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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A court document has revealed the controversial United Bank for Africa (UBA) accounts into which the Federal Government paid allocations belonging to the 30 Local Governments in Osun State. The funds were lodged in newly opened accounts in the names of the 30 councils by the court-sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) Local Government chairmen and […]
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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke Records from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) have shown that an eestimated N63 billion of the six months’ seized allocations from the Federation Account may have been disbursed to the ‘sacked’ All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen of the 30 local government areas of Osun State, The […]
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By John Dike, Osogbo The Association of Concerned Local Government Workers of Osun State has declared support for the ongoing implementation of local government autonomy in the state, while calling on all local government employees to resume duties immediately following months of industrial action. Speaking at a press conference held in Osogbo on Thursday, the […]
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John Dike, Osogbo The All Progressives Congress (APC), in Osun State has accused the Amotekun of perpetrating extra-judicial killings at Akinlalu, Ife-North Local Government Area of the state. Condemning the killings as resulting from a “gruesome and unprovoked attack” on innocent citizens, it called on Governor Ademola Adeleke to probe the local security outfit over […]
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The opening of new United Bank of Africa, UBA, accounts into which the seized allocations of Osun State local governments were recently paid by the Federal Government has stirred fresh contoversies over the handling of the funds. As confirmed on Sunday by the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is the opposition party in the state, […]
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