Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has urged residents to spread love, kindness, and generosity at Christmas. Aiyedatiwa made the call in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Prince Ebenezer Adeniyan, on Tuesday in Akure. The governor congratulated the people for witnessing another Christmas celebration and urged them to embrace modesty during the yuletide.…

Few hours before Christmas, human and vehicular traffic have increased on both inter-state and intra-city roads in Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states, leading to gridlocks. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the three adjoining states have road networks, which many commuters and motorists from Abuja, Jos and other northern states ply to get…

Three policemen and a female suspect were on Friday killed in an accident that occurred in Ore, Odigbo Local Council Area of Ondo State. With the identities of the victims yet to be known as of press time, the police officers, who were part of the monitoring unit of the police command in the state,…

Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has approved the dissolution of the board and management of the Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC). The board and manangement was led by Mr Kunle Adebayo, the Director General (DG)/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the station. Prince Ebenezer Adeniyan, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this known in…

A man in Ondo, whose identity has been withheld by the Ondo State Police Command, set his wife ablaze and killed himself after a disagreement between them. The police in the state narrated this gory incident on its official page on X on Thursday. "Mr A was married to Mrs A, but along the line,…

The Ondo State 2024 Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has received five petitions challenging the declaration of Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa of All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the Nov. 16 election. INEC had, on Nov. 17, declared Aiyedatiwa winner of the election, having polled a total of 366,781 to defeat his closest rival, Agboola Ajayi…

No fewer than 634 students on Thursday graduated from the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo State, during the institution's 6th convocation. With 34 of the graduates bagging first class, 539 students will graduate from the institution's first degree, 95 will emerge from the postgraduate programmes, and 127 students will be graduating with unclassified degrees.…

The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Chief Olamide Oladiji, has said that the assembly would critically look at 2024 budget performance of all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state. Oladiji stated this on Wednesday while declaring open the defence of 2025 budget. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports…

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2024 Ondo State Governorship election, Agboola Ajayi, has filed a petition at the Ondo State Election Petition Tribunal challenging the victory of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Agboola lost the election to Aiyedatiwa as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), polling a total of 117,845…

Ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who participated in the November 16 governorship election in Ondo State, have vowed to protest the nonpayment of their allowances by the commission. According to some of the 17,000 aggrieved ad hoc staff, who lamented their plight in Akure, the state capital, three weeks after…

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Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested the suspected killers of the campaign coordinator of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, Excel Alaba, who was killed eight months ago. The suspects, Mohammed Sheu and Abubakar Umar, were apprehended following the confession to the crime by one of the duo. Excel, who was killed…