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One of the persons arrested but later released in connection with the murder of Mr Bola Ige, Lekan Oyediran, is insisting that 24 of them arrested are innocent. While he claims innocent of the crime, he lamented that he lost his investment in a drug store and his wife also died…

No fewer than five persons were feared killed yesterday in a battle of supremacy between two rival cult groups in Osogbo, Osun state capital. Besides, several others who sustained various degree of injuries were reportedly receiving treatments in various hospitals in the town. Though the State Commissioner of Police, Mr….

A newspaper agent, Saheed Eluyera, was yesterday murdered in Orogba, Ilesa, Osun State by a group of suspected cultists Eluyera, who is an indigene of Ile-Ife, was said to have gone out to distribute newspapers when he ran into two cult groups engaging each other in a fight. It was…

Osun State police has arraigned three suspects before the Magistrate Court in Osogbo, Osun-State for conspiracy and taking part in an unlawful cult group. It was gathered that the accused persons were apprehended on December 15 around 7:30 p.m. at BCG area in Osogbo, the capital of the state. The…

The Chairman, House State House of Assembly Committee on Information and Strategies, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye has insisted that the balance of the bailout fund given to the state government is N3.352 million while that of the local government councils is N173,226 million. In a press statement issued and signed by…

A 21-one-year-old undergraduate of a university in Osun State, Rilwan Iyiola, said he created a route to the attic of his neigbhours’ apartment a day before he and his brother, Kazeem Iyiola, 19, robbed the victims. Rilwan, a 200-level student of Political Science, said he was desperate to raise money…

An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of three accused persons in Ilesa Prison over alleged armed robbery. Chief Magistrate Olusola Aluko, ordered the remand of the defendants: Moshood Sheriff, 38; Olaleye Sarafadeen, 36, and Ajetunmobi Sefiu, 26, due to the magnitude of their offence. They are…

The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho appears set to resume in January as the owner states of the university consider the report of a panel they set up on the crisis that has kept students away since June. Multiple sources, however, told PREMIUM TIMES that a key recommendation…

It was widely reported shortly after Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that 27 out of the 36 states of the Federation including Osun State had difficulties in meeting salaries payment obligation of their workers as a result of the nation’s dwindling Oil…