…as govt dispatches rapid response team in LGAs The Cross River State government has confirmed an outbreak of Lassa Fever in Obubra Local Government Area (LGA), following the death of a 30-year-old male farmer from Unincha community. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Henry Egbe Ayuk, announced the outbreak in a public statement yesterday revealing…
…Demand N2bn damages Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC) and its chairman, Barr. Hashim Abioye have sued the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun and the Osun State Commissioner of Police for the breach of fundamental rights. In a suit filed at the federal high court sitting in Osogbo, brought in a representative capacity for…
A civil society group, Osun Democrats for Democracy (ODD) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to withdraw the mobile policemen deployed to the state from Abuja, declaring that Osun State is peaceful and police service should not be a source of instability in the state. The coalition also appealed to the…
Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been sentenced to 10 weeks in jail for assaulting a man in the street, after a confrontation over a local infrastructure issue turned violent. The Runcorn and Helsby MP, 55, pleaded guilty in January to assault by beating of 45-year-old Paul Fellows in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours…
Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been inaugurated as the governor of Ondo State, marking the beginning of his first full four-year term after replacing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who died in office in December, 2023. The ceremony, which is ongoing at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure, the state capital on Monday, is taking place two…
Germany’s conservative election winner Friedrich Merz faced an uphill struggle to build a coalition government on Monday, a day after an election which saw a record performance by the right. Merz has warned against more paralysis in Berlin at a time US President Donald Trump is driving head-spinning change, the German economy is in recession,…
The Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation has announced the postponement of the National Council for Art, Culture, Tourism, and Creative Economy meeting, originally scheduled to be held in Osun State from February 25 to 27, 2025. The decision comes in response to heightened political tensions in the state following the local government crisis….
Osun State ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the 30 Chairmanship and 332 Councilship seats of all the Local Government Areas in the State. The Chairman of Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), Hashim Abioye stated this while declaring the results of the election to newsmen in Osogbo on Saturday.
The Chairman of the Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, Hashim Abioye, has claimed that operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested staff of the commission who are on election duty across the state. Abioye made the claim in a statement issued via the commission’s official X page on Saturday. While commending the electorates for…
The Osun State Local Government Council Election is underway, with voters exercising their civic rights in a peaceful and orderly manner. Security personnel are on the ground to ensure a smooth process, while electoral officials facilitate voting across various polling units.
