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The linguistics and communication student association of UNIOSUN held her Royal dinner yesterday which was a successful one. And of cause, the royal awards were given out. Below are the names of the winners for LINCSSA royal awards: 1- MOST ENDOWED- LOMOWU OLUWASEUN 2- MOST POPULAR MALE- ADEMOLA VICTOR 3- SOCIAL MEDIA PERSONALITY(MALE)- OLAYINKA OLUWAFEMI 4- STUDENT PR OF THE YEAR- ABOLADE AKINOLA A 5-BEST PALS OF THE YEAR- VALENTINA & SEWA 6- FRESHER OF THE YEAR- KOLAPO WAHEEDAH 7- SPORTMAN OF THE YEAR- OLATUNJI YUSUF 8- SPORTWOMAN OF THE YEAR- HASSAN AZEEZAT 9- DISTINGUISHED PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR- OLUDAYO ANTHONY 10- MOST ELOQUENT- OJO IYABO RUTH 11- MOST INFLUENTIAL- SULEIMAN FAROUQ DAYO 12- STUDENT OF THE YEAR- LEKAN BELLO 13- MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT OF THE YEAR- OJO GIFT 14- BRAIN OF THE YEAR- ABIOYE RUTH 15- LECTURER OF THE YEAR- DR ADEROGBA ADEYEMI 16- MOST ACTIVE EXECUTIVE- ADENIJI ADEYINKA A. 17- MOST DEDICATED EXECUTIVE- ABOLADE AKINOLA 18- MOST COMPE...

Prior to the heavy downpour that happened yesterday, the bridge linking Iwo, in Osun State and Oyo, in Oyo State was washed away. The bridge broke down at the Idi-Iroko which has currently turned the journey of about 45 kilometres to almost 80 kilometres as motorists now go through Agoro, Lannite and kieseni road. Honourable Akintayo Gafar Amere , the Honourable Representing Iwo Federal Constituency at the National Assembly Abuja as at yesterday visited the place to commiserate with the people. While the honourable was addressing the people, he assured them that, he would bring the attention of the relevant government agencies to the plight of the people plying the road which he described as Federal Road. Meanwhile, some daring people living around the villages now have to carry their various motorcycle to cross the water and they said that it would not be easy to travel almost thirty kilometres to get to their destinations instead of just crossing the bridge. Among so...

An America website earlier reported the death of popular American gospel musician, Don Moen. Whereas, the singer as however on Wednesday, in a simple twit on his twitter handle dispelled the speculation, claiming that he is alive. In the said tweet, the singer had uploaded a family photo of himself, his father, his own son and two of his grandchildren reportedly taken today. Meanwhile, the whole world was thrown into shock when the America platform. reported that the gospel singer cum evangelist died after a short battle with stomach pain. According to the site, they reported that; “An American singer-songwriter, pastor, evangelist, Don Moen has died after a short battle with stomach pain. “His family confirmed that he died early this morning at General Acute Care (GAC) Hospital in California shortly after being rushed to the hospital. “The cause of his death is not immediately known as the body is deposited at the morgue for autopsy. “Pr...

The Linguistics and communication student association of the Osun state university, Ikire campus (LINCSSA)  started their week today with face painting and it was a hit back to back. They rock it wella More photos from the event Watch out for more photos!

On Sunday, 9th July, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Mr Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the Osun West Senatorial bye- election. The winner happens to be the younger brother of the late Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, who died earlier this year. Reports from The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shows that, the election was held in 10 local government areas making up the district. Mr. Ademola Adeleke had 97, 480 votes to defeat a former senator, Mudashiru Hussein of the APC, who had 66, 116 votes. The result was announced in Iwo, the Osun West Senatorial headquarters, where Mr Baritor Kpagih, INEC Residential Electoral Commissioner for the bye-election, said Adeleke won nine out of the 10 local government areas where the election was held. This therefore  returned Adeleke as senator to complete the tenure of his late brother who died on April 23. Below is the breakdown of the election result: Iwo Local Government: APC-12,205 PDP-12,5...

The Redeemed Christian Church's pastor, Pastor Enoch Adeboye who spoke at the church's monthly Holy Ghost Service at the new Arena, reportedly laid a curse on Kidnappers and dreaded cult group, badoo, as well as other criminals killing innocent Nigerians. According to the great man of God: “My Father, send down your fire on all every society or cult groups shedding blood of innocent Nigerians. “Send down Your fire upon every person or organisation that are making life difficult for the common people of the nation. Father expose them and dislodge them” Furthermore, the church’s general overseer, allegedly  asked members of his church to pray for God to root out every kidnapper and criminal activities in Nigeria. Including that, Pastors who preach heresy and distort God’s word will be exposed by God. According to him: “The reasons pastors are categorized like this is because that is the area they focus on, but atimes they...

Prior to the arrest and detention of Chukwuduneme Onwuamadike a.k.a. Evans, Nigeria’s well known billionaire kidnapper, news on his case seems to start dying down which resulted in people's speculations that he’s escaped or probably dead. Report from Saturday Sun shows that, Evans is not dead as his family now fears but has been moved from the Lagos police command headquarters cell by about 30 heavily armed men at midnight few days ago to an undisclosed destination. It was further gathered from some senior police officers that he has been moved to Abuja. Meanwhile, since the last few days, there has been some silence on Evans case, where people tend to ask questions about his whereabout. Where is Evans? But on the part of the police, its a question they are not prepared to officially answer right now. Reporters who were able to visit the state police command was told was that Evans is no longer allowed to talk to the press till further notice, which left most...

