By Kayode Olabanji. | Three men,Olusegun Dada 18, Wale Ayenimowa, 19, and Mutairu Ismaila 20, allegedly involved in snatching bags, are now cooling their feets at the Olokuta prison. An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Oke-Eda, on Friday ordered that the trio accused persons be remanded over two-count charges of assault and stealing. The […]
By Adekola Afolabi | The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been charged to conduct free, fair and credible elections to guarantee peace in the country. The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), for Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency in the next month polls, Prince Adebanjo Edema, who gave the charge, observed that the only panacea […]
By Jubril Bada | Nigerians must stop the blame game with a view to correcting the inadequacies in our socio-economic and political structure if the country is to witness remarkable turnaround. The Mufaseer of Akure, Sheikh Mashood Kewuyemi gave the advice while speaking at a special prayer session and public lecture for the peaceful conduct […]
By Sunmola Olowookere | A Consultant Pathologist, Dr. Olumuyiwa Pelemo has told an Akure High Court hearing the murder case of the daughter of former Ondo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, the gruelling details of the trauma the deacease, Khadijat Oluboyo experienced before her death. Trial has since commenced in the case, following the […]
By Jubril Bada, Adekola Afolabi and Victor Akinkuolie | The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised that 40 percent appointments in his cabinet would go to youths if elected in the coming polls . Abubakar, who made the promise during his campaign rally in Akure, equally pledged 30 […]
With Kemi Olatunde | Last Thursday, Ondo State Ministry of Health organized a one day non communicable diseases awareness outreach program in Akure where it gave people the opportunity to be tested for blood sugar level and blood pressure with a focus on diabetes and hypertension, hence the need to shed more light on hypertension. […]
By Jubril Bada | The Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo State is set to recruit 12,028 ad-hoc staff for the coming general elections. The categories of officers to be recruited for the polls include 203 ward collation officers, 301 supervisors and three senatorial district returning officers. Others are nine federal constituencies’ returning officers, one […]
By Bamidele Kolawole | My lord, my husband has been denying me sex. He has stopped coming to my room for the past eight months. He has refused having sex with me as his house wife.” This was the lamentation of a mother of three, Mrs Toyin Ogunlaja, before the Grade A Customary Court, sitting […]
By Michael Ofulue | The Ondo State Security and Civil Defence Corps has said its operatives recorded no fewer than 1,953 criminal and civil reported cases in the year under review. The state commandant of NSCDC ,Mr Pedro Awaili Ideba, who gave the figure told The Hope Metro that 27 of the cases were pipeline […]
Victor Akinkuolie, Ado Ekiti | The six-man robbery gang, who allegedly killed a member of the House of Assembly, Mr. Michael Adedeji , have been arrested by the police. Adedeji, a People’s Democratic Party(PDP) Lawmaker that representing Ekiti Southwest constituency II, was shot in the head by the robbers on August 10, 2018 along Onigaari, […]
