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A teacher at the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Dr Ademola Adebisi, eulogises the virtues of the elderstatesman and former All Progressives Congress (APC)  Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, who clocks 78 today. The Yoruba people of South Western Nigeria have their peculiar ways of playing politics and recruiting…

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his Ogun counterpart, Ibikunle Amosun, have commended President Muhammadu Buhari, the military ‎ other security organisations for successfully engaging the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East. The governors spoke yesterday at separate events to mark this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Osogbo…

The Governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, wants university graduates in Nigeria to shift attention from white collar jobs and embrace agriculture. He believes agriculture is a good means of stemming the tide of unemployment. The Governor stated that the present economic situation had shown Nigerians the need to…

Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State, at the weekend graduated 198 students at its sixth convocation. The graduates are from the Colleges of Management Science, Social Science and Natural and Applied Science. The Pro-Chancellor of the Osun State University, Mallam Yusuf Ali and Deputy Secretary-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for…

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has urged the pensioners in the state to show understanding in demanding for the balance of their pension since they were also aware of the global economic recession and the financial situation of the state. The governor said this while addressing members of the Nigeria…

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi yesterday called on Nigerians to embrace subsistence agriculture as the only saving grace of the nation. The Oba, who was speaking as the keynote speaker at the 2nd Mike Omotosho annual lecture with the theme “Increased Agricultural Productivity for Sustainable Economic Growth”,…

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Prince Gboyega Famodun has disclosed that Governor Rauf Aregbesola would conduct local government election before the 2018 gubernatorial election. According to Famodun, the state government and the APC is preparing for the conduct of election into the local government…

The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, (NUC), Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has said that the number of universities in the country is not enough given its population and charged individuals and organizations to invest in education by establishing private universities. Delivering the convocation lecture Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun…

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has described a section of retired workers who addressed themselves as Internally Displaced Pensioners (IDP) in the state as bunch of ingrates. Aregbesola spoke at the weekend when another section of pensioners held peaceful procession in Osogbo, to demonstrate their support to his government and…