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Blasts in Kaduna, Borno, Osun

Posted by admin Borno, Kaduna, Osun, State News Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima and an injured victim of Maiduguri Monday Market explosion…on Tuesday | credits: Borno State Government. A suicide bomber, suspected to be a member of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, early on Tuesday detonated an Improvised Explosive Device at the popular Maiduguri Monday Market, killing no fewer than 17 persons. […]

Ekiti election was fraudulent, says Aregbesola

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, INEC Politics, Osun, State News Wednesday, June 25th, 2014

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the All Progressives Congress lost the Ekiti State governorship polls due to fraud but maintained that it was impossible to rig him out in the August 9, 2014 governorship election in Osun. The governor spoke in Ikirun on Tuesday during the continuation of his campaign which […]

PDP woos Osoba, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun 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 […]

(Interesting Picture) Man dies digging grave to steal skull

Posted by admin 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 […]

UNIOSUN engages OPC to protect students from rapists

Posted by admin 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 […]

Osun PDP elders picked me for gov – Adeleke

Posted by admin 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 […]

Religious crisis looms in Osun school

Posted by admin 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 […]

Omisore declares Osun gov ambition

Posted by admin 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 […]

Picture: Confusion in Osun as students wear hijab, choir robe, fetish attires to school •‘Allahu Akbar’, church songs and incantations boom at assembly ground

Posted by admin 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 […]

‘Aregbesola’s excuse for non-payment of pension laughable’

Posted by admin 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 […]