Category: Osun State

The Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Adepele Ojo, has fixed judgment in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, for next week. As reported by The Guardian, it was gathered that judgment on the case, involving the owner of Hilton Honors Hotel, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin, would be […]

Every day is for the thief and one day is for the owner of the house. It was a day of a nemesis for two suspected men who usually invade Osun communities to steal their goats as they reportedly met their Waterloo in the hands of operatives of the highway patrol policemen, who were on […]

An Okada rider identified as Aina Ezekiel Oluwasegun who had earlier been declared missing has been found dead. The young man was reported missing last Friday, May 12, 2023, at Owode Ede, Ede North Local Council Development Area ( LCDA), Osun state. According to one of his colleagues, Oluwasegun was hired by a passenger on […]

Twelve persons have been confirmed dead in a road crash in which eight others were also injured, at the weekend, on the deplorable Ibadan-Ile Ife so-called ‘expressway’ in Osun State. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Kehinde Adeleke, in the state, confirmed the incident. He said that the injured victims […]

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has flagged off the 2023 Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Week in the State. The initiative, in partnership with the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), is targeted at delivering a package of basic interventions that are highly effective in reducing […]

Alhaji Wahab Adeniji, Principal Aide to a leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, has explained the story behind the picture of a former Secretary to the State Government with Governor Ademola Adeleke and his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Kazeem Akinleye. It would be recalled that another faction of APC […]

Govt: No plan to sack workers  By Banji Ayoola Labor leadership in Osun state has kicked against the proposed staff audit by the state government on the ground that workers are not properly briefed about the exercise. However, the state government said that the exercise is not targeted at any workers The joint leadership comprising […]

The Governing Council of Osun State University, Osogbo has been dissolved by Governor Ademola Adeleke. The board, which was headed by Mallam Yusuf Alli, was appointed by a former governor, Rauf Aregbesola, in 2016, and reappointed by his successor and the immediate past governor, Adegboyega Oyetola after it completed its first 5-year tenure. A statement […]

Touched by the plight of the helpless victims who were rendered homeless by a rainstorm, which destroyed their house, Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke has moved to resettle the victims. A heavy rainfall which was accompanied by a rainstorm, last Saturday, uprooted a big tree that fell on and destroyed a building at 4, […]