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www.osundefender.org Tuesday, march 15, 2016 The crisis of the lack of funds in the State of Osun which has substantially affected governance in the state must be blamed on the egregious financial mismanagement exhibited by the immediate

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government and the humongous corruption that characterised that regime. This is not an exaggeration. For the horrible revelations coming out constitute

of the iceberg. As a result, Nigeria did not prepare for the proverbial rainy day. That things are the way they are now cannot in

intellectual honesty, be blamed on Aregbesola. A valiant, well prepared man, he started on a good note implementing a rigorously put

Jonathan regime coupled with the fall in the agenda for social and international price of economic transforma- crude oil, the nation’s tion of Osun. main foreign exchange The agenda has been earner. interrupted due to the maladministration of

Aregbesola Inaugurates 9-man Committee To Reposition Osun Tertiary Education - Pg 3

LAUTECH Recruits 678 Illegal Staff - Govt

•The Recruitment Is Legal - Labour

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•(L-R) State of Osun governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (left), in a handshake with representative of President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Isyaku Umar (middle) while National Publicity Secretary of FOPAMEC, Engineer Ibraheem Babachar watches, during the 2016 Award and Inauguration Of Forum For The Patriotic Members Of All Progressives Congress (APC), State Of Osun chapters, in Osogbo, last Saturday. Photo:

Osun HOS Tasks New Teachers

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Osun Assembly Charges Water Corporation To Be Self-sufficient - Pg 2

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LAUTECH Recruits 678 Illegal Staff - Govt •The Recruitment Is Legal - Labour

By kehinde ayantunji

the former Chief Medical Director, Professor Olufemi Fadiora, acted on behalf of the state government to employ the workers. He said, contrary to Okanlawon’s claim, LAUTECH Hospital management advertised vacancies in The Nation newspaper of Monday 20th February, 2012 and employment forms were sold to applicants at the rate of N5,000. “It was in response

to the advertisement that the staff applied, were interviewed and validly recruited; hence this recruitment cannot be described as illegal. Mr. Okanlawon should tell the entire world and substantiate the acclaimed illegality of the employment or come up with another excuse. “No promotion as claimed by Mr. Okanlawon was done within three months, rather, letters that were

officially served to our members were to confirm their appointments, in line with civil service rules and procedure”. Afolabi further told OSUN DEFENDER that it is understandable that the state is facing financial challenges, which the affected workers have been enduring with fractioned salary regime, as agreed to by the leadership of the NLC and TUC. He said: “We know there is paucity of fund. What the government should do is to further engage the workers on the way out and not to sack

the workers who were legally employed by the LAUTECH management, who acted on behalf of the state government. They have contributed their best to the development of LAUTECH Hospital and they have no other means of livelihood.” He urged the state government to reverse the decision in the general interest of the health sector and the state at large.

he Government of the State of Osun has said it cannot act outside the outcome of a forensic audit of the staff of the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), Osogbo, which has identified cases of irregularities in the recruitment of some staff. T h e g o v e r n m e n t ’ s of doctors, consultants s t a t e m e n t c a m e i n and nurses, who are r e s p o n s e t o a r a l l y the special needs of a embarked upon by some functional hospital. staff of the Teaching “To make matters Hospital on Wednesday, worse, all the recruitment who claimed that the and undue promotions state government had of workers from Grade c o n c l u d e d p l a n s t o Level 2 to that of Grade disengage them. Level 07 within 3 months The LAUTECH staff w e r e d o n e w i t h o u t stormed the hospital t h e a p p r o v a l o f t h e premises during the government.” protest alleging that Okanlawon noted that the government was some resident doctors, planning to sack about who were asked to go, 1000 staff of the hospital. were those that have A statement signed exceeded the mandatory by the Director, Bureau six years required to pass of Communication and residency examination, Strategy, Office of the adding that some of Governor, Mr. Semiu these doctors have spent Okanlawon, revealed that more than 10 years in the the state government, hospital. through forensic staff However, Joint Health audit discovered various Sector Union (JOHESU), illegal recruitments of L A U T E C H c h a p t e r staff in excess of over 600. C h a i r m a n , C o m r a d e The audit panel set A f o l a b i A b i o d u n , up in 2015, according to faulted the claim of the the statement, revealed government, saying the that about 678 members recruitment followed of staff were illegally laid-down procedures. employed without Afolabi, while speaking government approval. with OSUN DEFENDER, B e s i d e s , s o m e o f urged government not to these staff were just “slam capital punishment Photo; Kazeem Mohammed. administrative officers on the workers”, saying •Photo of the day: An overloaded vehicle in Osogbo last Friday. not urgently needed for the growth of the hospital. The government said make the list of its Kamil Oyedele, said Corporation, Engineer that available statistics By kazeem mohammed there was nothing wrong Olugbenga Awojuyigbe, also showed that some he State of Osun House of Assembly has debtors available to the for the corporation to be c o m m e n d e d t h e of the administrative charged the State Water Corporation to Assembly to be able to able to be self-sufficient, committee for the visit, officers in question design a strategy that would make it self- find a way out of it. with Bachelor’s Degree W h i l e u r g i n g t h e urging the corporation saying the tour would also assist the staff of the government. and Higher National sustaining. people to regularly pay to work towards it. He said the payment for the water supply H e a l s o s a i d t h e corporation in their jobs. This was just as it Diploma holders, who were recruited as security assured that it would o f d e b t s o w i n g t h e in their homes, he also Assembly would assist and Ward Assistants on take on the debtors of the corporation by local urged the people to pay t h e c o r p o r a t i o n t o Grade Level 02, only to corporation, especially councils and private their taxes and dues advise the government be promoted to Level the local government companies would also for the government to in collaborating with 07 within three months authorities, as well as assist in offsetting some be able to perform its local governments to jointly finance water of their unapproved sa tch et a n d bottled of the problems of the obligations. appointment. A l s o s p e a k i n g , projects across the state. water producers in the corporation. The General The government thus state. Akanbi then directed a m e m b e r o f t h e noted that it discovered C h a i r m a n , H o u s e t h e c o r p o r a t i o n t o committee, Honourable M a n a g e r , W a t e r over 500 staff that are Committee on Water Executive and Assistant Resources, Honourable Executive Officers more Kamardeen Akanbi, By shina abubakar 25 pieces of exercise accused person, while than tripple the number stated this on Thursday books, belonging to the others were not ive pupils of public schools in Osogbo, the of available doctors and during the committee’s State of Osun capital, who were involved the state government, r e p r e s e n t e d b y a n y consultants. visit to Ede Water Works in disruption of public peace, have been valued N500, thereby counsel. A c c o r d i n g t o t h e and Ilesa Urban Water The presiding remanded in prison custody by an Osogbo committingan offence statement: “What sense Scheme (Kajola Water Magistrate’s Court for allegedly jeopardising contrary to sections m a g i s t r a t e o r d e r e d would it make for hospital Dam). 249(d) and 390 of the that the counsel should with 34 administrative The lawmaker, who school activities. apply for the accused officers; 56 consultants noted that the visit T h e p u p i l s : I s a a c contrary to section 517 of state penal code. T h e c h a r g e s h e e t persons’ bail formally a n d 1 5 4 r e s i d e n t was prompted by the Awuzie, 18, Sulaiman the State Criminal Law doctors to employ 426 complaints of irregular Amidu, 18, Gafar Tijani, 2003. d i s c l o s e d t h a t t h e and disclosed that the Administrative Executive supply of water, said 16, Akeem Jelili, 17 and I t a d d e d t h a t t h e suspects committed the first and second accused Officers? he regretted that there Badmus Isiaka, 15 were suspects unlawfully offences at about 8:30 persons be remanded “Should there be need are still complaints a s s e m b l e d w i t h am inside the school in Ilesa Prison custody, for recruitment at all, despite the investment denied bail by Chief sticks and stones and premises located in the while the third, fourth will it not be beneficial of government on water M a g i s t r a t e O l u s o l a and fifth suspects Aluko, demanding that j e o p a r d i s e d s c h o o l state capital. for government and the were to be remanded I n s p e c t o r T a i w o supply. activities, an offence their counsel should hospital management at a correctional home A d e g o k e a p p e a r e d Akanbi noted that the contrary to section 71 of apply for their bail to recruit officers into in Osogbo before he for the prosecution, the State Criminal Law. strategic areas of the committee was informed formally. adjourned the case for while Barrister Nnenna that the paucity of fund According to the The charge sheet read state’s healthcare needs? mention at a later date. has been delaying the Ngwu held brief for Mr charge sheet, the alleged in the court alleged that “With the current complete installation statistics available, the the suspected pupils p u p i l s c o n d u c t e d N. Nagode for the first Administrative Executive of the water supply on December 18, 2013, themselves in a manner accused person. Mr Bode Babalola Officers have more than equipment shipped-in conspired together to likely to cause breach of trippled the numbers from South Africa by the embark on illegal rioting public peace and stole appeared for the second

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Why Aregbesola Named OSSCE After Oyedotun

By ismaeel uthman

he renaming of the State of Osun-owned tertiary institutions by Governor Rauf Aregbesola has been generating controversies in the state since the governor made the announcement on Wednesday at the 4th and 5th Convocation of the Bola Ige University, formerly known as Osun State University (UNIOSUN). Part of the acclaimed Some members of the public claimed that some u n k n o w n p e o p l e i s of the persons, whose Adeyemi Oyedotun. names were used to name Aregbesola changed some of the institutions, Osun State College of were unknown, while Education, Ila-Orangun another set of people to Adeyemi Oyedotun raised questions on the College of Education. A sizeable number integrity and credibility o f residents and of some of the known beneficiaries of the name indigenes of the state did not actually know change.

