•As Lecturers Call Off Strike Intelligence reports gathered by OSUN DEFENDER have indicated that the managements of the state-owned tertiary institutions had a dirty deal in the prolonged industrial action of the Academic and Non-Academic Staff of Osun State-owned tertiary institutions. The revelation came just as the warring unions have called off close to three-month [...]
At the zenith of PDP rule in Osun in 2009, out of Nigeria’s 36 states, Osun was like lead at the bottom of the river of failure, coming 35th in NECO exams results. In 2010, the state managed to crawl three rungs to the 32nd position. After one year of Aregbesola’s government in 2011, guess [...]
As the data capturing exercise for the NYSC members continues with the distribution of payroll automation forms to corps members across the nine Federal Constituencies, reports from Iwo, Ede, Osogbo, Ikire, Ikirun, Ila, Ilesa and Ile-Ife had it that, the affected corps members turned out enmasse for the exercise. The corps members, who expressed delight [...]
The piece titled, “Osun: Why launch Opon Imo in Lagos,” by Ayo Aluko-Olokun, in The PUNCH of Thursday, May 16, 2013, confirms a Freudian slip reflecting the puerility and poverty of ideas in the rank and file of the Peoples Democratic Party as opposed to the fecundity of ideas and pragmatism brimming within the Action [...]
In pursuance of the internally generated revenue drive of the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, over thirty private schools were visited across the six zonal education offices by the Internally Generated Revenue Monitoring team put in place by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Olufemi Fawole. Two illegal private schools, Toluwalase Nursery [...]
Former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, yesterday, accused state governors of using the funds meant to increase access to basic education under the Universal Basic Education (UBE) funds, in their states to hire thugs and praise singers for elections. Ezekwesili who was lead speaker at the 3rd Lagos Education Summit organised by the State [...]
The Council of Academic Staff Unions of Osun State -owned tertiary institutions has suspended its strike following an agreement with the state government on its demands. This followed a peace meeting between the unions and the state government on Tuesday in Osogbo. The Chief of Staff to the Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, who represented the state [...]
Report reaching us now has it that the prolonged strike of teaching and non-teaching staff of tertiary institutions going on in the state of Osun has been suspended. Detaild soon
The Lagos State government has denied banning use of hijab in public schools, as the issue is still being looked into with a view to taking a broad-based stand on it. In a reaction to a report by Punch newspaper which credited the Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, with writing off the possibility of allowing [...]
Special Adviser to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola on Environment and Sanitation, Honourable Bola Ilori, has stated that the computer tablet, also known has ‘Opon Imo’ adopted for secondary school pupils in the state will be launched on Monday, June 3rd, 2013 in Ilesa. Ilori made this statement while reacting to a newspaper report that the computer [...]
