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By Joseph Akanbi Timothy Owoeye Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission statement is to project human benevolence through advocacy, empowerment and intervention, has distributed free JAMB forms to 250 indigent students in the State. The 250 students were selected from a pool of 458 applicants after a mock exam organized…

By Joseph Akanbi The State of Osun House of Assembly will today cut short its annual recess and reconvene for plenary activities. In a notice sent to Honourable Members, a copy which was sighted by osun.life, the Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Maruf Olanrewaju, disclosed that the Amotekun bill…

A  former Rector of Igbajo Polytechnic, Igbajo, Osun State, Mr Akinola Olaolu, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission. Olaolu was arraigned before an Osun State High Court on four counts of certificate forgery and false statements. This was about two years after a…

A faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has rejected the Chairman of the newly-inaugurated APC National Reconciliation Committee, Chief Bisi Akande. The factional leaders, under the aegis of APC Unity Forum, after a meeting in Akure yesterday, alleged that Akande, who is the former Governor…

Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, yesterday stressed the need for a holistic approach in the quest to end security challenges in the country. They spoke at the National Summit on Security and Insecurity…

Apomu, headquarters of Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State had no king for five years. That changd on February 8 when Alapomu of Apomu, Oba Kayode Adenekan Afolabi was installed. ADESOJI ADENIYI who witnessed the coronation writes. For more than five years, Apomu, the headquarters of Isokan Local Government…

I disagree with a clause in the proposed law seeking to legalize the operations of Amotekun. The offensive clause states that its officers can NOT be SUED for anything they do while on duty. This is an immunity clause, and a dangerous one at that. Pure and simple. Don’t we…

Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola has approved the building of a 54.3km road project across the state. At a joint news briefing in Osogbo, the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr. Remi Omowaye, and the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, said the projects are five major…

Quite naturally, men, throughout the world and in all of human history, like good-looking women. In fact, history is replete with many strange things which men have done for and or because of beautiful women. Many would not forget in a hurry, the Shakespearean story of Anthony and Cleopatra. The…