Adeyemi Oyeduntan, or his contribution to the development of the state. OSUN DEFENDER however, learnt that Adeyemi Oyedotun had for long sacrificed his daughter and greed to

Erin-Osun Celebrates New Irepodun South

educational and socioeconomic development of Ila-Orangun, which result was the establishment of the College of Education by a former military administrator of Old Oyo state.

The medium gathered that Oyedotun’s young daughter was knocked down while playing by a government vehicle at the front of her father’s house in 1978, and the little girl died instantly.

ByKAZEEM MOHAMMED rin-Osun, the headquarters of the newlycreated Irepodun-South Local Council Development Authority (LCDA) of the State •Scene of an accident at Area 11, Ahmadu Bello Way, Abuja, last Sunday. of Osun was agog on Saturday, as the people of the town celebrated the creation of the new council. Spearheaded by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the mammoth L o c a l G o v e r n m e n t , crowd of the people H o n o u r a b l e R u f u s o f t h e t o w n w a s i n Oyegbile, commended celebration mood and t h e g o v e r n m e n t f o r By ISMAEEL UTHMAN need to provide remedial appreciated Governor h i s i n t e r e s t i n t h e Rauf Aregbesola for the d e v e l o p m e n t o f overnor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of facilities in all our tertiary new council. Osun has inaugurated a nine-man committee i n s t i t u t i o n s , a s i d e grassroots. The people of the to restructure the state-owned tertiary university, just as we According to him, town were in a dancing the exercise has shown institutions to make each and every one of them one directed the authorities of both polytechnics, procession, which took t h a t t h e g o v e r n o r of the best in the world. Aregbesola, while informed his decision college of technology and them round the major i n a u g u r a t i n g t h e to embark on massive colleges of education to parts of the town, as part w a s i n t e r e s t e d i n committee on Friday, education reclassification provide facilities for basic equal development of of the celebration. hinted that the committee and restructuring, which, education, which will grassroots across the Aregbesola had was constituted in a according to him, had be largely for remedial state. recently announced the bid to turn-around the yielded positive results studies for those with He however assured creation of new councils education system in the in years past. deficiencies in their in the state, one of which that since the government state, in line with the state He disclosed that his secondary education to was Irepodun South has fulfilled its promise policy on education. government met poor makeup and be properly LCDA, carved out of the by the creation of the new The governor, who performance of students equipped with required existing Irepodun Local council, the people of the recounted the laudable in education, which knowledge, while being Government Council town would also support a c h i e v e m e n t s o f h i s informed his government fully admitted for regular Area located in Ilobu, a the government through administration, said much neighbouring town. prompt payment of their had been immensely to device several means studies,” he added. of revamping and He disclosed that the A d d r e s s i n g t h e taxes, levies and charges. recorded in the education resuscitating the lost initiative was aimed jubilant crowd of the s e c t o r , j u s t a s t h e glory in basic and tertiary a t m a k i n g t e r t i a r y town, the immediatepresent administration education in the state. education to be locallypast Commissioner for was committed to the Governor Aregbesola made and accessible to Local Government and provision of quality and r e v e a l e d t h a t t h e the teeming prospective Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr quantity education. recommendations of a d m i s s i o n s e e k e r s , Kolapo Alimi, lauded H e l a m e n t e d t h e the various constituted saying the state agitated Governor Aregbesola for abysmal state of p a n e l s by h i s for skilled-manpower, the creation of the council, education prior to his administration had it that particularly in the area despite the current emergence, saying that prior to his inauguration of need, like construction economic challenges. the challenges which i n t o o f f i c e , p u b l i c i n d u s t r i e s , t r a d i n g , Noting that the his administration met education system had catering, book keeping, exercise was a promise in the education sector been poorly-managed, carpentry, plumbing, fulfilled, he said it has as over 70 percent of electrical works and again shown that the students leaving the state several urgently-needed governor was interested high schools could not vocations. in the development of the secure admission into He said: “We did these grassroots at all cost. By ismaeel uthman tertiary institutions. to ensure that our youths, Alimi noted that the He stated further that who have had sound people of the ancient town Magistrate in Osogbo has sentenced a 21-year- those who were admitted academic knowledge, would do everything old man, Sunday Oyeniyi, to eight days’ among the pupils, prior are adequately provided possible to ensure the sweeping punishment for stealing six pieces of to his coming, were very with required technical sustainability of the new live fish. under Section 390 of the horrible and challenging, and vocational skills. council. The police prosecutor, Criminal Code, Cap 34, as this prompted him to “We equally compelled “This is a council Inspector Fagboyinbo t h a t w e h a v e b e e n Abiodun, told the court Vol II, Laws of Osun State, implement and intensify our tertiary institutions, plans to put an end especially polytechnics expecting for so long that the accused stole the six Nigeria, 2003. When the one-count and Aregbesola is the fishes worth N3,000 from a charge of stealing levelled to the disheartening and colleges of education, to admit some trade man that God used to fish pond belonging to one against the accused was read occurrence. According to him: “For men and women, as answer our call despite Mr Olatujoye Gbenga on to him, he pleaded guilty to this reason, we came up well as artisans, who are the paucity of fund we January 10, 2016. the offence. with initiatives, which interested, on the need are currently facing. Abiodun said the The Presiding judge, “We will do everything fish pond was located M a g i s t r a t e A d e j u m o k e premised on a clear to improve their skills n e c e s s a r y t o e n s u r e a t P o w e r l i n e A r e a o f Olowolagba, while handing passion and commitment and craftsmanship in the sustainability and H a l l e l u y a h E s t a t e i n down the community service to provide opportunities their various areas of progress of the new Osogbo. sentence, said it would start f o r t h o s e , w h o , f o r disciplines. “For the colleges of council,” he said. The prosecution then from March 4 to March 11, whatever reason, have d e f i c i e n c y i n t h e i r education, we saw the A l s o s p e a k i n g o n argued that the accused 2016 secondary education. need for regular training the occasion, the APC c o m m i t t e d a n o f f e n c e “This informed the and retraining of our Chairman in Irepodun contrary to and punishable

The driver of the vehicle, who was a top military man, according to information, felt remorse and asked the bereaved Oyedotun what he would take as compensation. Oyedotun was said to have demanded for the establishment of anything that would boost the socio-economic development of his community. As a result, Osun State College of Education was established in IlaOrangun under the governorship of Brigadier (later Major-General) David M. Jemibewon of the Old Oyo State. Naming the institution after Oyedotun was in recognition of the sacrifice he made.

Aregbesola Inaugurates 9-man Committee To Reposition Osun Tertiary Education

Man To Sweep Osun Street For Stealing

teachers including those teachers at elementary schools, middle schools and high schools because we believed that for us to get the best from our teachers, we need to motivate them. “In the need for them to be acquitted with modern techniques of teaching and for refresher programmes, we realized that our colleges of education are short on this, therefore, we organized pedagogy. Speaking on the responsibilities of the committee, Governor Aregbesola said: “We setup this 9-man committee on the need to reposition our tertiary institution, so as to be sure that what we charged our tertiary institutions upon, are well-implemented and properly tracked.” He added: “Your oversight function is to verify the implementation of all the reforms we have initiated and enunciated in all the four institutions. “We are clear on our minds. We want polytechnic, college of technology, as well as colleges of education that would be involved in the present and future needs of the society, just as we equally want polytechnic that would be well-connected to the society and provides its needs at all times.” Governor Aregbesola noted that it would be gladdening indeed, if the state has colleges of education that are clearly focused on building virile and competent graduates that can compete excellently with their counterparts globally.

