In an effort to ensure crimes- free yuletide, the Ondo State Security Network codenamed Amotekun Corps, has deployed over one thousand, two hundred personnel to beef up security across the 18 local government areas. Similarly, security outfit said it has commenced 24-hour border patrol in the neighbouring states of Osun, Edo and Kogi and will…
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, has dismissed claims of plans to spend N65 million on the institution’s anniversary, describing same as untrue and unfounded. According to a statement issued through the university’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Isaac Oluyi, the allegation by a union in the school and reported…
WORLD AIDS DAY: GOV AIYEDATIWA CALLS FOR MORE EFFORTS TO END HIV/AIDS BY 2030 The Ondo State Governor, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has called for increased efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic, urging more support for people living with the virus. The Governor made the call on Monday during an awareness walk organised by the…
GUBER POLL: GOV AIYEDATIWA HAILS JUDICIARY AS COURT DISMISSES AGBOOLA AJAYI’S CASE The Governor of Ondo State, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has described as a welcome development the report of the dismissal of a case challenging his qualification for the just concluded governorship election in the State. The case instituted in the Federal High Court…
My take on the Tax Reform BillsI have read and listened with keen interest to the flowery and convincing presentations by the proponents of the proposed tax reform bills. I have also listened to the antagonists of the bills, which unfortunately are mainly not rich in content and articulation but largely based on brute politics,…
……Aiyedatiwa not used state fund for governorship election— Ajulo One-day colloquium on Ondo State Public Complaints Financial Crime And Anti-Corruption Law 2022 was organized on Monday 2nd December, 2024 in Akure by the Ondo State Public Complaints Financial Crime And Anti-Corruption Commission (SPFACC). In a keynote, Dr Olukayode Ajulo, Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General…
The suit filed by the Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Agboola Ajayi, against Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and his deputy, Olayide Adelami over false documents, on grounds of lack of locus standi has been dismissed by the Federal High Court sitting in Akure Handing down the judgement on Monday, the presiding judge, Justice…
The Ekimogun Roundtable has congratulated Omo’ba Segun Adesemoye on the opening of ‘D Justice Place’, a groundbreaking multi-sector business venture established at a cost of millions of naira. This innovative facility houses a fully equipped, day-and-night semi-automated car wash stand with inbuilt capacity for relaxation, as well as private and industrial cleaning and fumigation services…
Ondo State born -Journalist and Fact checker, Juliet Buna, has once again demonstrated her dedication to spotlighting issues affecting women and girls by emerging as one of the biggest winners at the 2024 Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) Media Excellence Awards, held on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. The Crest FM journalist claimed three…
The Ondo chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has given an assurance that government workers in the state of the payment of the new minimum wage in their November salary, declaring that it will not join the nationwide strike set to begin on December 1, 2024 in states that don’t implement the minimumwage. Mr…
