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The Lapeke Community of Owode-Ede in Osun has commended the National Environmental Standard and Regulation Enforcement Agency (NESREA) for its intervention in a crisis with MTN. The community has been at the loggerheads with MTN over the environmental hazard caused by an electricity generating set at the MTN base station…

The Coordinator, Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) in Osun, Mr Sunday Badewole, has described importation of substandard goods into Nigeria as an integral part of the corruption that should be tackled. Speaking in Osogbo, Osun State capital, Badewole described the importation of substandard goods as stealing with style, saying: “By importing substandard goods,…

By Mustapha Aleem The All-Nigeria United Nations Students’ And Youth Association, has launched the first teen wing of the association in Osun State. The National Executive President of ANUNSA, Ambassador Moye Ajala-Davies, said the pilot edition would see students engage in some serious decision making activity, through the Model United…

The problem facing Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State over payment of salaries of Osun workers is far from being over, as the state got the least from the federation account in September. The state got a paltry amount of N868.9m while others receive not less than N2 billion. A…

The Government of the State of Osun has put all necessary action in motion to support the 40 German-trained Osun Youths by inaugurating an 8 member inter-Ministerial Committee that will facilitate the engagement of the youths in modern farming practices in the State. The Government of Osun has also approved…

The Elende of Eko-Ende in Odo-Otin Local Government Area of the State of Osun, Oba Abdul Rauf Olaniyan Ajiboye has promised the Governor of the State, Governor Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola in his efforts at creating awareness on the need to promote Yoruba language and culture to prevent them from going…

To Spend N4b On Health, Water, Environment Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said that a high-powered task force is to be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari to implement a six-month Marshal Plan to rebuild the Northeast in four critical areas. The minister explained that the Marshal Plan is…

Prominent indigenes of Iwo in Osun State, have called on Governor Rauf Aregbesola to approve the planned conversion of the Reality Television building in the town, to a journalism institute. Elites from the town, including thirty professors and other eminent personalities, recently resolved to appeal to the governor to affiliate…

On Thursday 20 October 2016, the new Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, received his staff of office from Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State. It was an event that attracted the creme dela creme of Nigeria-traditional rulers, captains of industry, politicians and others. He seized the opportunity of the occasion…