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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), Osun Command has paraded three suspected cattle rustlers terrorizing communities in the state. The state Commandant of the corps, Mr Phillip Ayodele said the suspects were apprehended following a tip off from some of their victims and the...

Scores of political gladiators in Osun, as well as residents of the state were in total confusion on Thursday as news filtered in that former commissioners and other aides of the governor have been ejected from their official quarters in Osogbo. The ejection follows a directive from the...

A magistrate court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the Commissioner of Police in Osun State, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye, to arrest the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, and bring him to court on January 6, 2017. The magistrate, Olusola Aluko, gave the fresh order on Friday when the case involving...

A 72-year-old man arrested in Iwo, Osun state for removing a human skull from a cemetery says he made a mistake. Idris Ajao claimed to be a bricklayer, but said a herbalist Tajudeen Jawesola had assigned him to exhume skulls from graves in the cemetery in return for N10,000. Police, acting on...

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expelled its former national secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, and Hon. Soji Adagunodo, a factional chairman of the party in the state. The immediate past state chairman of the party, Alhaji Ganiyu OlaOluwa, and the secretary of the...

The Osun Government on Thursday declared Monday, Oct. 3 as a public holiday to mark the Islamic New Year, 1438. Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, the Secretary to the State Government, made the declaration in a statement in Osogbo. Adeoti explained that the holiday was to commemorate the Islamic New...