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Osun Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Ojo, on Thursday freed 16 inmates of both Ile-Ife Prisons and Ilesa Prisons awaiting trial. Three inmates regained freedom at the Ile-Ife Prisons while 13 inmates from the Ilesa Prisons on grounds of overstaying in prisons, ill health and minor offences. The released inmates from…

The immediate past Commissioner for Lands and Physical Development in Osun State, who is the son of the late Chief Bola Ige, Muyiwa, has said a former Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, and other police officers, who were investigating officers during the trial of the murder of his father…

A leading Nigerian agriculture investor and Chairman of TUNS Farms Nigeria Limited, ‎Chief Olatunde Badmus, has disclosed that the Osun State Government has created young millionaires through its various agricultural intervention programmes. Badmus led other management staffers of the company to the Office of the Governor in Osogbo for a…

An Osun State high court sitting in Ile-Ife, presided over by Justice Adedotun Onibokun, yesterday sentenced a couple, Mr. Fatai Jimoh and Lateefat Jimoh to death by hanging for the murder of one Mrs. Bukola Taiwo of Ikeketu, Ile Ife. The convicts were arraigned on June 2, 2014, on a…

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has been shut for  months, leaving the students stranded. Many of them are complaining about the rent they paid before the school was shut. They wonder whether their landlords will ask for another rent when the school reopens. DANIEL…

The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday said he has laid the foundation for the state’s next 50 years in just six years. The Governor, who was the Guest Lecturer at City People Magazine’s 20th Special Anniversary Lecture, Titled: “My experience as Governor in the past six…

To check rising unemployment rate in the country, the Bank of Industry (BoI) has disbursed over N30 million to youths in Osun State under its partnership with the Oduduwa Foundation, to support and empower youths with viable business plans in driving economic development.Indeed, the Development Finance Institution (DFI), said the…

A 40-year-old man, Ikechukwu Muojekwu, was on Tuesday sentenced to 13 months imprisonment in Ilesa prison by an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court for burglary. The Magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, ordered that Muojekwu be kept behind bars due to the magnitude of the offence committed or pay an option of N20,000…