News | Business | Travel | Lifestyle | Events
I disagree with a clause in the proposed law seeking to legalize the operations of Amotekun. The offensive clause states that its officers can NOT be SUED for anything they do while on duty. This is an immunity clause, and a dangerous one at that. Pure and simple. Don’t we…
Read more
Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola has approved the building of a 54.3km road project across the state. At a joint news briefing in Osogbo, the Commissioner for Works and Transport, Mr. Remi Omowaye, and the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, said the projects are five major…
Read more
Quite naturally, men, throughout the world and in all of human history, like good-looking women. In fact, history is replete with many strange things which men have done for and or because of beautiful women. Many would not forget in a hurry, the Shakespearean story of Anthony and Cleopatra. The…
Read more
Some Peoples Democratic Party leaders in Osun State were on Monday allegedly attacked by members denied access to the venue of a stakeholders’ meeting called by the chairman, Soji Adagunodo, in Osogbo. Those allegedly attacked at the meeting were the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Prince Diran Odeyemi,…
Read more
By Joseph Akanbi Osogbo Tennis Club 1991 has yesterday elected a new captain and other executive members to pilot the affairs of the club for the next two years. The new captain and other executive members of the tennis club were unanimously elected by all the members present at an…
Read more
The queen of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola Ogunwusi, has spoken against the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), describing it as a violation of women’s rights. The queen was a keynote speaker and a royal mother of the day at the Zero Tolerance Day for FGM, which was…
Read more
The Houses of Assembly of states in the South-West, comprising Oyo, Osun, Lagos, Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun states, have said they will give accelerated hearing to the bill on the Western Nigeria Security Network, popularly known as Operation Amotekun, as soon as it is presented to them by the Executive….
Read more
Remains of Chairman, Board of Trustees of Alliance for Democracy, Senator Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa, were on Saturday interred in Erin-Ijesa, Osun State. The late Senator Akinfenwa died on October 3, 2019, at the age of 89. Before the interment, funeral service for the lawmaker that represented Osun East in the Senate…
Read more
Tragedy struck on Sunday after six members of the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo, in the Otan Ayegbaju area of Osun State, died in a fatal road crash. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victims were returning from the church’s annual pilgrimage when the accident happened. The victims were said to be travelling…
Read more
Gov. Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun has congratulated his Ekiti State counterpart and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Dr Kayode Fayemi, on the occasion of his 55th birthday anniversary. Oyetola in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan on Sunday, commended Fayemi for using his good offices…
Read more