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By Editor THE Triangular Group of Pensioners in Osun has expressed its utmost displeasure on what it describes as sponsored attacks on the governor and government of Osun by a section of the 2011/2012 pensioners, describing it as an unwarranted ploy to distract and impede the wheel of progress and…
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By Editor Indications emerge on Wednesday in Ibadan that report of the ongoing audit of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (Lautech) Ogbomosho will be presented to the owners states, latest by Friday August 25. Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Adeniyi Olowofela made the disclosure while featuring on a…
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By Oluwole Ige SMALL and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) business operators in Osun have attributed their inability to assess loan facilities from the Bank of Industry (BOI) to bureaucratic delay in the issuance of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) by the state government. Leaders of various associations of small and…
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A 67 year old father, AbdulYekin Salawudeen, his son Salawudeen Hammed 27 and one Sarafa Adeyemo 26, on Tuesday were arraigned before Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly stealing a Toyota Hiace Hummer vehicle belonging to the State Ministry of Justice. The accused were docked on a…
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By Editor A 21-year-old sales girl, Oluwatobi Blessing, was on Thursday arraigned in an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged N285,000 fraud. Blessing is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and theft. The prosecutor, Sgt. Sunday Ajayi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on Aug. 7, at…
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By NAN Two men — Adeniyi Dada and Isaac Samson — who allegedly scaled the fence of a house in the night to steal some household items, were on Thursday brought before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court. The accused were, however, granted bail in the sum of N200, 000 each…
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The quote above, by W.B. Yeats, perfectly echoed my own sentiments on reading a report in the Punch, August 16, 2017 edition in which Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun was alleged by the ‘Forum of 2011/2012 Pensioners to have “paid political office holders who served between November 2010 and November…
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By Ajibola Olaniyi Managing Director of Bank of Industry (BoI), Mr Kayode Pitan on Tuesday said that the bank, in its bid to develop small and medium enterprises has disbursed the total of N3.5bn to business men and women in Osun State. Pitan disclosed this at the Osun State Business…
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By Oluwole Ige A Magistrates Court, sitting in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, on Tuesday remanded four persons in Ilesa prison custody over alleged armed robbery. The accused include: Ojo Ayobami, 21, Isaac Awe, 18, Rotimi Adedeji, 39, and Segun Adelabi, 26. They were arraigned on a 6-count charge, bothering…
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By Deji Joshua An Islamic Cleric, Jimoh Alimi and 15 others are currently being remanded in Ilesa Prison over religious crisis in Ejigbo area of Osun State. Two rival Islamic factions had been scheming to take over the control of Isoko Central Mosque in Ejigbo Local Government area of the…
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