Jonathan, Osun PDP disagree on election result.

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President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday differed with the Osun State chapter of the party   on the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election won by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress of Nigeria.

While Jonathan and the national leadership of the PDP conceded defeat to   Aregbesola , the PDP in Osun rejected the election result.

The APC candidate who is the incumbent governor of the state polled 394,684 to defeat his PDP counterpart, Iyiola Omisore, who scored 292,750 in the final results announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Bamitale Omole, on Sunday morning.

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FG "Bokoharaming" Osun ahead of gov poll -APC

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The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm that the PDP-led Federal Government has started terrorising and intimidating the peaceful people of Osun State, with a view to cowing them ahead of the August 9 governorship election in the state.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party wondered why the FG will send agents of the Department of State Services, some of them masked and clad in black, to the state to harass innocent citizens in an unprovoked and primitive show of power that can only be described as sheer gangsterism.
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Why PDP thinks it can win Osun

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BASKING in the euphoria of gaining and sustaining the upper hand in Ekiti with its decimation of the support base of the loud but ineffective All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been strutting around like a cock in the midst of female fowls.

But do you blame the PDP, when suddenly the APC is losing grounds everywhere because of the less-than-noble and undignified behaviour of the leaders of the party, who, for want of office, have been trampling on every other person’s ambition?   From the North to the South, from the East to the West, those who look like political “juggernauts” have been jumping ship.

Pastor Arrested For "Boko-Haram" "Drama" In Osun State Elombah

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The little town of Ikonifin in Ola Oluwa Local government area of Osun State was thrown into an uproar when a church leader’s, Pastor Olatoke’s, ploy to “duplicate” Boko Haram in the vicinity was foiled by some sprightly youths. The ploy would have placed Muslims living in Ikonifin in a very sore light if the attempt by Pastor Olatoke was successful.

The pastor of the Baptist church Ikonifin, who is also the CAN President of Ola Oluwa Local Government, was reported to have conspired with three members of his church, Emmanuel Atanda, Pitter Oyedepo and Ogunniyi Babatope to dress like Boko Haram militants and use turban to cover their faces.
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Osun, The 7th largest Economy in Nigeria - (NBS)

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Osun Charts a New Path: Ranked 7th largest Economy in Nigeria By National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)-

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In the past, Osun State has been described by its very nature as poor and primitive. Not only that, based on its economic status, it has been classified a civil service state. But nowadays there’s been an important shift. The state is blossoming into a major business hub with high-profile infrastructure and the activation of entrepreneurial skills of its indigenes. Adeola Akinremi writes

Tragedy: How Osun Monarch Was Killed, Set Ablaze In Palace

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Chiefs and residents of Ilashe Ijesa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Thursday narrated how the monarch of the town, Oba Adesina Anibijuwon, was killed by suspected members of OPC who were said to have strangled him and left his corpse inside his residence which they set ablaze.

“We were told that some gunmen who claimed to be OPC members came and wanted to see Kabiyesi but they were told that he was sleeping. 

  “They came back and held the housemaid living with Kabiyesi hostage and went to where Kabiyesi was sleeping. But immediately they came out, fire started and Kabiyesi was burnt inside the house.”

"How I Defrauded My Customers" – Apprehended Osun Shrine Operator

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Spiritual Disaster Brewing In Osun State Around Gov. Aregbesola's Merger Of Schools

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While the storm arising from the planned demolition of Fakunle High School in Oshogbo to make room for the setting up of a Shop Rite Mall has yet not settled, a policy of school reclassification by the Aregbesola administration may be instigating another crisis in Osun State.

In the scheme of school reclassifications announced by the Osun State Government, there are now three schools: the elementary, middle school and high schools.
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Lagos ‘sends’ fresh 46 destitute to Osun

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OSOGBO – Osun State Government, yesterday, said it received 46 additional destitute including two children evacuated from Lagos State.

Receiving the destitute at the National Youth Development Centre, Ode-Omu, yesterday, the Special Adviser to Governor Rauf Aregbesola on Youths, Sports and Special Needs, Hon. Biyi Odunlade said that the state government has no option than to take care of its citizens in any part of the country.

According to him out of the 46 destitute evacuated from Lagos, only 26 were genuine indigenes of the state after their screening.

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Tragedy: 6-Month-Old Baby Burnt To Death In Osun

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Omiwole Emmanuel, a six-month-old baby, according to Sun News, died following complications he suffered when his mother's one room apartment guttered by fire.  The incident happened at about 9pm yesterday, at Kolawole area of Oshogbo, Osun state, Nigeria.  The little boy was said to be sleeping inside the house when a fire was noticed inside his mother's room. The cause of the fire was a stick of candle on one of the tables in the room where he was sleeping.  Efforts made by the men of the state's fire service to rescue Emmanuel proved abortive as the little boy has given up before they quench the fire.  Emmanuel's mother, who got impregnated during her secondary school last year, was said to be weeping uncontrollable for the lost of her child.

Osun Approves N1.1 Billion Electrification Project

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The Osun state government has awarded electricity projects to the tune of N1.1 billion across the state.

