Amotekun arrests Okada rider for blackmail

By Tola Gbadamosi | A 32-year-old Okada rider Taye Adegboyega who pretended to have been beaten and wounded by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency Amotekun by putting plasters on his body to blackmail the corps has been apprehended. The Hope Metro gathered that Adegboyega came to the office of the Amotekun Corps […]

FRSC trains 825 Special Marshals

By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Osun State has trained 825 Special Marshals to help reduce accidents and protect lives and property on highways. Osun Sector Commander, Mrs Kudirat Ibrahim, while speaking during the training in Osogbo said special marshals played key roles in sensitising road users and other […]

Be productive, CP urges officers

By Tola Gbadamosi | The Ondo State Commissioner of Police, CP Bolaji Salami has urged policemen in the state to emulate productive officers. The police gave the charge at the commissioning of a worship centre donated to the police by one of its officers, CPS Sade Obaniyi, the District Police Officer of Fanibi Area Command. […]

Buhari, Akeredolu, APC eulogise Tinubu @ 69

By Adekola Afolabi | President Muhammadu Buhari, Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have on Sunday, felicitated with the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu. The President in a statement issued by his Special Adviser […]

Tears, tributes as Theo Adebowale dies

Eminent people including the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bolaji Salami have continued to pay glowing tributes to a political scholar, Dr. Theo Adebowale who passed on at 66 on Friday. Adebowale, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko died on Friday after a brief illness. The sympathizers who […]

Stop indiscriminate dumping, Akoko residents urged

By Jimoh Ahmed, Ikare Akoko. | Residents of Akoko area of Ondo State observed the March edition of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise with total compliance as they all came out on Saturday to clean their surroundings as required by the law guiding the exercise. In both Akoko Northwest and Northeast local governments, the exercise […]

Osun Amotekun boss to appear before disciplinary committee

By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Osun State Government has directed the Field Commandant, Osun Amotekun Corps, Mr Amitolu Shittu, to appear before a disciplinary committee for attacking Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s aides on Facebook. The Field Commander of Amotekun last week circulated a statement on social media wherein he levied some allegations against Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s […]

Sheikh Gumi: Friend or Foe

SHEIKH AhmadAbubakar Mahmud Gumi has controversially been in the news in recent times, especially for his roles in negotiating the release of kidnapped school children by bandits in the Northern part of the country. FOR the record, Dr. Ahmad Gumi is an Islamic cleric, scholar and former military officer with the rank of captain in […]

Fayemi advocates improved school monitoring, evaluation

By Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti | Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has urged the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and Federal Ministry of Education to improve the mechanism for school monitoring and evaluation of projects in order to promote qualitative education in the country. Governor Fayemi made the statement, when the Chairman of the Committee […]

Students assure of govt’s intervention

By Fisayo Akinduro, Osogbo | Students of the tertiary institutions in Osun state have been assured of continuous support through various government interventions to ensure quality education and better learning environment. The State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola gave the assurance during the official presentation of two vehicles to the two leading students’ associations in the state, […]