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...
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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...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commended the Training of Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs) ahead of the constituencies by-election holding on Feb. 26 in Plateau, Cross River, Imo and Ondo States. The commission in a Bulletin made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, said the training was...
The Old Students’ Association of Community Comprehensive High School, Ikaram Akoko, says it has attracted construction of projects worth N12 million to the school. The President of the Association, Olurotimi Williams-Daudu, stated this at the inauguration of renovated five classrooms block and foundation laying ceremony of the schools’ administrative...
Residents of Okeluse in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State have fled the community after an attack by gunmen who killed a dealer and an attendant at a fuel station. The five-man gang was said to have stormed the community on motorcycles about 9pm on Sunday. The dealer,...
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has visited Omolege Junction, near Ute in Ose LGA where gunmen on Thursday night killed three people and razed down buildings in the community. The governor’s visit is contained in a statement made available on Sunday in Akure by Mr Richard Olatunde his Chief...
Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District in the Senate, has commended the new Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr Oyeyemi Oyediran, for removing the illegal checkpoints causing gridlock on Sagamu-Ore-Benin expressway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyediran and his team had, last week,...
A ritualist, Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, who was in police custody in Akure over alleged possession of a human skull has slumped and died on Saturday. Police spokesman, DSP Olufunmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the death of the suspect on Sunday, denied that he was beating or tortured to death. Odunlami...