Category: News

By Bolanle Bolawole LAST week, the out-going acting vice chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Anthony Adebolu Elujoba, spoke of the many fires he has walked through unscathed, including those of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s. He also spoke of a dream he had, which pointed him in…

By Soji Adeniyi THE European Union (EU) has donated two vaccine chain cold rooms with two 500KV standby generators to the Osun State government. At the handing over and commissioning of the project at  Ife Central and Irepodun Local Government Areas of the state, EU Sign Project Team Leader, Dr. Ibrahim Yisa,…

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and an aspirant for the House of Representatives, Mr Dotun Babayemi, in this interview with MOSES ALAO, insists that the Governor Rauf Aregbesola government has spent funds accrued to the state judiciously and that it is turning the economy of the state…

By Olufemi Atoyebi Students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, on Monday morning prevented candidates who were posted to the school to write the 2017 UTME from entering the premises or gain access to the examination centres in the school. The students were said to have mobilised themselves before the…

The coroner inquest set up by Governor Rauf Aregbesola to probe the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke resumed sitting today at the High Court premises in Osogbo. Giving his account of the event that transpired on the 22nd of April, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Osun West…

By Gbenga Olarinoye The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has implored the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede and the new Executive Secretaries of the 10 Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs within the Ife Federal Constituency to…

The Osun Government has initiated some measures that will enable the state to produce rice in commercial quantities. Dr Bukola Aluko, the Coordinating Director, Osun Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Youths Engagement, disclosed this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo on Friday He said…

Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the commission is committed to making future elections in the country better than the 2015 exercise. Yakubu made the pledge when he received the new United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Stuart Symington at INEC headquarters on Wednesday in…

By Taiwo Amodu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured that it would soon unveil dates for the governorship elections, scheduled to take place in 2018 in Ekiti and Osun states. Chief Press Secretary to the INEC national chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi gave the assurance, on Friday, in a telephone…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has described corruption as a dream killer that Nigerian children should not tolerate. An official of the commission, Mrs Azuka Ogugwa, said this when some students of Praxis Catholic e-School, Life Camp, Abuja, visited the headquarters of the anti-graft agency…