EDITORIAL

In the enclave of the Usurper there are diverse offerings comprising Courtiers, Court jesters, Enforcers and Jobbers. The Courtiers enthusiastically wave the soothing fan to blow the Usurper out of perennial melancholic and boozy stupor. They fill his inebriated mind with rhyme and verse laden with fantasy and vain assurances. All, as they repeatedly [...]

CARTOONS

INTERVIEW

Pa Adebisi Olawuyi was the Action Congress Chairman for Ifedayo Local Government Council Area of Osun State. He is now a state leader and a force to reckon with in his local government as far as party loyalty is concerned. He, as a person, spent and still spends his money to make the Action Congress [...]

South West News

Today would go down in the South West political history as a day of double tragedy for Nigeria’s ruling People s Democratic Party (PDP). ‘Do-Or-Die’ Senator Femi Kila was unceremoniously swept out of office by a unanimous decision of Nigeria’s Appeal Court, Ilorin Division.
Also in Osogbo the capital city of Osun State, embattled Governor Olagunsoye [...]

POLITICS

THE sleepy farming town of Erinmo in Oriade Local Government Council Area of Osun State became a beehive of activities on Thursday when the monthly meeting of Action Congress (AC) in the council hosted by a party’s leader, Honourable Nathaniel Agunbiade, became carnival-like as AC chieftains, members and their supporters filed out in front of [...]

X-RAYS

Ibrahim Adeoti is a young, dynamic and brilliant politician. He contested the April 14, 2007 governorship election under the umbrella of the Action Alliance (AA) when he came back to Nigeria from the United States of America and came third in the election.
Adeoti has impacted positively on the lives of many people since his arrival [...]

EDUCATION

For some time now, the old glory attained by Osun State College of Education, Ilesa through its monumental landmarks in both academic and non-acadmic activities has begun to dwindle. The University of Ibadan has also been linked in a reported complicity, which has left the authenticity of its accredited /affiliated degree programmes at the
college [...]

FEATURE

Omo osun with Kola Olabisi
DECEIT is the operative word in the controversial Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola Osun State. The state at the moment is aground as the unpopular governor foisted on the then unsuspecting people of the state is at sea on what to do with power. Oyinlola was desperate to have power which [...]

News Across Nigeria

IT was a moment of testimonies on Friday night when the Kwara State Governor Bukola Saraki revealed that government money wrongly paid to ghost teachers in the state through the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), worth N25 million had been recovered from teachers who voluntarily returned the money to the [...]

Letter To The Editor

ONE thing must be very clear to all and sundry, any pretender would never receive favour from God and man both here and hereafter. Osun State usurper, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the man who is still parading himself as the governor is a pretender of sort and his new self-imposed task of settling differences amongst his [...]

FOR THE RECORDS

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL IBADAN JUDICIAL DIVISION
HOLDEN AT IBADAN
ON MONDAY, THE 30TH DAY OF MARCH, 2009
BEFORE THEIR LORDSHIP
VICTOR AIMEPOMO O. OMAGE OFR JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL,
ABUBAKAR ABDULKADIR JEGA JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL,
MOHAMMED LADAN TSAMIYA JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL,
RAPHAEL CHIKWE AGBO JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL,
BODE RHODES VIVOUR JUSTICE, COURT OF APPEAL.
APPEAL NO. CA/1/EPT/GOV/98/2008
APPEAL NO. CA/1/EPT/GOV/98/2008
APPEAL NO. CA/1/EPT/GOV/98/2008
APPEAL NO. CA/1/EPT/GOV/98/2008
APPEAL NO. [...]

Tits Bits

ALL roads led to Iragbiji in Boripe Local Government Council Area of Osun State penultimate Saturday when the father of a member of Engr Rauf Aregbesola’s political family, Barrister Gbenga Akano, did the final burial ceremony of his father, Alhaji Usman Alayande Akano with fanfare.
The occasion which took place at Ansar-U-Deen Primary School, Iragbiji attracted [...]

ENTERTAINMENT

Funke Egbemode and Samuel Olatunji connered Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde for this interview titled SEX ON SCREEN which we culled from of Sun News This for your Sunday Delight, please, read on:
She has a to-die-for figure even after four children, a face to match, talent that stands out in the Nollywood crowd and a marriage that [...]

From The Press

By Chuks Ohuegbe, Uchenna Awom, Abuja
The influential American magazine Foreign Policy has listed Nigeria among many other countries as a failed state in its 2009 Failed States Index.
The magazine, which conducted the research in collaboration with The Fund for Peace, an independent research organisation, said that it used 12 indicators of state cohesions and performance, [...]

Odd World

DESPITE the fact of losing his parents at a tender age, Master Aminu Zanda, an eight year old and indigene of Aberi, a village along Ajase-ipo/Offa road in Kwara State on April 1st,2009 was sent to his early grave by his guardian, Waheed Sanni,who specialised in money rituals.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the victim, who [...]

Sports News

SUCCOUR may have come to politics in Ilesa West Local Government Council Area of Osun State as political thugs financed by the impeached local government council chairman, Ibunkun Fadipe have been co-opted into a foot-ball team club.
A source (name withheld), close to the embattled council boss, has revealed in a chat with OSUN DEFENDER [...]