By: Oluwatosin Adesola Three persons including an okada rider and two of his passengers have been crushed to death this morning along Akure-Idanre road in Ondo state. SUNSHINETRUTH gathered that the accident was caused a result of over speeding on the part of the motorcyclist and a truck driver who over ran the victims. An…
A former Vice Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko in Ondo state and political science don at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof Femi Mimiko has recommended way out of retrenchment of workers by state government in the face of lack of funds and how to resolve the current shutdown in Kaduna. In his…
THE Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused his fellow 35 state governors of abandoning his administration in its face-off with the Nigeria Labour Congress. El-Rufai said this during a virtual meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Wednesday. Also at the meeting, a committee set up by the NGF recommended a petrol price…
Tinubu Wishbone Leaders’ Meeting BY: BAYO OLUWASANMI —————————— I call them wishbone leaders because they don’t climb the peaks but are content to settle down in the valleys of jagajaga one Nigeria because they profit from it. They are wishbone leaders because their dreams are not big enough. They don’t wish enough. They are contented…
Suspected bandits have killed at least eight worshipers in another attack in Kaduna State on Wednesday. The armed bandits also burnt down Assemblies of God Church and several other buildings in Ungwan Gaida community, near Kurmin Kaso, Chikun Local Government Area of the state The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs confirmed the…
The Ondo State government and the Federation of Tourism Association of Nigeria, FTAN have stressed the need to give top priority to culture and tourism sector to boost revenue generation of the state. This is just as the state government and FTAN expressed readiness and commitment to partner in boosting the state’s Economy through Tourism…
The Federal Government in conjunction with IFAD has commenced the training of rural communities farmers on ways to improve the quality of food being made available for the people. The project is being handled by the Federal Ministries of Agriculture and Finance and IFAD. The programme is designed in such a way that already established…
It was a sad day when a fight between a young couple, Ekene Ijokun, 40 and Rose Ijokun, 32, in Eleyowo community of Ondo state has led to the death of their two week old baby. Eleyowo is in Akure North Local Government area of the State. Consequent upon this, the two parents have been…
LIKE MENTOR, LIKE MENTEE, AKETI THINKS LIKE GREAT AWO … Dr. Akeredolu O.N The United Nations Commission removes marijuana (Indian hemp) from the list of narcotics INTRODUCTION The present governor of the state can only be compared to his mentor, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was the first premier of old Western region of Nigeria, which…
The Ondo State Government has registered no fewer than 161,000 poor and vulnerable individuals and 48,500 household heads from across the 18 Local Government Areas in the last two years. This was made known yesterday at a 2-day refresher training programme for Community Based Targeting (CBT) team members and enumerators in the Ondo Central Senatorial…
