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The ritual drummers preceded her as she strode down the broad steps toward the Osun shrine, carefully balancing on her head a calabash filled with kola nuts, palm oil and other offerings to the Yoruba gods. She was not used to walking barefoot, so the sticks and stones on the…
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Parents of a corps member, Miss Ifedolapo Oladepo, who died recently at the NYSC orientation camp in Kano have said that the federal government has not contacted the family or requested to exhume her corpse for autopsy. They also dismissed the claim by the management of the National Youth Service…
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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi on Monday electrified the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ede, Osun State when he visited the 2016 Batch ‘B’ corps members to motivate and encourage them to aim high and aspire to be the best in life….
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Unless major stakeholders in the Nigeria project retrace their steps to safe the country, a Pentecostal Bishop has warned that the nation’s democracy is presently on the way to total collapse. Bishop Seun Adeoye of Sufficient Grace and Truth Ministry (SGTM), Rehoboth Arena, Osun State in a statement on Monday,…
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Olawale Oladepo father of the late corps member, Ifedolapo, who died in Kano Orientation Camp of the National Youth Service Corps, Monday, insisted that his daughter was killed due to negligence of officials of the NYSC. A retired sanitation officer, who spoke with reporters in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, expressed gratitude to…
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A corps member on Monday collapsed at the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp in Osun State. The corps member slumped on Monday when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, was addressing corps members at the camp. An NYSC official who checked on the corps member said she has…
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The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso has been shut for six months now as a result of a strike embarked upon by staff of the university of the failure of the authorities to pay their salaries. Staff, under the aegis of ASUU, NASU and SSANU, downed their tools after…
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Concerned friends of the family of late Ifedolapo Oladepo have urged President Muhammad Buhari to caution the Minister of Sports and Youth Development Comrade Solomon Dalung, against making inflammatory statement that could further aggravate the agony the parents and family members are passing through over the untimely death of Dolapo….
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A suspect, Richard Olayinka, who paraded himself as a staff member of the Osun State University, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command. He was arrested for allegedly issuing fake National Youth Service Corps call-up letters to four students. Olayinka was also accused of appending forged signature of…
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Hon. Busayo Oluwole Oke (Osun PDP) recently sponsored a bill aimed at stipulating stiff penalties for deliberate disclosure of the identities of security agents and their informants. The bill has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. Security is on the front burner of the national discourse. It has…
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