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By Tunde Olamilekan Businesswoman and philanthropist, Mrs. Folorunso Alakija, on Wednesday, handed over the Modupe and Folorunso Alakija Medical Research and Training Hospital, to the management of Osun State University, Osogbo. According to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Ademola Adesoji, the handing over of…
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By Tunde Olamilekan There are strong indications that Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, may dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the Action Peoples Party ahead of the August 08, 2026, election. The move, according to sources was connected to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party at the national…
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The immediate past deputy governor of Osun State, Benedict Alabi, has urged the All Progressives Congress to give the gubernatorial ticket of the party who believes in the ideology of the progressive. Alabi who is one of the aspirants eyeing the ticket of the APC for the August 08, 2026,…
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The Acting National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has described the recent ruling by Justice Akintola of the Oyo State High Court as a “courageous” affirmation of the party’s constitutional right to conduct its 2025 Elective National Convention. Damagum made the remarks on Wednesday at the…
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Muslim clerics and community leaders in Osun State, under the aegis of the Concerned Muslim Stakeholders and the League of Alfas, have condemned recent calls by some leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) that the next governor of the state in…
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The National APC Christian Leaders Forum of Nigeria has assured the All Progressives Congress of victory in the August 8 governorship election in the state. The body, consisting of clerics, said it has started mobilising Christians to massively vote for APC. NACLFON has however, called upon the Government of the…
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The management of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has said it won’t tolerate any act of fraud in the mobilization of Corps members. The Director-General of the scheme, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, said this at the 2025 Batch ‘C’ Pre-Mobilization Workshop, in Abuja on Monday. Nafiu said that scheme…
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The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS has restated commitment to collaborating with African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA Secretariat to enhance continental trade integration, improve data accuracy, and address structural barriers hindering intra-African trade. Comptroller-General of Customs, CGC Adewale Adeniyi, made the commitment during a courtesy visit to the AfCFTA Secretariat…
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By Tunde Olamilekan The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, on Tuesday, dismissed insinuations that there were shootings on the institution’s campus by suspected hoodlums. A Facebook User had on Monday posted that some hoodlums suspected to be cultists were shooting around the campus over the ongoing Student…
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By Tunde Olamilekan A group, Yoruba Socio-cultural Pathfinder(YSP), has called for an investigation of an alleged self-proclaimed monarch in Osun State, Adeyinka Adeshina Obawale. The group accused Obawale who is theOluoje of Ojenpetu for causing crisis, disharmony, and the disturbance of public peace in Modakeke. The group President, Bashorun Ige…
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