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The Government of Osun State on Tuesday congratulated the Federal Government of Nigeria for successfully ensuring the take off of at least two major socially impactful welfare programmes, which it said would go down to ease social tension and motivate the poor. The Government, in its message signed by the…

A magistrate court in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State has convicted a 27-years-old man, Hammed Ibiyemi, for contempt. The prosecutor, Mr Mereti Wilson, on Wednesday said the convict on May 27, June 10, July 13, August 19, October 14 and November 16, 2016 at about 9:00 a.m. at a Magistrate…

Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday said a total of N14.2bn was paid out by his government in less than two weeks before the end of December 2016. Aregbesola stated this when the State government opened the year with supplications as the Governor led Muslim and Christian faithful at an interdenominational…

Workers in Osun State returned to work on Tuesday after the Monday public holiday declared to mark the New Year day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the civil servants reported at the state secretariat in Abere and were seen carrying out their routine duties. Some…

The students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho (LAUTECH) is set to begin a mass protest across Oyo and Osun states on Monday, January 9 over the strike embarked on by the workers of the institution which has lasted for over seven months. The Acting Secretary General, Alliance of Nigerian…

The Osun House of Assembly has urged Nigerians to be optimistic as the New Year will be a year of economic recovery. The legislature gave the advice on Tuesday in Osogbo through a statement issued by Mr. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy. Oyintiloye said the…

A lawmaker representing the Obokun Constituency in Osun State, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has described the commencement of the Federal Government Social Investment Programmes, which include Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT), school feeding, soft loan for artisan, traders and market women through Government Enterprise and Empowerment and N-power as a catalyst for the…

The Osogbo Progressive Union (OPU) has cautioned communities in the suburb of Osogbo, capital of Osun State against encroachment into Osogbo territory, in the interest of peace and tranquillity, particularly at the Abere area. The OPU, which is the umbrella body for all the indigenes of Osogbo, capital of Osun…

Nigeria’s is a young democracy by any standard. The institutions that serve to nurture and protect due process in a participatory system of government, which ours was designed to be, are very weak, not non-existent. The presidential system of government we run has the Judiciary, Legislature and Executive as its…