Category: Osun State

One person was reportedly injured on Wednesday night after a tanker laden with 33,000 litres of petrol fell and caught fire at the Ataoja Estate axis of the Ring Road popularly known as Ona-Baba-Ona in Osogbo, capital of Osun State. The injured victim was said to be the driver of the tanker. It was also […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has called for the establishment of a trans-regional security taskforce to curtail growing cross-border criminality in the South West. He made the call when the General Officer Commanding, the 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Valentine Okoro, paid him a courtesy visit. The GOC led members of his […]

Two suspected kidnappers were reportedly shot dead while about nine others sustained bullet injuries after a gun battle with police and local hunters in Iwo forest, Osun State. Our correspondent reliably gathered that armed kidnappers numbering about eleven invaded a Fulani settlement at Agbese village near Idi Araba, Oke Oba, Iwo West Local Council Development […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke Osun State House of Assembly has expressed dissatisfaction with the slow pace of ongoing reconstruction of the Osogbo-Iwo Road. It urged contractor handling the project to speed up work to ease transportation between the two major towns. The Adhoc committee of the Assembly expressed the displeasure during an on-the-spot assessment […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the release of bond certificates worth N2.1bn to retirees under the contributory pension scheme at the state and local government levels. The state’s Head of Service, Samuel Ayanleye Aina in a statement also disclosed that the beneficiaries shall be presented the bond certificates at the LG service commission […]

Osun State House of Assembly has rolled out its 22 Standing Committees for the 8th Assembly. The composition of the House Committees was announced during the Plenary of the House. The Committees and their chairmen as rolled out by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun, are as follows: Rules and Business: Adewumi Kofoworola, Industrial Relation: […]

Public servants in Osun State have been charged to work diligently and shun negative tendencies that could be inimical to the government of Governor Ademola Adeleke. They were also charged to be hardworking and ensure service delivery, through the various departments, and agencies of government to the people of the state. This admonitions were given […]

Says Adeleke, PDP senators’ support no big deal The All Progessives Congress in Osun State has asked Governor Ademola Adeleke, the ruling People’s Democratic Party, and his supporters to desist from remarking as if the political fortune of his predecessor and APC leader in the state, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, depends on their whims and caprices. […]

Osun State Government has partnered with Fidelity Bank, Wootlab Foundation, Microsoft, UNDP, SMEDAN and BOI to set up an MSME Clinic (OSUNPRENEUR) to empower 600 youths across the state’s Local Government Areas. Hon Kehinde Ibitoye, the state’s Focal Person on Social Intervention Programs(SIP), made this known in a statement on Monday. He said: “In line […]