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Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have destroyed two thousand three hundred and seventeen bags of cannabis weighing 30,992kgs. Sixty seven bags were also transferred to Osun State Command of the NDLEA as exhibits for further investigation. The cannabis will also serve as evidence against eleven suspected…

A 36-year-old woman, Abosede Oloyede, was on Friday arraigned in Osogbo over alleged theft. Oloyede is facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and theft at an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court. The Prosecutor, SP Mireti Wilson, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Feb. 28, at about 12…

An Osogbo magistrate court on Thursday, November 17, 2016 sentenced an 89-year-old man to 15 months imprisonment without any option of fine for land grabbing. The convict Alabi Oyedele, was sentenced alongside 70-year-old Saka Oyedeji, 45-yer-old Ologunde Owodiran, and 55-year-old Olabisi Taiwo for conspiring among themselves to forcefully invade the…

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Thursday in Osogbo described the demise of art patron, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi as the “passage of a good man.’’ He also described Gbadamosi, who died on Wednesday at the age of 72, as a leading industrialist, humanist, art and culture promoter and writer. The condolence…

A 28-year-oldman, Olalekan Akeem, was on Thursday sentenced by an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court to nine months imprisonment for stealing a handset in a Mosque in Osogbo. The Magistrate, Mrs Olowolagba Olubukola, ordered the convict to serve out the sentence in Ile-Ife due to the magnitude of the offence. Akeem was arraigned…

By Mustapha Aleem Aipat Farms, a large scale fish farm based in Osun State, has raised alarm over the case of some magnet-wielding buyers, who uses magnets to half the weight of fishes before buying them. The farm, in an Instagram post, stated that the buyers used the magnet on…

Federal Government, through the Federal  Ministry of Health  is concluding a permanent  arrangement  to introduce a central posting for all Bachelors of  Medicine and Bachelors of Surgery(MBBS) graduating students  for their housemanship  training programmes in all the  registered Teaching Hospitals in the country from next academic session. The Registrar, Medical…

The Osun State government has paid pensioners till August, it was learnt. It condemned a protest by a group of pensioners in the state capital, Osogbo, yesterday. Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in the state staged a peaceful protest over unpaid arrears by the government. They accused the government of…

The Speaker,Osun House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, says the parliament will continue to support the Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led executive arm of government in providing affordable healthcare for the citizens of the state. Salaam said this on Wednesday in Osogbo while receiving the members of Diabetes Association of Nigeria (DAN)….