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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday expressed concern on the growing complaints and agitations by workers in states over unpaid salaries and allowances, in spite of interventions by the Federal Government.

The President made his feelings known when he received a group of governors led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Abdul’Aziz Yari, at the State House, Abuja.

The Federal government had on May 4 released details of the second tranche of Paris Club refund to States totalling N243.795 billion.

A breakdown of the payment, showed that Abia got N5.72 billion; Adamawa, N6.11 billion; Akwa Ibom, N10 billion; Anambra, N6.12 billion; Bauchi, N6.88 billion; Bayelsa, N10 billion; Benue, N6.85 billion; and Borno N7.34 billion.
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President Donald Trump has kicked the fate of the landmark Iran nuclear deal to the US Congress, ignoring the advice of worried allies as he vowed to confront the “fanatical regime” in Tehran.

Trump defended his decision to “decertify” Iran’s compliance with the 2015 agreement in a speech Friday that evoked US grievances dating back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

He railed against the “Iranian dictatorship, its sponsorship of terrorism, and its continuing aggression in the Middle East and all around the world.”

And he warned he could rip up the 2015 agreement curbing Iran’s nuclear program “at any time,” saying it had failed to address Iranian subversion in its region and its illegal missile program.

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State of Osun young female weightlifter, Islamia Yusuf again wrote her name with golden pen in the book of record as she assisted Nigeria to win 9 nine gold medals in the African weightlifting Championship in Entebbe, Uganda.



Islamia who was one of the few weightlifters selected by the Nigerian Weightlifting Federeration after few day training exercise in Abuja surprised the officials by winning 3 out of 9 gold medals which Nigeria won in the continental championship where over 15 countries participated .



With this feat, the 15 year-old secondary school student has become the African champion in this category, a springboard towards representing the continent at the world stage.



Reacting to the performance, head of Osun weightlifting coach Mr Kola Afinni and two weightlifting coaches in the State Messrs Rufus Adeyemi and Odogwu John appreciated the governor, State of Osun Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for providing all logistics support in making her travelling possible.
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The Federal Government has announced a ban for medical doctors working in public hospitals to engage on private practice.

The decision was taken at the Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council,FEC, meeting presided by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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The former Liberian footballer and the only African player to have won the World Footballer of the Year Award, Sanator George Weah has become the Liberian president-elect,

Liberians turned out in early hours on Tuesday to choose a successor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in a contest set to complete the country’s first democratic transition of power in more than 70 years
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Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has instructed all Local Government Executive secretaries and members intending to contest in the forthcoming local government council election to resign.

The Governor gave this direction when information got to him that some of the serving executive secretaries and members in the fifty-seven local government and local council development area (LCDA) have been moving round seeking support for the coming election.

It was gathered that the governor gave the directive in order not to repeat same mistake made in the last Osun West Senatorial bye-election APC screening which first disqualify his anointed candidate, Mudasir Huassain for not resigning from the office before contesting for the senate seat.
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At first, it sounded like a badly-intentioned prank. I mean, how ingenious is a name like TSTV which sounds like a parody of DSTV? But there is indeed going to be another satellite television company providing direct to home services to Nigerians. TSTV (Telcom Satellite TV) was formally launched on Sunday, October 1, 2017, which was also Nigeria’s Independence Day. Not sure if there was any symbolism intended; you know, like TSTV liberating Nigerian TV viewers? But who is TSTV anyway? In their own words on their website, this is how they describe themselves, “TSTV Africa is a wholly-owned Nigerian innovative pay TV operator.”

As far as arrivals go, TSTV surely arrived in a blaze of glory. Among other things, this wholly -Nigerian company has snagged a three-year tax-free package from the Federal Government as announced by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed at the launch. In return, TSTV is promising, “refined offerings of novel Pay As You View Subscription, Pause Subscription, Complimentary Internet service, video call and an array of amazing TV channels with premium entertainment, informative and educative programmes that cut across all genres.”

Now, as far as expectations go, they are high right at this moment. Not that many people need much convincing to be excited at the arrival of ‘cheap’ (if that’s your thing) or ‘affordable’ or ‘flexible’ satellite TV. Even me, at this point in my household, I could do with a much cheaper subscription. I certainly am paying for more than I need. At the very least, give me something more flexible. Really, almost everyone fits into (or can appreciate) any of these categories. If not directly for themselves, for family members perhaps.

So we can get it out of the way that TSTV does sound very attractive. But before we get too high on expectations, there are a few things we need to unpack. First, let’s look at the marketing of TSTV as this ‘wholly Nigerian’ deliverer Superman company. We’ve been down that road before. The defunct HITV was promoted as being wholly Nigerian. Not only that, it was touted as the redeemer, giant killer. One prominent business newspaper did a front page story on how HITV was coming in to set broadcasting standards. Before it had even existed for a few months! Technically, no matter how promising a business venture looks, especially one in which someone else has a considerable head start, doesn’t it make sense to operate for a while before making gargantuan claims?
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Nigeria Midfielder and Arsenal Player, Alex Iwobi goal has secure a ticket for the super eagles of Nigeria in the next year world cup.

