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Breaking: Fire guts Governor Aregbesola’s office in Osun

Ihesiulo Grace 23 July 2018 0

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

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Jonathan’s aide slams Aregbesola over comments against ex-President

Ihesiulo Grace 15 May 2018 0

…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 […]

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Osun State Scores High In Human Satisfaction & Happiness Index

Ihesiulo Grace 16 April 2018 0

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

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Aregbesola’s greatest undoing as governor is his failure to take advice ―Osun ex-speaker

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2018 0

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 […]

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Aregbesola presents 2018 budget Thursday

Ihesiulo Grace 28 December 2017 0

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 […]

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Aregbesola pacifies Osun workers

Ihesiulo Grace 25 December 2017 0

…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 […]

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Aregbesola’s alleged Lagos Senatorial ambition angers stakeholders

Ihesiulo Grace 12 December 2017 0

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 […]

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Photo: Osun State, Chinese firm sign agreement

Ihesiulo Grace 30 November 2017 0

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

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Southern governors meet in Lagos today, 12 years after last meeting

Ihesiulo Grace 23 October 2017 0

….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, […]

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Lawyers jubilate as court stops Aregbesola from increasing filing fees in Osun courts

Ihesiulo Grace 9 March 2017 0

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 […]

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PDP Lost Because It Took Electoral Success for Granted – APC Elders Council

Ihesiulo Grace 29 April 2015 0

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, […]

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Osun: Aregbesola Laments Electoral Violence, Vows to Punish Perpetrators

Ihesiulo Grace 15 April 2015 0

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 […]

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Calm Atmosphere as 189 Candidates Jostle for 26 Legislative Seats in Osun

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2015 0

  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, […]

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Aregbesola Warns against Intimidation

Ihesiulo Grace 27 March 2015 0

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 […]

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Group Faults Attack on Aregbesola, APC Members

Ihesiulo Grace 24 March 2015 0

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 […]