Insecurity: Miyetti Allah, Govs agree to fight criminals

By Adekola Afolabi | The national leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has finally thrown its weight behind the order of the Ondo state Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu directing all unregistered herders to vacate the state’s forest reserves. At a peace meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum with the leadership of […]

COVID-19: Don, student donate nose masks, sanitisers to varsity

Kayode Olabanji, Okitipupa | No fewer than 750 plastic face shields were donated by a Don, Dr Vincent Akpoveta to Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH), Okitipupa, Ondo State. Dr. Vincent Akpoveta, Department of Chemical Sciences, at the institution, said the gesture was part of his widow’s mite towards preventing the global pandemic […]

Maize price to crash Feb

By Fatima Muraina | Ondo State maize farmers have began to harvest proceeds of maize produced from the Anchor Borrowers programme(ABP) of the CBN to meet the crash in the price of the grains as predicted by the maize farmers in Nigeria. The Ondo State Chairman of Maize Association of Nigeria (MAN) , Mr Kayode […]

Don’t start planting , farmers cautioned

By Fatima Muraina | The Project Manager of the Agro Climatology Department of the Ondo State Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Sunday Akintomide has advised that the rain experienced this year is not enough for farmers to embark on planting. Akintomide who spoke in an interview with The Hope yesterday in Akure ” You cannot plant, […]

Enact law on herdsmen quit order, OSACA charges ODHA

By Fatima Muraina | Ondo state House of Assembly has been charged to promulgate a law backing Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s quit order on unregistered Fulani herdsmen from the state Forest Reserves. The State Chairman of the Agricultural Commodities Association (OSACA), Mr Gbenga Obaweya made the call in an interview with The Hope yesterday in Akure. […]

ODSG to host farmers’ Field Day

Ondo State Government in conjunction with the National Centre For Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM), Ilorin have concluded plans to organize a FARMERS FIELD DAY on Agric Mechanization in Akure. This was contained on a press statement released by the press officer to the Ministry of Agriculture which was made available to The Hope yesterday in Akure. […]

‘Why we confined our daughter for 5 years’

Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Challenges are inevitable in life, irrespective of one’s age, religion, belief or accomplishments. For Prophet Samson Olatoke, the founder of Ileri Ayo Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ikirun, arrested by the Osun State Police Command for confining his 20-year-old daughter in an unkept house alone due to her physical challenge, he said […]

Akeredolu’s order in the interest of all including the Fulanis

By Ojo Oyewamide | He is simply known as Alhaji Ilyasu. Ilyasu is a Fulani man. He and some other Fulani reside and do their legitimate business of cattle rearing in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo state. But sometime in December last year, some cattle rustlers came to steal his cows. He ran to […]

Averting building collapse in Nigeria

By Adedotun Ajayi | The frequency of building collapse in Nigeria in the past few years had become very alarming and worrisome. In the building industry today especially in Lagos, building collapse has been one of the major problems being faced by both the private and public developers. Lagos metropolis is a city where building […]

Presidency, Miyetti Allah and Ondo State Government

MANY reports emanating from the seat of power in Nigeria sound so incredible in content and context that many people discard them as soon as they are heard. A few of them may be recalled. When power was handed over to the duo of Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon, we learnt that the Lagos State […]