Divine Establishment

By Odunayo Ketiku | I welcome my readers to today’s edition. It is my prayer that God grants us understanding of His Words in Jesus name. In this edition, we shall be looking at another Advantage of the Cross, another bye-product of Grace. It is DIVINE ESTABLISHMENT God’s plan and purpose for our lives is […]

Driver faces murder charge for stabbing colleague to death

By Sunmola Olowookere | In what began as a mere scuffle between two drivers at a garage, a young man of 25 years, Dayo Idowu has been dragged to court after he killed his colleague, Sheu Saka by stabbing him with a broken bottle. The secondary school graduate is now cooling his heels for the […]

Appreciation Strengthens Marriage

By Josephine  Oguntoyinbo | Appreciating your spouse is an easy, modest, and exciting thing to do. Showing appreciation to each other is one of the secrets to a happy marriage; yet most married couples take it for granted. Some couples fail to properly appreciate the things they do for one another. It can be easy […]

Wife battery; Man mobbed by angry youths

By Sunmola Olowookere | As some men would say, women can really try one’s patience and some deserve beating. They would say “if you just smack them once or twice, they would shut their trap and know their place. “Such is the tale of a womanizer and his suspicious wife in our neighbourhood. They had […]

Staying Healthy During Harmattan

Afolabi Olamiotan | Late November to mid-march of every year usually comes with a season shaped by cold, hazy weather, atmospheric dust and dryness which is known as harmattan. Harmattan is a season in easterly or north-easrterly wind on the West Africa coast. It brings desert like weather conditions that usually carries large amount of […]

Preserving Olowo palace as cultural heritage

By Oyinloye Opeyemi | T he Palace of Olowo of Owo, in Owo Local Government area of Ondo State, Nigeria has been adjudged as one of the biggest in Africa going by historical facts and research. The Palace is almost 1000 years old , built in 1,340 during the reign of Olowo Rerengejen who moved […]

What is special about the ‘TGIF’ Feeling?

By Saheed Ibrahim | ‘Thank God It’s Friday’ is a popular slang among youth and middle aged adults. In fact, some elderly chant the slang also, but only on Fridays. Have you ever wondered what makes Friday different from every other day? This is not in allusion to the Juma’at special prayer by the Muslims. […]

Preparing for Christmas

By Maria Famakinwa | Christmas season, a period set aside by Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ has always been an unusual one. For Christians, there is no other festive season ranked above it, especially as it ushers in the New Year. Few days to Christmas, some residents of Akure, the Ondo State […]

PMB and Akande as ‘Paddies’ in the ‘Jungle’

Busuyi Mekusi The aphorism: ‘No Paddy for Jungle” is not only popular among West African-Pidgin speakers, but has become a resource material for poetics among artists, which come as songs or slangs for social engineering. The commonality of this platitude is reminiscent of the easy acquisition and deployment of pidgin, which has been developed beyond […]

Ondo gets new CP

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc NPM, fdc has ordered the immediate posting of Mr Oyediran Adesoye Oyeyemi, to Ondo State Command as the new Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the State. The posting follows the retirement of CP Bolaji Amidu Salami, the erstwhile Commissioner of Police in the State, […]