The effort of the Arsenal player when he came in as a substitute to replace Simon Moses in the second half of the game pave way for the Nigerian team to be the first Africa team to qualify for the 2018 FIFA world cup.

In a keen contested affair, Nigeria was forced to make an early change as Ogenyi Onazi was substituted owing to an injury.
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has allegedly ordered the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to work towards ensuring that his Chief of Staff Gboyega Oyetola succeeds him as the next Governor in the state.

According to findings, the party chieftain his trying to avoid the Ondo State Scenario, where their camp was not united and eventually lost out in the power-play that led to the emergence of Arakunrin Rotimi Akerodolu as the candidate of the APC and their anointed candidate had to decamp to the Alliance for Democracy.

It was gathered that Governor Aregbesola was working on different options towards making that his preferred for the 2018 governorship election scaled through the huddles of Primary election without hitches, which informed his decision to disrupt the zoning arrangement in the state.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the date for Ekiti, and Osun State governorship election.

According to INEC,..........
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A Public analyst in Osun State Mr Akintunde Bello Sheriff has described the recent comment of the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon. Lani Baderinwa on the state debt profile as blatant lie and an attempt to misinform the public.

A groundswell of condemnation on social media has trailed the reaction of Osun State government on the release by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), detailing the debt portfolio of states in the federation.

The condemnation came shortly after the release made available to the public by the Commissioner claiming that the N179bn debt owed by the state was not just under the Aregbesola’s administration alone but it include that of his predecessors.
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The recent cult clashes in Osogbo and its environs have generated a lot of dust over the safety of lives and properties in the state capital as clash between rival gangs in the last 24 months has claimed the lives of about four young men.

Investigation revealed that the gang war is an ongoing phenomenon between the groups as no gang wants to concede defeat to the other in the battle for supremacy and attempt to claim dominance over one another in the self claimed territorial ownership.
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On Friday, September 1, the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, officially unbind those interested in vying for its ticket for 2018 governorship election in Osun state to declare their intention.

This signifies the commencement of intra-party struggle that would ultimately culminated in the choice of a candidate that would fly APC flag in the governorship election, only the 5th in the state since the return of democracy in 1999.

In the fold of the main opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, the struggle to dislodge the incumbent ruling party has not taken a definite shape, as the party’s heart is still assailed with all manners of trouble over who occupies the seat of its chairman.

So, while APC’s major hurdle is producing a candidate that will be acceptable to all interests within its fold, the issue of who is the authentic chairman that will lead PDP’s quest for power, remains the first major examination the party must pass before search for the ‘totem of war’ that would not only unclip Aregbesola’s hold on major election deciders in the state, but also de-energise the high flying APC.

Not forgetting that the 2018 governorship election presents it with the best opportunity to return to power, after being controversially eased out in 2010 through Justice Clara-Binta Ogunbiyi’s-led panel, which nullified PDP’s victory in April 14, 2007 governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party, even with it’s house full of commotion, is still getting suitors courting it for 2018 guber ticket.

It is still fresh in mind the landslide victory of then APC candidate, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, who incidentally entered into the history book as the first elected officeholder on the platform of the then freshly formed All Progressive Congress, APC, in year 2014 when he trounced the PDP candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, and expectedly the victory of the party in 2015 general election where it only lost two seats in 26-member Osun state House of Assembly and two National Assembly seats.

But since achieving all these feat, APC has been, somehow descending from its high horse of political successes, losing electoral contests to its main challenger in quick succession. The last two elections held in the state, APC lost both to PDP, the latest being the inconceivable loss of Senator Mudashiru Hussein of APC to Otunba Ademola Adelele of PDP in the recently held Osun West Senatorial Bye Election.
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The ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), in Osun State on Saturday described the boast by the newly appointed chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sarafa Tunji Ishola that his party would sack the APC as “an act of ignorance”.
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for about speaking for or against and let us address the main issue, sentiment should be put apart

Some six years ago when the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola disclosed that his type of governance is “Unusual”, many Osun indigene and residents interpret his assertion in different ways, while some feels it is an abnormality others believed it is the dawn of a new era for the political development of the state.

Whichever way one view it from, Osun today has a record of blazing the trail for others to follow, in the area of infrastructure provision, controversial innovations, social security and exploiting weak constitutional issues negatively. It is no longer news that the State is the first in the history of Nigeria to operate a government for over two years without a cabinet because, according to some of his supporters, the constitution did not stipulate time frame for appointment of cabinet, even when it stated that certain financial transactions cannot be conducted without a cabinet in place.
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The Former Governor of Osun State and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has been appointed ashttp://thevirusnewsonline.com/breaking-oyinlola-gets-board-appointment/