Category: Opinion

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) crisis started with complaints of nonpayment of allowances. The school that has largely sustained itself by Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) had suddenly gone broke. Its Visitors won’t pay subventions. They wanted the university to survive on its own. Workers’ unions went on strike…

By Leo Sobechi The July 2, 2017 senatorial bye-election for Osun west senatorial district is manifesting the indicators to the November 2018 governorship poll in the state. Before death claimed the Senator representing Osun west in the Senate, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, two months ago, it was expected that three persons…

The intrigues so far trailing the bye-election to replace the late senator representing Osun West senatorial district, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, are indicative of the undercurrents that could ultimately show the shape next year’s governorship election in the state would take. Yinka Kolawole writes The issue in the bye-election for Osun…

….Aregbesola Sells Ikoyi Property When a black smith repeatedly strikes a spot, it is obvious that he wants to get something out of it . When a few months ago, I raised the alarm on the scandalous way this government is selling and disposing our common wealth, a few misinformed…

THE decision of the two state governors, Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola to continue the co-funding of the  Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) will definitely elicit mixed feelings and reactions. However, it could be extremely saddening and painful when leaders, most especially those who have the power and authority…

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….

Our progenitor, the great Oranmiyan who has become a phenomenon in Yorubaland traversing the old Oyo empire up to the present day Ile Ife was a Prince, a King, warrior and custodian of cultural authority during his heroic days. Many centuries after he left, another symbol of peace, progress and…

By Ajadi Daniel The three water projects were constructed to boost water supply to the residents of the state across the three senatorial districts, at the cost of N2.2bn, it was donated by four members of the House of Representatives from Osun states. But unfortunately the projects are moribund and…

By Saratu Abiola Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, prefers the humbling and humble title of Ogbeni to the high-horse title of His Excellency. The Ogbeni title makes him look and sound like a man of the people, a plebian, one of the hewers of wood and drawers of water….

March 26, 2017 Lasisi Olagunju. FOLLY is the opposite of wisdom. And wisdom is the ultimate goodness, the very height of divine blessedness. We ride in a vehicle in which all that negate goodness take the front seat. Even the foolish rates himself wise. Erasmus marvelled at how disingenuously folly…