The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Chinese company to create employment opportunities for over 50,000 indigenes of the state. Ooni signed the MoU with China Overseas Energy Development Technology Ltd on Tuesday in Ile-Ife under Community and...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Osun state government has an infrastructure plan that has a sustainable funding model and which targets facilitation of economic growth and development of the state. Commissioner for Information, Oluomo Kolapo Alimi made this clarification in response to advocacy of non governmental...
Opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged in a war of words on Tuesday over the state’s finances. While the APC accused Gov. Ademola Adeleke of messing up the finances of the state, the PDP said the governor had...
The Osun State Government has imposed an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ilobu and Ifon Communities both in Orolu and Irepodun Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The measure was coming in the wake of a communal clash between the two communities, leading to a total breakdown of...
Opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged in a war of words on Monday over the convening of a cabinet meeting. The APC argued that the inability of Gov. Ademola Adeleke to hold a state executive council meeting after 54...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a renowned civil society organization dedicated to championing justice, transparency, and accountability in Nigeria, has expressed deep concern over recent developments surrounding the alleged removal of the Rector at Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree....
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Government has released names of its Palliative Distribution Committee as demanded by a coalition of civil society even as it flaunts its credentials as a responsive, accountable and public spirited government. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the government said...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, says the people of the state must remain steadfast in their resolve to leave legacy of prosperity for the next generation. Adeleke stated this in his broadcast on the 32nd anniversary of the creation of the state on Sunday in Osogbo. The...
The grand finale of the annual Osun-Osogbo Festival ended on Friday with funfair and merriments at the site of the Osun-Osogbo groove in Osogbo, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. During the festival, Osun devotees, masquerades, traditionalists and royal fathers paid homage to the festival’s host, Ataoja...
The Osun House of Assembly on Friday indicated that a list of 25 commissioner- nominees has been forwarded to it for screening and confirmation by Gov. Ademola Adeleke. Announcing the names during plenary session, Mr Adewale Egbedun, Osun Assembly Speaker, said he received a letter from the governor for...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Executive Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has exercised the authority vested in him by Section 105, sub-section 3 of the Nigerian constitution by announcing the dissolution of the 7th Osun State Assembly and proclamation for the 8th Assembly. Governor Adeleke conveyed the...
There is an unraveling mystery about the Nigerian press. The custodian of this value is clearly misunderstood and misused in opportunities. But it is for the present crop of journalists to reinvent themselves into relevance; otherwise, the Nigerian press will remain a caricature of itself and the ideas of...
Mutatis mutandis, politics is not the same as repudiating the ethics of public administration. To say that the executive governor of a state has the right or power to stop the payment of workers’ salary – what they earn legitimately – is, to say the least, an evolution throwback!...
Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun and his predecessor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, have congratulated Muslim faithful on the successful completion of Ramadan fast. Adeleke, in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, on Friday in Osogbo, urged Muslim faithful in the state not to jettison the virtues of...
Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun has expressed appreciation to electorate in the state for the “landslide victory” for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in the Saturday’s assembly elections. This is contained in a statement by Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson to the governor on Sunday in Osogbo. The...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has declared Friday as a work-free day for civil servants to prepare for the House of Assembly election. This is according to a statement by Malam Olawale Rasheed, the spokesperson for the governor, on Thursday in Osogbo. According to...
Mr Kunle Alabi, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Osun House of Assembly, Mr Timothy Owoeye, says there is no impeachment plot against his principal over an alleged misappropriation of fund. Alabi spoke against the backdrop of the report in a section of the media about an intense...
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to consider the requests for assistance made by Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun, who was at State House on a ‘thank you’ visit. The governor, elected on platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), said he had come to appreciate the President for providing...
2023 polls: Adeleke advocates peaceful campaigns, warns against vandalization of posters, billboards
2023 polls: Adeleke advocates peaceful campaigns, warns against vandalization of posters, billboards
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has urged politicians to embrace peaceful electioneering strategies as the nation prepares for next month general elections. Violent activities including vandalization of campaign posters and billboards increased in the last five days after former Governor...