Osun state

The Osun State Government has called on the police to thoroughly investigate the alleged attack by gunmen on the residence of Mr Lasun Yusuf, the Labour Party’s candidate for the July 16 governorship election in the state Addressing…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has given Olawale Olokode, the state's commissioner of police, 24 hours to publicly explain why it is believed that it wrongfully detained and arrested some of its members. Akindele…

A Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, has on Wednesday, May 17, affirmed Sen. Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the authentic candidate of the party in the forthcoming July 16 governorship election in the…

A yet-to-be-identified sex worker has reportedly been vomiting blood after a sexual encounter with some suspected ritualists in a hotel around West Bypass, Osogbo, Osun State. It was gathered that the ritualists picked her up from the…

An Ile-Ife Senior Magistrates’ Court in Osun state on Tuesday remanded a teenager, Iwaku Olatunji, for alleged unlawful withdrawal of four million Naira from a Bitcoin account. The prosecutor, Inspector Elijah Adesina, told the court…

Osun State Ministry of Women, Children and Social Affairs has announced the rescue of a seven-year-old girl gruesomely abused by her aunt who has been acting as her foster parent. The rescue, which was carried out a few days ago in…

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has on Wednesday announced fixed dates to conduct the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states. Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman, made this known in Abuja during a meeting Resident…

Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Ibadan zonal office, in the early hours of Tuesday arrested 34 suspected internet fraudsters. EFCC said the arrested suspects, including a former soldier, Adebisi Jamiu, were…

Police Command in Osun state has described as false, a report that Modakeke Town in Osun was attacked by gunmen on Sunday. Speaking in a statement on Monday, the spokesperson for the command, SP Yemisi Opalola said; “The news is fake”.…

A 200-level student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, in the department of Management and Accounting, identified as Emmanuel Adedeji has died by suicide. Late Adedeji was said to have drank a popular insecticide in the…

Iyiola Omisore, one-time Deputy Governor of Osun State, has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC) party. Omisore defected at his polling Unit, Ward 6 in Ile-Ife, Osun State, after which, he picked the membership card of APC on…

Ibadan zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has on Tuesday arrested 39 internet fraud suspects, also known as ‘Yahoo Boys’. EFCC head, media and publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren in a statement said 10 of the suspects…

Some youths suspected to be internet fraudsters (Yahoo boys) on Tuesday morning stormed Ilesha/Osogbo road, Osun State, in protest of alleged incessant arrest by Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). It was gathered that they went…

Osun state government has announced the discovery of the new strain of COVID-19 codenamed B117, which was first detected in United Kingdom in December 2020. The new cases were reported barely five days after the Chairman Presidential…