This government says is “to ensure that all nooks and crannies of the state of Osun are connected to the National Electricity Grid for improved socio economic activities”.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Rural Development, Water Resources and Community Affairs, Hon. Kunle Ige said this in Osogbo at the on-going Quarterly Ministerial Press Conference, organized by the state Ministry of Information and Strategy. Hon Ige, who disclosed that the government has expended the sum of N3 billion on provision of electricity to the people, added that new electricity projects which cut across all the nine federal constituencies of the state were awarded in the first quarter of 2013.

He further explained that in addition to the massive electrification of some rural and semi-rural communities across the state, government has also provided transformers to some communities to help stabilize power supply.

Aregbesola wants to Islamise Osun – CAN

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The leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria, Osun State chapter, has accused Governor Rauf Aregbesola of attempting to perpetrate an Islamic agenda in the 22-year-old state. Secretary of the association, Rev. Michael Ajayi, speaks with TUNDE ODESOLA

What informed the allegation that Governor Rauf Aregbesola is perpetrating an Osun Islamisation agenda?

In 2012, there was an intelligence report of the agenda of the Governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to Islamise the state, which he vehemently refuted in his broadcast to the good people of Osun State. He said, “My good people of the State of Osun. As you may be aware, some reports in the advertorial sections of the media concerning our state and my person should give enough room for concern. There is a purported security report alleging that I am working towards Islamising Osun and plotting to secede from Nigeria. The first is patently false, while the second is laughable.”

Osun State senior secondary school students get computer tablets

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Osun State government last week commenced the distribution of the Computer Tablets of Learning (Opon Imo) to the students of government-owned secondary schools in the state.  The distribution of the tablets started at the Ataoja School of Science, Osogbo on Monday with 385 students in the Senior Secondary School 2 (SSS2), each receiving the technological device.The project, an initiative of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, specially designed for the students of public secondary schools in the state to improve their performance in internal and external examinations.

(Viewer Discretion) ILESA in OSUN State, Human parts Seller Caught Red Handed (Viewer Discretion)

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Man Caught Selling Human Part (Viewer Discretion Advised)

The whole of Oke-Opo area in Ilesha Osun State was thrown into panic when human butchered and parts seller was apprehended by the Police after tip off by the residents of the area.  

The man in the picture below was caught in the act while dis-membering an unknown man This is so disheartening, Horrible, heartless, callous, name it! all because of money?

Teenager Shoots 12-Year-Old To Death In Osun

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A 15-year-old boy, Mojoyinoluwa Abioye, shot his 12-year-old friend, Timilehin Oguntoye, to death while playing with a loaded locally-made gun at Akiriboto in Osun State.

It was learnt that the incident happened on Saturday in the agrarian community in Ife-North Local Government Council.

A source explained that the incident, which threw the village into mourning, also caused pandemonium.

WASSCE: Osun Suspends Principal, Teachers For Smuggling Names

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Osun state government has suspended the Principal of Community High School, Eripa, Mr. T. A. Afolabi, along with some teachers for allegedly the names of six candidates into the school’s Senior Secondary School certificate examination list.

A news item monitored on Osun State Broadcasting Corporation by our correspondent, on Wednesday, revealed that the authorities were caught unawares by the Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laore-Tomori, who paid an unscheduled visit to the school.

Laoye-Tomori, who ordered the suspension of the teachers, said the candidates were not officially registered for the certificate examination.

Osun Set To Distribute Computer Tablets To Students In Public Schools

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Mr Oyelade Oyeniran, the Permanent Secretary in  Osun  Ministry of Education,  on Friday said computer tablets also known as ‘Opon Imon’ would soon be distributed to students in  public schools in the state.

Oyeniran disclosed this on Friday in an interview in Osogbo.He noted that  the tablets had been acquired, saying, “what remains is to commence distribution once the state governor launches  it.” According to him, the distribution of the tablets will  start with SS 3  students  preparing for their SSCE and NECO examinations.

Four Nabbed For Making Fake Diesel In Osun State

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Four men in possession of what is suspected to be adulterated diesel have been arrested by the officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Osun State.

While Agboola Abiodun and Oyedeji Abiodun were arrested in Omo-West area of Osogbo, the duo of Tolawo Kehinde and Kareem Taju, were nabbed in Ile-Ife.

A statement by the Public Relations Officer of the state command, Mr Ayodele Olowo, on Thursday said Agboola and Oyedeji were picked up while siphoning adulterated

Nice!!! Osun Students To Study Ifa – Governor Aregbesola

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The Osun State Government has announced a comprehensive plan for the state’s secondary school students to study Ifa as one of their subjects. The state Governor, Ogbeni Raufu Aregbesola, said the schools’ computer tablet had application for Ifa studies.

NDLEA Nab Suspects with Cocaine Concealed in Dudu-Osun Soap

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Luck ran out of 42 year old man, Olawale Akanla as men of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested him why trying to smuggle 630g of cocaine hidden in six tablets of soap to the United Kingdom via Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The suspect Olawale Akanle was about to board an Arik Air flight to London when he was apprehended by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Another suspect, Nicholas Ezika, who ingested about 62 wraps of methamphetamine weighing 1.130kg, was similarly arrested at the airport. He was en-route to Malaysia via Egypt Airline flight.