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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. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the programme held on the campus of the institution, the Provost of ...

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 biscuits, and sweets before attending postgraduate students who wanted to defend their Ph.D thesis....

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 eyewitness, one of the trucks loaded with bags of cement had a brake failure while descending the hi...

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 killed by the suspected attackers. Ode was attacked twice in the last two weeks while the two palaces o...

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 Union, Prof. Madu Iwe, said this at the 2020 National Daily Power Quiz Competition final for the youth...