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Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada The Ondo State Government has on Wednesday cancelled the crossover service scheduled to hold at midnight of January 1, 2021, in churches across the state over fears of the second wave of COVID-19 in the state. The government also postponed the resumption of pupils in primary and secondary schools from Monday, January 4, 2020, to January 18, 2020. The Chairman, Ondo State Inter-Ministerial Committee on Coronavirus, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi made the declaration while speaking with journalists in Akure, the state capital. He said the decision of the government w...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The All Progressives Congress has expressed assurance that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election in the state, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, would lose at the ongoing election petitions tribunal. Jegede had filed a petition at the tribunal challenging the results of the October 10 poll, in which Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The PDP candidate on Tuesday declared that he would reclaim his mandate at the tribunal and thereby send Akeredolu out of gover...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada,  Akure A professor of sociology from the Department of Sociology, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Prof. Emmanuel Fayankinnu, has called on the stakeholders to ensure that female genital mutilation practice is totally eradicated in the country. The don who noted that the federal and state governments had enacted laws that prohibit female circumcision or genital mutilation said in spite of the law and other interventions, the practice was yet to be eradicated at the grassroots due to the culture of some people. Fayankiimu in a lectur...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada,  Akure THE Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday suspended five members of the party over alleged gross misconduct and anti-party activities. It was gathered that the action of the party against the axed members was not unconnected with the lingering leadership crisis rocking the party in the South-West between the Governor Seyi Makinde and the former Governor Ayo Fayose factions. The suspension of members was contained in a statement issued by the state Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kennedi Peretei, on Tuesday. The statement...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last governorship election in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, has expressed confidence that he would emerge governor at the end of ongoing litigation over the outcome of the polls. Jegede, who lost to the incumbent Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu during the October 10 election, said, evidence before the election petition tribunal was sufficient to nullify the victory of the All Progressives Congress. This, he said, has made the APC jittery. Jegede said this during the inaugurated PDP Secretariat in Akur...