Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola – remember him? I would not have needed to ask this sort of “foolish question”, as it were, but for the fact that, in this our obodo NIgeria, yesterday’s men of power and influence soon become today’s inconsequentials, hardly noticed or remembered by anyone anymore! Yesterday, they could make anyone an instant millionaire or billionaire or …

Former Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has been disowned by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the state council of the party Mr. Tajudeen Lawal made this known in a communiqué after yesterday’s stakeholders meeting at the state secretariat in Osogbo. The chairman said the former minister of interior had committed various anti-party activities, including …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has sued the former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola before a Federal High Court in Osogbo for allegedly causing a faction within the party. The APC, through its counsel Ayodele Kusamotu, Yemi Akingbade, R.I.O Oloyede and B.J Nwayen, asked the court to declare that the former minister of Interior cannot validly lead suspended …

The immediate past Minister of Interior and ex-Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has told his supporters that before the end of the year 2024, they would know where his interest in Osun politics lies. Aregbesola spoke in Ilesa, Osun State at an end-of-the-year thanksgiving organised by the Omoluabi Caucus, attended by many leaders of the group across the state. A …

As Osun State clocks 32 years on 27th August, a publishing outfit, The Erudio Alphabet Company, is set to release an epochal book on its evolution formally. Titled Courage and Character: The Definitive History of Osun State, the 460-page coffee table book recounts the history of the struggle of the people for their state till military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, …

The immediate past Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has attributed his achievements and success in politics to the roles President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari played in his life. At a civic reception organised in his honour by the concerned Muslim scholars and clerics in the South-West of Nigeria in Oyo town, Oyo State on Sunday, Aregbesola …

The Federal Government has declared Monday, 29th May 2023 as work-free for all workers in the country. According to the Federal Government, the decision is to allow Nigerians to commemorate the inauguration of the nation’s 16th democratically elected President. In a statement on Friday, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuiab Belgore said that the declaration was …

The Federal Government on Tuesday attributed investment and better staff welfare as stimulants for improved performance especially in the security sector. At the commissioning of the reconstructed Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) parade ground, staff quarters and office complex of retired civil defence officers in Abuja, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said the reconstructed parade ground …

The Federal Government yesterday asked state governors to establish their own correctional services and also build their custodial centres, saying that the law has empowered them to do so. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said that although the justice system clearly segments states and federal offenders, the Federal Government has been the only one in charge of custodial facilities …

The Federal Government has threatened to publish the names of companies that are yet to comply with the expatriate quota policy of the country in due time. Expatriate quota licences are usually issued to foreign, and in some cases, Nigerian firms, to enable them to bring in high-level-skilled manpower that is not readily available in the country. At the unveiling …