● orders Police, Army, DSS, NSCDC, others to provide adequate security The Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa, has ordered the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, (OSSIEC), to conduct elections into the vacant positions of local government chairmen and councillors in all the 30 local government areas and the area office in Osun State….
Governor Ademola Adeleke has affirmed that local government election scheduled for tommorow is holding unfailingly under the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC). The Governor made the assertion this morning while receiving a delegation of civil society coalition who are in the state to monitor the local government elections. According to the Governor, Osun voters…
Renowned constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Professor Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has recommended that fresh elections be conducted to resolve the local government council dispute in Osun State. In a statement released on Thursday in Abuja, Ozekhome noted that holding new elections is the only solution to save the state from “needless orchestrated violence.” According…
A civil society group, Osun Democrats for Democracy, has fired back at the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), for saying that Osun State cannot conduct fresh local government elections until the democratically elected council chairmen have exhausted their three-year term. The group, in a statement signed by its legal adviser, Adewale Fowora,…
President Bola Tinubu has given his assent to bills establishing two new federal universities. The institutions are the Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences, Iyin Ekiti, and the Federal University of Agriculture and Development Studies, Iragbiji, Osun State. The announcement was made by Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, following the signing of the two…
The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to urgently intervene in the local government crisis in Osun State. The Chairman of the forum, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi, made the appeal in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja. Mr Mohammed said that PDP governors noted with concern…
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has promised to immortalise Mr Olabode Olawuyi, a veterinary technologist who was killed by a lion in the university zoo. The Registrar of the University, Mr Adetunji Bakare, stated this on Wednesday at a one-day workshop to mark the first anniversary of Olawuyi’s death, held at Pit Theatre,…
The Osun State President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Dr. Nathaniel Ogungbangbe, has strongly condemned the recent takeover of local government secretariats by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the action as illegal and a threat to democracy. In a statement issued in Osogbo on Tuesday, Dr. Ogungbangbe criticized…
A Pan-political group identified as Dee Osun Monitors has urged President Bola Tinubu and Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, to remain impartial and not succumb to political pressure that may compromise the integrity of the judiciary over the recent crisis caused by judgement delivered by the Court of Appeal, Akure, on the administration…
The Osun State Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has re-elected Vanguard Correspondent, Shina Abubakar as its chairman for another three-year term. Abubakar secured victory in the keenly contested election held on Tuesday, defeating his opponent, Mr. Adeolu Adeyemo of the Nigerian Tribune, with 15 votes against Adeyemo’s 5. Announcing the results,…
