Governor Ademola Adeleke today hosted the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu to a rousing welcome for the launching of Alternative High Schools for Girls, commending the First Lady’s years of dedicated public service. Addressing the dignitaries at the turning of sod at Oke Dio, Ayepe, Osogbo, Governor Adeleke affirmed his happiness hosting “a…
Osun Health Insurance Agency (OSHIA) has launched a comprehensive four-day induction and capacity building retreat for newly inaugurated board members and management staff of the agency. The retreat, hosted at Royal Park Hotel in Iloko-Ijesha, Oriade Local Government area of Osun state, commenced on Monday with a ceremonial opening. The event was inaugurated by the…
A total of 52 contractors on Tuesday participated in the bid opening exercise for the construction of rural roads to aid access and movement of agricultural produces by the Osun Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (ORAAMP) held at its head office in Osogbo, Osun state capital. The exercise, according to the Project Coordinator, Osun…
The Kebbi State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) has organised a stakeholders’ meeting with a view to cementing cordial relationship between political appointees, elites and other politicians in the state. The meeting was held at the Banquet Hall, Government House Birnin Kebbi on Monday. In an opening remark, the Secretary to Kebbi State Government…
Governor Mallam Umar Namadi of Jigawa State has embarked on a significant study tour to Ethiopia with a high-level delegation comprising key aides on agricultural matters, officials, and professionals from the state’s Ministry of Agriculture and relevant agencies. The purpose of this visit is to study Ethiopia’s National Wheat Production Initiative and engage in a…
Osun chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (APC) has derided the State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over its comments on religious affiliation of Governor Ademola Adeleke, knocking the opposition as “a bunch of disillusioned activists incapable of rational response to state issues” In a statement signed by PDP state chairman, Hon. Sunday…
It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a decade. In her home in Maiduguri, the northeast Nigerian city at the heart of 15 years of fighting by the armed group, the mother of three ruminated on life as a free woman….
The Nigeria Police Force has detained a female police officer who was the aide-de-camp to embattled former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. The ADC was arrested alongside other police officers attached to 48-year-old Bello, and is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Their arrests and…
An Osun based civil society coalition, Osun Transparency Alliance, has threatened to drag former Governor Gboyega Oyetola to the anti-graft agencies over an alleged shady sale of the state owned Omoluabi Mortgage firm to Citi Trust and one Adekunle Adewole. In a statement signed by its Convener, Lanre Adebola, the group raised salient questions for…
Osun state House of Assembly on Thursday, promised to partner and collaborate with Osun Health Insurance Scheme (O’SHIA) initiative by boosting enrollment into the initiative. The speaker of the House Of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun made the promise during an advocacy visit by O’SHIA management at the Speaker’s office in Osogbo, the state capital….
