By Adekola Afolabi | Protests and condemnations have continued to trail the Presidency over its stand on the ultimatum handed down to herdsmen to quit the forest reserves of Ondo State. The protesters who trooped out in huge numbers yesterday expressed solidarity with the State governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on his marching orders to criminals […]
By Adekola Afolabi | Members of the Ondo State Executive Council led by the State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, were part of dignitaries who joined family members and associates at the evening of Songs, Tributes and Prayers in honour of the Chief of Protocol to the Governor, Mr Olutomisin Ogunbodede. In his exhortation titled “Life is […]
By Bukola Olamona & Mary Agidi | The popularity of President Muhammadu Buhari is tumbling rapidly over the Presidency’s stand on the Ondo State government’s quit order to herdsmen in the state’s forest reserves. Prominent leaders interviewed yesterday expressed shock over the support being shown to the criminal activities of Fulani herdsmen by the Presidency. […]
By Sade Adewale | For indigenes and residents of Ondo town, it was a taboo for anybody to disturb their loved ones who had died, buried and assumed to be resting. If events in the recent time are anything to go by, it called for concern as nemesis caught up with some cemetery attendants. There […]
By Michael Ofulue | A 40-year-old woman, simply identified as Rhoda Ogunbiyi, has been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen who invaded her house along Ore/Lagos road in Ondo State. The woman, reportedly came out of her house at about 10pm to switch off her generator, without knowing that some armed men had laid siege for […]
By Tola Gbadamosi | A new Assistant Inspector General (AIG) of Police, Isaac Akinmoyede, (fdc) in charge of Zone 17 has assumed duty in Ondo State. Akinmoyede promised the people of Ondo and Ekiti States that the police would improve its strategy to reduce crime and would go all out to look for those disrupting […]
Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Two persons have reportedly died while three others were injured in an accident involving a truck and a Toyota Hiace bus at Iwaraja junction on Ipetu-Ijesa highway. The accident was confirmed in a statement issued on Thursday by Mrs Kudirat Ibrahim, Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in […]
By Tola Gbadamosi & Michael Ofulue | A newly recruited Police Constable, Friday David , 27, attached to Odofin Police Station in Idanre, Idanre local government area of Ondo State, has been arrested for armed robbery. Arrested alongside David is a 24-year-old soldier, CPL Victor Innocent, presently serving with 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Cantonment, Akure. […]
By Runsewe Solomon | An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure on Thursday sentenced a former member of Promise Land Prophetic Ministry, in Akure, Pastor John Abiodun, to two years imprisonment for perjury and publishing life-threatening and inciting stories about one Emmanuel Jeminiyi Ajidahun. Abiodun alongside Prof. Lanre Olu-Adeyemi, were earlier brought before the […]
By Runsewe Solomon | The Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure has adjourned till February 25, for final Written Addresses by parties in the ongoing legal tussle filed by the People Democratic party (PDP), candidate, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, challenging the outcome of October 10 election. Chairman of the panel, Justice Abubakar […]
