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Osun State House of Assembly has received four private member bills sponsored by one of its lawmakers, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, representing Obokun Constituency. The bills are: Cattle Trading and Grazing Bill 2016; Forestry, Natural and Mineral Resources Development Agency (Establishment) Bill 2016; Mandatory Usage of Standardised Measure and Weight Bill 2016;…

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Osun state chapter, on Wednesday described the job centre recently inaugurated by the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, as a “fraud and another misstep from a straying administration”. Aregbesola had recently commissioned for use a centre in Osogbo to assist unemployed youths search for jobs in…

The Osun state Government has announced its plans to recruit more Physiotherapists to improve the quality of physiotherapy services to the people of the state of Osun. The Physiotherapy departments in all the State Hospitals would also be rehabilitated and equipped with modern facilities for better services. The Head of…

Workers of the Osun State College of Education in Ila Orangun on Tuesday besieged the State House of Assembly in protest, demanding for the removal of the Chairman of the Governing Council of the institution, Mr Oyeniyi Akande. The workers, who are members of the College of Education Academic Staff…

The school feeding and health programme has remained one of the top policies and programmes adopted by the Osun State Government for the development of agriculture and food production in the state. The policy has in turn generated jobs and economic empowerment for the unemployed while the small and medium…

OSUN State All Progressives Congress has urged the people to reflect deeply about the state created about 25 years ago. In a statement by its spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi, in Osogbo, the state capital, the party called on indigenes to prepare for the 25th anniversary of its creation, which comes up…

Adedayo Adeniyi is a Mandela Washington Fellow and a member of Barack Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) network. He shares his experience at the just concluded leadership training and tour in the US with RONKE SANYA in this interview, revealing his undying love and hope for Nigeria.   What…

LAGOS—The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, yesterday, urged the Nigeria political class to champion the cause of emancipation of teeming youths in the country and charged the leaders to live an exemplary life worthy of emulation. Speaking during the Hall of Grace Awards Dinner to celebrate Distinguished Nigerians, the…

THE National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has said it will not stop providing opportunities for teeming unemployed youths to be meaningfully engaged for national development. Speaking at the beginning of a three-month training scheme for about 100 youths in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, the NDE Director-General, Mr. Kunle Obayan,…