Salary cut’II lead to chaos, workers tell Aregbesola

Labour unions in Osun State have warned Governor Rauf Aregbesola to stop the plan to cut workers’ salaries by 50 per cent. The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, who led other labour leaders to address journalists on the issue said on Friday that the decision would lead to an […]

APC requests resignation of judge who called for Aregbesola’s sack

  The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on Justice Olamide Oloyede to toe the honourable path by first, resigning her position as a High Court Judge in the state’s judiciary before, “ganging up with the opposition to attempt to destroy the state government” of which she is an integral […]

Osun State and the Lost Hope of the Common Man – By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | June 27, 2015 – These are really disturbing times in Nigeria. Almost everywhere one goes, the stories are the same. Epileptic power supply, biting fuel scarcity, tanker explosions, intense Boko Haram bombings and attacks, petty agitations in the Niger-Delta, spiralling debts, economic downturn, naira depreciation to mention a […]

Aregbesola, Ben Bruce clash over unpaid salaries

  Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy The Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, and the Senator representing Bayelsa-East senatorial district, Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce clashed on Thursday over Aregbesola’s inability to pay workers’ salaries. The faceoff started after Murray-Bruce, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, said on his official […]

Osun workers benefit from church scheme over unpaid salaries

   FOR public service workers in Osun State, these are indeed trying times. For about seven months now, they have not received salaries from their Osun State government employer under the leadership of Governor Rauf Aregbesola. All they get from Aregbesola instead are promises that are yet to be fulfilled since last year when the state […]

Unpaid salaries: Osun pensioners protest, lament members’ deaths

Retired workers under the aegis of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners in Osun State on Wednesday staged a public protest over the non payment of their pensions for the past seven months. The Chairman of NUP in the state, Dr. J.A. Olunlade, in the speech he circulated to journalists lamented the death of many of […]

Jonathan vs Buhari: How they stand in 36 States, FCT

State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]

How far can Jonathan go in ELOOOO states?

By Clifford Ndujihe & Dapo Akinrefon With states like Ekiti (E), Lagos (L), Ogun (O), Ondo (O), Osun (O) and Oyo (O), the six South-West states can also be described as ELOOOO states. The word elo in Yoruba, the indigenous language of South-westerners, means how much. The issue of elo or how much will play […]

Ebola: Osun bars foreign tourists from festival (How do you enforce it?)

Osun State Govern­ment has declared that tourists from outside the state would not be allowed to par­ticipate in the forthcoming Osun Osogbo Festival sched­uled for Friday. This, the government said, was part of measures to pre­vent the spread of Ebola virus to the state. Addressing a press con­ference in Osogbo, the state Commissioner for Informa­tion […]

Omisore blames INEC for defeat, heads for tribunal

  Senator Iyiola Omisore The The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said that his loss at the Saturday election is due to the malpractices perpetrated by a former Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state. Omisore, who said this in a statement on Monday, claimed that although […]

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