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Ilesa Power Outage: Aregbesola’s Intervention Restores

By kehinde ayantunji

he governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the m a n a g e m e n t o f I b a d a n El e c t r i c i t y Distribution Company (IBEDC) to restore electricity in all nooks and crannies of Ilesa and its environs without further delay. A r e g b e s o l a promised not to handle described electricity as the matter with levity, an essential amenity adding that among his p r o m o t i n g s o c i o - priority is security of economic activities life and property of the in the society, saying people in the state. G o v e r n o r it is a basic necessity in the industrial and A r e g b e s o l a a l s o condemned in its technological age. H e c h a r g e d t h e entirety, the way and IBEDC while hosting manner at which some the management team officials of the electricity of IBEDC, who was c o m p a n y w e r e on a peace mission reportedly maltreating t o t h e g o v e r n m e n t some people in the course of their duties. secretariat, Osogbo. He said: “This act The governor e x p r e s s e d must be condemned displeasure over the anywhere in the country m i s u n d e r s t a n d i n g , because it is illogical, which eventually led to u n r e a s o n a b l e a n d the total disconnection uncultured for anyone of power supply to the in his or her interest ancient town and its to resolve to fight with officials of electricity environs. He condemned the company. “We are in a state that alleged assault on some staff members of the preaches “Omoluabi electricity company, ethos” and as a matter of saying Osun remains fact, our administration the most peaceful would not for any state in Nigeria and reason tolerate any act

of indiscipline. We shall continue to portray our state in good light, just as we are determined to maintain law and order.” He therefore implored the traditional rulers, stakeholders and the general public to support the government in strengthening peaceful co-existence between investors and

the people of the state. Earlier, the Managing Director, Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IB E D C), Mr. John Donnachie, commended Governor Aregbesola for his prompt intervention, promising to deploy his men on immediate reconnection of electricity in the town and its environs.

Mr. Donnachie, who expressed dissatisfaction over the alleged assault of the staffs of IBEDC, said the company would not tolerate any form of assault or molestation from any member of the public, irrespective of such person’s position or rank in the society. He therefore urged people in the country to

continue their support in providing regular power supply and promised to improve services in the affected areas.

•Continued from page 3 e said: “All our ideas are to turn our institutions to pacesetters and models in the country because it is anachronistic, if we have a college of education in the state and the teachers in the state could not have facilities for retraining and acquisition of modern knowledge in teaching techniques. “It would be very sad indeed if we have polytechnic or college of technology that occupied technicians, electricians, technologists, craft people among others but yet could not have facilities for training and

retraining. “For these noble reasons, we have inaugurated this committee to ensure that our objectives for these institutions are completely achieved. Aregbesola hinted that the committee was also inaugurated, in order to be sure that the resources available in all the institutions are properly and judiciously used. The governor said the newly-inaugurated committee would be empowered to carry out audit in the course of its exercise, saying the state was keenly interested to know the quality and quantity of every

circumstance. He maintained that the committee needs to bring to its knowledge by ensuring that every naira available for the institutions is being spent judiciously. “We want to know through this committee, how the staffing is affecting the judicious use of the very limited financial available resources for these institutions, in order to equally know how corrections would be made along the line. “We want to find out and check the indigenous programmes available in all our tertiary institutions, as well as the additional assignments, such as remedial study, pedagogy, technical and vocational study given to them through this newly-inaugurated committee. “We want our tertiary institutions to be properly set up and targeted at achieving the purpose of which they were being saddled,” Aregbesola opined. In his remarks, the Chairman of the 9-man committee, who doubles as the Acting Vice Chancellor, Bola Ige University, Osogbo, Professor Oguntola Jelili Alamu, commended the state government for continuously repositioning education, most importantly, the basic education in the state. He also said the current government under the leadership of Governor Rauf Aregbesola has created a wider platform of making education more interesting, attractive and relevant to the people within the state and beyond. Professor Alamu, who pledged the committee’s commitment towards the realization of its aims and objectives, said every member of the committee would not rest on his oars at ensuring total reformation, restructure and transformation of all the state owned tertiary institutions. Professor Alamu, who bemoaned over what he regarded as poor orientation of parents, identified examination fraud, as one of the

education. He said parents need to be educated on the need to refrain their wards from writing fraudulent terminal examinations such as West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and so on at what he described as miracle centres, where the results were believed to be easily and conveniently manipulated and engineered. He described the government initiatives as laudable, assuring the committee’s commitment in the actualization of the set goals. According to him: “This committee, which I am chairing, would ensure the prompt actualization of the stated objectives at restructuring and repositioning the state-owned tertiary institutions. “We will make sure that we embark on initiatives that would impact meaningfully in the lives of the people and our state at large, just as we are ready to put in our best, as we will continuously support the state government,” he added. Professor Alamu however promised that the committee members would champion all the cardinal objectives of the state, as they are ready to ascertain that the graduates of all the state-owned tertiary institutions are equipped with requisite knowledge and skills to become employers of labour. Members of the committee include: Professor Olasupo Ladipo; Professor Layi Fagbemi, Professor Duro Ajeyalemi, Dr. Yemi Adegbite.

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Osun HOS Tasks New Teachers T he Head of Service of the State of Osun , t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o Mr Sunday Olayinka Owoeye, has reshuffle its human charged recently-deployed officers from the resources to ensure civil service with relevant teaching qualifications that officers are moved into the state teaching service to see their to areas appropriate to their training and deployment as a call to service. competences. Owoeye stated this quality of teachers. Earlier in his welcome while declaring open Owoeye noted that address, the Chairman of a two-day refresher t h e s t e p s t a k e n b y TEPO, Honourable Tope course organised by the government will Ogunleye, appreciated Teachers Establishment not only tackle the the governor for his a n d P e nsi on O ffi ce shortage of qualified commitment towards (TEPO) for the newly- teaching personnel in the uplift of the education deployed teachers, held public schools but also sector. Ogunleye then at ANCOPPS House, a f f o r d g o v e r n m e n t called on principals, Osogbo, the state capital. He equally advised the officers to put in their professional skills By shina abubakar to bring about the wo men, Paul Patience, 21 and Sunday expected change into Suyi, 21, were last Monday arraigned the education sector of before an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court for the state. allegedly being members of an unlawful society. The Head of The accused persons a c c u s e d p e r s o n s Service also lauded t h e c o m m i t m e n t w e r e a l l e g e d o f committed an offence o f t h e G o v e r n o r belonging to a secret c o n t r a r y t o a n d Rauf Aregbesola-led cult known as Eye, p u n i s h a b l e u n d e r administration for the an offence contrary to Section 516, and 80 of rejuvenation of the section 64(A) of the state the criminal code cap 34 vol.II law of Osun State sector, through many criminal law. innovative programmes, They were also said of 2003. According to Charge such as provision of the t o h a ve un l a wf ul l y state-of-the-art physical possessed dangerous sheet made available infrastructural facilities, weapons such as axe to OSUN DEFENDER, supply of instructional and cutlasses and could the accused persons materials and increase not explain how they got committed the offences in the quantity and the weapons, thereby on February 16, 2014 in committing an offence Ilesa. public Notice However, the accused punishable under This is to inform persons pleaded not section 430 of the state members of the public guilty to the four-count penal code. t h a t o k u nlol a The charge sheet read c h a r g e s p r e f e r r e d bikis adenike , in the court disclosed against them in the is the same person as that the accused persons court. okunlola baliqis Their defence counsel, did posses illegal arms adenike. All former with intent to cause Mrs Bose Dada, prayed documents remain valid. chaos and intimidate the court to grant them UBA and general public

vice principals, Heads of Departments, headmasters and head teachers to endeavour to monitor the new teachers for effective service delivery because they need all the necessary assistance to facilitate their smooth transition from their former schedules to the teaching profession.

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persons are presumed innocent until the contrary is proved without reasonable doubt. She promised that the accused persons would not jump bail if granted and would provide credible surety to guarantee their readiness to stand trial. The police prosecutor, Inspector Mireti Wilson, did not object to the bail application, saying the court was at liberty to grant bail as it pleases. Presiding magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, then granted bail to the accused persons in the sum of N50,000 and one surety each. The matter was then adjourned for mention.

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This has predictably resulted in the drastic drop in the allocations to the states from the domineering centre in Nigeria’s skewed and lopsided federalism. Let us recall that Aregbesola was the first governor to draw the attention of the world to the drifting state of the economy under Jonathan. This far sighted forewarning took place at a time when the immediate past minister of finance under Jonathan Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was busy feeding Nigerians with lies about the state of the economy. The dire consequences of the high level financial mismanagement that took place under Jonathan is what we are witnessesing now across the nation. The state of Osun is not the only one affected or in fiscal difficulties.

Those blaming Aregbe would have had a point if the federal allocation had remained the same. It has demonstrably not! Indeed it would have been worse if Aregbe had not taken some pro-active decisions. For example, as soon as he was sworn in Aregbe realised that to make a difference he had to redirect funds from humongous and suffocating recurrent expenditure into capital votes. This strategy is straight out of the manual of Chief Obafemi Awolowo whose imaginative administration transformed the political economy of the Western region positively and irreversibly. During Awo’s trend setting tenure at no time was recurrent expenditure above 28 per cent. If we seek to know the efficacy of the intervention of Aregbe we should look around Osun State. The transformation of the physical and social landscape is

breathtaking. The solid foundation for positive sustainable economic and social development has been laid. There is still a lot to be done and concluded in a very difficult climate. It will be done. For Aregbe has the indomitable courage and the tenacity of purpose to continue to punch above his weight and reach. For when the going gets tough the tough get going. There can however be no gain without pain. As the state streamlines its processes everyone will have to contribute in order to protect and indeed extend the gains made so far under Aregbe. All of us must support the efforts of the state government by paying our taxes. This is fundamental at a time of declining statutory allocations from the centre. Such an effort confirms the age old aphorism - that heaven helps those who help themselves.

