By John Dike, Osogbo Queen Chanel Chin, a former olori or wife of the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has debunked the allegations made by her ex-husband, who recently accused the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, of plotting his assassination through her. In a statement released via Instagram on Thursday, Queen Chanel […]
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By John Dike, Osogbo As the world prepares to celebrate World Teachers’ Day on October 5, the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) has passionately called for collaboration among all stakeholders to rescue the country’s struggling education sector. Speaking with reporters ahead of this year’s celebration, the National President of ASUSS, Comrade Sola Adigun, […]
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By Tunde Odesola After a five-week break, I’m back at my desk, thankfully. Where the heck did I go? I went to the Land of Moriah. Tunde tun ti de o; where on planet Earth is the Land of Moriah? Moriah was the land where Abraham, the Father of Faith, took his son, Isaac, and […]
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By Abdu Rafiu There is something that is thrilling about independence which triggers a feeling of upliftment. It is an upwelling of a deep sense of freedom even though it is not every time that independence and freedom are one and the same. One can see that independence is not always connected with freedom, deep […]
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The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) in Osun State has warned its members against engaging in any form of financial transaction during the ongoing strike affecting the state judiciary. It also announced the postponement of the scheduled “I Am Alive” verification exercise for retired judiciary staff on federal pension, attributing the decision to the […]
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By John Dike, Osogbo Osun State House of Assembly on Thursday warned commercial banks operating in the state, particularly the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Osogbo Branch, against processing any unauthorised financial transactions on Local Government accounts. In a letter signed by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun, the Assembly condemned what it described […]
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By Olusegun Adeniyi When Nigeria marked its 60th independence anniversary five years ago, I recalled how 1960 was deemed ‘The Year of Africa’. Because 16 of the 17 countries that gained independence that year were from the continent. I then x-rayed the state of those other 15 African countries that secured their independence same year […]
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The Presidency on Wednesday rejected the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi’s Independence Day claims that President Bola Tinubu’s policies had pushed 15 million Nigerians into acute poverty and squandered borrowings on waste. It described his assertions as “not based on facts.” In an interview with The Punch, the President’s Special Adviser on Information […]
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Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has explained why he ate his words, and accepted the renaming of Nigeria’s National Theatre in his honour despite his past criticism of public monuments named after individuals. At the reopening of the refurbished venue in Lagos on Thursday, the 90-year-old playwright acknowledged “mixed feelings” about the Wole Soyinka Centre […]
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In , the Governor of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has granted amnesty to 36 convicts serving sentences at the Nigerian Correctional Service facilities in Ilesa and Ile-Ife, in commemoration of Nigeria’s Independence Anniversary. This was in a statement by his spokesman, Olwale Rasheed. The governor’s gesture, following the recommendations of the State Advisory Council […]
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