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Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Thursday in Osogbo described the demise of art patron, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi as the “passage of a good man.’’ He also described Gbadamosi, who died on Wednesday at the age of 72, as a leading industrialist, humanist, art and culture promoter and writer. The condolence…

A 28-year-oldman, Olalekan Akeem, was on Thursday sentenced by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court to nine months imprisonment for stealing a handset in a Mosque in Osogbo. The Magistrate, Mrs Olowolagba Olubukola, ordered the convict to serve out the sentence in Ile-Ife due to the magnitude of the offence. Akeem was arraigned…

By Mustapha Aleem Aipat Farms, a large scale fish farm based in Osun State, has raised alarm over the case of some magnet-wielding buyers, who uses magnets to half the weight of fishes before buying them. The farm, in an Instagram post, stated that the buyers used the magnet on…

Federal Government, through the Federal  Ministry of Health  is concluding a permanent  arrangement  to introduce a central posting for all Bachelors of  Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery(MBBS) graduating students  for their housemanship  training programmes in all the  registered Teaching Hospitals in the country from next academic session. The Registrar, Medical…

The Osun State government has paid pensioners till August, it was learnt. It condemned a protest by a group of pensioners in the state capital, Osogbo, yesterday. Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in the state staged a peaceful protest over unpaid arrears by the government. They accused the government of…

The Speaker,Osun House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, says the parliament will continue to support the Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led executive arm of government in providing affordable healthcare for the citizens of the state. Salaam said this on Wednesday in Osogbo while receiving the members of Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN)….

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun state chapter, yesterday said it was ready to assist the Senate in its probe into how bailout out funds collected by Osun state government was utilized.   The PDP in a statement by its spokesperson, Prince Diran Odeyemi in Osogbo, said Osun state got…

Pensioners in Osun have threatened to shut down the state, if the government fails to pay all their outstanding pension and gratuity. They stated this during a protest staged in Osogbo, the Osun State Capital. The pensioners in large number gathered at the former Fakunle High School Osogbo, as early…

Osun State House of Assembly has begun move to facilitate the revitalisation of the abandoned federal government projects of over N20.318 billion in the state. At the plenary on Tuesday, the Deputy Speaker, Akintunde Adegboye who presided over the sitting said, while the governor should be written to pursue the…