Stop Converting Roads To Automobile Workshops wish to use your opposite the church of their members on pollutant and it is

medium to draw the attention of concerned authorities to checkmate the conversion of our roads by automobile mechanics to their workshops. With shock, I noticed this unwholesome act along Sekona / Osogbo road; the conversion of a portion of the road by a mechanic to hi s work shop at a junction, which could result into loss of lives through auto accident. I also observed within Ilesa-East Local Government Council Area of the state, specifically at Oke-Ola area,

cemetery, that in spite of the narrow nature of the road, an automobilemechanic has converted a large proportion on the road to his

workshop. Several examples abound in cities and towns across the state. I hereby call on the hierarchy of automobile m e c h a n i c associations in the State of Osun to engage in educating and enlightenment

dangers inherent in converting portions of major roads to road-side garages. I also want to use t h is o p p o r t u n it y to appeal to Osun Waste Management

Authority on the need to be more alive to its responsibility. The body needs to embark on enlightenment and advocacy visits to various bodies in the state on the need to maintain healthy and safe environment , bearing in mind that oil is a major

And helping ourselves to develop Osun is a task that must be done to paraphrase the rallying crying of retired General and former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon during the civil war. The government of the state of Osun has delivered on its part of the social contract which binds the people with the government. As the people we must now reciprocate by supporting the government with our taxes and our increased productivity. By doing so we will turn things round and turn crisis into an opportunity for a rebirth. In doing so we will be assured of a glorious future.

hazardous to human health, aside the risk of indiscriminate parking and blocking of access roads in our communities. As law-abiding residents and indigenes of the State of Osun, we must not wait to allow long arms of the law to catch up with us before we do things right. So, let us stop conversion of our roads to automechanic workshops cum garages and maintain clean environment. •Adesanmi Temitope, 25, Isida Street, Ilesa.

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The Timely Masterstrokes Are Within the space of the past one week, lots have happened in the Education SubSector of the State of Osun, such that if our attention had not been focused to the sub-sector before, events would have switched it in that direction automatically. Apart from the reforms that stormed the local government system of the state, the public school system, the institutions of higher learning in particular, witnessed massive revolution, especially in the area of rebranding. In this edition, NIYI OLASINDE changes direction in the documentary analysis of revolutions in the sub-sector, as he concentrates efforts on the most recent waves of change witnessed; alongside the promises the reforms hold for the state and its forward march educationally.

•State of Osun governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (middle); Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, Professor Ajibola Obafemi (right); and Acting Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Oguntola Alamu, during the Fourth And Fifth convocation ceremony of the university held at Osogbo Campus, recently.

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URING the just-concluded week, superlative waves of change which hold strong promise of charting the course of development and progress for the state and its people (generations yet unborn inclusive), stormed the State of Osun. The waves of change, like any other kind of tsunami, attracted to itself; and was greeted with diverse thick and shades of reactions (mostly uncomplimentary) from residents, indigenes and others outside the state alike. It is noteworthy how in this part of the globe, any step, programme or policy action of government is greeted with resistance, recalcitrance and pessimism; as people are often held spell-bound to loyalty to the past, to the extent that the stark reality of change fills them with nausea, much so that they feel that anything that represents change could not have come to stay. We shall have to trace the antecedents of this fact as far as the State of Osun is concerned. When, following the justice delivered through the judgment of the courageous judges of the Federal Court of Appeal, Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday, November 26, 2010, Governor RaufAregbesola of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) became the governor of the state, the development was greeted with lots of pessimism by a considerable cross-section of residents who believed that even though administrations may go and come, administrators, and politicians in particular, remain the same. In other words, they believed that any reform or change packaged or promised by the nascent administration was just an enticement or a product of sugar-coated mouth, reeled out in the heat of passion. To some, the entire package of [promises rolled out by Aregbesola and his political party during the election and electioneering campaign of 2007 was an effort made on the spur of the moment; and as such they saw the renewed promises of 2010 as promises borne of euphoria of eventual victory. Upon his coming on board of governance of the State of Osun on Saturday, November 27, 2010, many people viewed the new administration of OgbeniAregbesola as just one of those administrations already experienced here or

•A cross section of graduands at the programme.

elsewhere, with lots of sweet promises at the outset but never fulfilling much of the promises. To some, most of the promises were mere delusions. Some felt that the promises were too sweet or too good to be real! Let us take for instance the State of Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES). Many people viewed the programmeas an utter impossibility; asking where twenty thousand unemployed youths could be fixed up within the economy of the state. The fact of the matter is that the conviction of many concerning the State of Osun, traditionally is that it is a civil service state. In view of this, any talk pertaining employment prospects or opportunities had the tendency to be viewed against the spectrum of civil service engagement. ne of the first surprises with which the administration of OgbeniAregbesola demonstrated and asserted itself as a “Government Unusual” in actuality was the manner in which the first batch of twenty thousand (20,000) youths was recruited and absorbed, with as much as a monthly sum of TwoHundred Million Naira (N 200 Million) injected into the economy of the state. During the first quarter of year 2011, precisely in the month of February that year, the administration opened a new chapter in translating its lofty promises into achievable action. That was done in the Education Sub-Sector. Needless to say, education is one of the most veritable and vital sectors of life of a people. The State of Osun can never be an exemption. During the contest for the space and reins of governance of the state in years preceding the 2007 Gubernatorial Elections, Engineer RaufAregbesola endeared himself, his party and his candidature to a large chunk of the people, the electorate in particular, through his laudable programmes and policies contained in a blueprint, tagged: “My Pact With the People of Osun State”. If for the purpose of reminder, it becomes pertinent once again to make reference to the contents of the pact, as contained in the document. This will help in substantiating the claims we are going to make concerning bold steps taken by the administration, virtually in all sectors and sub-sectors; especially, in the Education SubSector.

Before taking recourse to the programmes and policies of the Government Unusual packaged into the blueprint tagged My Pact With the People of Osun State; and before we beam our searchlight once again on the giant strides made by the administration so far, OSUN DEFENDER Magazine feels high sense of obligation in reporting the most recent of the strides. During the combined convocation ceremony for the graduates of the Osun State University (UNIOSUN) for the 2013 / 2014 and the 2014 / 2015 acdemic sessions, held during the just concluded week, at which a total of about fiftyone (51) students of the institution graduated with First Class Honoursthe Visitor to the institution, OgbeniRaufAdegbesola announced certain monumental changes that were to change a lot of things concerning the landscape of higher education in the state forthwith. ccording to the changes as announced by the governor, the Osun State University (UNIOSUN) was henceforth to be known as Bola Ige University, Osogbo, being named after one of the most illustrious sons of the state; unarguably a founding father of the state, former governor of the old Oyo State (1979 to 1983) and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief James AjibolaIge, who was assassinated by yet-to-beidentified killers on December 22, 2001. The colleges of the institution, located across the state were equally named after some illustrious sons of the state (living or dead), as follows: The College of Social Sciences at Okuku was named after the immediate past governor of the state, under whose administration the university was founded about ten years ago, Prince OlagunsoyeOyinlola. Therefore, the Okuku Campus of the institution is now to be called OlagunsoyeOyinlola Campus. The College of Agriculture at Ejigbo was named after the first civilian governor of the state and a serving senator of the Federal Republic, representing Osun West Senatorial District, AlhajiIsiakaAdetunjiAdeleke; hence, the Ejigbo Campus of the University is now to be called IsiakaAdeleke Campus.

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2016 Award And Inauguration Of Forum For The Patriotic Members (FOPAMEC) Of All Progressives Congress (APC), State Of Osun Chapter, In Osogbo, Last Saturday. Photo: GBENGA ADENIYI.

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Members Of All Progressives, Congress (APC) In Erin-Osun, Celebrating The Newly-created Irepodun-South LCDA Located In The Town, Last Saturday. Photo: GBENGA

•(R-L) Former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Barrister Kolapo Alimi; APC Chairman in Irepodun Local Government, Honourable Rufus Oyegbile and party PRO, Chief Saka Olaiya.

•A cross section of invited guests at the event.

•A cross section of jubilant APC members in Erin-Osun.

Presentation By Cocoa Development Plan Team, To State Of Osun Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola In His Office Last Friday.

•Some of the FOPAMEC executives, taking the oath of office.

•The Akinrun of Ikirunland, Oba Abdurauf Adedeji, presenting an award of Champion of Modern Transparency to President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by Alhaji Isyaku Umar.

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•(L-R) Former APC Chairman in the State of Osun, Elder Lowo Adebiyi; the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdu-Rasheed Akanbi and the Akirun of Ikirun, during the programme.

