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By Editor Osun State has concluded plans to organise prayers at mosques and churches on Friday and Sunday to mark its 26th creation anniversary which comes up on Sunday, August 27. The state was created in 1991 from part of the old Oyo State. The Governor of the State, Rauf…
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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 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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By NAN Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday lauded the European Union for establishing a modern Judiciary Research Centre in the state. The governor made the commendation while inaugurating the centre at the Osun High Court premises in Osogbo. He said that the centre was funded by the European Union under…
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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 NAN Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, has said that it was high time for Nigeria to go back to farming to sustain itself, saying a time will come when the nation will be left with no other option than agriculture. Aregbesola said this while inspecting 40 acres of…
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By Oluwole Ige HOPE of the completion of Moshood Kashimawo Abiola (MKO) International Airport, located in Ido Osun brightened over the weekend as the Turkish government indicated its interest to collaborate with Osun State government on the project. The Turkish government also expressed its readiness to partner Osun on trade,…
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By Oluwole Ige AN Osun based lawyer and human rights activist, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola on Monday urged a State High Court, sitting in Osogbo to declare all businesses and transactions done in the name of “State of Osun” illegal, contending that there is only “Osun State” in the provisions of…
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By Olanrewaju Ayodeji Lecturers of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology have accused Osun State’s Governor Rauf Aregbesola of hypocrisy over his appeal to workers to reopen the school for the sake of the students. The school has been mostly shut since last year over the failure of the two owner…
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By Oluwole Ige Fifty out of eighty five medical students of the Osun State University (UNIOSUN), who were sponsored by the Osun State government to Ukraine in 2013 to complete their medical studies returned to Nigeria on Saturday evening after four and a half years of study overseas. The medical…
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