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  • Adeleke warns aides, board chairmen against rivalry, incompetence

    Adeleke warns aides, board chairmen against rivalry, incompetence

    Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun has warned his newly inaugurated special advisers against engaging in any form of rivalry, incompetence and fraudulent conducts.

    Adeleke gave the warning during the inauguration of 47 Special Advisers, board Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen.

    ”You have to avoid infighting and work harmoniously with commissioners. Also remember that this government does not tolerate inompetence and corruption.

    ”You have to be above board. Dedicate your time to the service of the people. You must observe the rule of law and due process,” he said.

    Adeleke further said that any appointee found formenting trouble would be sacked, saying,” I expect cordial working relationship”.

    The governor said that the scorecard of every appointee would be periodically reviewed to ensure optimal performance.

    He said the business of governance does not require unnecessary distractions but total commitment to service delivery.

    ”We have many serious issues to handle. It will be useless to spend time on avoidable distractions,” he said.

    According to reports, out of the inaugurated serving aides, 10 are in cabinet ranks while the remaining 37 are non-cabinet members.

    Adeleke had on July 19, inaugurated 25 commissioners.

    The inauguration is coming about eight months after his swearing-in as governor on Nov. 27, 2022.

  • Osun gov, Adeleke appoints 30 Special Advisers

    Osun gov, Adeleke appoints 30 Special Advisers

    Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has appointed 30 special advisers.

    The governor disclosed this in a statement issued in Osogbo on Tuesday by his Spokesperson, Malam Olawale Rasheed.

    Rasheed stated that the governor secured approval from the House of Assembly for five more advisers in addition to the previously approved 25 making it 30.

    He noted that 10 of the 30 special advisers would be of cabinet ranks.

    According to him, the inauguration of the special advisers will hold on Wednesday.

    The governor had on July 19 inaugurated 25 commissioners as members of State Executive Council after eight months in office.

    He also appointed 21 board chairmen and vice on July 20.

  • Gov. Adeleke appoints 21 board chairmen, vice [See list]

    Gov. Adeleke appoints 21 board chairmen, vice [See list]

    Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun has appointed 21 board chairmen and vice of non-statutory boards in the state.

    The announcement of the appointment is contained in a statement by Mallam Olawale Rasheed, spokesperson to the governor, on Thursday in Osogbo.

    Among those appointed is the governor’s nephew, Tunji Adeleke Jnr, who is the son of his late elder brother, Sen. Isiaka Adeleke.

    While Adeleke (Jnr) was appointed as the  Chairman of Local Government Service Commission, Prof. Wale Oladipo, a former national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was appointed as Chairman of University of Osun (UNIOSUN).

    Also on the list were  Mr Diran Odeyemi, a former  PDP Deputy National Publicity Secretary as the chairman of Esa Oke College of Technology, while Mr Rasaq Salinsile, a former factional Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state was appointed chairman of Teaching Service Commission.

    Others listed as chairmen were; Mr Gbenga Onigbogi, University of Ilesa, Mr Diran Ayanbeku, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Mr Peter Babalola, Osun State College of Education, Ila, Sen. Kola Ogunwale, Osun State College of Health Technology, Ilesa.

    Also listed were; Dr Kingsley Akinroye, chairman, State Hospital Management Board, Mr Ibukun Fadipe, chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board, Mr Muyiwa Oloso, chairman, Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, Mr Taju Adisa, Primary Healthcare Board, Alhaji Maruf Ishola, chairman, Pilgrims Welfare Board (Muslim Wing) Mr Funso Ishola, chairman, Pilgrims Welfare Board (Christian Wing).

    Dr Muyiwa Oladimeji was listed as the chairman, Osun Health Insurance Agency, Mr Niyi Owolade, as chairman, Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Mr Ebenezer Ebenco, was named chairman, Council for Arts and Culture, Mr  Akanfe Atidade, chairman, Housing Loans Board, Mr Kolade Adeleke, chairman, Osun Tourism Board, and Mr Sola Adewumi, as chairman, Osun Internal Revenue Service.

    The appointments are with immediate effect.

    Recalled that Adeleke on Wednesday,  inaugurated 25 commissioners as members of the State Executive Council after eight months in office.

  • Just In: Wife, eight-month-old son of OSBC staff abducted in Osogbo

    Just In: Wife, eight-month-old son of OSBC staff abducted in Osogbo

    An 8 months old son and wife of a staff of Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, Osogbo, Mr Isaac Adedeji, Alfred and Eniola were kidnapped on Saturday evening by unknown gunmen while traveling between Oke-Baale and Ayekale area in Osogbo, the state capital.

    Isaac Adedeji who narrated the incident to to an online medium in Osogbo said, his wife who called with her phone immediately after the incident said they were going to Ayekale on a commercial motorcycle popularly known as Okada when they were waylaid and forced into a vehicle and taken away.