•State of Osun governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (4th left); the state Deputy Governor, Otunba (Mrs) Titi Laoye-Tomori (3rd left); Osun Head of Service, Mr Sunday Owoeye (2nd left); Leader of the team, Prof. Gboyega Oguntade (4th right); Mr Ayo Akinola (3rd right); Dr Peter Aikpokpodion (2nd right); Director-General Bureau, of Social Service(BOSS), Barrister Femi Faturoti (right); Coordinating Director of Agric, Dr Bukola Aluko (left).

•Aregbesola (4th left); his deputy, Head of Service, (2nd left); Chief Executive Officer, Uniquesito Modern Security Consult Ltd, Osogbo. Prince Albert Adeyemi (4th right); Operation Manager, Mr Olalekan Adepoju (3rd right); Lecturer Modern Security Training School, Mrs Fabusuyi Temitope (2nd right); another lecturer, of the training school, Mrs Orangun Love (right); Mr Ajibade Adeleke (left), during a courtesy visit to the Governor at the Government Secretariat Abere, Osogbo.

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n furtherance of the rechristening, the Ifetedo College of Law of the institution is now to be called KayodeEso Campus, being named after late Justice KayodeEso, a top legal luminary of his time and an indigene of the state. The IpetuIjesa College of Education of UNIOSUN now bears Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Campus, named after the late Professor Hezekiah Oluwsasanmi, pioneering Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife). The College of Arts and Humanities of the institution situated at Ikire now answers as EniolaAtanda Campus. Also in the line of change, the institution hitherto called Osun State College of Technology (OSCOTECH), Esa-Oke, has been changed to BisiAkande College of Technology, EsaOke. This institution, one of the four first generation state-owned institutions of higher learning in the state is being named after Chief AbdulkareemAdebisiAkande, the second civilian governor of the state (2000 to 2003), the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and National Leader of the Party. The state-owned polytechnic at Iree, hitherto known as Osun State Polytechnic (OSPOLY), Iree now bears Sunday Michael Afolabi Polytechnic, Iree. It has been named to immortalize the life and memories of former Deputy Governor of the old Oyo State and former Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief Sunday Michael Afolabi, who died on May 10, 2004. The two state-owned colleges of education also witnessed rechristening. The Osun State College of Education (OSCOED), Ilesa is now Lawrence Omole College of Education, Ilesa; while the Osun State College of Education (OSC OED), Ila-Orangun now becomes AdeyemiOyedotun College of Education, Ila-Orangun. This is as far as the rechristening went. For the meantime, we turn to recapture the election promises of the enigma, RaufAregbesola as contained in his pact with the people of the state. An integral part of the pact was the Six-Point Integral Action Plan, epitomizing the entire package of goodies which the man, Aregbesola had in stock for the people of his indigenous state.

Here we go: SIX POINT INTEGRAL ACTION PLAN · Banish Poverty · Banish Hunger · Banish Unemployment (Create Work/ Wealth) · Restore Healthy Living · Promote Functional Education · Enhance Communal Peace and Progress TOURISM Vision: Tourist’s cradle in Africa The State of Osun is the cradle of Yoruba people and our rich culture. The opportunities for wealth creation in Osun state through tourism have been underexploited. We shall: · Develop State of Osun tourism potentials to its fullest to promote employment and wealth among people of the State of Osun. · Encourage development of Yoruba museum and world heritage centre at Ile-Ife. · Encourage programmes that nurture and promote arts and talent. · Enhance the image of traditional rulers and institutions. · Mobilize our traditional rulers to showcase the state’s tourism potentials to Yorubas in the diaspora (e.g. Brazil, Cuba and West Indies). ROADS Vision: Roads to and in all towns and villages in Osun. Road construction and maintenance shall be used to generate employment for the indigenes of the State of Osun. · Community based road maintenance units will be established to ensure timely repairs and deduce overall maintenance costs. · Development and regular maintenance of urban and rural roads to get top priority. · Access roads to evacuate agricultural produce shall be constantly improved and expanded. · Create partnerships with the private sector on road development and provision of infrastructure. TRANSPORTATION We shall produce a transport master plan to provide direction for development of the sector. The safety of the lives of the indigenes of the

State of Osun is of great concern to us. We shall: · Reduce to the barest minimum, road traffic accident within 6 months on all roads starting with Federal roads. · Create a motorized division of the Osun troopers to patrol roads to prevent accidents on the highways and organize rescue and recovery operations. INNOVATION urope, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and now China have made life for their people permanently comfortable through innovation, research and development, thrift and hardwork. We Africans especially the people of the State of Osun are thrifty (a ki se oninakuna) and hardworking (atiagbe at oniseowo lo kaimelesiaidanile Yoruba) but we have been backward in looking forward. We have not been innovative enough, we have not invested enough in research and we have not developed the fruits of innovation and research. In other words we remain backward, poor, unscientific and losers (eniigbehin) among the family of nations. It is a matter of concern that our leaders do not car or worry enough about these issues. I care and I’m deeply concerned. As your Governor I will do everything possible to: · Create awareness and dissatisfaction among all in the State of Osun about our position among the world’s people and the need to move up the ladder of human ascent and development away from permanent and persistent poverty. · Ensure that ideas with original creativity are tapped for the enrichment of all. · Give real importance to education with skills development so that we can make what we need and become more competitive in the world as a people by creating more skills development centres in the State of Osun. · In these centres we shall teach Men and Women to think with their hands, sharpen our already proven entrepreneurial skills and stop Nigeria from importing: TOOTH PICK (IGI OPARUN FUN ITAYIN)

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FROM CHINA, ORANGE JUICE (OROMBO) FROM KOREA, SHOES (BATA) FROM SPAIN/ ITALY, FAN BELT/ CAR TYRES (RUBBER) FROM JAPAN AND FRANCE. hen I know that these can be easily manufactured here. I shall turn the State of Osun into a creative agro-industrial zone God willing INDUSTRIALISATION Key to banishing unemployment permanently anywhere is promoting conducive atmosphere for manufacturing and production. Our Government shall: · Develop integrated industrial estates for mini, micro and large manufacturing enterprises in the three senatorial zones of the State of Osun. · Provide the estates with infrastructural facilities that reduce the cost of setting up industries (roads, electricity, water and telecommunications). · Provide incentives targeted at attracting manufacturers/ investors. · Develop skilled personnel through our Life Academies, Universities and colleges to service specialized industrial and manufacturing needs. RESTORE HEALTHY LIVING Vision: To work to save our people from all avoidable deaths due to accidents, emergencies, poverty and inadequate health facilities. To achieve this for all and particularly our children and senior citizens, we shall: · Provide effective and available healthcare for all. · Provide efficient accident and emergency ambulance service. · Provide primary health clinics within 10 kilometre radius of every Osun town, with special attention to the needs of children, women and the elderly. · Provide functional General hospitals within 20 kilometre radius of human habitation. · Provide referral hospitals within 30 kilometre radius of human settlement. · Establish free blood pressure checks in conjunction with private organizations at every local government office. · Undertake special programmes for the upgrading, retraining and working comforts of all health personnel. · Encourage and nurture alternative medical therapy. · Free treatment for malaria to children below age 18 and senior citizens (60+). ENVIRONMENT Vision: To embrace current scientific methods

in controlling the generation of waste and the conversion of waste to wealth. The state of the environment, especially waste generation, management and the embarrassing filth in our communities demand special attention. The CAN government shall: · Encourage all houses in the State of Osun to have a modern and affordable toilet facility through a special scheme. · Provide private sector driven waste management and beautification schemes to rid our communities of filth which threaten public health. · Beautification of town centres as a starting point of general urban renewal. · Work with the private sector to establish appropriate waste-to-wealth projects under a composite waste management policy. WATER Vision: Water for all in the state of the living spring.It is a painful regret that most cities in Osun do not have potable water running at any time and Osun is the state of the living spring!!! Our Government will do everything possible to bring potable water to all parts of the State of Osun and correct this anomaly. All abandoned water schemes shall be reactivated and speedily completed. AFFORDABLE HOUSING Our ACN Government shall: · Help Osun indigenes realize their dreams of house ownership or rehabilitation of failing structures through deliberate programmes that improve their income earning capacity. · Support mortgage schemes that make house ownership pocket friendly. · Actively support research and development on the use of local materials to force down building costs. ELECTRICITY Electricity for all shall be the creed of ACN Government in Osun. We shall: · Ensure that electric energy is available in the state for domestic, commercial and industrial activities. · We shall endeavour to provide electricity to all villages, hamlets and farm settlements in the state. · Private sector-led power agencies shall be encouraged to set up energy stations in the state. SECURITY Security of lives and properties are of paramount importance to us. Our Government shall: · Have special programmes for the police and neighbourhood security outfits.

•Governor Aregbesola (right), in an hanshake with Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola at the Uniosun Convocation.

