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By Jamiu Ganiyu A member of the Osun State House of Assembly, Hon. Tunde Lekan Olatunji, representing Ife North State Constituency, has adopted one Kamarudeen Ridwan, an SS3 pupil of Ataoja High School, who scored 319 in the just concluded 2019 UTME exercise. The cerebral parliamentarian who was in the…
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As part of a numbers of programmes lined up for the valedictory for the members of the current 6th Assembly and inauguration for the in coming Members-Elect of the 7th Assembly next month, the State of Osun House of Assembly will as a prelude hold a valedictory session this week…
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By Jamiu Ganiyu A Chieftain of All Progressives Congress in Osun State and the Executive Chairman of Osun Quality Assurance and Morality Enforcement Agency, Dr. Isiaka Ayodele Owoade, has thrown his weight behind the opinion of Alhaji Rasaq Salinsile, the APC State Secretary who had last week in an exclusive…
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By David Abiola Several dignitaries are to storm the City Of Osogbo this weekend for the burial of Madam Esther Mojirola Odofin Otunola who died recently at the age of 82 years. The late matriarch who is survived by husband, Chief J. A Odofin, children, amongst who are Mr. Femi…
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Osun State will hold a summit next month to reposition its economy and to showcase its huge potentials to local and foreign investors. In his inauguration speech on November 27, last year Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, while revealing his plan for the economic summit, said: “The multi-stage, multi-stakeholder summit will dissect…
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After 11 weeks of a keenly contested tournament amongst 1, 080 teams, Scope FC has won the maiden edition of Trophy five-a-side grassroots tournament tagged, “Field of Honour,” which ended at the weekend at the Campos Mini-Stadium, Lagos Island. The Trophy five-a-side tournament is a variation of association football, in…
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The Vice-Chancellor of Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, has decried the rising incidence of drug abuse in tertiary institutions of learning nationwide, saying that a large percentage of the estimated 14.3million drug abusers in the country were youths in tertiary institutions. Ogunwole said this at the…
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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has hosted the fourth edition of the “Ooni Ogunwusi Youth And Women Empowerment Summit 2019”, where he also unveiled the physically challenged youths innovation challenge. In a statement issued by his Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs, Moses Olafare, the event, which…
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The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 2018 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Tuesday told the Court of Appeal in Abuja that he never forged the West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to…
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The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Bank on Monday commenced the National Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Osun State aimed at reducing poverty and banishing hunger among citizens. No fewer than 415,677 households stands to benefit from the programme with about 9,084 beneficiaries from Osun State These disclosures…
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