Former President Goodluck Jonathan has warned against the covert establishment of a one-party system in Nigeria, cautioning that such a move could destabilise the nation’s fragile democracy. Speaking at a memorial lecture held in honour of the late elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, in Abuja on Wednesday, Jonathan emphasised the dangers of political manipulation aimed…
By Tomi Lala In his effort to revive Osun State Fire Service emergency response infrastructure in Osun state, Governor Ademola Adeleke has commissioned three new fire trucks for the Osun State Fire Service. During the commissioning ceremony at the Fire Service Headquarters on Wednesday in Abeere, Governor Adeleke described it as an important milestone in…
By Tomi Lala The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Wednesday bade farewell to thousands of intending pilgrims heading to the Holy Lands of Makkah and Medinah from Osun state. While speaking during the farewell ceremony organised by the Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Adeleke described the…
●Subsidise Osun Hajj In Six Ways-Board Chairman Governor Ademola Adeleke has fulfilled another of his promises as the first Hajj Camp for Osun state which the governor laid its foundation last year has reached 70 percent completion. Governor Adeleke had last year expressed shock and surprise to hear that only Osun state has no Hajj…
Let us pause here and consider the logic behind this outrage. A citizen walks into a bank to make a complaint, a right guaranteed by his status as a customer. He is attended to and then exits the premises. Sometime after that, he is arrested by officers of the Nigeria Police Force. Yet somehow, without…
It has seemingly become a pastime for Hon. Wole Oke to amuse his followers with comic relief, especially after presiding over a failing political congress. However, his recent claim that members of the PDP in Ife North will defect to join him is not only false but also deliberately misleading. We wish to make it…
The University of Ilesa, Osun State, has secured 100% full accreditation for all the 23 academic programmes presented following a recent assessment by the National Universities Commission. The accreditation, contained in the results of the NUC’s October/November 2024 exercise released to the University on Tuesday, 6th of May, 2025, affirms that the institution has met…
A significant consumer boycott targeting Amazon and its extensive network of subsidiaries with participants vowing to abstain from the e-commerce giant and its affiliates until May 12. This action marks the latest in a series of protests driven by concerns over alleged corporate greed, the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives by some…
Google has issued an urgent warning to its 1.8 billion Gmail users, warning that anyone with hacked account has just seven days to recover it or risk being locked out permanently. In a recent development, users of Gmail around the world has experienced Google password hack. To regain access, users must have a recovery phone…
THE United Nations Children’s Fund has said Nigeria is the country with the highest burden of malnourished children in Africa.The international agency disclosed this on its website on Tuesday, adding that only two out of every 10 children affected currently have access to treatment. It said with an estimated two million children in Nigeria suffering…
