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The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has said that the number of universities in the country is not enough given its population and charged individuals and organizations to invest in education by establishing private universities. Delivering the convocation lecture Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun…

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described a section of retired workers who addressed themselves as Internally Displaced Pensioners (IDP) in the state as bunch of ingrates. Aregbesola spoke at the weekend when another section of pensioners held peaceful procession in Osogbo, to demonstrate their support to his government and…

Over 3,000 Members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Osun State under the aegis of Triangular Group of Pensioners have commended the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola for paying the arrears of their pension up to December 2016. The pensioners staged a peaceful procession in Osogbo, the state capital at…

By Toba Adedeji As the popular ponzi scheme promised her subscribers to return today, 14th of January, 2017,  some residents of Osun State have been  looking forward to the date while some are like walking corpses waiting steadfastly to shut down completely if MMM did not return. It was quite fun…

The Osun Government on Friday said 7,993 households from the state would receive N5,000 monthly stipend of the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme of the Federal Government, as the payment commences in the state. Mrs Adeola Oyebamiji, the Head of the State CCT Office in the Ministry of Women, Children…

As part of efforts of the present administration to provide water in all parts of the state, the state government has signed contract papers for the execution of priority works of water supply for vocal communities in EU supported Local Government Areas in the state. The contract to be done…

Southwest All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders held yesterday a “crucial” meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. They resolved to: unite and press for more dividends of democracy for the region; and defend the legacies of the zone as the centerpiece of the progressive political ideology, which gave birth to…

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Thursday visited the Lagos State House of Assembly to watch the plenary sitting of the House conducted in Yoruba language. Speaker of the Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, restated the commitment of the Assembly to the promotion of Yoruba language and the culture of…

Three months  after President Muhammadu Buhari sent names of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and subsequent confirmation, the President, yesterday, resent the list. In the new list, name of former Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, was dropped with no replacement. Also dropped…