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An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun on Tuesday remanded in prison 45-year-old Sunday Fagbemi , who allegedly stole a truck worth N12 million pending when his bail application would be considered. The accused is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, theft and damage to property. Police Prosecutor Emmanuel Abdullahi told…

The Osun State House of Assembly would on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, honour the Governor of the State, Rauf Aregbesola with Honorary Life Member of the House. The Legislative honour, which would be corroborated with annual lecture as part of the programmes listed to mark his 60th birthday celebration. According…

By Soji Adeniyi The coroner’s inquest set up by the Osun State government to ascertain the cause of Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke’s death, yesterday adjourned till next Monday to present its findings. At the sitting last Friday, the coroner, Olusegun Ayilara, a magistrate, adjourned till yesterday, following the absence of…

By Ameh Godwin Elder statesman and former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande has blamed the current economic recession and poverty in Nigeria on the deficiencies in the 1999 Nigerian constitution. Akande, a former Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who spoke in Iwo Town in Osun State…

By Joseph Akanbi A Leader of the APC in the State of Osun, Hon. Kunle Ayantoye has echoed that the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next year’s election will be determined based on merit and ability. This he said in an interview monitored on “THE…

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…

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…

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…