THE AROLE Oodua and Ooni of Ife Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II has sent a message of commiserations to the government and good people of Oyo State, indigenes of Iseyin town and Oke-Ogun in particular over the death of the Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba AbdulGaniy Adekunle Salawudeen, has joinedContinue Reading
LESS THAN six days to the close of voters registration, the Continuous Voters registration portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC is yet to be opened to Osun State residents. Checks by The Telescope Nigeria on www.cvr.inecnigeria.org is returning “Error! This service has been suspended for now. Please checkContinue Reading
THE INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission in Lagos State says the state currently has about seven million registered voters. The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Olusegun Agbaje, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday. According to him, if the number of new registrants soContinue Reading
I’M STILL searching for explanation on the data that produced Nigeria as the happiest country in the world when I read the report that recently defeated Osun State Governor, Alhaji Isiaka Oyetola after studying the gubernatorial polls with the elders of his party has decided to confront the victor, SenatorContinue Reading
*Political parties back PDP THE OUTGOING government of Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola has been warned not to conduct Local Government Election in the state, if he still has a modicum of the state’s interest at heart. This is as some political parties said it is an ill wind that would blowContinue Reading
THE ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities, ASUU is insisting that only the signing and implementation of a renegotiated 2009 Agreement will end the over five-month-old strike. In a statement released on Sunday, the Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan Chapter, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, maintained that their members had sacrificed so muchContinue Reading
THE UMBRELLA union of workers, the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, is meeting its affiliate unions and striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and Senior Staff Association Nigerian Universities, SSANU, to finalise what it has termed operation total shutdown. Many of its affiliate bodies have already signified intention to comply.Continue Reading
“A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion.” — Chinese ProverbContinue Reading
THE CHAIRMAN of the National Peace Committee, General Abdusalami Abubakar (retd) has called on the winner of Osun Governorship Election held last Saturday, Senator Ademola Adeleke to be magnanimous in victory as he decried the vote buying, which he claimed, characterised the election in Osun State. The committee in aContinue Reading
WE TAKE a departure from writing opinion this week and instead take the opinions of voters at the just concluded Osun Gubernatorial Election. Voters I spoke to were unison in their response, giving kudos to the umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, but with varied complaints that can aidContinue Reading
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