’s Palace, disclosed this in a statement he released to newsmen on Tuesday in Ile-Ife, Osun State….
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Subscribers of different telecommunication companies in Osun State have lauded the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for its promptness in curtailing the excesses of the service operators. The subscribers including students of higher institutions of learning, members of National Youths Service Corps, market women, artisans, and civil servants and others who…
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On Monday December 19, three newspapers ran a syndicated story, almost verbatim, an allegation from Osun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), signed by Diran Odeyemi, that Governor Aregbesola is planning to divert N11 billion Paris Club debt refund that Osun and other states got from the Federal Government a few days…
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One of the persons arrested but later released in connection with the murder of Mr Bola Ige, Lekan Oyediran, is insisting that 24 of them arrested are innocent. While he claims innocent of the crime, he lamented that he lost his investment in a drug store and his wife also died…
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No fewer than five persons were feared killed yesterday in a battle of supremacy between two rival cult groups in Osogbo, Osun state capital. Besides, several others who sustained various degree of injuries were reportedly receiving treatments in various hospitals in the town. Though the State Commissioner of Police, Mr….
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