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At least 52.4 percent of the population of people in Osun State are vulnerable and require urgent social protection to continue to live normal life. This was revealed in the recent Core Diagnostics for Action conducted by United States Agency for International Development – Health Finance Governance (USAID-HFG) project. The…
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a woman, Bunmi Adebayo, for allegedly stealing a month-old-baby boy in Modakeke area of Osun State. The 26-year-old was paraded by the Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Ahmed Iliyasu, on Wednesday at the Police Headquarters in Abeokuta, the state capital. Mr Iliyasu said…
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By Haleem Aigoro A 22-year-old man, Olawuni Alaba, has been arraigned before an Osogbo Magistrate Court, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, over alleged theft of motorcycle. The prosecutor, Sergeant Fatoba, told the court that the accused committed the offense on June 27, 2018 at Ota-Efun area, Osogbo. Faced with a…
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By Femi Adesola A Socio Political group, Development Advocacy Group (DAG), today in Oshogbo, staged a protest against the zoning of the Osun Governorship seat. In their protest to the State APC Secretariat, The group who said they are championing the course of the common man, argued that competency…
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By Sharon Fatogun Professor Adeolu Durotoye, a gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has disclosed that the party is set to take over from the incumbent government of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Durotoye, in an interview monitored by our correspondent on Gold FM…
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By Editor With less than three months to the Osun 2018 Governorship election, our independent poll has shown that the good people of Osun State prefer someone from the West Senatorial District as a replacement for the outgoing Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. An independent opinion poll conducted by our platform…
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Some indigenes of Osun State on the platform of Development Advocacy Group have described the Friday protest for Osun West Senatorial District to produce the next governor of the state as divisive, provocative and mischevious. Hundreds of students, artisans and traders had on Friday staged a protest in Osogbo against…
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No fewer than 10 people lost their lives in 15 road traffic accidents in Osun last month, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) disclosed in Osogbo, yesterday. The state’s Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr Peter Oke, made the disclosure in an interview with LEADERSHIP Sunday, in Osogbo. …
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A Magistrate Court sitting in Ile-Ife, Osun State on Friday, remanded 18-year-old Mayowa Segun and 29-year-old Adebowale Wasiu, for allegedly breaking into a shop and stealing various items including beer, soft drinks, bush meat and recharge cards worth N41,950. The Prosecutor, Sunday Osanyintuyi, told the court that the accused committed…
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Ahead of the Osun state governorship election fixed for September by the Independent National Electoral Commission,(INEC) the All Progressives Congress has fixed July 19 for the conduct of its governorship primary to pick its candidate. A statement from its national secretariat and signed by its national publicity secretary, Mallam Bolaji…
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