Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has forwarded the list of nominees for commissioners and special advisers to Osun house of assembly. Adewale Egbedun, speaker of the Osun assembly, read the governor’s letter containing the names, during plenary on Friday. An ad-hoc committee was established to screen the nominees and send their names for confirmation. […]
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Ace Nigerian singer, David Adeleke, widely known Davido has made his first public appearance since the unfortunate demise of his 3-year-old son Ifeanyi Adeleke, who drowned in the family house swimming pool last month. It was reported that the toddler was left unguarded by the singer’s domestic workers, he then strayed into the pool where […]
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The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has revealed that he returned to school when there were controversies surrounding his educational qualifications. Adeleke’s educational qualifications, especially his Senior Secondary School Certificate, has been a major campaign weapon for his opponents, who say he didn’t attend secondary school. […]
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Men of Osun Police Command have arrested three youths on the Osogbo/Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ife Campus Road, Ile-Ife, for being in possession of a human heart. Spokesperson of the Command, SP Yemisi Opalola, said two of the suspects are 21 years old, while the third suspect is 25 years of age. “The Osun Police […]
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The government of Osun State has approved the conversion of the State College of Education, Ilesa to a full-fledged university. This was made known by Adegboyega Oyetola, the Governor on Thursday in Ilesa during the commissioning of the Ijesa Geriatric Hospital. Oyetola also announced that the services of KPMG have been engaged as consultants to […]
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The Government of Osun State has threatened to impose a fresh locked down on the state following 22 fresh COVID-19 infections. News of the fresh cases came barely 24 hours after another 17 infections. Health Commissioner Rafiu Isamotu said government might be forced to impose another round of lockdown if residents and citizens continued to […]
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The Osun State governorship election tribunal has declared Senator Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the governorship election held in September 2018. A three-man panel sitting in Abuja, the nation’s capital, upheld the petition of the PDP candidate while delivering judgement on Friday. It was a split decision […]
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An Osun Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ile-Ife, on Monday, remanded two persons over alleged possession of human parts. The suspects are Supo Bamidele, 48 and Amos Suleiman, 51. The presiding Magistrate, Olalekan Ijiyode, refused the oral bail applications of the accused and ordered their counsels, Lere Ayinde and Niyi Kosile, to file a written application […]
Continue ReadingThe National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is trending on social media over a blunder, “pain of rigging” he made during a press conference on Friday. Oshiomhole goofed while commenting on the Osun governorship rerun election which was won by Gboyega Oyetola, his party’s candidate. “I think that for democracy to flourish, […]
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As part of its mandate to engage electoral democracy in Nigeria, the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) observed the Supplementary Governorship Elections which took place on the 27th of September, 2018. TMG deployed observers across the seven (7) polling units across the four-local government councils, namely Orolu, Ife North, Ife South and Osogbo where elections where […]
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