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By Bosede Sodiq A Magistrate Court in Osun State sitting in Osogbo the state capital on Monday sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Nafisat Raji, to 12 months imprisonment for stealing a mobile phone valued at N15,000. The convict who is a mother of three children was arraigned before Magistrate A. A…
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Celebrated English playwright, William Shakespeare once declared ‘’All the world is a stage, and all men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many times.’’ This is truly apt of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, having been in the saddle for…
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The Osun State Government has said the former Deputy Governor of the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore, is not competent to rule the state, saying that he had demonstrated lack of understanding, political will and maturity on how government runs. The State government, in a statement issued and signed by the…
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By NAN A 15-year-old boy was on Monday crushed to death in Osogbo, the Osun capital, when a Sports Utility Vehicle lost control and rammed into him where he was standing to cross the road. An eyewitness said the deceased, who went to Ayegbaju Market in the metropolis to buy…
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By Femi Makinde The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff of Universities; Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and National Association of Academic Technologists at the Osun State University have asked the management of the university, led by Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Labode Popoola, to give a detailed account of how…
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By Femi Makinde A former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, may clash with Governor Rauf Aregbesola over the choice of who succeeds the latter as the preparations for the governorship election in the state begin to gather momentum. Oyinlola, on Friday tasked the people of the Osun West…
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The Police Command in Osun on Monday said it had arrested 55 suspects for various offences, including murder, kidnapping, defilement of minor, armed robbery, cultism and rape. The command’s Spokesperson, DSP Folashade Odoro, said this in a statement in Osogbo on Monday. Odoro gave the breakdown of the suspects as…
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Kunle Rasheed Adegoke is a managing partner M.A. Banire and Associates- Legal Practitioners, Notary Public and Capital Market Solicitors. In this interview with FOLUSO OGUNMODEDE, he speaks on rampaging killer herdsmen, corruption, justice system, Osun governorship election among others Despite $4.9billion recovered by the EFCC in the corruption war, tens…
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By Femi Adesola A 2018 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant, Senator Felix Kolawole Ogunwale, has revealed that Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former Governor of Osun state, was the major reason why he left PDP in 2009. Senator Felix Kolawole Ogunwale stated this during a radio programme, ‘Oro Oselu’, streamed…
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By Joseph Akanbi The Osun All Youth Awards programme held recently at Atlantis Event Centre, was a purposeful show packaged by Pizzaz Entertainment. The programme which held on the 25th February, 2018, is instituted to celebrate, honour, inspire excellence, promote and bring to the fore the positive values among Nigerian…
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