Weeks after two Police officers were caught on camera flogging a woman in Iwo, the Osun state police command have confirmed their dismissal from the service of the Nigerian Police Force. The erring police officers are Inspector Ikuesan Taiwo with AP NO 251724 and PC Abass Ibrahim with Force No. 509634. The victim, Tola Azeez, stepped out of her…
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Two policemen in Iwo, Osun state are currently receiving online backlash after a fotage of them flogging a lady for allegedly violating the coronavirus lockdown. The victim who identified herlsef as Tola Azeez, who made this known on Twitter on Saturday, said the incident happened on her way to get drugs. “This is me being beaten by the…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed Club Secret Underground in Osogbo, Osun State, where 94 people suspected to be internet fraudsters were arrested. The commission had announced the arrest of the suspects in an early morning raid on the club on Monday. The EFCC, in a statement signed by Wilson Uwajuren, said…
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The Supreme Court has dismissed the imploration by the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate for Osun state in the September gubernatorial election, Ademola Adeleke, contesting against Adegboyega Oyetola as the winner of the poll. The apex court, in a majority decision of five-to-two, read by Justice Olabode Rodes-Vivour, held that the failure of…
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Police operatives of Zone 11 of the Nigeria Police Force, Osogbo, Osun State, have arrested a 30-year-old quack, Rafiu Naheem, for allegedly operating an illegal clinic in Inisa, a town in the Odo Otin Local Government Area of the state. A statement by Adekunle Ajisebutu, the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, stated that the suspect,…
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Identified as a 400-level student of the Management and Accounting Department of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Chiwendu Ebenezer, has been crushed to death by a commercial bus on her way out. Chiwendu was on her way to buy shawarma on Monday when the bus, which was said to have had a brake…
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The appeal court sitting in Abuja has slated Thursday for judgement in the Osun state governorship election. In a hearing notice issued on Wednesday, TheCable reports that the court said it will hear the appeal filed by Gboyega Oyetola, governor of the state, against Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by 9am.…
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The Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola has said that he would not be intimidated by the verdict of the governorship election petition tribunal on Friday, in which the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ademola Adeleke was declared winner. Oyetola said he remains the governor of the state, saying his party, the All Progressives Congress,…
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Popular Nigerian superstar singer, Davido, has offered to pay the tuition fee of a student who was admitted at his father’s University in Adeleke University located in Ede, a town in Osun State, Nigeria It all started when the student shared a screenshot of the message he got from Adeleke university on twitter with the caption;…
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As electorate crowd the four local governments of Osogbo, Orolu, Ife North and Ife South to participate in the rerun election slated for Thursday 27th September 2018, sporadic shootings and vote buying have obviously marred the process. At ward 5, unit 17, Alekuwodo, Osogbo, many of the voters were chased away by hoodlums suspected to…
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