Category: Osun State

Osun State Government has debunked an alleged plan to covert the Social Development Goals Skill Acquisition Centre in Iragbiji to a soccer camp. The state’s immediate past governor who is now the Blue Economy minister, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, had at the weekend during the celebration of the 2023 edition of Iragbiji Day assured his kinsmen […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke The failure of government to meet the pension payment and expectations of retirees has shattered the plans of many and induced economic trauma for others, which in some cases have led to fatalities. Stories have been told of how some senior citizens who had worked so hard usually collapsed and […]

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has declared that he neither removed the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Adepele Ojo, nor appointed anyone in an acting capacity. Speaking on behalf of the governor in Osogbo on Sunday, the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mr Kolapo Alimi, said that the governor had only forwarded the resolution […]

Osun State Government has said the governor, Ademola Adeleke, has not appointed anyone as acting Chief Judge of the state, noting that he only forwarded the resolution of the State House of Assembly that asked the Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo to step aside to the National Judicial Commission. Ojo was last Thursday asked to step […]

The National Judicial Council has berated the Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, and the state House of Assembly for removing the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Oyebola Ojo, saying they lack the power to suspend or discipline any judge. A member of the council, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not […]

Tricycle operators in Osun State have been warned to ensure that they get all necessary documents for their automobiles. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Hon. Yakubu Adejare stated this while featuring on a weekly radio programme tagged ‘Aabo Loju Popo’. He urged the tricycle operators to get documents such as hackney permit, […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke said that the sack of the state’s State Chief Judge, Justice Adepele Ojo has nothing to do with the death sentence passed on a prominent businessman, Chief Raheem Adedoyin. Adedoyin was sentenced to death by the Osun State High Court over the killing of a postgraduate student, Adegoke, who had […]

The swearing-in of the newly-appointed Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Yinka Afolabi did not hold on Friday as scheduled as Governor Ademola Adeleke faced a barrage of criticisms that he acted contrary to the powers vested in him by the Consitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Governor who is outside the state […]

– Acting CJ to be sworn in tomorrow Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has approved the resolution of the Osun State House of Assembly asking the Osun State Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo to step aside pending investigation of allegations of misconduct, abuse of power, corruption and disregard for rule of law against her by the […]