While the Nigerian government struggle to fulfil its promise of jacking workers minimum wage to N30,000, it is instructive to note that the American government spend an equivalent of N31,000 on a prisoner daily. Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola made this starking revelation on Friday during an interface with the Senate and House of Representatives […]
Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has assured residents affected by partial closure of land borders that the federal government would provide them with legitimate businesses in replacement of the illegal economic activities at the borders. Aregbesola disclosed that smuggling, illegal migration and subversive economic activities at the borders have over the years undermined the […]
Outgoing Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has described as mentally unstable those who openly protested in Abuja the recent declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and Governor elect, Mr Isiaka Oyetola, as the winner of the recent gubernatorial poll in the state. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Oyetola as governor-elect […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship Candidate in Osun State, Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola, has denied alleged rift between him and the outgoing Governor Rauf Aregbesola over last Saturday’s election. Oyetola described insinuations in some quarters to that effect as “irrational and present only in the imagination of detractors out to create disaffection within the […]
The office of the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, at the State Secretariat, Osogbo is currently on fire. Our correspondent gathered that the fire started from an air conditioner inside the governor’s office, but the governor was not around. A source said the fire was devastating because the security doors leading to the office […]
…says don’t blame Jonathan for your failures Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has been advised not to hang his failures in governance of the state on former President Goodluck Jonathan or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led Federal Government of the past era, but rather admit that he failed on his own to deliver on […]
Osun State has scored high in human satisfaction and happiness index, according to the 2017 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS 5) report conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics. The state Statistician-General, Prof. Alagbe Wasiu Gbolagade, who addressed reporters at the weekend in Osogbo, said the Bi-monthly of Central Pricing Reference System, when compared to […]
FORMER Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Hon Adejare Bello, on Tuesday said the incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola would have emerged as the best governor in the history of the state if he takes other peoples’ advice for the effective management of human and capital resources in public administration. Bello, who contended that nobody in […]
Regardless of the ongoing industrial action by workers in Osun, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, is expected to present the budget for the 2018 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for scrutiny and approval in line with Section 121 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was contained in a press statement […]
…Says our season of famine‘ll be over by March 2018 Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun, on Sunday said that the financial crisis that forced the state government to payment of modulated salary to its workers would be over by the end of March, 2018. Aregbesola who addressed the workers at the Civil […]
The yet to be confirmed 2019 senatorial ambition of the incumbent governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola has begun to generate rude and very hash comments from members of the public who view the aspiration of the governor whose eight year reign as the chief executive of Osun State will come to an end in […]
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola (2nd left); General Manager Jiangsu Wuxi Taihu Cocoa Food Company Limited, Liu Jianhui (right); Interpreter, Yan Kai (3rd right); Osun State Commissioner for Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, Ismaila Jayeoba Alagbada (left) and Coordinating Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industries and Cooperatives, Mr. Abimbola Osho, during the signing of agreement between Osun State […]
….Fiscal federalism, devolution of powers top agenda Twelve years after their last gathering, governors from the Southern part of Nigeria will on Monday converge in Lagos to deliberate on how to forge stronger ties for the three geo-political zones. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the Lagos State Government (SSG), Mr Tunji Bello, […]
There was jubilation by lawyers in Osun State on Wednesday over the order of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo which restrained the state governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola from implementing the new regime of fees to be paid for filling documents in the courts in the state. The lawyers stormed the Correspondents Chapel of […]
After a careful review of the just concluded general election in the country, the Elders Council (Igbimo Agba) of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun State has declared that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost to the APC because it took its previous electoral victories for granted. Rising after a meeting held over the weekend, […]
Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has lamented the various crises and violence that characterised the last general election in the state. The governor, who spoke during a state broadcast in Osogbo, regretted that some candidates, in their attempt to manipulate or win the election, triggered the subsequent violence and vowed that perpetrators would be […]
As the State House of House of Assembly election holds in Osun, the atmosphere seems to be calm in Osogbo. Residents say the relatively calm atmosphere is because no governorship election. It would be recalled that Osun State has had its governorship election on August 9, 2014. During the election, All Progressives Congress candidate, […]
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has admonished people not to be intimidated, harassed, subjugated, cowed or provoked to do something rash during Saturday’s election. He said this in a state-wide broadcast, as the state also declared Friday a public holiday. Aregbesola also counselled people to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner before, during and after […]
A political group, Ijesa North Patriots (INP), has condemned the attack on the Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at a political rally in Ilesa. Chairman of the group, Lawrence Kolawole and Secretary, Mr. Tifase Afolabi, said this through a press statement on Monday. According […]