Tag: Osun State

Oyetola Didn’t Access Any Loan Since 2018 — Govt

21Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Finance, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Didn’t Access Any Loan Since 2018 — Govt

Adegboyega Oyetola Osun State government, Sunday, disclosed that the administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola has not accessed any credit facility, since assumption of office in 2018. Former commissioner for Finance under Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration, Mr. Wale Bolorunduro, had said that the state’s negative Federal allocation for February was due to a fresh loan facility the Oyetola-led administration accessed. The state government received as Federal allocation the sum of N379,914,981.09 for the month of February, which raised concern over its debt status among residents. But faulting the claim, the Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Bola Oyebamiji, in a statement, stated that the negative figure was accrued to the state after the statutory debt deduction to t...

20Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Wins Osun APC Guber Primary

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election held on Saturday, February 19, 2022, across the 332 wards of the state. The chairman of the primary election committee and the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbsulRazaq, announced the result in the early hours of Sunday at the APC Secretariat in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. Returning officers for all the 30 local governments and the area council had announce the results as collated from all the wards in their various local government areas. See Also: Oyetola Waged War Against Me Since Becoming Governor – Aregbesola Oyetola polled 222,169 to defeat his closest rival, the former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Moshood Adeot...

Yoruba Monarchs Move to Resolve Tinubu/ Aregbesola Rift

19Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Yoruba Monarchs Move to Resolve Tinubu/ Aregbesola Rift

Some Yoruba leaders, including traditional rulers, yesterday, began a move to resolve the conflict between the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and former governor of Osun State and Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2003 and Aregbesola who, served under him as Commissioner for Works before going to Osun State to become governor in 2010, has been at loggerheads over the Osun State governorship election scheduled to hold on July 16 2022.The two APC leaders are currently engaging in a war of words over the re-election bid of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. While Tinubu is supporting Oyetola who is his blood brother, Aregbesola, who is the immediate predecessor of the governor, believes that Oyetola d...

18Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Waged War Against Me Since Becoming Governor – Aregbesola

Former Governor of the State of Osun and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, said his successor, Adegboyega Oyetola, waged war against him after he became governor. Aregbesola spoke in Ikire while addressing a rally held to garner support for his anointed candidate in Saturday’s Osun governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, Moshood Adeoti. Speaking in the Yoruba language, Aregbesola said he pleaded with Oyetola for about two years not to fight him, adding that his successor rejected his advice which made him call his people and told them to salvage the party. He said, “I begged him for two years, I told him that people must not mock us. I told him, that he was heading towards destruction. I served this state with the whole of my heart, I also...

2Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, Safety, Security

Hoodlums Attack Aregbesola Supporters In Osun

Suspected hoodlums have attacked some supporters of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregebsola, under the All Progressives Congress. Reports indicate that Aregbesola’s supporters were attacked on Tuesday at a political meeting in Ikirun. The Osun Progressive caucus, under the Osun APC, were said to have been holding a meeting beside the Ifelodun Local Government Council secretariat when they were attacked by the hoodlums. Reacting to the incident, state Secretary of the TOP faction of APC, Adelani Baderinwa, said the hoodlums were about 25 persons who shot into the air and threatened to use the machete on the party members. He said, “We were holding our Ifelodun/Boripe/Odo-Otin Federal Constituency meeting. These hoodlums, numbering about 25 came from inside the Local Gove...

Oyetola Signs Anti-Open Grazing Law, Defaulters Risk One Year Imprisonment

16Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Signs Anti-Open Grazing Law, Defaulters Risk One Year Imprisonment

The Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has signed into law the bill prohibiting open grazing in the state. The bill, which was passed by the Osun State House of Assembly on Thursday, August 12, prohibited a minor from grazing and provided for establishment of ranches. The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Timothy Owoeye, while commenting on the key components of the bill after the lawmakers had passed it, said, “A minor is prohibited from grazing, rearing or herding of livestock except under the supervision of an adult. “A minor who contravenes the provision of Section 3 (4) committed an offence, and the guardian or parent of the minor or owner of the livestock as the case may be, shall be vicariously liable on conviction to a fine of N300,000. “Any herdsman or...

Robbery Suspects Who Wrote Osun Community Arrested

14Jul

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Security

Robbery Suspects Who Wrote Osun Community Arrested

Police have arrested four suspected robbers who wrote Ofatedo community in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, demanding N20 million, and later attacked some residents in the area. Commissioner of Police Olawale Olokode paraded the suspects on Tuesday, saying they were arrested on July 1 after credible intelligence.

Robbers Attack Commercial Banks, Police Station in Osun State

3Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, News, Nigeria, Security

Robbers Attack Commercial Banks, Police Station in Osun State

Two commercial banks and police stations were on Wednesday attacked by armed robbers in Apomu and Ikire towns in Osun state. During the attack, it was learnt many people were shot dead by the robbers, even though the state police command said the number of casualty was not available. The robbers were said to have entered Apomu and Ikire through Ikoyi town, and divided themselves into different groups before they launched attacks on the police stations and the affected banks. An eyewitness living in Apomu, who declined to be named, said he heard sporadic shootings around 5.30pm near the premises of a commercial bank located in Oke-Ola Area. According to another resident of Ikire, identified simply as Oloruntoyin, the robbers attacked a bank near Akire’s palace, as well as the Ay...

19Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Crime, Nigeria, Terrorism, Violence

Gunmen Kidnap Travellers in Osun

Gunmen on Sunday night abducted travellers on Omoh/Erin-Ijesha road in Ori-Ade Local Government of Osun State, according to a report by The Nation. It was gathered that the hoodlums waylaid the travellers and took some of them to a nearby bush near Ori-Oke Omoh, while others were left on the scene. The Nation learnt that one of those abducted escaped from the gunmen and informed security operatives about the incident. The Corps Commander of ‘Amotekun Corps’ in Osun State, General Bashir Adewinbi, confirmed that travellers were kidnapped on Sunday. “We did not know how many people that were abducted by the gunmen, but we have drafted operatives to the scene to rescue the victims,” he said. Police spokesperson Mrs. Yemisi Opalola confirmed the kidnap, saying one of the a...

18Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Nigeria, Terrorism, Violence, Youths

Three Robbery Suspects Arrested in Osun

The Police Command in Osun says it has arrested three suspected robbers who hijacked two articulated vehicles and robbed the occupants along Osu-Ile Ife expressway in the state. This is contained in a statement issued on Sunday in Osogbo by Commissioner of Police Olawale Olokode. Olokode said the suspects were arrested on Thursday about 4am by a patrol team of the Joint Task Force and police who were alerted to the operation of the suspects within the axis. “On January 14, at about 4a.m, a suspected gang, fully armed with guns and other dangerous weapons, invaded Osu-Ile-Ife Expressway. “They attacked innocent motorists plying the road and hijacked two different trucks at gunpoint. “One Iveco Truck marked DTM 113 AX, loaded with toiletries and one DAF 75 truck marked JJJ 445...