The Ojomo Oluda of Ijebu-Owo Kingdom, Oba Kofoworola Oladoyinbo, has called on the Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to grant farmers in the state licenses to bear arms for their protection and to safeguard their farmlands against herdsmen. The monarch made this appeal on Saturday during his 20th coronation anniversary and the launch of…
ODHA CONDEMNS GRUESOME MURDER OF TWO FARMERS IN AKOKO. Rising from the Parliamentary meeting on the 15th of August, 2024 at the Assembly complex, members of the Ondo State House of Assembly led by the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon (Chief) Olamide Oladiji have in strong terms condemned the recent killings of two farmers…
The Akoko area of Ondo State was plunged into grief again as yet another farmer was brutally murdered in his field, adding to the mounting toll of victims in the region. This latest tragedy unfolded on Tuesday in Ifira Akoko, Akoko South-East Local Government Area, as the town grapples with the terror of herdsmen’s attacks….
Following recent incessant killings and attacks on farmers especially killing of a farmer, Mr Sunday Ayeni in the Uba-Oka in Akoko Southwest local government area of Ondo state last week, women in the community have staged a peaceful protest to condemn the ugly incident and demand justice for the victim and end to herdsmen attacks…
…We attempted to set her corpse ablaze, but ….—Suspects ….Autopsy ‘ll be done later — Husband Two domestic staff of the late popular caterer and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Kitchen Country, in Akure, Ondo State, Mrs. Olakunbi Adene, have confessed how they killed their boss after she prepared a sumptuous meal for them. The…
Those arrested last week during the #EndBadGovernance protest in Akure, Ondo State by men of the Nigeria Police have been released last night from the police custody. The arrested protesters included the governorship candidate of African Action Congress in the forthcoming November 16, 2024 election in the state, Kunle Ajayi. An eyewitness disclosed that the…
It was a black Sunday at Uba Oka in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo when a 36-year-old farmer was killed on his farm by men suspected to be fulani herdsmen. A source disclosed to our correspondent that the deceased farmer, Sunday Ayeni, had his farm destroyed by the herdsmen last week. Security…
A group of dissident youths in Ibule-Soro Community of Ifedore Local Government Area, on Friday, August 9, 2024 attacked the female Divisional Police Officer of Ilara-Mokin; while she was trying to dissuade them from performing the rites of new yam festival, which was the traditional duty of the king. Crisis ensued when the youths were…
Date: 11th August, 2024 PRESS RELEASE ONDO POLICE’ ARREST OF RIOTOUSLY ASSEMBLED PROTESTERS: A MOVE TO RANSOM SITUATION, NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED …. As Police Clarifies Alleged arrest of AAC gubernatorial candidate and others The Ondo State Police, Command wishes to set the records straight as to the ongoing misinformation in the media space over the…
…..Several Indigenes Arrested, Hospitalised, Aged helpless Report says there is a palpable tension and confusion at Ibule Soro community in Ifedore local government area of Ondo State on Friday as New yam festival in the community was allegedly disrupted by the police. Reports say little did indigenes of the community set out early on Friday…
