Adeleke sues for peace over Oyo/Osun land disputes

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has harped on the importance of embracing peace over any land dispute especially between neighboring sister states pending an amicable resolution of the contention. Apparently making a reference to the people of Ogburo, Papa, Ogun Ajo, Paku, Ejemu, Eleye, Olola and other communities in Iwo Local Government where some people […]

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Osun to prosecute environmental sanitation violators

Osun State Government has said it would prosecute violators of the environmental sanitation exercise in the state. It spoke just as its monitoring team said it arrested some violators during the Thursday environmental sanitation exercise in Osogbo, the state capital. They were alleged to have violated the environmental laws of the state, especially in the […]

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Govt charges Osun food vendors to improve school feeding

Osun State Government has charged food Vendors, under the aegis of Osun School Feeding Programme, (O’meals) to cooperate with it to improve on the scheme. The Chairman, House Committee on Education, Hon. Sikiru Bajepade, gave the charge while addressing the 2,470 food vendors under the scheme, during a meeting. HBajepade said the state government is […]

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Port Harcourt refinery begins operations

The Federal Government, on Thursday, confirmed the commencement of operations at the Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemical Company in Rivers State. It announced that the facility commenced operations on December 20, 2023, as the first phase of work at the plant had been completed, adding that refined petroleum products would start flowing from the refinery […]

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Yuletide :Osun NSCDC deploys 2,350 personnel

Ahead of this year’s Christmas and new year celebrations, the Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Osun State Command, Agboola Sunday has deployed 2,350 personnel across the state The operatives were expected to provide watertight security, covert and overt intelligence operations and round the clock surveillance to ensure that criminally minded people do […]

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Adeleke approves N1.6b bond certificates for Osun retirees

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the release and distribution of bond certificates worth N1,625,332,835:75 to retirees under the contributory pension scheme. The Permanent Secretary, Local Government Staff Pension Bureau, Mr Ibrahim Akibu made this known in a statement in Osogbo on Wednesday. According to him, the beneficiaries cut across the primary schools and […]

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Aiyedatiwa presents N384b budget proposal for 2024

Ondo State Acting Governor, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on Thursday presented a budget proposal of £384.533 billion for the 2024 fiscal year, tagged “Budget of Economic Resilience,” to the State House of Assembly. It is higher than the total projected budget outlay for the 2023 fiscal year, which was £275,979,184 billion. He said that £212,014,859,647.00 billion […]

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Power supply: Aiyedatiwa to take delivery of N7.8b new gas engines

Hope has brightened that light may soon be restored in parts of Ondo State, especially the Ondo South Senatorial District which has been in blackout for over ten years as new sets of German-made reciprocating gas engines to augment power supply in the state, which were ordered by the state government in partnership with a […]

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Supreme Court reserves judgment in Kano governorship poll

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgment in the appeal by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State challenging the ruling of the Appeal Court that sacked him from office. The Justice Inyang Okoro-led five-member panel of judges reserved their decision after hearing closing arguments from both parties. Yusuf and the New Nigeria People Party […]

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