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Residents of Osogbo in Osun State have decried their inability to spend the old N500 and N1,000 denominations in spite of the Supreme Court’s pronouncement that they remain legal tender until December 31. Residents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday, said they were happy with the…
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The security network of states in the South-West, popularly known as Amotekun Corps, has arrested a 24-year-old suspected rapist in Iwo, Osun on Friday. He was alleged to have been keeping a 16-year-old girl in his room for three days while having carnal knowledge of her. The Commander of the…
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The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Friday demanded the removal of the Commissioner of Police in charge of elections, Mr. Abayomi Oladipo, accusing him of bias against the party. Addressing newsmen in Osogbo, the Osun PDP acting chairman, Dr. Adekunle Akindele, alleged that the state had…
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The spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, has said Mr Isaac Omoyele, the Chief Security Officer to the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has not been transferred from the state. Opalola was reacting to the claim in some quarters that Omoyele was transferred based on a petition…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has postponed the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on March 11 by one week. The elections will now hold on March 18, 2023.A state Resident Electoral Commissioner who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity confirmed the decision. The PUNCH…
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In furtherance of his contribution to the development of the society and Constituency, the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Timothy Oweye has donated 300KVA electricity transformers to Odi-olowo and Oke-Aga community in Ilesa East Local Government. The other communities to benefit after that of Odi-olowo…
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Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared the winner of the 2023 presidential election. Mr Tinubu defeated 17 other candidates who took part in the election. He scored a total of 8,794,726 votes, the highest of all the candidates, thus meeting the first…
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The Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye has on Wednesday escaped being assassinated by people suspected to be political thugs. It took the gallantry of the men of Department of State Services (DSS) and the Police officers attached to the office of the Speaker that repelled…
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, has said the party is in support of the position of its governors on the naira redesign policy. The governors under the party had prayed that the supreme court declare the directive of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd),…
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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has charged the state Commissioner of Police, Mr Patrick Kehinde Longe, not to treat the last Friday’s killing of a member of the party in Ilesa-East Local Government Council Area of the state, Ebenezer Alaro, with levity. In a statement…
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