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By Soji Adeniyi As the 21-day ultimatum issued to encroachers on the government owned Shasha Forest Reserves has expired, the Osun State government during the weekend ordered the illegal occupants to vacate the lands or face the full wrath of the law. At a press conference in Osogbo on the…
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By Wale Akinselure LASTING solution to the lingering crisis in Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, is to emerge in the next three weeks. This stance of the two owner state governments of Oyo and Osun is hinged on their resolve to abide by the recommendations of the audit…
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Mr Kayode Oduoye was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Odo Otin/Boripe/Ifelodun Federal constituency. He speaks with OLUWOLE IGE on the anti-corruption fight of President Muhammadu Buhari, the crisis in the PDP and the 2018 governorship poll in Osun. Excerpts: How would you rate the anti-corruption…
Read moreAll is now set for the kick off of the 2017 Channels International Kids Cup following the conclusion of the group stage draw. Lagos state representatives, Community Primary School and Xplanter have been drawn in the group along with Islamic Government School from Osun State and Paragon Primary School from…
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By Abiodun Komolafe “This thing of being a hero, about the main thing, is to know when to die. Prolonged death has ruined more men than it ever made.” – William Penn Rogers, 1879-1935. Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, Osun State’s first executive governor and two-term Nigerian senator, has joined his ancestors….
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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