Opinion
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Why Workers And Pensioners Must Choose Continuity
By Ibrahim Sarafa On August 8, electorates in Osun will go to the poll to decide who will steer the affairs of the state for four years. Before the electorate, there are clear two lines to choose from. One is to go with continuity while the other will be returning to a past of misery […]
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Osun: Calls for emergency state as a weapon for political brinkmanship
By Isiaka Wakeel As the August 2026 guber poll in Osun State inches closer, political tension is beginning to rise as is customary in a democratic setting. What is not customary, however, is the disturbing resort by some faceless groups to extreme rhetoric, including calls for a declaration of a state of emergency in the […]
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GSI Polls Survey: Why Gov Adeleke Remains The Man To Beat
By Johnson Samuel The recent survey conducted by Geopolitics Survey International (GSI) and the release of the results of that survey, in which Governor Ademola Adeleke stands as a towering Iroko tree dwarfing the two opposition parties’ candidates, the APC and the ADC, indeed indicates that the people are with Governor Adeleke and like the […]
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Osun LG Fund: How Magistrate Adeyeba Upholds the Law, Supreme Court Rulings and the Constitution
By Public Interest Media Certain legal rules are not disputable even in the worst of impunity. They have been tested up to the Supreme Court in several cases. According to Section 306 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Lay 2015, you cannot stay a criminal proceeding. In Nigeria, the principle that criminal cases should not […]
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Open Letter to AGF Lateef Fagbemi
The Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of JusticePrince Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi, SANFederal Ministry of Justice10th Floor, Federal Secretariat, Wing 1B, Block OneShehu Shagari Way, Abuja, Nigeria Sir, OPEN LETTER: A CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF STATUTORY ALLOCATIONS TO LAWFULLY ELECTED OSUN STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. I write as a concerned citizen and social crusader […]
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Wole Oke And His Show of Ignorance
By Sarafa Ibrahim I have just read an opinion credited to the lawmaker representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Mr. Oluwole Oke on the local governments imbroglio in Osun state and I could deduced what has been wrong with Nigeria if it is people with his thinking that make laws for the country. I say this because […]
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Osun LG: Tenure Elongation Alien to the Constitution
By James Bamgbose In every functioning democracy, power comes with a timer. It starts ticking the day an oath is taken, and it stops the day the law says it must. That timer is not symbolic, it is the foundation of electoral legitimacy. Nigeria’s Constitution understands this clearly. It draws firm lines around how long […]
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Osun LG Invasion: The APC’s Criminal Occupation of Our Local Governments
By Engr Shakbab Enough is enough. It is time to call a spade a spade. What is happening in Osun State is not politics; it is criminality, sponsored from the top, and it is strangling democracy in broad daylight. Let the whole world see this: for nearly a year, local government secretariats in Osun have […]
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N11.9bn FG Refund: Oyebamiji and the question of accountability
By Sarafa Ibrahim Public accountability is a key ingredient for good governance in any society. It is like the oxygen that powers good governance as it stands as a safeguard against abuses of public resources by people entrusted with responsibilities. In fact, Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian born Ukraine based clergyman warned that “Where there is […]
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Open Letter to IGP, Kayode Egbetokun
OPEN LETTER TO THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE ON OSUN STATE ELECTION, LAWLESS DETENTION AND COVER FOR ILLEGALITY By Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq. Mr. Inspector General of Police, Sir, for those of us who have watched public officials act reckless, destroy their names, and then erect a statue of disgrace in their honour after office, it […]