UNIMED Teaching Hospital takes off

By Kemi Olatunde | A Teaching Hospital for the training of medical students of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo has taken off, The Hope has gathered. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro disclosed this while speaking with The Hope in Akure. According to him, personnel needed for the teaching hospital had been interviewed and […]

Akeredolu lauds market women over tax payment, calls for more

By Kemi Olatunde | Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has commended the people of the state for their commitment to the prompt payment of taxes just as he also sues for more cooperation from them. He made the commendation during the budget presentation at the State House of Assembly complex, Akure last Monday. According […]

2019 budget ’ll improve economy – Expert

By Adekola Afolabi | Tremendous improvement in the economy, particularly in the area of infrastructure and job creation has been predicted for Ondo State in the 2019 fiscal year. Making the prediction yesterday in Akure, the Ondo state capital, is an economic expert and Resource Management consultant, Fessy Olabode, while analysing the 2019 budget proposal […]

Rededicate yourselves to work, Ondo workers urged

By Chris Chimezie | Workers in the employ of Ondo State Government have been charged to rededicate themselves for effective service delivery in 2019. The State  Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu stated this at the annual first work day prayer meeting with the public servants held at the Governor’s office in Akure. The Governor who described […]

Ondo 2019 budget

BEING THE SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF ONDO STATE, ARAKUNRIN OLUWAROTIMI ODUNAYO AKEREDOLU, SAN, ON PRESENTATION OF THE 2019 BUDGET TO THE STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ON MONDAY, 31ST DECEMBER, 2018.PROTOCOLS | May I seek your indulgence to express my profound gratitude to God Almighty for the unquantifiable grace, liberally extended to me, to […]

BRECAN donates equipment to FMC

By Maria Famakinwa | In order to make access to treatments easy for breast  cancer patients, the wife of Ondo State Governor and founder of Breast Cancer Association Of Nigeria (BRECAN),Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has presented breast cancer diagnosis equipment to  Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Owo.  Appreciating FMC management for its cooperation, Mrs Akeredolu said that […]

Predictions for 2019 and people’s reactions

By Maria Famakinwa | It has become an annual ritual for many Nigerian prophets of various denominations to release predictions for the new year. This might not be unconnected with the fact that they are highly revered as oracles of God who can see beyond the ordinary. The noticeable trend in the prophecy galore at […]

Intensifying campaign against plastic pollution

By Deji Abdulwahab | Environmentalists claim that million metric tonnes of plastic pollute the environment annually with little effort at making the world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, waterways, oceans and the environment. An environmentalist, Mr Richard Inyamkume, therefore, calls on the government and other stakeholders to intensify campaign […]

Dapo Filani hails Akeredolu over bitumen, seaport 

By Adekola Afolabi | The 2019 budget proposal presented to the Ondo State House of Assembly by the governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN),  would further take the state to an enviable level in all ramifications. A mathematician and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  in the state, Chief Dapo Filani, who disclosed this yesterday […]

Mrs Akeredolu donates to first baby of the year

By Maria Famakinwa | The wife of  Ondo State Governor, Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu -Akeredolu has donated cash and gifts to the first baby of the year in the State. The baby, who was delivered 12.05am at the Comprehensive Health Centre Arakale, Akure by Mrs Mary Oborhua weighed 3.4kg. Akeredolu while presenting cash donations and gift […]