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By Jamiu Ganiyu The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Lasun Yusuf has explained why he was conspicuously absent at last year’s inauguration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. The Ilobu born politician disclosed this while speaking through his Senior Special Adviser on Constituency Relations, Professor Aderemi Ajala, exclusively…
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Osun West Senator-elect, Engineer Adelere Adeyemi Oriolowo in this interview with RUTH CHOJI states that, the Nigerian Constitution is not functional as it should be even as he bares his mind on some other national issues. Most people were surprised when you decided to contest Osun West senatorial seat and…
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By Editor As part of efforts to aggregate all accounts belonging to the state, make budgetary provisions easier and create room for transparency in governance, the Adegboyega Oyetola led administration will be deploying a software to monitor all financial transactions of the state. The platform known as Osun Treasury Single…
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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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