The 2010 Ramadan is going gradually. The holy month of Ramadan is a special month in Islamic calendar. It is apparent that the Muslim faithful all over the world tend to be more committed to the dictates of their religion and engage more in supplications than any other period during this month. This is so [...]

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The Mace with Goke Butika If there is one lawmaker in Osun State House of Assembly who knows his onion and ready to speak up on any given situation no matter whose ox is gored, it is Honourable Razaq Salinsile, representing Iwo State Constituency on the platform of the Action Congress (AC). He is the [...]

Osun State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate, Engr Rauf Aregebesola’s running mate, Otunba (Mrs) Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori spoke on some contemporary political issues across the nation in an interview with KOLA OLABISI, our Managing Editor, recently. Below is the content of the interview. Quest: What’s your view on the recent appointment of Professor Atahiru Jega [...]

•••Contradicts Self Embattled Chairman of Ilesa-West Local Government Council Area of Osun State, Mr. Ibukun Fadipe notoriously called IBK, on Tuesday appeared before Justice Abdulrasak Babatunde Abdukareem of a state high court, sitting in Ilesa, for his alleged complicity in raping and dehumanizing a 13-year-old girl, Tosin Ajakaye. Ajakaye was allegedly raped, assaulted, injured, and [...]

Culled From Vanguard Newspaper The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, yesterday, claimed responsibility for the explosion that rocked the venue of Vanguard’s Post-Amnesty conference, saying it was to let the world know of its continued relevance in the region. The group, in an online statement issued by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, [...]

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) attached to Ikire Divisional Headquarters of the Osun State Police Command in Irewole Local Government Council Area of the state, Mr. Isiaka Ade Pachko, who was attacked by political thugs is dead. The police officer was reported to have fallen victim of harassment from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thugs, [...]

It would take miracle of God for the Reality Television Services (RTS) Iwo, Osun State, one of the campaign promises of the embattled Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola to take-off as contractors handling the projects have started singing discordant tunes at the State House of Assembly hearing, presenting technical hitches that would not make the television service [...]

Fears are growing among international observers of the Togolese presidential elections that the ruling party of incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe, the son of the country’s former military dictator, might upturn the early victories of opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre’s Union for the Forces of Change (UFC) party. Preliminary results collated from the 35 districts of the [...]

IN its bid to rescue its colleagues from intimidation and unnecessary harassments, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has threatened to relocate its national secretariat to Osun State soonest. The union stated this recently while issuing a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to yield to the requests of its members in the state. [...]

THE Osun State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has charged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Ogbona Onovo, to urgently order the Osun State Commissioner of Police to call members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who are allegedly currently disturbing the peace of the state of the Living Spring, to order. The call [...]

- The Action Congress (AC) in Osun State has commiserated with the indigenes and residents of Osogbo who lost properties to the heavy flooding of most parts of the city on Wednesday morning. – In a press release issued in Osogbo today and signed by the party’s Director of Research and strategy, Hon. Sunday Akere, [...]

FOR more than two months now, lecturers in the four first-generation institutions of higher learning owned by the State of the Living Spring, Osun State have been on an indefinite industrial action. The lecturers are at loggerheads with the state government over their demands for higher take-home pay in conformity with the harsh economic realities [...]

Home Truth with GOKE BUTIKA IN a contest between God and man, the former will always take a lead, for He knows the unknown and the future of the latter. I would not know whether you had carefully perused my articles all the while, but certainly I had not written any piece on the election [...]

IN our bid to get the right people into various political offices in Edeland come 2011, we should not lose sight of accountable leadership. Awareness in Ede politics and indeed all over Nigeria, is on the increase. Ede electorate in particular, are now politically sophisticated more than ever before. And questions are being asked, as [...]

Proceedings at the ongoing election petitions retrial tribunal took another dimension on Monday as witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) embarrassed supporters of the party mobilized to the tribunal. While the first witness of the day, Honourable Dehinde Alalade, PDP senatorial chairman for Osun Central was answering question from the petitioners’ counsel, Mr Rotimi [...]

THE tussle between the Chairman of Ife-North Local Government Council Area of Osun State, Mr. Caleb Akinola and his deputy, Mr. Kunle Bello, has reached a climax, resulting in the Peoples Democratic Party executive in the state slamming a suspension order on the latter. OSUN DEFENDER investigation in Ife- North revealed that right from the [...]

It was a rain of prayers in Oke-Ijetu area Osogbo, Osun State capital on Sunday, as leadership and members of Oranmiyan, Oke-Ijetu held a marathon one-year remembrance prayers session for the late Alhaja Wosilat Oseni (Nee Aregbesola), the deceased elder sister of the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in the state, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola. Alhaja [...]

The Action Congress (AC), Osun State has appealed to the President of the Court of Appeal Justice Ayo Salami to constitute more panels today that will sit over the deluge of election petitions arising from the 2007 General Election referred back for retrial by the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan. In a press statement [...]

YOUTHS in Ijesland, had during the last Iwude Ijesa Festival engaged in a Table Tennis Tournament sponsored by a prominent indigene of the area, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola. The tournament, which was the first of its kind in the town, attracted participants from all the six local government council areas of Ijesaland. Participants in the events [...]