Why APC didn’t lose Osun outrightly and big -Jibrin

One of the All Progressives Congress (APC) members in Nigeria’s House of Reps, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said the ruling party would have lost the Osun governorship elections outrightly if Senator Iyiola Omisore didn’t decamp to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, polled 254,698 ahead of Isiaka Oyetola […]

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Official results from Osun polling units -Premium Times

As voting ends in many polling units across Osun State, results from such polling units have started coming in. With the deployment of about 180 observers across the 30 local governments in the state, the Premium Times Centre for Investigative journalism in partnership with the Centre for Democracy and Development brings you the official results […]

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FG’s N10k Empowerment Loan in Osun at election time is corruption -Ezekwesili

Former Nigerian Minister of Education and co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement, Oby Ezekwesili, has accused Nigerian Government of deliberately corrupting the elections in Osun by launching the Trader Moni venture in the state three weeks before its scheduled governorship elections. In a widely publicised event, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on September 3, 2018, […]

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Osun NLC directs workers to begin strike Wednesday over unpaid salaries

Osun State chapter of the  Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is beginning a three-day warning strike tomorrow (Wednesday) to press home their demands for the payment of the arrears of modulated salaries of workers as well as pensions and gratuities of the retirees. Chairman of NLC in Osun State, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, said this to Punch […]

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