How I made 4.91 CGPA – Elizade best graduating student Miss Ijeoma Ugwulebo, the best graduating student of Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin with 4.91 CGPA in this interview with BUKOLA OLAMONA, spoke about her background and how she was reluctant to attend Elizade University. Excerpts Your name? I am Miss Ijeoma Ugwulebo. What is your […]
UNIMED to receive global award By Sade Adewale | The University of Medical Sciences, (UNIMED), Ondo city, has been selected as one of the 13 awardees to receive equipment that will advance scientific research and teaching. A Molecular and Cellular Parasitologist and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the university, Prof. (Mrs.) Roseangela Nwuba, […]
Salute to the elephants By Bayo Fasunwon | The first interaction I had with an Elephant was in the English class, where at a tender age, one was told that E is for Elephant. Elephants are distinctive large animals, of the Elephantidae family. Their progenitors were Proboscides and unfortunately, the Elephantidae family is the only […]
Court remands man who set family ablaze By Bamidele Kolawole | The premises of the Akure Magistrates’ Courts, on Friday turned to a mini Mecca, when men of the Ondo State Police Command arraigned the 45-year-old jilted lover, who set a family ablaze, killing eight members in Igbodigo, Okitipupa Local Government area of the state. […]
Minimum wage: FG urged to curb inflation By Fatima Muraina | For workers to derive maximum value from the salary increment and curb inflation, the Federal Governnent has been urged to fix prices of goods and services . An analyst, Mr Lade Fasua gave this advice while speaking in an interview with The Hope in […]
Man, 61, docked over fraud By Sade Adewale, Ondo | A 61-year-old welder, Hassan Adekolapo, has been dragged before the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo town, for fraudulently obtaining the sum of N350,000 from one Ojo Akintunde under the pretence of selling a plot of land to him. The police brought Adekolapo before the court […]
‘I defraud people with their bank accounts’ By Tola Gbadamosi | Damilola Arowolo, a specialist in defrauding shop owners through the use of Point on Sale (POS) in Akure, has confessed that he only needed peoples’ account names to carry out his operation. The 26-year-old suspect, who claimed he is a graduate of the Federal […]
Revisiting Nigeria’s Oil Policy NIGERIA has no doubt earned a fortune from petroleum, enough to transform the economy completely and deliver the good life to her citizens. Ironically, poverty, misery, hunger, looting, insecurity to lives and property continue to grow in proportion. Poverty has grown so wild that it has seemingly consumed a whole class, […]
‘Seek redress if over taxed’ By Fatima Muraina | Tax payers have been told to seek redress if they discovered that they were wrongly over taxed or overdeducted in the tax process of payment. They were also urged to apply for a refund where they were not satisfied on any tax paid. These were part […]
NPFL: Sunshine Stars pip Wikki Tourists 2-1 -Commissioner commends team By Femi Atolagbe | It was a moment of jubilation laced with victorious song at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure yesterday as Sunshine Stars FC pipped Wikki Tourists 2-1 in the week 17 of the Nigeria Professional League (NPFL). Franklin Sasere gave the […]
