The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has cast his vote in the ongoing local government election. The governor, who arrived at his polling unit in Sagba/Abogunde Ward 2, Unit 9, Ede, was accredited before exercising his civic duty. The election, which is expected to determine the leadership at the grassroots level, has witnessed a significant…

Popular singer Ahmed Ololade, known professionally as Asake, has opened up on the reason he is using his mother’s name as his stage name. He explained that while he was in a cultural group people used to refer to him as Omo Asake because his mother’s name is Asake. He explained that later the ‘Omo’…

As part of its ongoing efforts to combat economic and financial crimes, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned a total sum of $120,548.43 and N70,602,841.46 to victims of fraud from the United States, Spain, and Switzerland. The funds, recovered from local fraudsters, were handed over to the foreign victims as part of…

● 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,…