    Since then, noting has been heard from the abductors,though her phone kept ringing but has not been picked.

    The incident has been reported to the police to swing into action to rescue mother and son.

  • Gov. Adeleke submits list of commissioners nominees to state assembly

    Gov. Adeleke submits list of commissioners nominees to state assembly

    Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun has submitted list of commissioners and special advisers nominees to the state House of Assembly after eight months in office.

    A statement by Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to the governor on Tuesday in Osogbo, said that the list of the nominees would be read at the plenary session of the assembly when it resumes from its recess next week.

    “His Excellency has finalised the commissioners nominees list and submitted same to the assembly.

    ”The House is resuming next week and expectedly, the speaker will disclose the names of the nominees to his colleagues and screening will commence.

    “The governor and the state leadership had done the needful and the public should expect the list to be made public sooner than later.

    “The delay was clearly due to many factors, among which are the protracted litigation on the outcome of the governorship election and the general elections.

    “The good thing is that the long wait is over and the long-awaited list of commissioner nominees is here,” he said.

  • Police to sanction officers discharging domestic duties for govt. officials

    Police to sanction officers discharging domestic duties for govt. officials

    The Osun Police Command says it will henceforth sanction its officers attached to government officials caught carrying out domestic duties for their principals.

    The warning is contained in a statement issued by the command’s Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, and made available to newsmen in Osogbo on Monday.

    Opalola explained that police officers attached to government officials were to protect their lives and property and not to serve as their domestic workers.

    “The command is miffed with consternation the way and manner government officials and personalities use police orderlies attached to them for domestic duties, such as carrying handbags, umbrellas and opening of gates, amongst other menial duties.”

    “The command, therefore, warns police officers attached to these officials to stop carrying out or serving purposes other than protecting their principals from security threats,” the statement added.

    It further stated that “such behaviour is highly unethical, unprofessional and would attract appropriate sanctions against erring police personnel.

    “Government officials are therefore enjoined to employ the services of domestic staff and personal assistants to carry out such services,” the statement added.

  • Osun records low turnout of workers to office after Eid-el-kabir celebration

    Osun records low turnout of workers to office after Eid-el-kabir celebration

    There was low turnout of workers in Osogbo, the capital of Osun, on Friday after workers and Nigerians observed Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate the Eid-el-kabir Muslim holiday.

    Newsmen observed that a lot of workers at the Olorunda Local Government Secretariat, Osogbo, were yet to return to their duty posts.

    The same scenario equally played out at the State Secretariat in Abere, Osogbo, as many offices were yet to be opened, while some civil servants were seen just resuming late to office.

    There was absence of business operations in some of the Federal Government establishments in Osogbo while banks, closed for the holiday, re-opened but with few customers spotted going into their premises.

    Newsmen corrspondent also observed that some private offices and business stores in Osogbo were still to open for normal activities.

    Mr Karim Surajudeen, a federal civil servant who spoke to NAN, explained that many of his colleagues had travelled out of the state for the holidays.

    Surajudeen said when public holidays came close to the weekend, many workers would rather extend the break to the weekend and resume work on Monday.

    “A lot of people do not find it easy travelling back on the second day of the holiday, especially when the holiday is very close to the weekend.

    “Most workers that travelled for the celebration would probably be coming back tommorow or Sunday, from their villages or states where they went to celebrate the Sallah with their family and loved ones,” he said

    He said majority of those that would be at work on Friday would be those that did not travel or those whose home towns is within Osun.

    “Those that went to their villages in Osun would probably be coming straight to the office to resume work; so, I believe before 10:00 a.m, these workers will be back to work.” he said
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  • BREAKING: Popular dancing gov, Adeleke escapes mob attack

    BREAKING: Popular dancing gov, Adeleke escapes mob attack

    Popular dancing governor of Osun state, Ademola Adeleke has just escaped a mob attack at the mosque where he went to observe Eid Mubaraq prayers.

    This was made known by close aides of the governor who informed that it happened at Osogbo Eid praying ground. He revealed that some hoodlums led by some alleged APC chieftains took over the governor’s section in an attempt to beat one of the PDP House of Representatives member.

    It was noted that the thugs were seen with arms as the governor escaped unhurt.

    The Governor’s aides who raised an alarm informed TNG: ‘’Eid Kabir: Governor Adeleke Escapes Assassination Attempt Osun state Governor today escapes assassination attempt at the Osogbo Eid praying ground as some hoodlums led by some APC chieftains took over the Governor’s section and beat up the PDP House of Representative member for Osogbo federal constituency Hon. Moruf Gangaria. Governor Adeleke arrived the venue with his team amidst ongoing rumpus. The Governor was encircled and the security personnel practically smuggled the Governor out of the place.’’

