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Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure An international health management organisation, the United Healthcare Limited has donated family planning tools to the Ondo State Government through the state Primary Healthcare Board to assist the state in reducing maternal and infant mortality rate in the state. Apart from the gesture, the firm also trained some nurses from the primary health care facilities across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state on the new family planning methods. The C...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada,  Akure THE Ondo State Security Network Agency,  Amotekun, on Tuesday, said it was already making success in the fight against crimes across the state. The security agency which disclosed that it had so far arrested no fewer than 120 suspected criminals across the 18 local government areas of the state, appealed to the people of the state to give it timely information about the activities of the hoodlums in their environment. The state Commander of the age...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The Ondo State All Progressives Congress has commended the judiciary over the judgment delivered on the pre-election matter between Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and a former aspirant of the party in the last governorship primary, Mr Nathaniel Adotutelegan. Adejutelegan had approached the Federal High Court to challenge the candidacy of Akeredolu in the October 10, 2020 governorship election. The plaintiff alleged that the primary election of the party wa...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State on Monday said it has expelled one of its students in the Department of Nursing Science over an alleged involvement of her mother in an act of indiscipline. The institution also said the two-year tuition that had been paid by the 200-Level student was returned to her after the expulsion. The Founder and Pro-Chancellor of the institution, Dr Bode Ayorinde, made this known during the maiden induction of 74 nursi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada,  Akure The Ondo State Assembly on Monday lifted the suspension order placed on four of its members. The affected members include the former Deputy Speaker, Iroju Ogundeji, Adewale Adewinle Williams,  Favour Tomomewo, and Tomide Akinrinbido. They were among the nine lawmakers who opposed attempts to impeach the state deputy governor,  Mr Agboola Ajayi, in June. Following their suspension for alleged gross misconduct, the four lawmakers challenged the deci...

FECA trains 150 graduates in agric value-chain Peter Dada, Akure The Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State, has commenced training for 150 unemployed graduates from different states across the country, on various areas of agricultural value chain. The training tagged, ‘2020 Federal Government Sponsored Agricultural Value Chain Training Programme for youths and unemployed graduates,’ would cover programmes such as poultry, piggery, fishery, food crops, and animal production. Spea...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure THE management of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Akoko, Ondo State, has said it would investigate the allegation that some members of staff of the institution were fond of demanding bribe before attending to postgraduate students of the university. The AAUA Alumni Association had alleged that some employees of the institution would always demand specific number of wraps of pounded yam with soup, crates of soft drinks, bitter kola, packets of...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure Three persons were feared dead on Friday in an accident involving three trucks on Ikare-Owo Expressway at Akungba Akoko town in the Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The accident occurred barely six weeks after a similar accident killed no fewer than 16 people and injured many residents of the town. It was gathered that the accident happened at the Okerigbo Hill near the main gate of the Adekunle Ajasin University. According to an ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure Some suspected hoodlums allegedly attacked Isinigbo Community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday, killing two persons and destroying property worth millions of naira. It was gathered that the attack was connected to the communal crisis between Isinigbo and a neighbouring community of Ode, which had been attacked a few days earlier. It was reported that the monarch of the town, Oba Sunday Boboye, narrowly escaped being kil...

Faith-based group seeks return of schools to missionaries Peter Dada,  Akure A faith-based group, the Scripture Union, has called on the federal and state governments to return missionary schools in the country to their original owners for proper management. The group said the return of missionary schools to their original owners would be the major solution to the moral decadence among youths and declining academic performances among pupils in the country. The National Chairman of Scripture Un...