STATE GOVERNOR,HIS EXCELLENCY, HONOURABLE LUCKY ORIMISAN AYEDATIWA, Excellency Sir, APPRECIATION AND COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for appointing me as the Chairman, Transition Committee of our Local Government – Ifedore. I am truly honored and humbled by the trust and confidence you have reposed in me to serve…
AKINGBOYE DECRIES AIYEDATIWA’S DEFIANCE OF COURTS, WARNS ILLEGAL LGA APPOINTMENTS IMPERIL DEMOCRACY Otunba Bamidele Akingboye (OBA), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for the Ondo 2024 governorship election, vehemently condemns Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s brazen disregard for the rule of law and court rulings, which poses a grave threat to democracy in Ondo State. Despite clear…
More controversies have continued to trail conduct of local government election in Ondo State after several postponements. This is even as the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission, ODIEC today 8th July, 2024 announced the postponement of the local government election indefinitely. ODIEC Chairman, Dr Joseph Aremo disclosed this at a meeting with stakeholders held at…
A middle aged woman whose identity is yet to be ascertain has been shot dead by unknown gunmen. This brings the number of victims of the broad daylight shootings to four within one month. Though, the Ekiti State Police Command made some arrest in the last week and paraded the suspects before the press, this…
By: Oluwatosin Adesola Several officers of Amotekun Corps in Ondo State and some Falani Herdsmen have reportedly sustained various degree of injuries when Amotekun men on Friday arrested over 120 cows and their herders for grazing and destroying tomatoes farms worth millions of naira at Igoba town in Akure North local government area of the…
After 18years of interregnum, women, leaders and youths of Ipesi AKOKO community of the AKOKO South East Local government area of Ondo State have appealed to the Ondo state Government under the leadership of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to give timely approval to the selection process for new Olupesi. This was relayed to newsmen on Friday…
…..speaks on Conducting Local Govt election. Following an alarm raised by the NEMA and NiMET over impending flooding, Governor Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa has directed the preventive measures towards combating flooding across the 18 local government areas of Ondo State. The State Commissioner for local government and Chieftaincy affairs, Alhaji Amidu Takuro, who disclosed this in…
……CALLS FOR SYNERGY AMONG SECURITY AGENCIES IN ONDO EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Ondo State House of Assembly has changed security agencies in Ondo East Local government to continue to beef up security in the area in order to forestall breakdown of law and order. The Speaker of the House,Rt.Hon(Chief) Olamide Oladiji and some members gave the…
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has expressed his disagreement with the High Court’s judgment declaring the 33 LCDAs unconstitutional. The Ondo State government created the 33 LCDAs during Akeredolu’s administration. In a statement issued on Sunday, Adekanmbi said that the people Owo and Ose will appeal the ruling up…
An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure today scrapped the 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) created by the administration of late former Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. It declared the creation as unconstitutional and illegal. The Presiding Judge, Justice Adegboyega Adebusuoye, said the LCDAs were not lawfully created. It will be recalled that leaders of…
