Crisis has erupted among youth leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun West Senatorial District over an alleged forgery of signatures in a communiqué advocating the zoning of the party’s 2026 governorship ticket to the district. No fewer than 40 youth leaders from five of the ten local government areas, Ola-Oluwa, Isokan, Ede [&...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State The Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, yesterday, adjourned hearing in a suit filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen and councillors seeking legal determination of their tenure of office. The matter, which concerned the validity of the local council election conducted by Gov...
•Amotekun Fresh facts have emerged as to why the Inspector General of Police (IGP) team sealed the operational base and Ife Central Office of the Amotekun outfit in Osun State following the killing and maiming of residents of Akinlalu community in Ife North Local Government Area. It will be recalled that Amotekun operatives invaded Akinlalu [&...
The Centre for Women’s Health and Information, CEWHIN, has lamented the high rate of incest in Osun State, calling on religious leaders to take drastic steps towards curbing the menace. Speaking at the side of a two-day consultative Workshop with Muslim and Christian leaders in Osogbo on Tuesday, CEWHIN’s Executive Director, Mrs Atinuke Odukoy...
The Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State chapter, has disclosed that the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation is plotting to “preempt the Supreme Court” by allegedly preparing to pay withheld local government allocations in Osun into the accounts of court-sacked All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen...
•INEC Chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu and ADC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of releasing “statistically implausible” figures from the first week of its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise, specifically questioning how Osun State recorded ...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State The Osun State Government has filed a fresh suit at the Supreme Court against the Attorney-General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), over the alleged unlawful withholding of statutory allocations due to its 30 local government councils since March 2025. The fresh suit filed on Monday comes months ...
•Amotekun Corps Following the recent armed attack in Kwara State that claimed six lives at a motor park, state governments and security agencies across the South-West have intensified measures to avert similar incidents in the region. The state governments and security agencies in the South-West, particularly the Security Network Agency (coden...
The Osun State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Tajudeen Lawal, has reported the state chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Sunday Bisi, and three others to the State Police Command and the Department of State Security Services for allegedly recruiting armed thugs to attack political functionaries in Local Government Council...
•Governor Adeleke of Osun State The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure has struck out a request by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to relist its appeal against the 2022 Federal High Court judgement that nullified local government elections held in Osun State. The judgement immediately triggered another wave of controversy in the state with [...

