Tag: Osun State

Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo A man believed to be the second in command to the leader of the dreaded Eiye Confraternity in Osogbo, Afeez Alade, popularly known as Esubiyi, has been arrested by men of the Osun State Police Command. Alade, it was learnt, was the second in the hierarchy of…

The Owa of Igbajo Land, Oba Adeniyi Fasade had urged the government of of the state of Osun to consider constructuon of Igbajo – Ada road in its infrastructural development plan. The royal father made this appeal at the public presentation of a book titled Igbajo: History, Culture and Development,…

The Osun State government is planning an economic summit in the first quarter of next year. The state’s Statistician-General, Prof. Wasiu Alagbe Gbolagade, announced this at a business programme organised by Kazeem International Group of Schools, Agbowo in Iwo. He said the summit would attract many investors from all over…

THE police on Monday arraigned one Olumuyiwa Fayemi, 35, before Magistrate Ishola Omisade of an Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife over an alleged assault. The prosecutor, Cpl. Odusina Olawale told the court that the accused committed the offence on Nov 29, 2018, at 08:30 p.m., at Iredunmi Street in…

Saint James Middle School, Ayetoro in Osogbo, Osun State has emerged the winner of the MicCom Foundation for Educational Development’s (MIFED’s) best school in the assessment examination for 2017/2018 session. MicCom Cables and Wires Limited Chairman Mr Tunde Ponnle was at the presentation of the bursary/scholarship awards to pupils and…

An Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun State on Friday granted bail in the sum of N500,000 to a teenager (name withheld) charged with breaking into a carpenter’s workshop to steal some items. The Magistrate, Mrs Adejumoke Ademola-Olowolagba, also ordered that the 14-year-old should produce two sureties in like sum, also…

By Editor Residents of Oloosaoko compound of Oja- Oba area of Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday wept uncontrollably when bodies of a female police officer and two others were discovered in their rented apartment.   At press time, what caused their deaths was still not known as sympathisers could not give…

A newborn baby has been dumped near a police station in Ilie, Olorunda North Local Council Development Area of Osun State.   Though information about how the baby got to the spot is sketchy, residents of the area told our correspondent that the newborn baby was found wrapped in clothes…