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featuredimage Aregbesola’s Popularity, An Index Of Victory In 2007 Poll – OSG

A socio-political group, Osun Support Group (OSG) has stated that the continuous support given to the Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial ...

featuredimage PDP Unleashes Terror On AC Members In Igbajo

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has launched another attack on members of the Action Congress (AC) in Igbajo, ...

featuredimage Ooni Begins Screening Of PDP Guber Aspirants

By our reporter Mindless of what might be the likely outcome of the petition presently being treated by the ongoing ...

featuredimage PDP Plans To Kill, Kidnap Opposition Leaders In South-West

A secret plan to kidnap and kill some notable leaders of opposition parties has been hatched by some people suspected ...

featuredimage Breaking News: Nigeria’s Ag. President Sacks Yar’Adua’s NSA, Sarki Mukhtar

In a move to further consolidate political power and ensure stability of the badly managed security of the nation, Nigeria's ...

featuredimage Oyinlola’s Government Lacks Ethics – Fayemiwo

Mr. Gbenga Fayemiwo, one of the media aides to the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in Osun State, Engineer Rauf ...

featuredimage AC Wins Round One At Oyo LG Appeal Tribunal

THE appeal filed against the judgment of Oyo State Local Government Elections Petition Tribunal judgment delivered by a panel headed ...

featuredimage Borehole: Two PDP Guber Aspirants Trade Words

IN a fight for relevance at the grassroots in Ijesaland, two of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants in ...

featuredimage You’re A Crass Opportunist – Osun AC Scribe Blasts Odanye

Sequel to the statement credited to one of the governorship aspirants on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in ...

featuredimage Osun Retrial Tribunal: Why PDP Withheld Expert Report

Facts have emerged concerning the attempts by the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to smuggle in the purported report ...

featuredimage OAU May Sack Striking Workers

What may be the aftermath of the current industrial action embarked upon by members of Non-Academic Staff Union of Obafemi ...

featuredimage NBC Hammers OSBC On Misconduct

National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has wielded a big stick against Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) on a misconduct of the ...

featuredimage Osun PDP Guber Aspirants Move To Frustrate Tribunal

For what could not be divorced from selfish interests, investigation has revealed the covert plot of some gubernatorial aspirants on ...

featuredimage Oyinlola Lavishes 1 Billion Naira On Foreign Trips – Group

Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State has been tasked to state the benefit of his globetrotting to the people of ...

featuredimage Aregbesola Actually Won 2007 Governorship Election – Jumokol

After several postponements, the desire of former Senator KOLAWOLE OGUNWALE, popularly called JUMOKOL by admirers and political associates came to ...

featuredimage Yar’Adua’s Health Crisis: An End to This Shenanigan

The Labour Party, Osun State hereby deplores the precarious situation the Yar’Adua health issue has pushed this country’s polity into. ...

EDITORIAL

Oyinlola And Oil Windfall

The price of oil is still pushing northwards. With a mild recovery on the way after the tumultuous events last year on the world financial markets, we are now looking at the prospect of oil prices ranging between $80-$90 per barrel.
Translated into naira and kobo this should be good news for the citizens of [...]

HEALTH NEWS

Osun State Action Congress Exposed Oyinlola’s Fraudulent Healthcare Policy

PRESS RELEASE
The Osun State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has advised the Oyinlola led PDP administration in the state to focus on service delivery and meeting the yearnings of the people for the short period it has remaining to falsely hang on to power instead of making verbose and empty promises that remains nothing [...]

CARTOONS

Cartoon From Kenya

“Nigeria’s newly upgraded Presidential motorcade”. Nigeria is now a laughing stock among smaller nations of Africa.

LEGISLATURE

THE MACE WITH GOKE BUTIKA

Osun State House of Assembly has begun the screening of the commissioner-nominees submitted to it by Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and there was a lot of drama series from the exercise witnessed by our The Mace.
DRAMA IN THE HOUSE
When the House resumed for the first and last time last Wednesday, it was the turn of the [...]

INTERVIEW

Tinubu Blasts PDP, Says Party Lacks Focus

EMBATTLED Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been relegated and attacked by Action Congress (AC) leader and former Lagos State Governor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who described the party as “Poverty Development Organization”
According to Tinubu, PDP lacks focus and commitment to the welfare of the helpless citizen of Nigeria, adding that the party is bereft of [...]

