FJ Academy winners of 12 team league

By Femi Atolagbe | Twenty four points was all Florence Joshua Academy needed to emerged winners of the “2020” 12 team league. The competition was held at the Ijapo/Housing field. The six months old Academy lifted the trophy after defeated Signature FC 2-1 in their last match of the competition. The Ijapo based Academy had […]

NNL: Osun United begins training today

Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Osun United players and technical crew will today resume training to continue with the preparation for the upcoming Nigeria National League (NNL). The league is scheduled to start January 16, 2020. It will be recalled that the team was granted a week break in order to celebrate the Yuletide season with […]

OSSC GM commends Academy’s proprietor

By Femi Atolagbe | The General Manager Ondo State Sports Council (OSSC), Mr Henry Omoyele Babatunde has urged Sports enthusiasts in the state to take a cue from the proprietor of the Snippers Football Academy Sports in developing the game of football from the scratch. He stated this during the launching and unveiling of the […]

Akure Shoprite staff commits suicide over suspension

By Tola Gbadamosi | A 23-year-old Jumoke Kehinde, Shoprite staff in Akure was on new year eve found dead in her apartment at Kajola area along Oda-road, Akure, after allegedly taking substance suspected to be snipper. The Hope Metro in a chat with one of the organisation’s managers who gave his name as Mr Taiwo, […]

Akeredolu, Owo community, friends mourn Tosin Ogunbodede

By Adekola Afolabi & Jimoh Ahmed | Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Owo Community and friends of the Chief of Protocol, (COP), Tosin Ogunbodede are still reeling in shock over his death. At 4.20 pm yesterday when his lifeless body was deposited at the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, the town was […]

Foundation empowers persons with disabilities

By Sade Adewale | Over 1000 People Living with Disabilities have benefited from the gesture of Aserere Empowerment Programme The beneficiaries drawn from the three Senatorial Districts gathered at Success hall Lisaluwa, Ondo to grace the 6th edition of the annual event of the foundation The foundation in the past five years has met the […]

Ondo police to curb cultists rampage – CP

By Tola Gbadamosi | In what appeared to be a reprisal attack by cultists in the recent bloody clash, an unidentified corpse was recently discovered around Araromi Area of Akure, the Ondo State capital suspected to have been killed by cultists. Investigation by The Hope revealed that a syndicate who was commissioned to retaliate the […]

Amotekun arrests 120 criminals in 15 operations in Ondo

By Tola Gbadamosi | The Commander of the Ondo state security Network Agency (Amotekun Corps), Chief Adetunji Adeleye has disclosed that the agency’s Operation Clean Up arrested 120 criminals during 15 robbery incidences in the last one month. Adeleye made this disclosure in an interview at the Corps headquarters in Alagbaka. He said “since we […]

Osun gets new Commissioner of Police

Fisayo Akinduro, , Osogbo | A new Commissioner of Police, CP Olokode Olawale (psc), has been deployed to Osun State Command and has assumed office following the recent promotion and redeployment of CP Udie J. Adie (psc+), now AIGP The Commissioner of Police, a holder of M.sc in Peace & Conflict Resolutions Studies from National […]

Support Akeredolu for more devt in 2021 –Ondo APC

By Josephine Oguntoyinbo | The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has assured that it will continue to remain a pragmatic participant in the development of the State and its people. The party, in a message issued by its Director, Media and Publicity, Steve Otaloro, urged people of the state to continue to support […]