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Peter Dada, AkureA former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has commiserated with the Lagos State Government and the Jakande family o...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West has taken a turn for the worse as leaders of a former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, have directed their members to steer clear of a peace meeting convened by ex-Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun State. Fayose’s supporters are also said to have started mobilising support for a former National Vice Chairman (South-West) of the party, Dr Eddy Olafeso, to return. This is contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting of the group, held in Akure, the Ondo State ca...

Punch Newspapers Sections and  Bola Bamigbola South-West states including Ekiti, Ondo and Osun on Sunday said they had deployed Western Nigeria Security Network, Amotekun corps,  in their forests and boundaries to check killer herdsmen. The state, however,  differed on the presence of killer herdsmen in the forests of the region. While the Ekiti State Government in an interview with The PUNCH said there were no killer herdsmen in the state forests, Ondo and Osun states explained their efforts to rid their forests of herdsmen. But all the states said they had deployed Amotekun corps to the...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure No fewer than 15 persons have been arrested by the men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun Corps, for illegally mining gold in the Owo Local Government Area of the state. The suspects, who were from the northern part of the country, were said to have been apprehended in about 50 different locations in the local government. The suspects are: Shuaibu Yahaya, Habbi Usman, Kabiru Waheed, Mohammed Nurudeen, Mohammed Sulaman, Ali Mustapha, Ismaila Wahab. Others included: Musa Zeehed, Gabbar Musa, Sule Adamu, Abba Suleman, Usm...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The nurses at the Federal Medical Center, Owo, Ondo State on Monday staged a protest on the premises of the hospital over the alleged beating of their colleagues by some relatives of a dead patient. It was gathered that the relatives of the dead patient, who was brought to the hospital on Saturday, stormed the ward where the patient died on Sunday, beating the nurses on duty and blaming them for the death of the patient. The patient was said to have passed away as a result of an ailment suspected to be coronavirus disease.