    ‘’Armed thugs were seen with top weapons. On two occasions, the Governor could not access the prayer point. Top Osogbo PDP leaders were molested and beat up. The Governor escapes the scene as at the time of filling this report without getting hurt.’’

    TheNewsGuru.com has not been able to independently verify the claims of Governor Adeleke’s aides.

  • Osun govt speaks on plans to grant Adedoyin pardon

    Osun govt speaks on plans to grant Adedoyin pardon

    The Osun State Government has clarified its stand on plans to pardon or subvert the death sentence on Dr Rahman Adedoyin.

    Describing the rumour making the rounds on social media as false, the state government, through a statement by the governor’s Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, on Monday in Osogbo, also affirmed that it has no plan to pardon Adedoyin.

    Rasheed also revealed that Governor Ademola Adeleke is not a friend or partner of the owner of Oduduwa University and maintained that he did not interfere or intervene in the arraignment, hearing and sentencing of the accused.

    Adedoyin, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Timothy Adegoke, is the proprietor of Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State.

    According to the statement, “Reacting to the growing rumour of possible state pardon for the businessman, Governor Adeleke was quoted as noting that his administration has never and will never intervene in the judicial process, labeling those behind the fake news as public enemies.”

    He described the rumour as fake news and those behind it as evil-minded political operatives desperate to blackmail the governor.

    “Governor Adeleke has not and will never contemplate exercising the prerogative of mercy or whatever the report calls it, on a matter under adjudication which has generated deep interest among local and global communities.

    “It is important to clarify that neither the State Governor nor his political party has any hidden plot on the said murder case other than a public interest agenda to see culprits in the dastardly act face the full wrath of the law. That explains why no PDP member is involved as counsel for any of the convicted individuals and why the state judiciary enjoys and exercises its full independence in the hearing and jugdment of the case.

    “It is uncharitable for political enemies and their paid agents to attempt any linkage between the convicted businessman and the state Governor. We affirm with all sense of responsibility that Governor Adeleke is not at any material time a friend or partner of the owner of Oduduwa University and did not interfere, intervene or manifest any untoward agenda in the arraignment, hearing and sentencing of the accused,” the statement read.

    An allegation from a senior lawyer, Yomi Aliyu, that the state government had secretly planned to retire the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo, had also made the round.

    The state government has, however, debunked the rumour.

    Adedoyin and two others, Adeniyi Aderogba and Oyetunde Kazeem, were sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Adegoke.

    The deceased, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had died inside Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, in November 2021.

    Hilton Hotels is also owned by Dr Rahman Adedoyin, who has since appealed the death sentence.

    Adedoyin and other hotel staff members were arrested and arraigned before the Osun Chief Judge, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo.

  • Apologise for working against Tinubu, APC – Former aide advises Aregbesola

    Apologise for working against Tinubu, APC – Former aide advises Aregbesola

    The former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has been advised to apologise for allegedly working against President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The advice was given by a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy who served in Aregbesola’a first term as governor of Osun State, Sunday Akere, on Monday in Osogbo.

    The Osun APC chieftain was speaking in reaction to statements credited to Aregbesola on Sunday at a reception organised in his honour by the concerned Muslim scholars and clerics in the South-West of Nigeria in Oyo town, Oyo State.

    At the reception, Aregbesola had said he owed his achievements and success in politics to President Bola Tinubu and former President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Akere alleged that Aregbesola had worked against the interest of the APC in the February 25 presidential election and the July 16, 2022, gubernatorial election in Osun State.

    The Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State had roundly defeated the APC in both elections in the state.

    He urged Aregbesola to apologise for his alleged anti-party activities.

    He said after the apology, he and his supporters should appear before Prof. Isaac Adewole’s committee instituted to reposition APC in the state and thereafter await the decision of the party on their matter.

    “Aregbesola and his supporters worked against Tinubu in the presidential poll. They only changed their tune after the ex-Lagos governor had emerged victorious at the poll.

    “Everybody knew Ogbeni Aregbesola and all his followers engaged in anti-party activities in the 2022 governorship election and all the series of elections we had in 2023, and there is nobody that will engage in anti-party activities that will not be punished appropriately for it.

    “We expect him and his followers to apologise, appear before the Professor Adewole repositioning committee and state their own side of the matter. We expect them to do what is needful and after then, the party will, maybe, accept their apology.

    “When Ogbeni was here as governor in Osun, he always said that after God, it was Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that helped him, but along the line, when things changed, it was on record that Ogbeni said that ‘they have all prayed to God to bring Tinubu down.’

    “We all knew that with the result of the February 25, 2023 election, God did not answer their prayer. It is good that Ogbeni is now realising and giving kudos to those that made him and supported him to become what he is today.”