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A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State yesterday expelled former national secretary Prof. Wale Oladipo and a factional state chairman, Soji Adagunodo. Other PDP members expelled include the former state chairman, Ganiyu Ola-Oluwa, and the secretary of the Soji Adagunodo’s faction, Bola Ajao. The faction of…
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About 200 tennis players from South West Nigeria and Kwara state will storm Osun State for a 3-day competition to be organized by the Osogbo Tennis Club in honour of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The competition dubbed ‘Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi 1st Annual Invitational Tennis Tourney’, will see…
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A privately owned radio station in Osun State, Rave 91.7FM today held an anniversary lecture as part of activities marking her first anniversary. The programme had in attendance the members of the US Embassy led by the Public Affairs Officer, Darcy Zotter, Dr Yunusa Tanko (National Chairman, NCP), Mr Bamikole…
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Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abiola Ajumobi (Oyo) and Rauf Aregbesola (Osun) on Thursday renewed calls for stronger ties among the Yoruba-speaking people of the country. They were also joined in the calls by other eminent Yoruba leaders at the Tribute Day organised by the Afenifere Group in honour of the…
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The Aketi Campaign Platform, the campaign group of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has raised the alarm over alleged importation of thugs from Lagos and Osun states for attacks on APC members and cause violence in the Saturday governorship election. A…
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Osun State Governor Mr Rauf Aregbesola, on Wesnesday said that the Peoples’ Democratic Party was notorious for corruption at all levels and that Nigerians rejected PDP because of its corrupt tendencies. The Governor who spoke through the Director of the Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the Office of the…
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Governor Aregbesola’s Osun state government has, Wednesday, taken a swipe at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state saying that there is no similarity between it and the party which it claimed had been muddled with corruption. Reminding the party that there is no strand of similarity between them, the…
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The police on Wednesday arraigned two suspected cultist, who are members of the Aye Confraternity for murder before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. The prosecutor, Mr. Mereti Wilson told the court that the two accused: Adebayo Saheed and Razaki Jamiu killed Shina Akinwale and Adekunle Badmus and also…
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Tuesday unveiled a uniquely designed Moremi Statue of Liberty, with a charge on governments to meaningfully engage the youths. A statement signed by Moses Olafare, the Director of Media and Public Affairs in the palace in Ile-Ife, Osun, said that the…
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The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has denied reports that a $400 million donor funds meant to eradicate polio in Nigeria was stolen. Professor Adewole dismissed the reports at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Health Services. It was held to consider ways of revitalising…
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