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A former Commissioner for Lands and Physical Planning in Osun State, Mr. Muyiwa Ige, has said the family has handed over the masterminds and killers of Chief Bola Ige over to God for punishment. Muyiwa said this in an interview with journalists during a service held to commemorate the 15th…

A brewing crisis between the Oluwo of Iwo, Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and an Osun State Chief Magistrate, Olusola Aluko, took a dramatic turn as the monarch threatened to issue a “traditional warrant of arrest” on the judge for daring to denigrate the Oluwo stool with bench warrant which he issued on…

Osun State Police Command has arrested notorious cultists in Osogbo, the state capital and Ilesa, the home town of the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, over serial murders between August and November this year. A dreaded cultist and leader of Axe confraternity, Rasaq Mutiu, popularly known as Small Mutiu, who…

An Osogbo Magistrate’s Court in Osun, yesterday, remanded a 48-year-old policeman, Pius Felix, in prison for alleged murder.   Felix, who is attached to Awo Police Station, Ede, is facing a count of murder. Magistrate Olubukola Oluwolagba, ordered the accused kept in prison custody due to the magnitude of his…

A fatal accident was averted on Friday night at Agunbelewo area in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, as three vehicles from two different directions collided. The vehicles, an 18-seater bus, which was said to have been heading to Ogbomoso in Oyo state, a coaster with registration number SOKOTO-TBW-212-XA, and another…

Osun state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has been applauded for being aggressive towards infrastructural development in the state.   The commendation was given on Thursday by the state commercial motorcyclists, tricycle operators and other road users.   The motorcyclists also commended the state government under the leadership of Governor Aregbesola for being supportive…

In view of national electricity challenges, coupled with the adverse effects of the current economic situation, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered the immediate construction of 8 megawatts and 5megawatts hydro power plants at Ikeji-Ile and Okinni axis of the state. He said the action was necessary…

Mrs. Ayo Omidiran, an All Progressives Congress member of the House of Representatives, has stated that the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would not dump the ruling party as widely reported lately. There has been reports that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State was teeming up with Atiku…

Few days after a warrant of arrest was issued on him by an Osun State Chief Magistrates’ Court, the youthful Oluwo of Iwoland in has, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has come out firing from all cylinders, calling the magistrate mentally retarded. The first-class traditional ruler who was accused by another monarch…