‘Ocean surge swallows 15 towns, submerges 75’

Chris Chimezie & Kemi Olatunde | No fewer than fifteen towns in the southern part of Ondo state have disappeared in the last 20 years while between 50 and 75 others have also been submerged due to ocean inundation. Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN), disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the 12th […]

NUC accreditation team visits UNIMED, assures fairness

By Chris Chimezie | Governor  Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has restated his administration’s readiness to strictly adhere to the standard rules and regulations of the National Universities Commission (NUC) towards ensuring that the state’s University of Medical Sciences becomes the best. The Governor stated this while playing host to the 7-man NUC Accreditation Committee members who were […]

Raising new generation of wealth, job creators through agriculture

By Ilemobola Michael | The taste of the pudding is in the eating. In the same way, a responsible leader can be measured by the number of people his policies and programmes are able to bail out from the pang of hunger and wants. Armed with the above axiom, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, of Ondo […]

Committee  on ‘Wonder Banks’ inaugurated

By Mary Agidi | As part of government’s efforts to protect the citizens of the state against financial scavengers, Popularly known as  Wonder Banks’ a five-man Inter-Ministerial Committee has been inaugurated to look into the genuineness of the activities of three organisations. These organisations claimed to be operating on behalf of World Bank through the […]

Liberal democracy and development in Nigeria: 4th Republic in perspective

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, delivered the lecture at the 2nd Distinguished Personality of the Department of Political Science and Diplomatic Studies, BOWEN University, Iwo, Osun State. PROTOCOL Let me express my profound gratitude to the Management of the Bowen University, especially the Faculty of Social Management Sciences and the Department of Political […]

Subsistence farming cannot sustain Nigeria-Don

Prof. Tunde Oluwalana is the  Head Of Department, Food Science  and Technology at the Federal University of Technology, Akure( FUTA). He spoke with LOLA OMOWAYE & BUKOLA OLAMONA on the need for government to be committed to agriculture, in order to boost food security, implement policies that will attract youths to agriculture,  and the need […]

Revisiting ethnicity and religion question

By Adewale Kupoluyi | One thing that is clear is that Nigeria is a country that is blessed with abundant human and material resources. However, despite the enormous potentials and endowments, the nation has been pulled down by myriads of problems. Issues of ethnicity and religion have remained big matters that continue to shape the […]

Bademosi: Ondo in shock as police launch man hunt for killer

By Evelyn Omotoye | Eminent indigenes of Ondo town are still in shock over the death of a prominent business man and socialite, Chief Ope Bademosi as the police  launched a man hunt for the fleeing Togolese. . The police said yesterday that it has declared the suspect identified by his first name Sunday who […]

Ondo dispenses 180 crimnal, 681 civil cases

By Sunmola Olowookere | Out of the 191 criminal cases filed before the Ondo State High Court, 180 have been dispensed while 681 civil cases were also determined out of 905 within the last legal year. The Chief Judge of Ondo state, Justice Olutoyin Akeredolu gave these figures during an interview with The Hope. She […]

Ekiti PDP shut office over alleged fraud

From Victor Akinkuolie,  Ado-Ekiti | Leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, on Thursday shut down the secretariat of the party  located along Ajilosun Street,  Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The operation which lasted for one hour was led by a member of the state caucus and former Secretary of the party […]