Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who belong to The Osun Progressives (TOP) caucus of the party were yesterday attacked by hoodlums.

The TOP members, according to eye witnesses, were attacked around 5pm at St John's Grammar, Oke Atan, Ilode Area, Ile-Ife, the venue of the meeting.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the hoodlums who were about 20 in number stormed the venue of the meeting with guns, cutlasses and clubs, and started unleashing attack on the TOP members.

One of the victims of the attack, Sikiru Owojori said: " I'm one of the people attacked at St johns today, it was so deadly and I know Allah is there to judge. The boys that came to attack us are those loyal to Hon. Tajudeen Lawal. They are all from Okerewe ward 2.

"They wounded me on my left leg. They beat and left Tony to die, Hon. Rafiu was beaten like a baby. Alhaji Apari was wounded, photos don't lie. May we all live to see the end of evil perpetrators. I'm still on treatment bed."

Barr Gbenga Awosode, one of the APC leaders in Ife-East Local Government, also confirmed the attack.

OSUN DEFENDER learnt that the case had been reported at Agano Police Station.

Some of the victims of the attack are:
1. Alhaji Muritala lawal
2. Anthony Adeyemo
3. Hon. Oyewole Rafiu
4. Kunle Oguntoke
5. Owojori Sikiru
6. Iyabo Olufisayo
7. Ademola Adegoke
8. Awosemo Kehinde
9. Ayinla Serifa


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The Rauf Aregbesola Colloquium is an annual colloquium to commemorate Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s birthday.

The theme for this year is Government and Big Development: Realities and Solutions for Nigeria.

Different facets of our national life have been stagnant, while some have purely regressed.

The speakers intend to discuss how we got here, what we did right and those we got wrong. The aim is to have the supposedly difficult conversations that will spring forth solutions that are homemade and practical.

The event will hold virtually at 11am prompt on May 29, 2021.

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will be the Keynote Speaker

The Special Guest and other speakers include:
Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressive Congress

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State.

Senator Kashim Shetimma, Fmr. Governor of Borno State.

Senator Eke Ekweremadu, Frm. Deputy Senate President

Comrade Ayuba Wabba, NLC President


To register visit ogbeni.info




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Men of the Osun State Command of the Nigerian Police yesterday engaged some hoodlums at the Don Plaza, MDS area Osogbo.

The engagement led to the exchange of gunshot with several vehicles destroyed and scores of passersby injured.

Trouble started when some unidentified hoodlums approached the CEO of Don Plaza to demand for "settlement" with some amounts of money.

After all efforts to have Don Plaza settle them proved to be unsuccessful, the hoodlums threw caution to the wind and started causing trouble within and around the plaza, as well as harrasing other people within the vicinity.

According to an eyewitness account, at around 3pm, when the behaviour of the hoodlums seems to be going out of hand, the police invaded the premises allegedly on the request of the CEO of Don plaza to chase the hoodlums away.

However, upon arriving, the police men began to shot to scare the hoodlums away, but they didn't just shot into the air, they shot at the hoodlums too.

Innocent people in the MDS area soon became the victims of the sporadic shooting between the police and the hoodlums, leading to the destruction of several cars parked around the area.

In an attempt to take cover from the flying bullets, some people also sustained various degrees of injuries.

Some of the affected victims described the manner of the police shooting as totally unprofessional, many wondered what warranted such shooting when it was not an armed robbery scene. Insisting that the police should have approched with more caution.

One of the victims who spoke to Osun Defender, Mr Olarenwaju Yusuf, who owns a photo studio in the area said he is still in shock. He showed the bullet holes on his car's windshield and ask that the matter must not be swept under the carpet.

He blamed the police for the destructions and demanded that the police should fish out the it's men that carried out the shooting at Don Plaza to prevent future occurence. He also ask that those whose cars were destroyed should be compensated by the police.

Another eyewitness simply identified as Ahmed, a furniture maker, said he escaped the gunshots by the whiskers, wondering why the police should turn against the people they are meant to protect.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Osun Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola, while responding to enquries by Osun Defender said, policemen were only preventing hoodlums from invading the plaza and extorting traders there and that some of the hoodlums were armed with dangerous weapons and were unyielding to the civil plea of the policemen.

According to her, "the police shot into the air to disperse the crowd of the hoodlums who were obviously waiting to commit crime and disturb the public peace, our men didn't shot at the people, they are professionals".

She also challenged anyone that claims he or she was shot or has gunshot injury to come out and report at the police headquarters.







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Following the expiration of the tenure of the Provost of the Osun State College of Education Ila-Orangun, Prof. Isaac Olayinka Oyewole, the Governor of the State, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola, has approved the appointment of Professor Jimoh Atanda Afolabi as the Acting Provost of the College.

Professor Jimoh Atanda Afolabi obtained his First and Second Degrees from the University of Ibadan and his PhD from the Federal University of Technology, Akure in Ondo State.

He served as a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the Federal University of Technology, Akure from 2013 till his new appointment.

He is widely travelled, locally and internationally. He is married with children.





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