A total of 252 communities in Osun state have benefited from ‎the state government micro projects through its Agency for community and social development project (OSUN CSDP).
 

 
 
This is in a bid to ‎improve access of the poor to social and natural resources management as well as infrastructural services for human development in a sustainable manner.
 
‎The General manager Osun CSDP, Mrs Funmi Abokede who stated this while speaking at a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital, also that  disclosed 311  micro projects  have so far been completed across all the local government areas of the state.
 
“311 gender sensitive and socially inclusive multi sectoral Micro Projects (MPs) have been completed andv are functional in 252 communities. Emphasis is on results-based outcome performance. With the completion of these functional Micro-Projects, we have been able to synchronize with the good intentions and objectives of our state government through its six Point Integral Action Plan.”
 
“There is high acceptability of Community Driven Development (CDD) in the state of Osun, hence the demand for project intervention by communities across the LGAs of the state. These 252 communities were empowered to plan, part-finance, implement, monitor and maintain sustainable and socially inclusive multi-sectoral micro-projects.”
 
While explaining that the CSDP is co-funded by the World Bank and the state government, Mrs. Abokede stressed that Osun government has contributed a total of 650million between the year 2009-2015 as its counterpart funding, while the world Bank has provided about 5million dollars loan between the year 2009-2014, noting that another 4million dollars loan for 2015-2018 is currently being processed.
 
She lauded Governor Aregbesola’s doggedness and un-relented efforts at developing communities and making life bearable for the grassroot dwellers, especially in the face of dwindling revenue.
 
‎”CSDP is being funded through a concessionary no-interest loan from the World Bank as well as the annual contribution of the government of the state of Osun. Let it be on record that the Osun Government has been contributing regularly its counterpart funding since inception of this project.
 
She ‎pointed out that the next phase of the project would focus on women and physically challenged people in the state.
 
“In our next phase of project, we will focus attention on gender and people living with disabilities, because they are more vulnerable than the rest of us. And I will like o appeal to our men to stop exploiting women, especially the physically challenged”
 
Earlier in his address, the chairman, Osun CSDP, Alhaji Abdul-Rahaman Musa noted that the state government is committed to reducing poverty to the barest minimum through its Agency for community and social development project.
 
Alhaji Musa while commending the governor for consistently pursuing he project development objective of increasing access of poor people to social and natural resources infrastructures, by ensuring regular payment of annual government contributions.
 
“Osun State Government has through its Agency fpr community and social development project has a very clear priority in its agenda that is, reducing poverty to the barest minimum. This is a commitment of partnership strengthening that goes hand-in-hand with improving peoples’ lives.”

Governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola has charged religious leaders on the need to find a lasting solution to the menace of terrorism and criminality that are ravaging the world.
 

 
 
Ogbeni Aregbesola, who was represented by Amir hajj in the state,  Barrister Zikrullahi Hassan at a symposium organised by the Secretary-General, Muslim World League in collaboration with the state Government of Osun,  said it is imperative on the religious leaders to call their followers to order and urge them to allow religion tolerance.
In their separate lectures, Sheik Abdul-Rosheed Adiatullah who delivered his lecture in Arabic and Prof Abdul -Ganiyy Oladosu said terrorism and criminality are two phases of coin.  They agreed that poverty, absolute ignorance, misinformation, injustice, fanaticism among others are the causes of terrorism and criminality in
the world.
The duo therefore recommended that parents should take proper care of their children and equip them with moral, spiritual and social values.
Also speaking,  Prof Abdul Afeez Oladosu,  Sheik Zakariyyah Sanusi and Prof K.K Olosho  concluded that terrorism is beyond religion but rather it is economical in nature.  They however advised world Muslim leaders to come together as one to tackle the menace.
Royal blessings was said by Olufon of Ifon Orolu Kingdom,Oba Al-Maroof Magbagbeola.
The programme was well attended by politicians, government top officials and Muslim clerics such as Senator Bayo Sallam, Immediate past Commissioner for Home Affairs, Tourism and Culture, Hon Sikiru Adetona Ayedun,  President General, League of Imams and Alfa, South West, Edo and Delta States, Imam Jamiu Kewulere, Aare Musulumi of Yoruba land, Alhaji Daud Makanjuola, Chief Imam of Osogbo land, Alhaji Musa Animasahun among others.

The entrance examination into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) for 68th Regular Course is scheduled to hold at designated centres nationwide on Saturday, 23rd April, 2016.
 
 

 
 
A statement from the office of the Secretary to the State Government of Osun explained that only candidates who made the National JAMB cut-off mark will be eligible to sit for the examination.
According to the release, the designated centres for the examination within the South Western state are: Command Children’s School  and Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos as well as Navy Secondary, Ojo Town, Lagos.
The examination is also scheduled to take place at Army Comprehensive High School, Akure and Command Day Secondary School, Odogbon, Ibadan.
Among other things, the statement instruct candidates to come along with their writing materials, HB pencils and eraser, warning that any candidate caught with a mobile phone will be automatically disqualified.
The release further advised the candidates to return to NDA portals and log in with their e-mail address and password to download their Examination Admission Card.