· Provide special allowance to all security agents deployed to Osun State and enhance their operational facilities for efficiency. · Respond to the operational needs of security agents through provision of mobility, communication gadgets, protective gears and conducive working environment. FIRE SERVICES We shall improve capacity of fire services to respond to emergencies. PHYSICAL WELL-BEING Our Government will promote physical exercises as a deliberate policy which will form a crucial aspect of our healthy-living programme. This is in keeping with the adage that a sound mind only resides in a sound body. PROMOTE FUNCTIONAL EDUCATION Vision: Eradicate the frustration of youths caused by education that does not lead to employment. To achieve this, the government of AC under RaufAregbesola shall: · Provide free education at all levels in Osun State. Focus on functional education. Education that makes one useful to himself and society. · Improve incentives to teachers and work with the NUT to restore the dignity of the teaching profession. · Restructure administration of school management and create Tutors-General (Permanent Secretary Cadre) from among Head Teachers in three Educational Districts which we will establish. · Fix all collapsed educational infrastructures in all the schools. · Support with modern teaching aids and well-stocked libraries. · Ensure cooperation with parents and teachers to improve discipline and morality. · Introduce non-partisan community-based governing boards for all schools. · Reduce number of students per classroom immediately. · Introduce home development plans for teachers who wish to build houses in their home towns, through access to special mortgage packages. · Promote mass adult literacy and numeracy programmes. · Promote and support Special programmes that give special attention to education of girls and women. · Establish institutions that impart life-long skills for all, in and out of formal schooling. O N HI G HE R E D U C A T I O N A N D Continued on page 13

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UNIVERSITY · I am committed to ensuring that an Osun State University takes off on a sound footing and becomes a first-class institution with linkages to renowned universities in the developed world. · I will make every tertiary institution in Osun State an independent degree-awarding one. · Encourage use of services of retired, but not tired dons and administrators, from reputable institutions. ENHANCE COMMUNAL PEACE AND PROGRESS Vision: To restore the bond of trust between the Governor and the governed. ver time, people have disconnected from government because those in authority have not shown enough concern about their welfare or actively engaged them in formulating policies that affect them. Our Government shall restore partnership between government and people through: SAGES COUNCILS (EGBE AGBA) Our state is blessed with a large pool of elderly folks who are invariably well educated, have enjoyed successful careers, travelled widely in the world, but are currently reduced to irrelevance in the society. Our Government will support the formation of non partisan community based sages councils, capable of providing guidance in management, moral and ethical development in our society. Our Government will seek elderly guidance and advice as inputs to our policy formation and implementation. Government will support the senior citizens and help in their management of socio-economic problems peculiar to the group (pension, health and education). YOUTHS COUNCIL (EGBE ODO) People age 30 and below constitute the majority of our population but unfortunately are often frustrated and unfulfilled as a consequence of intolerable social and economic policies. Our CAN Government shall support the creation of non partisan community based youth councils to provide a platform for them to articulate and work out solutions to various

problems confronting them. Our Government will encourage cross fertilization of ideas between the Sages and Youth Councils through which public policies would be influenced. Government will promote sporting activities and creation of physical facilities forb sporting and related activities. We shall reinstate the abandoned ‘boys’ and girls’ clubs’ and name them Omoluabi Boys’ and Girls’ club to perform the roles similar to boys’ and girls’ scouts, boys brigade and more. JUSTICE SECTOR REFORMS An attribute of good governance is to promote justice, equity and fair play amongst citizens of the state. Government of ACN will e3nsure speedy access to justice try all individuals in Osun State, by reforming the courts system and procedural rules, introducing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms and fee legal services. To complement these, ACN government shall improve welfare packages of Judicial Officers and upgrade courts with modern IT and communications facilities. COMMUNICATION Our Government will restructure OSBC to: Ensure its professional are motivated and continuously trained for competency Provide digital equipment and infrastructure upgrade to conform to international best practices in broadcasting. Exploit its tourism promotional capacity and capability. CONSUMER PROTECTION Consumers deserve to have the best goods and services at the best price and not have to pay more for goods and servi9ces than their counterparts in other parts of the world. Our government shall support the establishment of a consumer watch agency and also cooperate with organizations that have similar objective of protecting our people from unfair business practices. In all the above and above all these I intend to run a people-friendly government – a Government of the people, by the people, FOR THE PEOPLE.

A GOVERNMENT UNUSUAL in this land. Infrastructures and facilities for reaching, advising, guiding, warning me will be given constant nurture. Outside these I have no rigging machinery and will strongly appeal to you all Osun voters to fight and defend your votes. Do not sell your vote and our future to a moneybag or vote people who do not care enough about our future as I passionately do. I am entering into a pact with each and all of you as you read this that I and my colleagues shall work in all honesty, tirelessly to bring marked improvements to your life. Apart of this pact you will be able to see that your children are better educated and have jobs; farmers, artisan, traders are more prosperous, general quality of health has improved and you are no longer afraid to go to the hospital. Osun will again be producing food enough for its people. Through my Government Unusual, I shall work with and for you to create wealth through our toil as our fathers and mothers did to make us prosperous until 1962. Only you and I can bring change but through new ideas and work. Oluwa Olorun a tiwal’ehin. Oodua a fun wa se E je k’a le isewo’gbo K’a le osisonu K’ayedara fun wat’omot’omo. This is my pledge; my PACT with you people of Osun State. Since its assumption of office in November 2010, the administration of OgbeniRaufAregbesola has been focused with dynamism on these guiding stars in its dispensation of people-oriented service to the overall benefit of all and sundry in the State of Osun. More of the giant and astonishing strides of the administration; especially the ones made in most recent times shall be dissected in subsequent editions. Keep date with OSUN DEFENDER Magazine.

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Top 10 Pros And Cons Of Apple Iphone 6 Plus

ince the day iPhone 6 Plus is exposed to the public, it has been at the forefront of the public voice. New features of iPhone 6 Plus? iPhone 6 Plus full specification, price? iPhone 6 HD wallpapers help? These questions are the most common ones iPhone fans care. Yet, recently, the Q related to Apple 6 Plus merits and demerits is asked daily on the increase. In such case, I think it’s of necessity to list out the top advantages and disadvantages of iPhone 6 plus and aid the vast numbers of fans to have a full picture about iPhone 6 Plus before they make some decisions. Plus, a useful iPhone 6 video converter app is also shared for you to take advantages of iPhone 6/6+’s big screen while enjoying videos and make best use of iPhone 6 without any disadvantages. Take Advantages of iPhone 6/Plus to Play Videos in HD You can try 5KPlayer - 100% free media player and downloader - to play any video, DVD, music on iPhone 6 (Plus) and download online videos for offline playback on iPhone 6, thus avoiding iPhone 6’s video limit disavantages. Top iPhone 6 Plus Advantages: * iPhone 6 Plus 5.5-inch screen with high resolution Retina HD display just amazing. Apple iPhone 6 Plus comes with a 5.5 inch LED-backlit IPS LCD capacitive display, up to1080 x 1920 pixels (~401 ppi pixel density) and 16M colors yet multi touch supporting. Also, armed with shatter proof glass, this Apple flagship iPhone 6 Plus can well protect your iPhone from being inadvertently crushed. See the difference between iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 Plus * Exceedingly powerful and badly efficient. Built in the new A8 chip and Dualcore 1.4 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based) processor, this new iPhone 6 Plus delivers more power, even while driving a larger display. Better still, assisted by the M8 motion coprocessor, it can more efficiently gathers and deals with various data with faster speed. iPhone 6 Plus sports such a fabulous 5.5-inch HD retina display and powerful processor, it would be the next best thing to watch movies and videos on iPhone 6 Plus while on the tour or way home. If worry about Apple iPhone video format limitation? Now with the world-class MacX Video Converter Pro, you can convert any SD or HD video to iPhone 6 Plus MP4, MOV, M4V video or iPhone Ringtone, MP3, AAC audio with intact quality. The first and unique support of hardware encoding technology makes the video converter for Mac achieve world’s No.1 fast conversion speed, up to 5x faster than its rivals when converting video to iPhone 6(6S Plus). More incredibly, this video to iPhone 6 converter can also support you to download and convert YouTube video to iPhone 6/6 Plus, as well as download and convert video audio from Facebook, Vimeo, Vevo, Dailymotion, Instagram, Myspace, Metacafe, etc. with over 300 video audio sharing sites supported. Thus, regardless of video music formatted with FLV, MP4, MKV, AVI, 3GP, MP3, AAC, FLAC, or featured with 720P/1080P/4K Ultra HD resolution, this all-inclusive video downloader yet converter can do all of them for you as long as you name it. * Payment without the wallet more convenient and secure. For some who prefer to shop online with convenience and private information security concurrently, the innovative iPhone 6 Plus Apple pay application is a must-mention advantage of iPhone 6 Plus. This novel Apple pay combines the convenience and security of Touch ID and Passbook with NFC technology, which support you to pay in stores via MasterCard, Visa, and American Express within apps with merely a single touch. * Incomparable battery life beyond your imagination. Compared with its brother iPhone 6, the pro of iPhone 6 Plus in battery life becomes apparent. Inherent with Non-removable Li-Po 2915 mAh battery (11.1 Wh), iPhone 6 Plus acts as a strong power supply to let you have talk time

