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It was a beautiful start to the Channels International Kids Cup as Community Primary School of Lagos took on an inspired Islamic Government Primary School of Osun State. The Osun team had a bright start to the game quickly firing four shots on target and three off target in what…
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By Soji Adeniyi The coroner’s inquest set up by the Osun State government to ascertain the cause of Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke’s death, yesterday adjourned till next Monday to present its findings. At the sitting last Friday, the coroner, Olusegun Ayilara, a magistrate, adjourned till yesterday, following the absence of…
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By Ameh Godwin Elder statesman and former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande has blamed the current economic recession and poverty in Nigeria on the deficiencies in the 1999 Nigerian constitution. Akande, a former Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who spoke in Iwo Town in Osun State…
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By Joseph Akanbi A Leader of the APC in the State of Osun, Hon. Kunle Ayantoye has echoed that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next year’s election will be determined based on merit and ability. This he said in an interview monitored on “THE…
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By Soji Adeniyi As the 21-day ultimatum issued to encroachers on the government owned Shasha Forest Reserves has expired, the Osun State government during the weekend ordered the illegal occupants to vacate the lands or face the full wrath of the law. At a press conference in Osogbo on the…
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By Wale Akinselure LASTING solution to the lingering crisis in Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, is to emerge in the next three weeks. This stance of the two owner state governments of Oyo and Osun is hinged on their resolve to abide by the recommendations of the audit…
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Mr Kayode Oduoye was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Odo Otin/Boripe/Ifelodun Federal constituency. He speaks with OLUWOLE IGE on the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari, the crisis in the PDP and the 2018 governorship poll in Osun. Excerpts: How would you rate the anti-corruption…
Read moreAll is now set for the kick off of the 2017 Channels International Kids Cup following the conclusion of the group stage draw. Lagos state representatives, Community Primary School and Xplanter have been drawn in the group along with Islamic Government School from Osun State and Paragon Primary School from…
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By Abiodun Komolafe “This thing of being a hero, about the main thing, is to know when to die. Prolonged death has ruined more men than it ever made.” – William Penn Rogers, 1879-1935. Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, Osun State’s first executive governor and two-term Nigerian senator, has joined his ancestors….
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By Bolanle Bolawole LAST week, the out-going acting vice chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Anthony Adebolu Elujoba, spoke of the many fires he has walked through unscathed, including those of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s. He also spoke of a dream he had, which pointed him in…
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