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Gov. Akeredolu urges police to beef up security around correctional centres in Ondo in reaction to recent spate of jailbreaks in the country

By Muftau Ogunyemi Akure, April 9, 2021 Ondo State government is set to create no fewer than 11,000 jobs for the teeming unemployed youth across all 18 local government areas of the state. The Special Adviser to Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu on Entrepreneurship Development, Mr Summy Francis, Mr Summy Francis, made this known while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Akure. Francis said that the jobs would be created through the establishment of creative sustainable initiatives under the State Entrepreneurship Agency (ONDEA). According to him, Akeredolu, who has always been an advocate of job creation ...

By Muftau Ogunyemi Akure, Jan. 8, 2021 Ondo State Government has placed a total ban on trading activities on traffic lanes, pedestrian paths and walkways on major market corridors in Akure, the state capital. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Donald Ojogo, announced this in a statement on Friday in Akure. Ojogo said the ban followed the setting up of the Committee on Waste Management and in its bid to instill sanity, especially in Akure. According to him, the ban also includes artisans such as vulcanizers whose activities impede free flow of vehicular traffic, especially on...

By Muftau Ogunyemi Akure, Dec. 18, 2020 (NAN) A 10-year-old girl, Suliya Abubakar, said she threw her step brother, Usman Abubakar, aged 20 months, inside a well because her step mother maltreats her. Abubakar said this while she was being paraded alongside 34 suspects of other crimes, by the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Salami Bolaji, on Friday, in Akure. NAN reports that the other suspects were paraded for offences ranging from armed robbery, arson, fraud, killing, theft, to unlawful possession of firearms among others. Abubakar said that she did not know that Usman will die and th...