Category: Opinion

By Soji Adeniyi Correspondent SOJI ADENIYI examines the preparations for next year’s governorship election in Osun State, the issues that will shape the exercise, the contenders and their strengths and weaknesses Politicians in Osun State are warming up for next year’s governorship election. No fewer than 17 aspirants want to…

By Leo Sobechi If Governor Rauf Aregbesola contests for a senatorial seat after his tenure, the evidence on the ground in Osun State points to the stark possibility of a monumental loss. Virtually all politicians in the state say it is as bad as that: Aregbe has depleted every fund…

  President Muhammadu Buhari confessed on Friday that he was ill. “I have never been this sick,” he lamented. He isn’t the only one sick. The whole country is. It is just that he has been the only one forthright enough to confirm what we find convenient to deny. He…

By OYEBAMIJI ADEBOWALE ALABI There’s no need to verbose a simple narrative that University of Osun was experiencing a strong whirlwind before the emergence of Professor Labode Popoola as the Vice Chancellor of the institution. When the erudite professor came on board, he was confronted by numerous operation deficiencies which…

State of Osun is a nomenclature that accompanied the intangible reformation and identity repositioning that opened the reign of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the governor, but the opposition remains adamant, arguing that they would not recognize the reform. So, for them, the old is present, Osun state is their choice. In…

March 6, 2017 “Anybody who could plant banana in the desert and make it thrive is my friend. Anybody who could turn saline swamps into fertile, arable land is my friend.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo made that statement in an elaborate interview marking his 72nd birthday. In those two sentences is…

Men favoured  enough to dine with elders won’t talk death to big men and kings. Big men are not just big for nothing. Sometimes they die to live. Snakes retreat to shed their skins, live anew and strike better. Eagles in old age retreat to the mountains. There, they break…

By Sola Adeyeye (Senator, Osun Central) This rehash of the prominent positions held by Muslims in Nigeria is mischievous and quite unfortunate. It is the typical Nigerian game of chasing needless shadows rather than focusing on the arduous task of nation building. Until recently, so-called Christians held commanding heights of…

By Temitope Oguntayo Permit me to air my view on the recent and ever-present travails in the Nigeria Police Force. It has become a general consensus to virtually all the people of the country that the Nigeria Police Force has become an institution that takes delight in extorting money from…

The opposition, in connivance with their allies in some media organisations, have perfected the art of serial attacks, laced with outright lies, half-truth and malice just to rubbish every progressive innovative policy, programme and delivery by Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola of his electoral promises to Osun people as captured in…