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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State is appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari and relevant agencies of the Federal Government to pay workers and retirees directly from Osun’s share of the 522.7 billion Naira funds to be given to states for payment of salaries and pensions. A spokesman for…

Osun State House of Assembly has on Thursday approved an executive bill for the amendment to the State Local Government Administration Amendment Law No 5, seeking the reduction in number of caretaker management committee.   According to the statement from Chairman House Committe on Information ,the bill, passed by the…

Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has expressed regrets over the death of a National Youths Corps Scheme (NYSC) member from Osun state, Miss Ifedolapo Oladepo who died at the orientation camp in Kano State. Aregbesola who spoke through the Director of the Bureau of Communication and Strategy in the…

Osun State governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said his administration has succeeded in uplifting the standard of education in the state with over one hundred percent improvement recorded in the last six years. He said his government has achieved modest improvements in the performance of students in the WASSC examinations…

The Mass Communication Alumni of Osun State Polytechnic (MAOS), Iree, says it will hold the 5th series of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Dec. 17.   This is contained in a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the association, Mr Adesegun Salako, on Sunday in Abuja. The statement…

There is an ongoing battle of supremacy between the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Olugbo of Ugbo, Oba Obateru Akinruntan, over which throne is the monarchical seat of power in Yorubaland and the origin of Oduduwa, the so-called progenitor of Yoruba people. Oba Akinruntan also attacked the Ooni…

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the death of Late Ifedolapo Oladepo, an Osogbo born corp member who died in NYSC Kano orientation camp where she was posted to serve her fatherland. Her death is still a hot topic on major social media platforms with Nigerians calling for the total scrap…

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) yesterday set up a high-powered committee to probe the death of Elechi Nwenenda, Oladepo Ifedolapo and Asuquo Ukeme who died at the ongoing Batch B (Stream 1) orientation camps in Bayelsa, Kano and Zamfara States.   Its Director General Brigadier General Sule Kazaure disclosed…

Says LGs under absolute control of states The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has said that local governments are under absolutely control and ambience of states, and that the only organ of the state empowered by the constitution to make laws for them is the state assembly. The…