Community Jubilates After Restoration Of Electricity After 91 Years And Other Top News In Osun Today
Developments in Osun Sate on Monday permeated community and governance related issues. Our reporter, Kazeem Badmus reports that the following items shaped the discourse today on both local, mainstream and social media.
1: Osun Community Gets Power Supply After 91 Years In Darkness
Residents of Araromi-Okeodo, a community in Ife-South Local Government Area of Osun State, were engulfed in wild jubilation following supply of electricity to the town for the first time, after 91 years in total darkness.
The residents trooped out en mass in jubilation at the weekend, with many of them describing the development as ‘miracle of the century’.
The monarch of the town, Oba Abbas Akanbi, the Alara of Araromi-Okeodo, led his chiefs and subjects to the off-grid location of the 50-kilowatt energy firm responsible for the supply of power during its inauguration.
Oba Akanbi while speaking with newsmen said he did not believe that power supply would be possible in his lifetime.
2: Osun Lawmaker Enrolls 72 Out Of School Children On Scholarship
In his bid to reduce the tide of Out Of School Children in Osun State, the lawmaker representing Obokun Constituency at the state House of Assembly, Hon. Adewumi Adeyemi, has enrolled 72 children in school on scholarship.
Adeyemi, popularly known as Irekandu, expressed his worries on the growing number of Out Of School Children in the state, canvassing that every well to do individual must rise up to address the challenge.
The lawmaker provided school uniforms, writing materials and learning aids such as backpacks, textbooks, exercise books, cash among others to the 72 primary and secondary kids on Monday.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that 21 of the beneficiaries of the scholarship have not attended any school while 51 others were on the verge of being withdrawn from school by their parents when they could no longer fund thier education.
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