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OAU Management Calls for Calm After Campus Accident
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, has urged calm following an accident on campus on Thursday. In a statement issued by the university’s spokesperson, Abiodun Olanrewaju, it was reported that heavy rainfall caused the ceiling of the Amphitheatre to collapse, injuring several students. Vice Chancellor Prof. Adebayo Simeon Bamire, along with […]
Osun: Police arrest bank manager for N650.8m fraud
The Osun State Police Command has announced the arrest of Adeniyi Sunday, a manager at one of the First Bank branches in Osogbo, for alleged serial fraud and deception. According to a statement released on Tuesday in Osogbo by the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Umar Abba, Adeniyi Sunday, who resides at Army Barracks Area, Kelebe, […]
Osun Poly students protest EFCC arrest, vandalize vehicles
Students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have staged a protest against the arrest of their peers by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Eyewitnesses reported that the students engaged in vandalism late on Thursday, targeting various buildings and vehicles on the polytechnic campus. The incident followed a midnight raid by EFCC operatives […]
Osun monarch backs Ajao Samson’s bid to break Guinness World Record on longest reading marathon
The Elerinmo of Erinmo Ijesaland, Osun State, Oba Micheal Ajayi, on Thursday extended his support to Ajao Samson, also known as Impeccable, in his bid to break the Guinness World Record for the longest reading marathon. Samson, a former Students’ Union President of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, embarked on a 214-hour Read-a-Thon at Adolak Conference […]
Osun Amotekun arrests ex-convict, one other for theft
Two artisans, Toheeb Yekini, 35, and Yekini Sulikaleni, 30, said to be an ex-convict, both from Iwo, Osun State, have been arrested by the operatives of Amotekun corps for alleged burglary and theft. The suspects were reportedly arrested at the Oje Oniyan area of Iwo following a tip-off by the residents, who alerted Amotekun operatives […]
Alhaja Lawal: We lost an industrial daughter of the soil – Odeyemi
Chairman of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Osun state chapter, Dr Tosin Odeyemi, has condoled with Osun APC Chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal over the death of his mother. In a release personally signed by Odeyemi, he described Alhaja Sinatu Awero Lawal as an industrious woman who stood as role model to many women in Ileefe […]
UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital threatens mass burial for unclaimed bodies
The management of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, has declared the mortuary of the hospital congested with unclaimed bodies. It subsequently gave 14 days for relatives who had corpses in the mortuary unit of the hospital between January 2019 and June 2023 to come and retrieve them. The hospital noted that it […]
Osun postpones monarch’s staff presentation after court order
The Osun State Government, on Saturday, said it had obeyed the order of an Osun State High Court, which restrained Governor, Ademola Adeleke from presenting staff of office to the new Aree of Iree, Oba Muritala Oyelakin. The state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, in a statement obtained in Osogbo, however, clarified […]
Aregbesola remains APC member, group replies ex-commissioner
Omoluabi Progressives, a group enjoying the backing of ex-governor Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State, on Friday said the ex-Osun helmsman would not be declared inconsequential in the party. The group was reacting to the claim by the immediate past Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Adebayo Adeleke, who said Aregbesola had ceased […]
Aregbesola no longer APC member, ex-Osun commissioner claims
The immediate-past Osun State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Adebayo Adeleke, has said ex-Minister of Interior, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, is currently not a member of the All Progressives Congress. Adeleke served as a commissioner in the cabinet of the immediate-past governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, who is currently serving as the Minister of Marine […]