With Sunmola Olowookere | The devil is an unfortunate being who gets blamed for any mishap that happens to men. The blame is usually heaped on his hapless head. The cause of the current brouhaha which ensued in our neighbourhood had also been laid at his doorstep. Our forefathers in the Yoruba race while praising […]
By Femi Atolagbe | The annual football competition for teams within Idanre Local Government Area has kicked-off to mark the 10th edition as rivalry will be rekindled for the next ten days in the ancient Odode-Idanre. The 2018 edition which kicked-off at the sports field of the Government Technical College Idanre was graced by dignitaries […]
By Femi Atolagbe | Sunshine Stars players and officials have ended their Christmas/New Year break to begin the final phase of preparations for the 2018/19 Nigeria Professional Football League season. This was contained in a release made available to the newsmen in Akure the state capital by the team media officer , Chris Okunnuwa . […]
The Hope Newspaper Correspondent in the Ondo State House of Assembly, Adekola Afolabi, yesterday received the most productive staff award of Owena Press Limited. Afolabi was presented with cash award by the Chairman/Editor-in-Chief of the company, Sir Ademola Adetula, during the 2019 first prayer and general meeting, held within the premises of the company. Adetula […]
By Mary Agidi | As the Ondo State Head of Service, (HoS), Mr. Toyin Akinkuotu prepares for his retirement in few months, he has enjoined civil servants to perform the task before them with clear conscience. Akinkuotu, who noted that throughout his years in the civil service, he has been principled and never allowed the […]
By Chris Chimezie | The Ondo State 2019 budget has been described as that which would, among other things, accelerate the completion of various ongoing projects and contribute greatly to the development of the Sunshine State. Chairman of the Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Hon Gbenga Edema made the disclosure while speaking […]
By Kemi Olatunde | Permanent Secretary, Ondo State Hospitals’ Management Board, Dr. Niran Ikuomola has expressed the board’s readiness to make the state health system ‘patient friendly’, so as to improve the people’s trust in the sector. He disclosed this while speaking with The Hope shortly after the 2019 first prayer meeting of the board […]
From Jimoh Ahmed, Ikare Akoko | The long hands of nemesis have caught up with a suspected ritualist, who allegedly attempted to abduct a seven-year-old girl in Ikare Akoko. The Hope Metro gathered that the suspect, who reportedly feigned lunacy was arrested in Oja Oba area of Ikare-Akoko on the New Year eve while trying […]
From Jimoh Ahmed, Ikare Akoko | Two persons have reportedly lost their lives in a motor accident which occurred on New Year Day, in Ajowa, Akoko Northwest Local Government Area of Ondo State. The Hope Metro gathered that the carnage which involved a J5-bus heading to the northern part of the country loaded kolanut and […]
By Samuel Alonge | The police in Lagos have arraigned a 29-year-old woman, Mrs. Bisola Akintayo before a Lagos Magistrates’ Court for allegedly duping a popular cleric, Pastor Lai Bamidele, of about half a million naira, supposedly the cost under the pretense of acquiring a plot of land for him at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos. Akintayo, […]
