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The rector of Osun state polytechnic, Iree, Dr. Olusola Agboola has thanked the governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, for helping the institution attain its present enviable stage. He made this known while delivering his speech at the fifth joint convocation of Osun state polytechnic, Iree,  yesterday….

Bowen University, Iwo, will on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 host a lecture on tackling the current economic challenges facing the country. The university’s Faculty of Social and Management Sciences is therefore holding its maiden Faculty Lecture on the topic: The State of the Nigerian Economy: Strategies for Survival A financial…

•Says $400m polio money not stolen •Decries 33% slash in 2016 vote Stressing that the 33 percent cut in the 2016 budget posed serious funding challenge and portrayed Nigeria as a country that pays lip service to serious issues, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has enjoined the National…

In a carefully executed plan, loyalists of President Muhammadu Buhari in the All Progressives Congress (APC), some of whom are cabinet members, yesterday successfully delivered on their first political assignment in the lead up to the 2019 elections, with the election of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the Ondo State…

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Monday opened yet another of his government mega schools in Ede. Aregbesola who was received by students of Adventists Government High School said at the commissioning that his government is unrelenting in its resolve to change the face of education and produce men…

A 28-year-old woman, Adebare Monsurat, was on Monday arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly setting on fire an office complex. Monsurat is facing a count charge of setting on fire an office complex. The Prosecutor, Sgt. Olayiwola Rasaki, told the court that the accused committed the offence on…

Two years into second tenure.. Osun State is still without an executive council half way into Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s second and final term of four years, Daily Trust reports. According to the governor, the state finances cannot cater to   the payment of salaries of commissioners. To run his government,…

Outspoken and controversial senator Dino Melaye has called out Nigerian governors owing civil servants money after receiving huge amounts from FG. He personally mentioned Governor Aregbesola’s name,urging him to pay civil servants their salaries in full both at the state and LGAs levels to ameliorate the suffering of our people…

The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Osun State, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye has declared that neither himself nor his agents were involved in the imbroglio between the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi and his counterpart, the Oluwo of Iwo-Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye. Oba Adeoye had dragged the traditional ruler of…

There was palpable apprehension over the weekend, at Okebaale area of Osogbo, the Osun state capital, as students of the Osun State University, UNIOSUN, took to the streets in a protest, over alleged incessant harassment by members of the police. They had alleged that police officers from the State Criminal Investigation…