The Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli who is currently standing trial before an Osogbo High Court over alleged rape of a 23-year-old corps member, Miss Helen Okpara, yesterday, asked the court to compel Miss Okpara to show her private part to the court to confirm her […]
A mosque and Islamic school were burnt in Benin City on Tuesday as five persons lost their lives in the nationwide protests against fuel subsidy removal in the Edo State capital. “We have recorded five deaths so far on both sides, those that have been attacked and the attackers,” Secretary General of the Nigerian Red […]
THE strike embarked upon yesterday by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) over fuel subsidy removal was peaceful in Cross River, Imo State while it was aborted in Bayelsa State. Early in the morning, business activities went on as usual in Calabar as the markets opened while commercial drivers […]
Group faults alarm AHEAD of today’s protests and strike over the fuel subsidy removal, Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) to check the multifarious crises facing the country. Aregbesola also cautioned ambitious power seekers who might attempt to hide under the fuel subsidy protest to subvert […]
Two weeks after a popular Ife-based petrol dealer, Alhaji Popoola Ogundoyin was kidnapped, detectives from the Osun State Police Command have freed the victim and recovered N3.5m from the suspected kidnappers. Addressing a news conference in Osogbo on Friday, Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Solomon Olusegun, said the family of the victim had given […]
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has said the Peoples Democratic Party plotted to kill him in 2007 in order to put the state in perpetual bondage. Aregbesola made this assertion at the Oroki Day celebration held at the Osogbo Township Stadium, on Saturday. He recalled that his personal vehicle was riddled with bullets when he […]
By GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO—The on-going trial of the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, over the alleged rape of a female member of the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Miss Hellen Okpara, was Tuesday stalled following the inability of the state Prosecutor Mr. Abiodun Badiora, to present witnesses […]
Monday, December 05, 2011 • Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section In a bid to banish hunger and poverty in Osun State, the State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has presented the sum of N500million loan to farmers. The governor, during the presentation of cheques to beneficiaries at the ceremony to flag off […]
THE struggle over the usage of hijab (veil for Muslim ladies) in public schools has led to the closure of public schools in Iwo Local Government Area of Osun State. The quest to implement the usage of hijab created crisis in the town, as some Muslim groups insisted that all Muslim ladies should be allowed […]
Retired Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Tafa Balogun, has made a special case for the creation of Igbomina State from the present Kwara and Osun states, saying “the ethnic equation of Nigeria remains incomplete without the creation of Igbomina State.” Speaking as the chairman of the seventh Igbomina Day Celebration held at Esie in Irepodun […]
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