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Osun State Police Command has arrested notorious cultists in Osogbo, the state capital and Ilesa, the home town of the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, over serial murders between August and November this year. A dreaded cultist and leader of Axe confraternity, Rasaq Mutiu, popularly known as Small Mutiu, who…

An Osogbo Magistrate’s Court in Osun, yesterday, remanded a 48-year-old policeman, Pius Felix, in prison for alleged murder.   Felix, who is attached to Awo Police Station, Ede, is facing a count of murder. Magistrate Olubukola Oluwolagba, ordered the accused kept in prison custody due to the magnitude of his…

A fatal accident was averted on Friday night at Agunbelewo area in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, as three vehicles from two different directions collided. The vehicles, an 18-seater bus, which was said to have been heading to Ogbomoso in Oyo state, a coaster with registration number SOKOTO-TBW-212-XA, and another…

Osun state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has been applauded for being aggressive towards infrastructural development in the state.   The commendation was given on Thursday by the state commercial motorcyclists, tricycle operators and other road users.   The motorcyclists also commended the state government under the leadership of Governor Aregbesola for being supportive…

In view of national electricity challenges, coupled with the adverse effects of the current economic situation, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has ordered the immediate construction of 8 megawatts and 5megawatts hydro power plants at Ikeji-Ile and Okinni axis of the state. He said the action was necessary…

Mrs. Ayo Omidiran, an All Progressives Congress member of the House of Representatives, has stated that the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would not dump the ruling party as widely reported lately. There has been reports that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State was teeming up with Atiku…

Few days after a warrant of arrest was issued on him by an Osun State Chief Magistrates’ Court, the youthful Oluwo of Iwoland in has, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has come out firing from all cylinders, calling the magistrate mentally retarded. The first-class traditional ruler who was accused by another monarch…

Subscribers of different telecommunication companies in Osun State have lauded the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for its promptness in curtailing the excesses of the service operators. The subscribers including students of higher institutions of learning, members of National Youths Service Corps, market women, artisans, and civil servants and others who…