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The immediate past Press Secretary in the palace of the Ooni of Ife, High Chief Funmilola Olorunnisola, 66, has passed on after a brief illness. Moses Olafare, the Director, Media and Public Affairs, Ooni’s Palace, disclosed this in a statement he released to newsmen on Tuesday in Ile-Ife, Osun State….
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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…
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On Monday December 19, three newspapers ran a syndicated story, almost verbatim, an allegation from Osun Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), signed by Diran Odeyemi, that Governor Aregbesola is planning to divert N11 billion Paris Club debt refund that Osun and other states got from the Federal Government a few days…
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One of the persons arrested but later released in connection with the murder of Mr Bola Ige, Lekan Oyediran, is insisting that 24 of them arrested are innocent. While he claims innocent of the crime, he lamented that he lost his investment in a drug store and his wife also died…
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No fewer than five persons were feared killed yesterday in a battle of supremacy between two rival cult groups in Osogbo, Osun state capital. Besides, several others who sustained various degree of injuries were reportedly receiving treatments in various hospitals in the town. Though the State Commissioner of Police, Mr….
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A newspaper agent, Saheed Eluyera, was yesterday murdered in Orogba, Ilesa, Osun State by a group of suspected cultists Eluyera, who is an indigene of Ile-Ife, was said to have gone out to distribute newspapers when he ran into two cult groups engaging each other in a fight. It was…
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Osun State police has arraigned three suspects before the Magistrate Court in Osogbo, Osun-State for conspiracy and taking part in an unlawful cult group. It was gathered that the accused persons were apprehended on December 15 around 7:30 p.m. at BCG area in Osogbo, the capital of the state. The…
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The Chairman, House State House of Assembly Committee on Information and Strategies, Mr. Olatubosun Oyintiloye has insisted that the balance of the bailout fund given to the state government is N3.352 million while that of the local government councils is N173,226 million. In a press statement issued and signed by…
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A 21-one-year-old undergraduate of a university in Osun State, Rilwan Iyiola, said he created a route to the attic of his neigbhours’ apartment a day before he and his brother, Kazeem Iyiola, 19, robbed the victims. Rilwan, a 200-level student of Political Science, said he was desperate to raise money…
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An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of three accused persons in Ilesa Prison over alleged armed robbery. Chief Magistrate Olusola Aluko, ordered the remand of the defendants: Moshood Sheriff, 38; Olaleye Sarafadeen, 36, and Ajetunmobi Sefiu, 26, due to the magnitude of their offence. They are…
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