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Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and younger brother to late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, Otunba Ademola Adeleke defeated Mudashiru Hussein, the candidate fielded by his former party, All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Osun West by-election. ADEBIYI ADEDAPO chronicles the development and its implication for future polls. e Independent…
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The outcome of the bye-election in Osun West senatorial district, Osun State penultimate Saturday wasn’t just the result of a contest between the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, but the manifestation of a discreet power tussle within the ranks of the ruling party APC. Olawale Olaleye writes…
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By Oluwole Ige Ahead of next year governorship poll in Osun State, a group, identified as Osogbo coalition over the weekend rallied support for the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Governor Rauf Aregbesola, saying that eligible voters in the city were ready to deliver their votes for the electoral victory…
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SOMETHING unNigerian, unstudent and unGreatIfe (permit my neologism liberty) is manifesting in the alleged corruption trial of the immediate past Acting Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Anthony Elujoba, by EFCC. I should know because I’m an alumnus. Even men, who had led the institution in various capacity,…
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Justice Olamide Folahanmi Oloyede was in the news last year when she forwarded a petition to the Osun State House of Assembly calling for the impeachment of the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola. The petition generated controversies, which pitted her against the Osun State government. Eventually, the National Judicial Council…
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It is almost six years that Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been in the saddle. He was returned to office in November 27 2014, for a second term. Like in other states, Aregbesola met the state in debt with abandoned projects. He however took only sukuk loan at…
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COMMERCIAL activities in Akure, the Ondo State capital were yesterday halted for several hours as President Muhammadu Buhari visited the state to canvass support for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN). The President who arrived Akure at 1.00pm moved straight to the Democracy…
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The visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to Osun State could have served as a platform for Ogbeni to lay bare all that is militating the state and to give the people’s general an opportunity to have an insight into the pebble in the shoes of the racing Osun people, but…
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With the inability of most Nigerian states to address the issue of indebtedness as well as the seeming incapability of government at all levels to satisfy the yearnings of the people for access to basic amenities just to cushion the effect of this hard times as a result of dwindling…
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By Mustapha Aleem A regional group head of the United Bank for Africa, UBA, Mr Babajide Bewaji, has called on government to dedicate more funds to the health sector in order to improve the productivity of the sector. He made this known in an interview with our correspondent on the…
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