By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – The Ondo State Government has directed that flags should be flown at half-mast in all public buildings, facilities and official residences for seven days in honour of the victims of the Owo terror attack on Sunday. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu gave the directives in a...
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The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for blood donation following the attack on a church in Owo, Ondo State, as it also asked the governments and security agencies to do better in the protection of lives and properties. This call was contained in a statement issued by the...
Nigerians have been warned about the presence of Boko Haram terrorists in the South West. The Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Professor Ishaq Akintola, revealed this in a statement issued on Monday. According to him, “MURIC believes that the barbaric attack on the St. Francis Catholic Church Owo, that...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the gruesome terrorist attack and killing of innocent worshippers during a church service at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State on Sunday. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba condemned the terrorist act in Abuja...
Rev Father Andrew Abayomi, one of the priests at St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, Ondo State, has narrated how the church was attacked. Recalled that bombs exploded and bullets rained at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, yesterday afternoon by terrorists believed to be Fulani herdsmen...
Professor Banji Akintoye, the leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, IOOW, on Sunday, described the deadly attack allegedly unleashed against Christian Worshipers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo-State by Gunmen suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen, leaving scores of people dead, as a declaration of war against the...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The National leader of The All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, has condemned the attack on worshipers at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. Tinubu, in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, said the act was reprehensible and therefore called...
Ondo State Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has decried Sunday’s terror attack on innocent worshipers at St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo, describing it as horrific. In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, the governor said he was terribly saddened by the dastardly act....
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has condemned in strong terms, the massacre of scores of worshippers at a Catholic Church in Ondo State by men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. The Governor in a condolence message to his Ondo state counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the heinous killing of worshippers on Sunday at the St Francis Catholic Church, Owa-luwa Street, Owo Kingdom, in Ondo State. The President, in a condolence message released by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, on...
Students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Monday barricaded the Akure-Ilesa Highway, protesting the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The action of the students forced many motorists and travellers to be stranded. The protesters blocked the highway at the...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), Ondo State Command, has rewarded 103 officers for exceptional service in the fight against pipeline vandalism, illegal bunkering and other vices in the state. Dr Hammed Abodunrin, the state Commandant, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria...
Business mogul, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, an APC aspirant for the Ondo South Senatorial District on Wednesday, picket the party’s N20 million Expression of Interest and Nomination forms at the APC Secretariat, Abuja. Ibrahim, the founder of University of Fortunes, Igbotako, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said it will be a betrayal to Nigeria if he doesn’t contest the presidency in the 2023 general elections. Speaking during a visit to Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Osinbajo said aside from...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure- Operatives of The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested eight suspected syndicates who specialize in vandalism of petroleum pipelines and seized 117 kegs containing adulterated diesel products. The NSCDC spokesman in the state, Mr. Daniel Aidamenbor, disclosed this in a statement issued...
Sunshine Stars Football Club returned to their Akure base in the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) with a 1-0 defeat of visiting League leaders match Rivers United on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match at the Ondo State Sports Complex saw the hosts...
There was confusion in Badore, in Iju Odo, Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State as a big bird, identified as eagle, fell in the community from the sky. Residents in the neighborhood who were concerned about the incident, reported it as weird because the bird had a cipher...
Following the scarcity of fuel in cities across the country, the situation in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has taken a different dimension as residents now sleep in filling stations in anticipation of arrival of tankers laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol. The scarcity, which...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday in Akure said that his presidential ambition, come 2023, is neither a threat nor to brag but a reality. Tinubu, who sought support of traditional rulers in Ondo State for his ambition, stated this at...
Saturday’s Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency by-election recorded large turnout of voters in most of the polling units, as electorate applauded INEC for early commencement of the exercise. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that election commenced at about 8:30 a.m. in most polling units visited in Oba-Ile...