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A right activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola has dragged the Governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to court over the recently introduced land use tax in the state, asking the court to declare the law backing it up and which was signed in March this year by the governor as…
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The Osun State Government has declared Monday August 22 a public holiday to mark the annual Isese Day (Traditional Worshipers’ Day). The public holiday was announced in a statement signed by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Governor’s Office, Osogbo, Semiu Okanlawon, on Friday. The Isese Day is the…
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He was particularly aroused with the thundering-rythmic-beats coming from the aesthetic traditional performers. The town was already filled and dotted with brands of sponsoring corporate organisations in the days before. The young man had been abandoned in wonders actually, clueless of what his environment was graduating to in a wet…
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By Mustapha Aleem The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has kick started the empowerment of widows from communities in Osun state. He said the widows empowered, would be made to start off a trade that will ensure their upkeep and that of their children. He made this known…
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By Mustapha Aleem The National Coordinator of the Odua People’s Congress, Chief Gani Adams, has berated the organizers of the annual Osun Osogbo Festival for not doing enough to woo tourists to festivals. He said he started noticing a sharp decline in the level of turn out since the 2006…
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An upcoming rapper, Toluwanimi Oladeji popularly known as T-Blaze, has vowed to redefine the face of music even as he debuted with MEP, an acronym for Most Envied Person. T-Blaze, a 17 year old lad who majors in freestyle, had emerged the best in a five-week staggered reality show organized…
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At least 29 police officers from the Osun State Police Command are presently on trial at the provost for various offences contradicting the Police Code and Conduct. The Osun State Commissioner of Police Mr Femi Oyeleye, gave the figure while briefing reporters on Wednesday in his office in Osogbo, the…
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74-year General Overseer of the Redeemed Christen Church of God (RCCG) Pastor E A Adeboye has said that he meant every-word he said about marriage during the recently concluded RCCG 64th annual convention. Pastor Adeboye Adeboye, who evidently was reacting to reactions that trailed his warnings to the youths of…
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Iretiola Doyle, Nollywood actor, says the scourge of rape has always been a big problem in the Nigerian society and the world at large. Doyle, while speaking with Saturday Beats, noted that rape is not necessarily on the increase, rather, “people are now talking about it”. While advocating “castration” for serial…
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What was it that the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, said that caught fire? At the recently concluded annual convention of the Church, he advised male church workers not to marry women who cannot not pray for one hour. That was not all….
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