South West News

Gbenga Onigbogi’s Mission to Nothing

We were not surprised to read the gibberish put out by Mr. Gbenga Onigbogi in Daily Sun newspaper of Tuesday March 2, 2010. Knowing Onigbogi as an upstart should have qualified his comments for utter disregard and silence but for some salient facts which his godfathers must know.
Further still, we are not disappointed that Onigbogi [...]

POLITICS

Assailants Threaten To Attack JMK

A chieftain of Osun State Action Congress (AC), Otunba Jumoke Ogunkeyede, popularly called JMK by his admirers and political associates, has cried out over incessant threats to his life.
Unknown assailants, according to investigation by OSUN DEFENDER, have started to threaten JMK through text messages and anonymous calls for almost a month.
It was gathered that the [...]

X-RAYS

Nigeria: Time To Resolve This Presidential Challenge

By bola ahmed tinubu
We are once again at a very critical period in our country when the very survival of our hard earned democracy is perilously at risk. The return to the country in very cloudy circumstances last Wednesday of ailing President Umaru Yar’ Adua, after 93 days in Saudi Arabia, without activating constitutional [...]

International News

Breaking News: Opposition Wins Togo Presidential Elections, As President Faure Gnassingbe Delays Official Announcement Of Results

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 6-million [...]

EDUCATION

OSPOLY Suspends Randy Lecturer

Management of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, has suspended a principal lecturer, who was Head of Department in Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT) over alleged rape.
The erring lecturer (name withheld) allegedly rape a Higher National Diploma (HND 2) student of Mass Communication Department at his residence in Ikirun, headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Council [...]

FEATURE

Aregbesola’s Popularity Soars As Ijagbo Stands Still

The popularity of Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in the last April 14, 2007 governorship election in Osun State, Engineer Rauf Aregbesola has remained a source of concern to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the people of the state continue in their adoration, admiration and high regards for the symbol of opposition in the [...]

News Across Nigeria

Ondo Farmers Protest Land Encroachment

From Funsho Ojo, Akure
Farmers in Ondo State have protested against the alleged moves by the state government to seize their landed property along Igbatoro road, Akure, the state capital.
The expansive land of about nine hectares was acquired by farmers under the aegis of All Farmers Association of Nigeria [AFAN] in 1990 during the [...]

Letter To The Editor

Police Extortion On Osun Roads

Kudos to the editorial team of this progressive and ever-dynamic newspaper, OSUN DEFENDER, for your service to humanity and dogged determination in revealing the truth that this (military) government in Osun State is hiding from the public.
I will like to express my mind on police extortion on our various roads in the state, which has [...]

From The Courts

Judgement Day Beckons As Parties Adopt Final Addresses At Osun Tribunal

The Osun State Election Petitions Tribunal has reserved its judgment as adoption of written addresses by parties in the retrial of the petition filed by Engineer Lasun Yussuf of the Action Congress (AC) against the declaration of Hon. Leo Awoyemi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took place on Monday before the Justice Alli Garba-led [...]

FOR THE RECORDS

Aregbe’s Aide Charges Anti-graft Agencies To Probe Osun Joint Account

Anti-graft agencies in the country have been called upon to beam their search–light on Osun State local government  council areas, with a view to salvaging the third tier of government from total collapse.
Almost all the thirty council areas in the state have been having problems with the payment of their workers’ monthly salaries.
The call was [...]

OSUN DEFENDER LAW

PDP Witnesses Embarass Party Supporters At Tribunal

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 Akeredolu, [...]

Tits Bits

Third Rain Wreaks Havoc In Osogbo

The third major rainfall recorded in some parts of Osun State on Sunday evening left disaster on its trait.
Our reporter who moved round Osogbo, the state capital on Monday found that houses were damaged in Isale-Osun, Ita-Olokan, Ogo-Oluwa and part of Fakunle High school area.
Roofing sheets of some houses in Isale-Osun were blown off, while [...]

Oranmiyan Social Diary

Oranmiyan Oke-Ijetu Prays For Aregbe’s Deceased Sister

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 Wosilat, [...]

From The Press

Nigeria: Time To Resolve This Presidential Challenge

By bola ahmed tinubu
We are once again at a very critical period in our country when the very survival of our hard earned democracy is perilously at risk. The return to the country in very cloudy circumstances last Wednesday of ailing President Umaru Yar’ Adua, after 93 days in Saudi Arabia, without activating constitutional [...]

Sports News

Ijesa Youths Compete In 1st Aregbesola Table Tennis Tourney

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 [...]