Category: News

Subscribers of different telecommunication companies in Osun State have lauded the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for its promptness in curtailing the excesses of the service operators. The subscribers including students of higher institutions of learning, members of National Youths Service Corps, market women, artisans, and civil servants and others who…

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, the Capital of Osun state, on Thursday, ordered the remand of a 48-year-old policeman, Pius Felix, in prison custody for allegedly killing a commercial driver. Felix, who is attached to Awo Police Station, Ede, is facing a count of murder. Magistrate Olubukola Olowolagba, ordered…

For the second year running, the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has failed to personally present the state budget before the House of Assembly. A budget of 138.2 billion naira was formally placed before the lawmakers for perusal and approval by the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Budget and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has urged residents to keep hope alive and cooperate with Governor Rauf Aregbesola. The party said what the governor is preoccupying himself with is how to minimise the pains caused by the recession and still keep significant development going. In a statement…

No fewer than five people lost their lives, while others sustained various degree of injuries in an auto crash at Akinlalu, in Osun on Ife/Ibadan Expressway. Mr Alhassan Abu, the Ife Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday…

The executive arm of Osun State government has presented a budget of 138.232 billion Naira for the 2017 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for consideration. The estimate, which was presented at the plenary on Wednesday, has recurrent expenditure of 75.823 billion Naira and capital expenditure of 62.409 billion…

To lessen the financial burden of transportation during the yuletide, the Osun State Government has offered to provide free Christmas and New Year train services for its citizens‎ who would want to return home to celebrate with their relatives. The Osun government is extending the welfare gesture to residents despite…

Eminent legal practitioners have described the bench warrant of arrest issued by a magistrate, Olusola Aluko, against a paramount traditional in Osun State, the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, as a joke taken too far. Yusuf Ali, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and a former Senior Special Assistant (SSA)…