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Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has urged teachers in the state to create and engage students in secondary schools in extracurricular activities so as to prevent them from involving in nefarious activities. The Governor said this during the grand finale of a debate organised by Segun Adegoke Youth and…

An Osogbo Chief Magistrate’s Court has ordered the arrest of the Chairman Governing Council of the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, Mr. Niyi Akande, over the re-awarding of a contract for the premier survey of the college. Our correspondent gathered that Akande allegedly re-awarded the survey contract to…

A former Vice-Chancellor of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Prof. Yusuf Obaje, has described policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria as being out of touch with the country’s economic reality. Obaje, a chaplain of Aso Villa Chapel during the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, said the country was in…

Nigerians should leverage on the current economic recession to come up with entrepreneurship ideas that can change their individual lives and the country. This was the conclusion of a panel of discussants at the 2016 global entrepreneurship week held in Osogbo, the Osun state capital. To ensure that Nigerians maximize…

Eleven lecturers of the Osun State University, Osogbo have been awarded PhDs from the University of Ibadan as the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor; Professor Labode Popoola enunciated his vision to make the institution the first among its equals. The new VC said he has set up machineries to ensure moral and…

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have destroyed two thousand three hundred and seventeen bags of cannabis weighing 30,992kgs. Sixty seven bags were also transferred to Osun State Command of the NDLEA as exhibits for further investigation. The cannabis will also serve as evidence against eleven suspected…

A 36-year-old woman, Abosede Oloyede, was on Friday arraigned in Osogbo over alleged theft. Oloyede is facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and theft at an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court. The Prosecutor, SP Mireti Wilson, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Feb. 28, at about 12…

An Osogbo magistrate court on Thursday, November 17, 2016 sentenced an 89-year-old man to 15 months imprisonment without any option of fine for land grabbing. The convict Alabi Oyedele, was sentenced alongside 70-year-old Saka Oyedeji, 45-yer-old Ologunde Owodiran, and 55-year-old Olabisi Taiwo for conspiring among themselves to forcefully invade the…

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Thursday in Osogbo described the demise of art patron, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi as the “passage of a good man.’’ He also described Gbadamosi, who died on Wednesday at the age of 72, as a leading industrialist, humanist, art and culture promoter and writer. The condolence…

A 28-year-oldman, Olalekan Akeem, was on Thursday sentenced by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court to nine months imprisonment for stealing a handset in a Mosque in Osogbo. The Magistrate, Mrs Olowolagba Olubukola, ordered the convict to serve out the sentence in Ile-Ife due to the magnitude of the offence. Akeem was arraigned…