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  • Osun won $20m to boost healthcare system – FG

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    Bayo Millz
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    The Federal Government says Osun State Government has won $20 million under the Save One Million Lives Initiative to kick start the improvement of healthcare system. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this while receiving Mr Adeboyega Oyetola, the Osun state Governor, in Abuja. Adewole who said that the $20 million would soon…

  • 2019: We’ll repeat what we did in Ekiti, Osun elections – Police IG

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    Femi Ajasa
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    The Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris has said that the Nigerian police is prepared to replicate the feat it recorded at the Ekiti and Osun States Governorship elections in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. The IGP made this known yesterday at a two-day train the trainers’ workshop for senior police officers on election…

  • [Update] How gunmen killed five, kidnap Osun College HOD, staff

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    Femi Ajasa
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    Gunmen believed to be herdsmen invaded Esa- Oke in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State and killed five people. Those killed in the Tuesday evening invasion included an employee of the Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke, identified as Olaniyi Emmanuel, while a policeman was shot. Also on Tuesday evening, gunmen stormed the Akure-Owo…

  • Kidnappers kill Osun College staff, abduct 5 others

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    Femi Ajasa
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    Five staff of Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke have been abducted by some kidnappers and one of them was killed by their abductors on the spot. A staff of the College who confirmed the incident, said one of the policemen that attempted to rescue the college staff was shot by the kidnappers before they…

  • Osun chief judge releases 32 inmates

    Osun chief judge releases 32 inmates

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    Olaotan Falade
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    Thirty-two awaiting trial inmates from the two prison formations in Ilesha and Ile Ife, Osun state, have been released by the state’s Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo. The inmates were released during the Chief Judge and Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice’s jail delivery exercise at Ilesha and Ile Ife prisons. Three other inmates were also…

  • S/West: We are solidly behind Buhari – Tinubu

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    Femi Ajasa
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    National leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has restated the support of South West for President Muhammadu Buhari. He spoke after the swearing in of Chief Gboyega Oyetola as the new governor of Osun State. “We are solidly behind President Buhari. No shaking. We are not going back to the past years of greed. “There…

  • BREAKING: Oyetola officially sworn in as Osun governor

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    Femi Ajasa
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    Mr. Gboyega Oyetola, has been officially sworn in as the 5th executive governor of Osun State. Oyetola will now assume the position of the governor from Rauf Aregbesola following the handing over ceremony which held in Osogbo, the state capital. Both men are members of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC. Both also have other things in…

  • Police, vigilante groups foil robbery attack in Osun

    Police, vigilante groups foil robbery attack in Osun

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    Olaotan Falade
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    Attempts by some persons suspected to be armed robbers to attack some commercial banks in Lagere Area of Ile-Ife, Osun State, was, on Monday, foiled by some eagle-eyed residents of the area. Seven commercial banks have branches in Lagere area and the suspected robbers arrived the area about 10am. According to eye witnesses, the robbers,…

  • Osun governorship poll: Afenifere suspends Omisore for supporting APC

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    Olaotan Falade
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    The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, on Tuesday, announced the suspension of the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the last governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore for one year. Omisore was alleged to have aligned with the All Progressives Congress to win the rerun election in Ife South and North Local Government…

  • BREAKING: Saraki, Dogara, Secondus, others protest against Osun election result [Video]

    BREAKING: Saraki, Dogara, Secondus, others protest against Osun election result [Video]

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    Bayo Millz
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    Leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently protesting against the outcome of the recently concluded Osun State Governorship election. PDP leaders including Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and the national chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, led the protesters to the headquarter of the…