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By Yinka Kolawole Less than three weeks after a communal clash that claimed many lives and destroyed buildings numbering about 30 in Ile-Ife, Osun State, a fresh communal clash, again broke out Thursday in Ife North Local Government Area of the state, with no fewer than ten persons injured and…
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By PM News Fifty-four students of the Osun State University emerged with first class honours in the 2016/2017 academic session. The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Labode Popoola, made this known at a news conference on Saturday at the university’s main campus, Osogbo. Popoola said that the first class…
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By Kunle Oderemi and Isaac Shobayo The death toll in the Cerebrospinal Meningitis scourge ravaging the country has risen to 328 with the scourge spreading to Lagos, Plateau and Osun states. The Federal Ministry of Health, which confirmed the development through a public advisory made available to Sunday Tribune, however,…
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By Bayo Adeoye Senator Iyiola Omisore, former deputy governor of Osun State, is an engineer, businessman and politician. He served as a member of the Nigerian Senate representing Osun East between 2003 and 2009. In this interview with Bayo Adeoye, he talks about his background, bitter-sweet experience in politics and…
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has said only a candidate that would continue the six-point integral action plan of Governor Rauf Aregbesola would succeed him in next year’s governorship election. Secretary to the Government of Osun State, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti made this assertion at a forum…
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A Magistrate Court in Osogbo, Osun state, has sentenced a 60-year old man, Kazeem Adekitan, to three years imprisonment for stealing one Honda Accord car. Adekitan was once arraigned by the Osun State Police Command before the court on December 1, 2016 for allegedly stealing a car. The Police prosecutor,…
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By Oladeinde Olawoyin Lagos, Delta, Osun and Akwa Ibom states topped the list of highly indebted states with N1.262 trillion of the entire N3.342 trillion owed by the 36 states of the federation, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, said Tuesday. The debt burden of the 36 states, according…
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The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Akinyinka Oluseyi Esho has enjoined all health workers across the state of Osun to be up and doing in discharging their services towards saving one million souls in the state especially children under 5yrs old of malaria infection This is contained in an…
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March 26, 2017 Lasisi Olagunju. FOLLY is the opposite of wisdom. And wisdom is the ultimate goodness, the very height of divine blessedness. We ride in a vehicle in which all that negate goodness take the front seat. Even the foolish rates himself wise. Erasmus marvelled at how disingenuously folly…
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By Gbenga Akinfenwa The Osun State government is on the verge of becoming the hub for rice production in the Southwest, with its recent move to focus on rice cultivation, as part of its agricultural policies. The governor, Rauf Aregbesola, his deputy, Mrs. Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, and other members of…
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