19
Aug, Tuesday
9°C
Current Location
Tag: Aregbesola
Osun rejects Ben Bruce’s offer to donate allowance to unpaid workers
The Osun state government is not interested in Ben Murray-Bruce's offering and has described his gesture to donate his wardrobe allowance to workers in Osun as mockery. The Director Bureau…
Read More
This Aregbesola-Salary joke will make you cry
If you haven't been following the news, then you've been missing out. But we'll help you. Apparently, Osun state governor Rauf Aregbesola has been under fire on all rounds for…
Read More
THE 2015 TRACKLIST: NASS in crisis again, Falana might attack Buhari, PDP coming for Ambode, More stories
NASS in a new battle. YNaija PDP wants Ambode to declare his assets. Vanguard APC senators makes impossible demand as Saraki moves for peace. YNaija Kukah tells Buhari not to…
Read More
Angry pensioners protest in Osun state (PHOTOS)
The Nigerian Union of Pensioners in Osun state protested lately over the non-payment of their pensions for the past seven months. In a speech on Wednesday by the Chairman of…
Read More
Frustrated Osun worker attempts to kill himself over unpaid salary
by Chinwe Okafor Senior civil servant, Mr. Ojo Owolabi, has attempted to end his life by drinking a large quantity of insecticide. According to reports, Owolabi took the action because…
Read More
The day political thugs attacked Gov. Aregbesola’s convoy
by Ranti Joseph The governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola convoy was attacked by hoodlums suspected to be hired political thugs in Ilase, Obokun Local Government Area of the state.…
Read More
Tunde Fagbenle: #Osun- Winners, losers and lessons
by Tunde Fagbenle There was hardly a tenser election. Nerves frayed, tempers rose, expectations dissipated, predictions conflicted. Nothing was cock sure. From one corner, it was presented as a fight…
Read More
Simon Kolawole: Marching on to 2015 positively
by Simon Kolawole The Osun election has set me thinking about Nigeria’s progress yet again. On the one hand, I was very sad that we needed maximum security to…
Read More
Opinion: TOP SECRET- How Aregbesola won Osun
by Ogunsanwo Babajide In most of the local government areas that Omisore won, the turnout of voters was severely low. Most of his supporters just refused to wake up on…
Read More
Adekoya Boladale: Forget rice, Aregbesola’s ‘odourless fufu’ is the next big thing
by Adekoya Boladale While the political parties struggled to outshine each other in sharing of emergency ‘social welfare’ packages such as Rice, Odourless Fufu and even Kerosene, the following factors…
Read More
“Elections are not won on Twitter”? | As Aregbesola wins, Joachim MacEbong interrogates this statement
by Joachim MacEbong This is a famous jibe of some people (most of whom lean toward the PDP) against those they call ‘social media activists’, ‘bloggers’ and so on.…
Read More
Everyone loves Rauf: 10 reasons Aregbesola is so popular
by S'ola Filani and Adedayo Ademuwagun Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the incumbent governor of Osun state and candidate of the All Progressive Congress party has won the August 8th 2014 gubernatorial…
Read More
“Osun people collected PDP money & voted for APC” | Our top 10 tweets from #OsunDecides are here!
by S'ola Filani Incumbent Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been re-elected as the governor of Osun State, defeating his closest rival, Dr. Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Read More
Aregbesola wins Osun election (VOTE COUNT)
by Godwin Akanfe At 4:54 am on 10 August, 2014, Prof. Omole, the returning officer declared Rauf Aregbesola winner of the 2014 Osun state elections as predicted by our analysts. Prof.…
Read More
“Are we as Christians being asked to support the PDP?” | Prof Yemi Osinbajo issues a broadside on Aregbesola, GEJ & more
by Yemi Osibajo I was greatly saddened to read the material written by Mr. Eyieyien urging "The Remnants” to vote out the current Governor of Osun State Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola…
Read More
Demola Rewaju: Aregbesola should lose, but he won’t (Y! Politico)
by Demola Rewaju Aregbesola insisted from Day One on being addressed as ‘Ogbeni’ (Mister)...perhaps to make us forget he once referred to himself as an Engineer while he was the…
Read More
Opinion: 7 reasons why Aregbesola will floor Omisore badly
by Bayo Adeyinka Iyiola Omisore is not Peter Ayodele Fayose. He lacks the charisma of Fayose. He is not a Jimi Agbaje. He lacks the character of Agbaje. He doesn’t…
Read More
Tunde Fagbenle: Why Aregbesola will win the Osun elections
by Tunde Fagbenle Just as Omisore is not a Fayose, so is Ogbeni not a Fayemi. And so it will be silly for anyone to interchange the Ekiti result with…
Read More
Demola Rewaju: #OsunDecides – …And the X-factor is Fatai Akinbade (Y! Politico)
by Demola Rewaju An ironical twist occured last week when Governor Aregbesola visited the NASFAT grounds for a programme and donated food items to the Islamic group; the venue was…
Read More
Wole Soyinka & Gov. Aregbesola engage in a little game called ‘selfie’ (LOOK)
by Zara Mustapha Although we can't exactly tell what Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka and Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola are discussing, it's obvious the pair are having a good…
Read More
Aregbesola acquired 20 armoured tanks for Osun poll – Omisore
by Zara Mustapha Osun state Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial aspirant, Iyiola Omisore has accused the the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola of acquiring 20 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) to intimidate the electorate…
Read More
‘The law does not frown against taking charms to polling booths’ – Aregbesola advises voters
by Zara Mustapha Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state has urged residents of the state to go to polling booths on August 9 armed with protection from charms to verses from…
Read More
Tunde Fagbenle: Being alive in the State of Osun
by Tunde Fagbenle And if you think this is undue praise-singing, then I challenge you to visit Osun on my bill and pay back if I’m right. It certainly is…
Read More
Aregbesola calls abduction of Borno schoolgirls “barbaric”, Lagos Assembly declines to screen Fashola’s nominee & other important news you should know today
by Oge Okonkwo Aregbesola says abduction of school girls in Borno barbaric Describing the abduction of about 100 school girls by insurgents in Borno state, the governor of Osun state,…
Read More
Opinion: Those criticizing Aregbesola’s education policy just don’t get it
by Ayo Bankole Akintujoye Such writers and speakers are quick to condemn the so called merger of same-sex schools with mixed ones, and termed the merger as “islamization of Osun…
Read More
Opinion: One child one tablet initiative – The challenges of change
by Adedeji Ologbenla Giving the laptops or tablets to every child is not a bad idea but of what direct and indirect impact does it have on the child’s mental…
Read More
Opinion: The matter of Aregbesola and the phone thief
by Niyi Akinnaso There is a lesson, too, for online commentators. Headlines do not necessarily make the whole story. It is always more rewarding to read through a story... It is…
Read More
Tunde Fagbenle: Setting the record straight on Ekiti
by Tunde Fagbenle Last week’s column on my visit to Ekiti State and the good job Governor Kayode Fayemi is doing raised a few eyebrows and drew the ire of…
Read More
The Catfight Continues – PDP accuses Aregbesola of training militants in Cuba; ACN calls PDP “charlatans”
by Lekan Olanrewaju The back and forth between these two parties won't be ending any time soon it appears. The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has once more drawn out it's…
Read More
