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Pandemonium broke at Oke-Ijetu beside Ilesa garage, Osogbo, Osun State capital, as two siblings reportedly drowned inside a river over the weekend. According to an eyewitness, the tragedy occurred on the eve of New Year. The deceased, who were 16 and 14 years of age respectively, were said to be…

“What else do you want me to say when government said we should not do it again? Or don’t you know that government is powerful? I don’t want government’s trouble please,’’ Pa Isola Alabelewe, who specialises in circumcision in Osogbo, Osun State, said in reaction to the efforts of the…

The Osun State House of Assembly has charged Nigerians and people of the state in particular to be optimistic that things would be better in the country in 2017 and urged citizens to be patriotic by supporting government at all levels in their efforts to deliver the dividends of democracy….

The New Year, 2017 will be the year of consolidations on the various achievements of the Rauf Aregbesola administration. This was the summary of the governor’s New Year broadcast to the people of the state, as they ushered in year 2017 on Sunday. In the broadcast, the Governor reeled out…

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Sulaimon Lasun Yussuff has enjoined Nigerians to remain committed ‎and hopeful in the ruling All Progressives Congress. Deputy Speaker stated this while congratulating Nigerians on the successful completion of 2016 and ushering in of 2017 in good health‎ As we go…

From Recession to Recovery, Growth and Consolidation My good people of Osun, It is with much joy and great expectation that I welcome you to the New Year, 2017. The old year, 2016, was a year of huge trials, travails and tests but it was also a year of great…

Police have arrested a family gang of suspected kidnappers for allegedly abducting a 5-year-old boy in Osun State, southwest Nigeria. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, paraded the suspects at the command headquarters in Osogbo, the state’s capital. Mr Adeoye disclosed that the boy was said to…

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said that the need to make the Osun society emerge a major player within the new knowledge economy and digital world informs his administration’s dogged battle to revamp education. Aregbesola stated this when he bagged on the 2016 Governor of Year Award…

The Oyo and Osun state governments have said that they do not plan to increase the tuition fee of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH. This position was revealed to PREMIUM TIMES by the Special Assistant to the Oyo state Governor on Youth and Student Affairs, Bolaji Afeez, and spokesman…