stabilizing gizmo is going nuts, creating extremely wavy footage. Unfortunately, the issue isn’t limited to just video capture, with owners reporting that the camera is basically altogether useless. he strengthes and shortcomings of iPhone 6 Plus have presented for you. If you are considering to purchase iPhone 6 Plus for yourself or friends, hope it be helpful for you. In case you have already purchased iPhone 6 Plus and want to jailbreak your iPhone 6 Plus for more convenient use, it’s advisable to comprehensively understand the pros and cons of jailbreaking iPhone before you jailbreak your iPhone 6 Plus. Pros and Cons of Jailbreaking iPhone (iPhone 6 Plus) What is jailbreaking? Jailbreaking is not the same to unlocking. It means bypassing the restrictions Apple puts on the operating system and taking full control of the device. Once that is opened up, any software, good or bad can now be uploaded to your device without Apple’s approval process. The Advantages of Jailbreaking iPhone (iPhone 6 Plus) A world of new apps: You can install apps that aren’t available from the iTunes App Store. For example, Cydia is a framework that makes you add other unauthorized apps, such as games and networking apps.top free app for iPhone 6 Plus, must-have free app for iPhone 6S Customization: Customizing your iOS is a big enticement for jailbreaking iPhone. Simply download a jailbreak app named springboard and you’re able to practically change every aspect of the interface. Icons, text, default graphics, layout positioning, etc. Change wireless providers: You are allowed to “unlock” your jailbroken iPhone to go from one cellular provider to another at will provided they’re both carriers that use the GSM wireless standard. What you need to do is change the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card. >>>Guide on Jailbreaking iPhone 6 Plus The Disadvantages of Jailbreaking iPhone (iPhone 6 Plus) Dangers of unscreened apps: Jailbreaking downright let your iPhone accessible to the malware, adware and even virus since jailbreaking completely steer clear of the protection walls Apple built into both iOS and the iTunes App Store. The usually the malware for iOS has affected only jailbroken iPhone iPad iPod. Piracy: Jailbreaking means the flood of pirated apps, as well. You see if many a user jailbreaks iPhone or other iOS devices, they just can download countless pirated apps for free, which will dramatically harm the benefits and enthusiasm of the Apple store developer. And the last thing we want to do is deter developers from creating more superb apps. Fail to update: Once you’re on the dark side, you kiss goodbye to take advantage of newer Apple iOS updates. You can always just update and lose your jailbreak, but you’d be advised to just do a full restore to ensure stability. Shattered security: Jailbreaking is a double edged sword. It fundamentally changes the whole operating system and lets any app have full access to the phone. Supposed you download an untrustworthy app, you can open yourselves to all kinds of exploits, which might damage your device or slow down its running speed tremendously. More worse is that it might steal your personal information and lead to your privacy leakage with unnecessary trouble. Conclusion: No matter the purpose of watching this article is for more information before purchasing iPhone 6 Plus or jailbreaking iPhone 6 Plus, it would be better to postphone making decision before you think it twice. As after judging and weighing the advantages and disdavantages of iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone jailbreaking, you finally know what you desire most and if you can accept its imperfect sides.

up to 24 h (3G), stand-by to unbelievable 384 h (3G) and for music playback up to 80 hours. With this excellent iPhone 6 +, you can watch YouTube videos, communicate with your friends or listen to the hit single without worrying power duration issue. Hot Search: iOS 9 iPhone 6s/Plus/7 Battery Life saving tips *More high-tech and impressive camera for photo buffs. The last but not least iPhone 6 Plus advantage I need to mention goes to the nascent high technologies iPhone 6 Plus brings and its improved 8MP camera. The high-tech iPhone 6 plus is infused including a barometer as a Health iSO 8 app, Family Sharing, iCloud Drive, and a faster LTE download, etc. In addition, Apple offers iPhone 6 Plus with an enhanced 8MP camera with 3264 x 2448 pixels, optical image stabilization, phase detection autofocus, and dual-LED (dual tone) flash. Moreover, the iSight camera has a new sensor with Focus Pixels and new video features, like 1080p HD at 60 fps, slo-mo at 240 fps, and time-lapse video mode. Therefore, you’ll have more reasons to capture more moments on video, as well. ow wonderful if the pictures shot with iPhone 6 Plus 8MP camera can be transferred into a photo slidshow? No worries! The all-round video converter for iPhone 6/6S/6S Plus can also seamlessly accomplish this for you to let you make a stunning photo slideshow video with self-selected music and special effects. iPhone 6’s camera is swoonsome, but iPhone 6S/Plus’ camera is even better with 4K video recording feature. Yet, the camera of iPhone 6S/Plus is far from perfect, for iPhone 6S/Plus camera not working issue is constantly reported. Currently, Apple is sparing no efforts to fix this issue. Top iPhone 6 Plus Disadvantages: All things are imperfect, and so is iPhone 6 Plus. After getting the pros of iPhone 6 Plus, it’s high time to strip off its dazzling appearance and seep into its interior side to see what iPhone 6 Plus disadvantages are before you make some decision. No.1 iPhone 6 Plus Disadvantage-The Price is High! The previous iPhone 6 Plus purchase with a two-year contract is seemingly costefficient. Yet, the majority of consumers would still like to buy the contract-free iPhone 6 Plus. When visiting Amazon, you would find that iPhone 6 Plus should cost up to $1000 for 16GB and $1250 for 128GB, which are far more expensive than iPhone 5S in the last same period. Besides, Apple latest product Apple Watch sold at $349 also has fatal attraction to you, which works with iPhone to watch your health condition. And if both are your cup of tea, I bet that might go beyond your budget. No.2 Con of iPhone 6 Plus- Some Good Android Smartphones’ Features iPhone 6 Plus Lacks: Currently, the smart phone market is divided mainly by Apple and Android phones. They compete against each other

and also make progress together. iPhone 6 Plus is the typical instance. See, here are some features iPhone 6 Plus absorbing from Android, like the 5.5 inch screens, NFC, video chat, custom keyboards… etc. Besides, the iPhone 6 Plus lacks Android MicroSD support and the speed barely goes only up to Cat 4, with only 150Mbps speed compared to LG G3’s 300Mbps! iPhone 6 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy Note 4 No.3 Disadvantage of Apple iPhone 6-The Annoying iOS 8 Bugs As the successor of iOS 7, iOS 8 does bring the Apple users an excellent performance since there are plentiful advantages of iOS 8 it brings to your iPhone 6 Plus. You see the pros of iOS 8: continuity between Mac OS and iOS; QuickType and 3rd-party keyboards; new features in Mail & Messages and new spirit of openness for app developers. Though the iOS 8 advantages are numerous, the cons of iOS 8 has recently discovered, like great demand in a massive amount of space to install; noticeably slow down older models; third-party keyboards, Apple’s own native keyboard, iMessage glitches, multitasking gestures, frequent crashes of the Settings app, laggy notifications, and overall sluggishness. Considering so many problems iOS 8 has, Apple instantly launches the upgraded iOS 8.0.2 to resolve these issue. Whether iOS 8.0.2 have any real impact, it still needs some time to test. Click for more iOS 8 upgrade problems and solutions No.4 Apple iPhone 6 Plus Disadvantage-Non-removable Li-Po Battery At least one point Android smart phones even better than iPhone 6 Plus is that Android phones support the users to freely insert or draw out the battery to independently charging. To Apple iPhones, you can only charge the battery with the whole iPhone, which sometimes leads to great inconvenience to the users when they need iPhone to make urgent calls on the move while iPhone are fixed to supplement power. The common iPhone disadvantage also becomes an obvious con of iPhone 6 Plus. No.5 iPhone 6 Plus Con-Lack of Dust Proof and Water Resistant Display Compared with its strong opponent Samsung Galaxy S5, iPhone 6 Plus is instantly dominated when it comes to the dust proof and water resistant display. As a latecomer, iPhone 6 Plus are supposed to surprise us more with some groundbreaking changes, e.g., the display. But unfortunately, besides the bigger yet higher resolution retina, it seems no other innovation breakthrough even lack of dust and water resistant display. Dust proof and water resistant Samsung Galaxy S5 vs iPhone 6 Plus, which one do you favor? Attention: Recently, multiple users suffer from the iPhone 6 Plus camera issue, which is hard to explain in detail but is seemingly like the optical image

