The State Government of Osun has reiterated the commitment of the present administration to the on-going massive reform in the Education Sector across the state.
 

Deputy Governor of the State who doubles as the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori stated this while lauding Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation on its financial book donation to the State.
The Deputy Governor who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Festus Olajide said that financial literacy books will go a long way in helping Primary and Secondary Schools in the State on financial savings development.
He added that the books titled: “The Money Tree and This little Piggy; Towards Financial Literacy” will no doubt prepare primary and secondary school students in the State to imbibe the culture of savings for financial prudence in future.
He stated further that, lack of savings to implement major economic activities both at individual and public service over the years is one of the reasons to the poor performance of Nigeria economy.
In a remark, the Managing Director, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, Mr. Alabi Olugbenga said the book will enable the school children in primary and secondary schools to get along with financial saving benefits from early in life.
Present at the presentation were the Ministry Directors, Deputy Directors and other Education Officers.

The State Government of Osun in collaboration with United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO, will hold a sensitization workshop on Food Safety, today Friday April 28, 2017.

 
According to the release from the Office of the Governor, State of Osun, the campaign on Food Safety is targeted to protect lives and living conditions of the people of the state in tandem with the Six-point Integral Action Plan of Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
Venue of the Food Safety awareness network is Fountain University, Eti-Osa Theatre Hall, Osogbo.
Time is 9.00am prompt.
The statement enjoins guests to be promptly seated

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki wants the family of the late former Governor of Osun state, Senator Isiaka Adeleke to accept his demise as the will of Almighty Allah, during a condolence visit to the family of the late senator, in Ede Monday evening, said Adeleke’s  sudden death was a great loss not to the state alone but to the country at large.

 
Received by the immediate brother of the deceased, Dr. Deji Adeleke, the Senate President who described Adeleke as a good and jovial man during his lifetime, said he would be greatly missed by all.
He said the way and manner the people were crying over his death was a pointer to the fact that Adeleke was a man loved by all.
While responding, Dr Adeleke said the family is still in pain over the sudden death of his brother, describing him as a perfect gentleman, who was loved by his entire family.
 

 
 

An aide to Governor Rauf Aregbesola who was attacked at the burial of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke on Monday, Hon Idiat Babalola, on Tuesday said her attackers picked on her simply over unfounded rumours that she wants to be Deputy Governor after the current tenure of the governor.
 

 
Babalola, who was attacked shortly after arriving the venue of the burial, said she sensed trouble when some of the hoodlums started to make utterances which suggested that her rumoured deputy governorship ambition was to checkmate the governorship ambition of the late Senator, who had openly declared his intention to succeed Governor Aregbesola.
Explaining further, Babalola, who served in the last cabinet as Special Adviser to the Governor on Federal Matters, said her attackers could not have been acting over anything against Governor Aregbesola but simply on the local politics of Ede, where she also hails from just as the late Senator Adeleke.
“I am a proud daughter of Ede and Uncle Isiaka has been a mentor and we never had any disagreement till the news of his death was broken to me while in Lagos on Sunday morning. I was heartbroken and immediately cut all my other engagements and came down to Ede from Lagos.
“We worked together with Uncle for the re-election of Governor Aregbesola in 2014 and for his own election to the Senate in 2015.
“Those who masterminded the attacks on me are people with poor understanding of the relationship between us and who act based on their own political permutations only,” Babalola said.
She explained that she was at the burial in company with her father, Chief SOB Babalola, a prominent industrialist who is also a friend to the later father of now late Senator Adeleke.
“Not long after we sat down for the prayers, I sensed some hoodlums saying some things like I wanting to be deputy governor while Uncle (Senator Adeleke) has declared his ambition to be governor from the same Ede. I heard them talking about the new caretaker committee members being more of my loyalists than those of Senator Adeleke. And before we knew it, they grew more daring and unruly and brought down the canopy on the dignitaries present. It was the most unruly and irresponsible act I have seen in our land in history,” Babalola said
She said it was unfortunate that the unruly behaviors of the miscreants robbed a prominent son of Ede, the state burial that he deserved and which state government planned for him.
“That cannot be the best way to honour the memory of Uncle Adeleke. Senator Adeleke was a man of his people; a lover of peace and a political associate of Governor Aregbesola. Senator Adeleke could not have countenanced such misconduct in his lifetime,” she added.
She said there is no reason for the people of Ede, in spite of their political differences, to have any misgiving against Aregbesola saying that the city has benefitted immensely under the Aregbesola administration. She said with Ede being a beneficiary of the some of the best schools, roads, industrialization, youth employment and others, the city owes the administration appreciation.
Babalola expressed appreciation to Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, whom she said dropped the honour of being a governor to practically engage the hoodlums not to carry out their more dastardly plots.

 The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola joined his counterparts in the Federation to celebrate this year’s World Malaria Day in Ejigbo Local Government yesterday (25th of April, 2017).
 

This was contained in a press release issued by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Akinyinka Oluseyi Esho.
Dr. Akinyinka Esho enjoined all nursing mothers and pregnant women to join the state Government in celebrating this year World Malaria Day.

The government of Osun has blamed political opportunists for the attack on one for its officials, Idiat Babalola, on Monday at the funeral rites of late Isiaka Adeleke in Ede.
 

 
The spokesperson for the government, Semiu Okanlawon said that the attack was an ugly way of honouring the memories of the personality of the late Mr. Adeleke, who was the first civilian governor of Osun State.
Ms. Babalola who was seated amongst some dignitaries, including the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, at Mr. Adeleke’s burial, was chased out by hoodlums, who accused her of betraying the late senator.
Mr. Adeleke was reported to be nursing a governorship ambition ahead of the election next year, while at the same time, Ms. Babalola was said to have been picked as a running mate to whoever emerges the anointed candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
The protesters major grouse against her, it was gathered, was that she was not supporting Mr. Adeleke’s ambition to return to the government house, despite being an indigene of Ede.
The mob also raised allegations that the government of Aregbesola had a hand in the death of the senator, even though the governor was away in China and there is no evidence yet that the lawmaker was killed.
“Some hoodlums looking for every available thing to hold on to only took advantage of the tension created by the death of Adeleke in the minds of his supporters,” Mr. Okanlawon said.
“What they should have done is to await the outcome of the autopsy, that would guide their actions.”

The result of an autopsy conducted by the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital has not been made public.
Mr. Okanlawon said the death of the senator was a collective loss to the people of Osun State and the Ede community.
He said those who took the laws into their hands to launch the attack against Ms. Babalola were hasty and acted based on unverified information.
It was, however, gathered that Ms. Babalola is also a native of Ede, where Mr. Adeleke hails from, and her family and that of the Adekele’s have close ties.
Her father, S.O. Babalola, was also at the funeral while she was being attacked by the irate supporters.
it was also learnt that the government team, led by the deputy governor, was on its way to the burial but had to turn back on learning about the attack.
Mr. Okanlawon, however, declined comments when asked if the government would take any action against those involved in the attack.

The First Executive Governor of the State of Osun, and acting Senator Isiaka Adeleke who died yesterday has been laid to rest in his country home, Ede, Osun state.

 
Although according to Muslim rites he should have been buried yesterday but his body was sent to the LAUTECH teaching hospital for an autopsy.
A NAN correspondent, who was at the residence of the deceased on Monday, said the grave where he would be buried had been prepared.
The first civilian governor of Osun is to be buried near his living room within the premises.
The agency said there was a heavy presence of security personnel at the residence of the deceased.
Fimihan Adeoye, the state commissioner of police, was also at the residence to ensure adequate security.