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By Editor The Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Dr. Najeem Salaam has said the constitutional amendment that guarantees financial autonomy for the state Houses of Assembly would be a panacea to disturbing trend of executive inference in the watchdog role of the state parliament, saying in the long run,…
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AN Osun State High court, sitting in Ede, on Friday ordered that a nurse, identified as Alfred Aderibigbe, who treated Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke shortly before he died on the 23rd of April, 2017 be remanded in prison custody. This was contained in a press statement signed by the information officer in…
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Prof. Razaq Abubakre, a former federal commissioner in the Public Complaints Commission (PCC), on Sunday appealed to members of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Osun to jettison the agitation for zoning of the party’s governorship’s ticket. Abubakre, who represented Osun in PCC between 2012 and 2018, said this while addressing…
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Gun wielding hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen, on Sunday, abducted a Methodist Church priest, Very Reverend Kayode Akande, and two other prominent leaders of the church on their way from Ile-Ogbo, a community near Iwo township in Osun State. They were said to have been whisked away by the herdsmen,…
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A United States-based criminologist, Mr. Soba Oyeleke, has called on the Osun State Government to develop the Kiriji War sites in Igbajo and Imesi Ile as well as the Olumirin Waterfall in Erin Ijesa and Ayinkunnigba Waterfall in OkeIla to make them attractive to local and foreign tourists. Oyeleke, who…
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Two civil society organisations have urged Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies to probe House of Representatives Deputy Speaker, Lasun Yusuff, over his alleged involvement in a N1.1 billion water contract scam. In separate press statements, the Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said the investigation…
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In recognition of June 12 as a watershed in the history of the nation, states in the South-West, Oyo, Ogun, Osun and Lagos, have declared Tuesday public holiday. The Oyo State government at the weekend declared the day work-free. The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, said…
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Adelere Oriolowo, a World Bank Project Coordinator and governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured that he would bank on his experience of donor agencies like the World Bank, Africa Development Bank and the French Development Agency and the Civil Service to build…
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Dr Ismail Saka-Layonu, has declared his intention to contest in the September 22nd governorship election in Osun state. Saka-Layonu stormed the APC Secretariat with his supporters and political associates and he was received by Chairman of the party, Prince Gboyega Famodum and top chieftains…
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The governorship aspirant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Osun State, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, has declared that his education agenda for the state would rest on three strong pillars. The pillars, according to Ogunbiyi, are the provision of functional educational system, with facility and resources made available; attainment of education…
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