By Chris Chimezie & Mary Agidi | The Oloba of Oba-Akoko, Oba Nurudeen Adegoroye and the Olukun of Ikun-Akoko, Oba Michael Olokunboro have commended the Akeredolu-led administration for its quick response at reconstructing the culverts linking communities in the area and for rehabilitating the deplorable Owo-Ikare road. The monarchs gave the commendation during the state […]
By Olusola Alatise & Adekola Afolabi | A legal scholar and human rights campaigner, Dr. Tunji Abayomi has dubbed the Nigerian 1999 constitution as illegal. Abayomi made the appraisal in Akure during an interview with Editors of The Hope newspapers. The Constitutional lawyer, who gave this damning verdict traced insecurity, kidnapping and other challenges threatening […]
By Kemi Olatunde | Permanent Secretary, Ecological Fund Office, Dr. Habiba Lawal has said that the Federal Government federal government has approved 150 ecological projects in all the states of the federation as one of the ways of tackling environmental issues challenges. She revealed this during the 12th National Council on Environment (NCE) in Akure, […]
A teenager who died after being stabbed outside a tube station last Friday has been named as Malcolm Mide-Madariola, 17, from Peckham, south-east London, police said on Sunday. The student was attacked at about 4.30pm on Balham Hill outside Clapham South station, London, and died in hospital. The death followed that of Jay Hughes, 15, […]
By Bayo Fasunwon | Nigerians gather together today in different places and different to ask questions, which if well answered would ‘guide our leaders right, and help our youths the truth to know”. Questions arise from the Presidential candidates, which parties have forced on the people. The most prominent of which are elder statesmen whose […]
By Ayodele Fagbohun | It is curious to know that a section of Afenifere, an otherwise vibrant socio-political and cultural group founded by some progressive politicians, led by an elderstatemen, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and its spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin have unilaterally constituted the group the chiefest and unofficial month-piece of the opposition party, the People’s Democratic […]
By Bisi Olominu | The people of Iyange/Okeogba in Akure South Local Government area of Ondo State had been traumatised for long in the hands of successive administrations. In pains they cried to government, yearned for development, but their agitations had not been answered. The 700,000 inhabitants of the community had lived in pain and […]
By Kehinde Adejumo | Osi, an ancient town situated along Igoba- Isinigbo road in Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State is about 18 kilometers away from Akure, the State capital. It has been in existence for over 600 years. It is an agrarian community, where they produce cocoa, kolanut and other food crops […]
By Sade Adewale | Parents have been advised not to force career on their children but to rather guide them in their choice of career. Speaking in an interview with The Hope, the Director of Royal Jewel International School, Akure, Mrs Christiana Adewale said that career choice determines what a child will become in future. […]
By Kehinde Adejumo | Victims of herdsmen attacks in Isua Akoko, of Akoko South East local government area of Ondo state have narrated their recent ugly experiences in the hands of their detractors. One of the victims, one Mrs Elizabeth Adagunodo in a chat with Community Hope lamented how her farm was plundered by the […]