Earlier today, It was reported that ex- Acting VC of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba was arraigned by the EFCC in a court in Osun State, Ede. The SilverVoice further gathered that, the management held up academic activities today, 7th of July in respect to this development. Meanwhile, some of the students of this great institution expressed their minds and opinions to the arraignment of the former vice chancellor, Elujoba. While some support the management's act of holding up activities for the day, other see no reason why the management should take such action. According to a 300level student, he stated that; "Elujoba really try to balance our sick academic calander". Another student induce that, Prof. Elujoba is a good man. From his words, he said; "You know when you tend to do good, but you've haters around you. Thats just the case of professor Elujoba". On the contrary, representing the part of students who sees no ...

EFCC, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned Prof . Anthony Elujoba, a former Acting Vice- Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile Ife,  before an Osun State High Court in Ede for corruption. This followed the charges raised against him for the disbursement of over N1 billion to pay workers in the institution. Meanwhile, the case is still ongoing with workers of the institution chanting Elujoba ’s name right inside the court while his counsel was applying for his bail. However, the current vice chancellor of the university, Prof . Eyitope Ogunbodede, with the leaders of workers’ unions are in court in support of Elujoba , who they claimed restored peace and sanity to the university when the tenure of Prof . Bamitale Omole expired amidst protests by workers .

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose made it known that, the hurried trip the first lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari embarked on was a clear confirmation that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health is getting worse. According to him; “It is six days since I addressed the press and today, I still insist that the President is indeed on life-support.” Statement from the special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka declared that, the governor, who addressed some journalists in Lagos on Monday, 3rd of June, insisted that, “The worsen condition of the President’s health necessitated the hurried trip of our First Lady, Her Excellency Aisha Buhari to London and it is hoped that she will have the courage to tell Nigerians the truth this time around.” He furthered by adding that, “no one is interested in President Buhari’s death. Rather, we are interested in freeing Nigeria from the hands of the...

His excellency, president Mohammadu Buhari has been receiving medical treatment in London since May 7. His wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has however on Sunday, 2nd July again left Nigeria for London for a visitation to her husband. Report shows that, she will stopover in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, before continuing her journey to London on Tuesday. This trip will be the second one Mrs. Buhari would be embarking on to see her ailing husband since he embarked on his second medical vacation of the year close to 60 days ago. A statement by the Director of Information to the Wife of the President, on Sunday reads; “Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, left for London, the United Kingdom, on Sunday, July 2, 2017, to visit her husband who is on medical vacation. “She will convey to the President the best wishes of Nigerians and their fervent prayers for his quick recovery. “She is expected to have a stopover at Addis Ababa, to make a symbolic a...

Dr. Doyin Okupe, the former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to Nigeria Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with the claim that, the party has no future in Nigeria. He  announced this through his Facebook page, according to him: Doyin Okupe “It is time to say GOODBYE TO PDP. ?It is with deep regret that I publicly announce my resignation from the People’s Democratic Party. It has to be public because the PDP no longer exists in my ward as a single unified party; it was when I joined it. My resignation is based on periods of long introspection and some of the following reasons: “It is no longer news that the PDP has been embroiled in a fratricidal internal crisis brought upon it by itself. “Its current direction is difficult to discern and am convinced that even when the much expected judgement from the Supreme Court is given, the future of the party is not likely to be significantly af...

The Former Nigeria Permanent Representative to United Nation, Alhaji Maitama Sule has been declared dead. The Aide to the late politician, Sani Darma by name informed Vanguard in Kano this morning, 3rd July, that the former minister of Petroleum died in Cairo, Egypt last night. Alhaji Darma made it know to  Vanguard that the late politician took ill last weekend and was flown out to Egypt on Saturday. More details later!

Shortly after the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike sacked all the members of the State Executive Council. The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has directed the immediate dissolution of the Ekiti State Executive Council. According to reports from Dailypost, all former Commissioners have been ordered to hand over to the Permanent Secretaries of their respective ministries. Lere Olayinka, the special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, in a statement made it known that, Fayose thanked the former commissioners for their service to the State and wished them well in their future endeavours.

We formerly reported that, Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele is pregnant with twins following her husband's post on instagram. In regard to this, the actress's husband, JJC Skills who initially posted it on instagram has debunked rumours of his wife pregnant with twins. He made this known in a chat with Saturday Beats, saying that, he was only reacting to a prophecy. According to him, he said; “My post on Instagram about my wife having twins was a prophecy from Olowogbogboro. Nathaniel Bassey came online and he had the prophecy, so I just tapped into it. If you look at my tweet, you would see what I wrote, I said I heard this news where he gave a big testimony, he gathered people around to pray for my wife and he said that he had a vision that she would have twins and that he will be invited to the naming ceremony next year. I received the good news and I pray it comes to pass.” Meanwhile, several fans of both the husband and wife commend their faith at wo...