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PDP has a word for Rauf Aregbesola
The Peoples Democratic Party has advised Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, to sell the helicopter purchased for security surveillance and stop wasteful spending in order to raise money to pay…
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Family denies allegations that Osun worker attempted suicide related to unpaid salaries
by Ranti Joseph Remember the civil servant, Femi Owolabi, who almost committed suicide due to unpaid salaries by the state government, his family members have denied the report saying it was a…
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Osun PDP lawmaker-elect attacked while collecting his certificate of return
by Ranti Joseph Some hoodlums attack a lawmaker-elect from Ife East Constituency, Akinwole Akinwale. Akinwale on Monday was about leaving the state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
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Doctors say Aregbesola is “unwilling” to pay their 6-month salaries
by Kolapo Olapoju The Doctors in Osun state have joined the civil servants to protest the deliberate non payment of basic remuneration. According to the medical practitioners, the governor is…
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For being unable to pay its workers, Osun APC blames PDP
by Kolapo Olapoju The All Progressives Congress in Osun state has blamed the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government for being responsible for the nonpayment of workers in the state for…
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Osun to stop free feeding of schoolchildren
by Anike Jacobs The incumbent Governor of Osun state, Rauf Aregbesola has set up a committee of nine, to review its policy of free feeding of primary school pupils in the…
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No chill: Appeal Court tells Omisore to move on, but he’s having none of it…
by Kolapo Olapoju Perhaps it is Nigerian- for one to lose an election then head to court after court till all options are exhausted. Iyiola Omisore, governorship candidate of in…
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Presidential election results released in most parts of Osun
by Kolapo Olapoju In several Local Government Areas in Osun, the presidential election result has been released. From the early results, the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to have an…
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GEJ’s dollars create confusion in Osun between monarchs and subjects
by Kolapo Olapoju The dollars allegedly shared by President Goodluck Jonathan, during his trip to Osun state, is causing acrimony and distrust between the monarchs in the state and their…
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Jonathan cannot win even if he empties the treasury – APC senator
by Kolapo Olapoju Senator Babajide Omoworare, representing Osun East Senatorial District on the platform of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will not win…
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NIS steps up search for illegal immigrants ahead of the elections
by Ranti Joseph The Nigeria Immigration Service has begun raiding illegal immigrants in Osun State ahead of the general elections holding between March and April, 2014. The Comptroller of NIS…
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Election tribunal dismisses Omisore’s petition against Aregbesola
by Kolapo Olapoju Iyiola Omisore has lost his bid to unseat Rauf Aregbesola as the governor of Osun state. An election tribunal has dismissed the petition filed by the candidate…
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“Wherever you find PDP, you will find misery” – 5 things Gov. Aregbesola wants you to know
by Kolapo Olapoju Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has spewed some scathing words at the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party. Aregbesola says President Goodluck Jonathan should be held responsible…
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Meet Prof. Comfort Sonaiya, the only woman running for President in 2015
by Kolapo Olapoju In the 2015 presidential election, ten candidates will be contesting for the presidency... including a woman. Prof. Comfort Oluremi Sonaiya, a former lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University,…
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Osun bombing suspect sentenced to death by hanging
by Kolapo Olapoju The suspect in the June 14 2007 bombing of the Osun state secretariat has been sentenced to death by hanging. A high court, sitting in Osun…
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How GEJ’s visit to OAU caused protest, chaos and injury (VIDEO)
by Kolapo Olapoju In the wake, of the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Obafemi Awolowo University, in Ile-Ife, Osun state, several students have been left injured after protests, chaos and…
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Aregbesola wants urgent return of Nigeria to Parliamentary rule
by Kolapo Olapoju Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has stated that democracy in Nigeria would thrive more at the federal level, if the country returns to the parliamentary system of government.…
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“He raped me” | “She’s my girlfriend” || 30-year-old man uploads victim’s photo after allegedly raping her
by Azubuike Azikiwe Olaniyan Oluwakayode, a 30-year-old native of Osun state, has been accused of raping a 20-year-old girl and subsequently uploaded pictures from the alleged rape on the social…
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Ogaga Ifowodo: Why are elections military operations?
by Ogaga Ifowodo By all sober reckoning, Professor Attahiru Jega has done quite well in his last two outings as Nigeria’s chief electoral officer and, so, democracy’s chief midwife in…
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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…
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Akin Osuntokun: Omisore paid for his exaggerated sense of self-importance
by Akin Osuntokun In the present political configuration of this country, I’m a committed member and partisan of the PDP. Does this commitment stop short of regretting Omisore’s defeat? Since…
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Is Weird MC getting a political appointment from Gov. Aregbesola? (READ, TWEETS)
by Kolapo Olapoju Singer, Weird MC campaigned extensively for the re-election of Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, especially on Social Media. Now that he has been re-elected, the grapevine…
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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…
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Finally! Iyiola Omisore Speaks: Blames INEC for election loss [DETAILS]
by Kolapo Olapoju Senator Iyiola Omisore, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, says that his defeat at the Saturday, 9 August, election was caused by…
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Femi Aribisala: Don’t get it twisted, APC lost the Osun election
by Femi Aribisala A dishonest party will tend to presume dishonesty in others, especially when it discovers that its traditional channels for manipulating elections have been blocked. The only way…
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Dika Ozoemena: Why the PDP is responsible for Omisore’s loss
by Dika Ozoemena While internal factors which worked against Omisore was self-inflicted, PDP, his party, is responsible for the external factors which worked against the controversial politician. Congratulation to Ogbeni…
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CAPTION THIS: What’s Gov. Aregbesola discussing with his son, Kabiru?
by Kolapo Olapoju It has to be strategy, no? The Osun governor, Rauf Aregbesola and his son, Kabiru stands at the balcony of their native home in Ifofin, Ilesha.…
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LIVE UPDATES: We’re liveblogging the #OsunDecides election here
The Osun State governorship election holds today 9 August, 2014. Twenty candidates representing 20 political parties are vying for the right to reside at the Osun Government House in Osogbo,…
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#OsunDecides: 10 things you SHOULD know about Lai Mohammed’s arrest (READ)
by Isi Esene After its embarrassing loss to the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) Ayo Fayose in Ekiti, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is apparently throwing all it has into the…
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#OsunDecides: Osogbo goes dry as early curfew kicks in
by Godwin Akanfe The restriction of movement announced by the Osun state commissioner of police, Austin Ekhavbahbokun, has kicked in. Announcing the restriction on Friday, the police boss said that it…
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