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Apple Fruit Nutrition Facts

elicious and crunchy, apple fruit is one of the most popular and favorite fruits among the health conscious, fitness lovers who firmly believe in the concept of “health is wealth.” This wonderful fruit is packed with rich phytonutrients that, in the true sense, indispensable for optimal health. Certain antioxidants in apple have several health promoting and disease prevention properties, and thereby, truly justifying the adage, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Scientific name: Malus domestica. Apples are obtained from medium-sized tree belonging to the Rosaceae family. The apple tree is thought to have originated in nutrient-rich mountain ranges of Kazakhstan. Today, it is being cultivated in many parts of the world including the US as an important commercial crop. Apple fruit features oval or pear shape. Its outer peel comes in different hues and colors depending upon the cultivar type. Internally, its crispy, juicy pulp is off-white to cream in color, and has a mix of mild sweet and tart flavor. Its seeds are bitter in taste, and therefore, inedible. Hundreds of varieties of apples that are meant to be used either as table fruits or dessert and cooking apples grown inside the US and worldwide. Cooking apples tend to be larger in size, crispier, and tarter than dessert types. Health benefits of apple · Delicious and crunchy apple fruit is notable for its impressive list of phtytonutrients, and anti-oxidants. Studies suggest that its components are essential for

optimal growth, development, and overall wellness. pples are low in calories; 100 g of fresh fruit slices provide just 50 calories. They, however, contain no saturated fats or cholesterol. Nonetheless, the fruit is rich in dietary fiber, which helps prevent absorption of dietary-LDL or bad cholesterol in the gut. The fiber also saves the colon mucous membrane from exposure to toxic substances by binding to cancer-causing chemicals inside the colon. · A p p l e s a r e r i c h i n antioxidant phyto-nutrients flavonoids and polyphenolics. The total measured anti-oxidant strength (ORAC value) of 100 g apple fruit is 5900 TE. Some of the important flavonoids in apples are quercetin, epicatechin, and procyanidin B2. Additionally,

they are also good in tartaric acid that gives tart flavor to them. Altogether, these compounds help the body protect from deleterious effects of free radicals. · Apple fruit contains good quantities of vitamin-C and beta-carotene. Vitamin C is a powerful natural antioxidant. Consumption of foods rich in vitamin C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful, pro-inflammatory free radicals from the body. · Further, apple fruit is a good source of B-complex vitamins such as riboflavin, thiamin, and pyridoxine (vitamin B-6). Together, these vitamins help as co-factors for enzymes in metabolism as well as in various synthetic functions inside the human body. · A p p l e s a l s o c a r r y a small amount of minerals like potassium, phosphorus, and calcium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure; thus, counters the bad influences of sodium. Selection and Storage resh apples can be readily available in the stores all around the season. Choose fresh, bright, firm textured apples with rich flavor. Avoid fruits with pressure marks over their surface as they indicate underlying mottled pulp. Fresh apples can be kept at room temperature for few days and stored inside the refrigerator for upto two to three weeks. Wash them in clean running cold water before use.

Preparation and Serving tips ash a p p l e s thoroughly in the running water to remove any surface dust, insecticide/fungicide sprays. Trim off its top end using a paring knife, and cut the fruit into two equal halves. Take out tiny, centrally placed, bitter seeds. Slice the fruit into desirable cubes or slices. Here are some serving tips: · Eat apple fruit “as it is” along with its peel in order to get maximum health-benefits. · S l i c e d a p p l e t u r n s brown (enzymatic brownish discoloration) on exposure to air due to conversion in iron form from ferrous oxide to ferric oxide. If you · have to serve them sliced, rinse slices in water added with few drops of fresh lemon. · Cloudy as well as clear apple juice is a healthy alternative drink with dinner. · Apple fruit is also used in the preparation of fruit jam, pie, and fruit salads. Safety profile Good yield demands close attention and supervision of apple fruit crop. According to the environmental-working group reports, apple fruit is one of the heavily pesticide-contaminated produce. The most common pesticides found on apple are organo-phosphorous and organo-chloride pesticides like Permethrin and DDT. Therefore, it is recommended to wash the fruit thoroughly before use. If possible, use organic certified apples. (Medical disclaimer).

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he uniqueness of the State of Osun came to

the fore once again recently, when the governor came up with some far-reaching decisions of his executive council; which no doubt will send signals to the whole world that indeed, there is in place a government unusual that other states have as reference point in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Many will wonder however that such and such steps were considered at such a time like this. Indeed, no one is left in doubt about the reality that the state is going through the most difficult period in her almost twenty five years of existence. It is noteworthy all the same that the governor and some of his close aides have come up with some explanations that are worth some consideration. It is no longer a secret that our State of Osun today earns the lowest disposable income among all the states of the federation. Some belt-tightening measures are therefore required to be put in place if Osun must survive as an autonomous unit. One effect that is likely to reflect immediately is the ability to downsize recurrent expenditure at the local government level. The reporting system being put in place now is capable of rejigging the operations of that level of government to revolutionize income generation that will not only make Osun more sustainable; it will put those saddled with the task of administration to be more inwardlooking, so as to be self-reliant as the tier of government nearest to the grassroots. Two weeks in succession, the governor, State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, made some landmark reforms that will remain reference points for a long time to come. Apart from the newness of the reforms, the fact that some of the reforms will be capable of assuaging some long-standing grievances is enough to be applauded. Like every change however, some believe that respite is still far-fetched in the political landscape of the state. It is however generally believed that some of the steps will stem financial recklessness that has constituted a serious cog in the wheel of progress in the state over a long period of time. The renaming of the erstwhile UNIOSUN campuses put paid to long-standing conjecture that the governor intended to cancel some of the campuses and merge some others. As it stands today, UNIOSUN is now known as Bola Ige University, Osogbo. Okuku campus of the university is now named after the immediate past governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola. The College of law in Ifetedo is named after late Justice Kayode Esho; the first Executive Governor of Osun, Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke has the Ejigbo campus named after him; Ipetu-Ijesa campus has been named after Hezekiah Oluwasanmi; while the college of humanity situated in Ikire is named after Eniola Atanda. This step no doubt has no much opposition from

By ade olugbotemi

Honours Well-deserved

the interest in rural habitation by building state of the art teachers’ quarters in the rural areas all over the state. Many civil servants till date attest to the fact that it was during Bisi Akande’s era that most of them have personal roofs upon their own heads; while the artisans also lent credence to Bisi Akande’s era as the time their daily wages increased remarkably. It is therefore a good step to have had a state-owned institution named after him. Considering the role played by late S.M. Afolabi in the establishment of the State Polytechnic, Iree, it is not out of place to have the institution named after him. Although, many have argued that the man in his lifetime did not represent the state well at the national level. The fact that he didn’t belong to the same party with Aregbesola pointed to certain reasons beyond our understanding before considering him for the honour. By and large, he played active roles in transforming Osun to a state that was then active in national politics. enator Adetunji Adeleke, the first Executive Governor of Osun State changed the political equation of the state. The notable role played by his father in Yoruba politics notwithstanding, Senator Adeleke took everyone by surprise, when he forced his much-touted superior to capitulate. He has since remained relevant in the political arrangement in the state. The fact that he has given hope to many in place of hopelessness and despondency makes him eminently qualified for the honour done him. We cannot wish away the positive roles played by Chief Lawrence Omole in the business world to project the image of the state in good light. Decades after his demise, he still remains a reference point till date. Late Kayode Eso remains an enigma in the grave. He made his impact felt beyond the shores of Africa, while alive as incorruptible Judge and peacemaker. The renaming of the law college would therefore not have been more appropriate. Adeyemi Oyedotun and Eniola Atanda may not be known to many; their silent contributions to human development also qualified them for the honours. In summary, the fact that some of these people are being honoured while still alive makes the exercise a unique one. We should not always wait until people die before we think of honouring them. Again, the governor has demonstrated a uniquely exemplary human trait by not thinking about himself. There is virtually nothing else to rename; leaving Ogbeni Aregbesola at the mercy of any future leader to also built a monument, which Aregbesola can be immortalized with. If this spirit can be exhibited by everyone, Nigeria will be a better place to inhabit.

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well meaning individuals from the state and beyond. On the roll of honours are also the former Minister of Internal Affairs, late S.M. Afolabi, a native of Iree in his lifetime, who has the State Polytechnic in Iree named after him; Chief Bisi Akande, Ila-Orangunborn governor of the state between 1999 and 2001 and also the first National Chairman of the ruling-All Progressives Congress, has his name attached with the State College of Technology, Esa-Oke; the State College of Education, Ilesa is now named after Lawrence Omole from Ilesa, while its counterpart in IlaOrangun is now known as Adeyemi Oyedotun College of Education. Another sweeping change was the redeployment of civil servants from Grade Level 15 and above to the core ministries, while managers on Grade level 14 have been appointed to head the local council areas and the local council development areas on temporary basis. The wage bill of all the redeployed officers from the local government may therefore

become the responsibility of the state government on the long run. Another additional advantage is the art of administration that the new helms people will be exposed to; being the first time they will operate at that highest level of governance. It is also hoped that the redeployment of officers to their new places of engagement will not cause any unhealthy rivalry with those already in place. ooking at the personalities considered schools’ rechristening, we will all agree that all these people have made their marks in fields of human endeavour. Chief Bisi Akande distinguished himself as a visionary leader that brought innovation into governance. He proved to be well scholarly rooted in the philosophy of the sage, Obafemi Awolowo (of blessed memory), who was adjudged one of the best administrators of African descent. Chief Akande conceptualized and built what is today considered as the best state secretariat in the whole country. He equally initiated

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