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has set up a nine-man committee headed by the acting Vice-Chancellor of Bola Ige University, Prof. Jelil Oguntola, to find solutions to the state’s public schools’ poor showing in national examinations.
 

 
 
Aregbesola, in a statement by his spokesman, Semiu Okanlawon, on Sunday, said the committee would also verify   the implementation of the reforms initiated by his administration in the four state-owned tertiary institutions.
The state owns polytechnics at Iree and Esa Oke as well as colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila Orangun.
Aregbesola said, “It is the desire of the government to put a stop to secondary school pupils’ yearly poor performances in external examinations. Time is ripe for something to be done urgently to ensure that the performances of pupils reflect the heavy investment in education by the government.
“The realisation of the poor performance of our pupils over a decade compelled us to ask the tertiary institutions to offer remedial courses for more of our students to be ‘matriculable’.
“The committee is therefore to verify the progress on the implementation of all the reforms we have initiated in the four institutions in focus.”
The governor also directed the committee to carry out staff verification in the four institutions to be sure that the available resources to the schools were being judiciously used.
He also directed the committee, which has two weeks to complete its work, to review the institutions’ curriculums.
He added that his administration wanted to be sure that the institutions were properly set up for the kind of education the Nigerian society needed for growth.
Oguntola said the students, their parents and guardians should be encouraged to stop cheating in examinations.
He said, “This committee will do all in its capacity to make sure government policies and projects are better implemented.
“On the need to give vocational training, we will ensure that the institutions train people to be self-reliant in basic skills they need to function in the society. If this can’t be done, it means we have failed as institutions.”

Admission forms into the State College of Health Technology, Ilesha, 2016/2017 session is available for sale at the
rate of N7,500 only.
 

 
 
This is contained in a press release signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Akinyinka Oluseyi Esho.
The statement stressed that interested applicants must possess five O’ Level credits in relevant subjects not more than two sittings in WAEC or NECO.
Dr. Esho therefore urged applicants to obtain the Admission Forms either from the State Ministry of Health, Abere or College of Health Technology, Ilesha

Senator Isiaka Adeleke has described the creation of an additional Local Government for Edeland from the existing Ede-South Local Government Area as a welcome development, coming has it were, as an avenue for accelerated development of the units comprising the new Ede-East Local Government Area.
 

 
 
This was contained in a press release issued by his Media Adviser, Alhaj Olumide Lawal.
Adeleke, while thanking Aregbesola for this magnanimous show of love for Ede people, called the attention of the government to the need to give the present Ede-North Local Government Area, an additional full-fledged local government area, instead of an administrative area office, created for it presently.
Ede-North Local Government Area, Adeleke stated, has more than 125 polling units, “a situation that qualifies it to be so split into two.”
Adeleke also thanked the speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Najeem Salam for doing the needful, by immediately rectifying the anomalies that arose from the erroneous “ceeding” of some parts of Ede-North Local Government Area to Osogbo-South Local Government. The action of the speaker, was seen by Adeleke, as “that of a leader with listening ears, when Ede people robustly complained to him over the anomalies.”
The Senator said: “The issuance of a white paper by the government, within 24 hours to correct the stated anomalies has gone a long way to assuage the pains of Ede people over the matter.”
Senator Adeleke also thanked His Royal Majesty, The Timi of Edeland, Oba Munirudeen Adesola Lawal, Laminisa I, the Timi-in-council and indeed, the entire indigenes of Ede at home and in diaspora, for maintaining absolute peace, calm and restraint, at the face of extreme provocation, associated with the exercise as it concerned the alleged but already rectified issue of part of Ede-North Local Government Area being ceded to Osogbo-South Local Government Area.
He enjoined the good people of Edeland, to continue to be pace setters, as far as civility and absolute decorum are concerned in addressing issues that might agitate their minds from time to time.
The Asiwaju of Edeland, also thanked Aregbesola, for naming of Ejigbo Campus of Bola Ige University after him. This he said, is a great honour that he would cherish for the rest of his life.
He promised, to continue to do all within his power to give full support to the upliftment of Osun State and her people, by joining hands with all stakeholders to foster peace, love and unity amongst the various groups of people that constitute the state.

The Government of the State of Osun in collaboration with the Secretary General of the Muslim World League is today (Monday) afternoon organising a symposium with the theme:  “WORLD TERRORISM AND CRIMINALITIES: ISLAM VIEW POINT”.
 
 

 
Venue is Aurora Event Centre, OSOGBO.
This is contained in a press statement issued by the Secretary of the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare  Board, Mr Sukiru Alao.
The release also disclosed that Sheik Abdul Rosheed Adiatullah, the Deputy President , Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and Professor Abdul-Ganniy Oladosu of University of Ilorin will deliver lectures, among others.
The release enjoined the general public especially Muslim Umah to be in attendance and be seated by 2.00 0’clock in the afternoon.