Addressing thousands of supporters across Boripe Local Government Area on Saturday, the governorship candidate, in a statement by Prince Diran Odeyemi, the Director of Media and Publicity for his campaign organisation, said Aregbesola introduced more than 30 schemes, with none of them yielding any meaningful result even when large expanses of land have been acquired and state funds deployed
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The SDP candidate during an interactive session with Concerned Ijesa Forum, who paid him a visit in Osogbo, the state capital, on Wednesday, said the appointment of Caretaker Committees by governors to head the third tiers of government “is anti-democratic” and against the spirit of the nation’s constitution
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said the demise of the Emir draws the curtain on one of the most peaceful and most progressive Emirship in the North and Nigeria at large
This was even as Prof. Don Bundy of the World Bank commended Aregbesola for moving with the global trend of feeding pupils, saying the programme is a near universal programme with 317 million school children being fed worldwide
Aregbesola made the call in Osogbo on Thursday when women in the state, led by the First Lady, Sherifat Aregbesola, and the students in the tertiary institutions under the aegis of the National Association of Osun State Students, staged a ‘Free Our Children’ protest to the Governor’s Office
A statement by the National President of UNIFEMGA, Prof. Wahab Egbewole, and National Public Relations Officer, Alhaji Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said the lecture would hold at the prestigious Oduduwa Hall, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State
A statement by the Bureau of Communications and Strategy, Office of the Governor, quoted Governor Aregbesola as describing as dishonourable the position of the former HOS, whom he retained despite heavy pressure on him to remove him at the onset of his administration, to turn around and become an agent of wicked, naked lies
Before Aregbesola dropped the warning, the entire Ilesa community had gone agog when the governor commissioned 15 Ilesa township roads
The governor stated this in Iwo, the headquarters of the Iwo Local Government Area, just as eminent septuagenarian lawyer, Otunba Adebayo Aremu, said the trajectory of the town’s politics shows clearly a preference for forward-looking politicians who promote the welfare of the downtrodden
According to a statement released by the organisers of the event, signed by the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the news portal, Musbau Rasak, and the Chairman of the organising committee for the event, Idris Oseni, the event will take place at De Renaissance Hotel, Alausa, Ikeja
The MOU between Osun State and Vergnet Group, a French industrial company, which specialises in sustainable and renewable energy development, took place at the International Conference Centre in Abuja last Thursday
Governor Rauf Aregbesola had on December 16, 2013 presented a bill to the House for the creation of the councils
The governor was represented at the occasion by his Special Adviser, Budget and Economic Planning, Bade Adeshina, with the budget christened: Budget of Growth Enhancement and Development
Omisore, while reacting to INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega’s statement that the 181 APC members who claimed to be election observers were fake and never accredited by the commission to monitor the election, said: “What Aregbesola did was to test-run and perfect his rigging plans towards next year election in Osun Sate having declared to his APC members that his second term ambition is a do-or-die affair
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The AgriBusiness Forum 2013, with the theme: “The Agri-Food sector: A catalyst for sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Africa”, was co-organised by the EMRC and the Rwanda Ministry for Agriculture and Animal Resources
The Airtel boss, who noted that telecommunications has become a way of life of people across the world, lauded the vision of the Aregbesola government in looking beyond the immediate by making his government ICT-driven
Adeoti said: “The ban becomes imperative in view of the alarm raised by the Nigerian Army Headquarters over the criminal activities of some members of these clubs and associations, as well as some cadets
According to him, his administration is people-centred, which is why the state has the least ratio on the poverty index and unemployment rate in Nigeria
The governor said no distraction would deter him from executing the state’s beautification programme to which he was irrevocably committed.
The governor was responding to a suggestion by a journalist that the demolition exercise should have a human face