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Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Osoba | credits: File copy There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party are wooing a group, led by a former governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, in Ogun State’s All Progressives Party to the PDP. The PUNCH’s investigations on Sunday in Abuja revealed that since the crisis in Ogun State’s […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Saturday, May 17th, 2014
DESPITE the increase in cases of jungle justice being meted out to suspected kidnappers and ritualists lately, most especially in Oyo, Ogun, Osun and other states, some desperate ritualists are still not deterred by these horrible deaths, as an unidentified young man in Ilobu community, in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, met […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Prof. Bashiru Okesina The Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University, Prof. Bashir Okesina, says the university has engaged the services of members of the Oodua People’s Congress to protect its students from rapists and hoodlums. Okesina said this while addressing a press conference in Osogbo on Monday as part […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke The first civilian Governor of Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, has said that elders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state asked him to pick form and run for the office again. Adeleke said that there was no way he would have turned the request of the elders down, since […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
OSOGBO — Tension, yesterday, enveloped a popular school in Osun State, the Baptist High School, Iwo, as the students wore different dresses that suited their religious inclination to school. The students, thereby, defiled the state government uniform specification recently introduced in all public secondary schools in the state as part of the schools reclassification programme.Apart […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Saturday, February 8th, 2014
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy Senator Iyiola Omisore on Saturday declared his interest to contest for the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, with a renewed call for the replacement of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Rufus Akeju. Thousands of people from within and outside the state gathered at the […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
There was commotion and confusion in Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State, on yesterday, as students of the school abandoned the general uniform provided by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration and wore hijabs, purdah and choir garments to the school. The development disrupted the usual assembly prayer, as the students declined to listen to their principal […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy The immediate-past Head of Service in Osun State, Mr. Segun Akinwusi, has described the excuse given by Governor Rauf Aregbesola for his administration inability to pay pensions and gratuities as laughable. The Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Wale Bolorunduro, had blamed the inability of the government to […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy The PUNCH is my number one newspaper, at least for now. I am also an avid reader of the columns anchored by both Azuka Onwuka and Niyi Akinnaso every Tuesday. I read these two great columnists in the Tuesday, January 28, 2014 edition of the newspaper. […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola The Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salaam, has appealed to Christians particularly members of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in the state to stop fighting the government of Rauf Aregbesola. A statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Wednesday by the Chief Press Secretary to […]