Lockdown: Oyetola signs Osun Emergency Prevention Regulations …..violators risk six-month imprisonment

The State of Osun Governor , Adegboyega Oyetola, in a bid to enforce the lockdown order with a view to preventing the spread of Coronavirus in the state, on Thursday, signed Diseases (Emergency Prevention) Regulations 2020. Oyetola noted that he made the order in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and other relevant provisions of the State of Osun Public Health Law. The law is aimed at preventing and containing the spread of Covid- 19 anywhere within…

How Oole Oba Festival Promotes Unity, Culture, Territorial Defence By Sunday Adepoju

300 years after it started during the reign of the first Soun, the people of Ogbomoso have continued to celebrate the Oole Oba festival under the Ajagbon tree at the back of the Soun’s palace. SUNDAY ADEPOJU who covered the 2020 edition of the festival reports that it was a forum to promote unity among the people and the five Ogbomoso royal families.   Eminent personalities, the five Soun royal families, well wishers and culture enthusiasts from Ogbomoso and the rest of the world on Friday, March 20 converged on…

COVID-19: What President Buhari has done, and is doing, by Presidency

In his broadcast to the nation on Sunday, March 29, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari declared that “in Nigeria’s fight against Covid-19, there is no such thing as an overreaction or under-reaction. It is all about the right reaction by the right agencies and trained experts.” Lest we forget, below is a chronicle of some of the reactions by the agencies and trained experts, under the leadership of President Buhari. All these are apart from the impressive job being done by some state governors. · January 28, 2020, (one month before…