It was celebration galore in the ancient town of Oka-Akoko, the headquarters of Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State, as the people celebrated the 2018 Oka Day, penultimate Saturday. The day usually signals the beginning of a New Year, ushered in by the Yam Festival, unlike the conventional calendar year, which starts…

The Olubaka of Oka-Akoko, Oba Adebori Adeleye (OON), has expressed concerns over the deplorable state of roads in the area, urging the Ondo State government to declare a state of emergency on the road network. The monarch said on Saturday during the 2018 Oka Day Celebration at Oka-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko South West Local Government…

Movement for the Survival of the Underprivileged (MOSUP) has decried the increasing rates of Female Genital mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C) in Ondo State, urging the state government and humanitarian groups to reduce the menace.  The President of the group, Dappa Maharajah, disclosed this during an interaction with The Guardian yesterday in Akure, urging Civil Society…

An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded 27- year-old Seidu-Shakiru Adeyemi in Olokuta prison for allegedly killing his 25-year-old girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Khadijat, the daughter of a former deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko.…

Eight years after it was established on March 24, 2010, by the then administration of Olusegun Mimiko, to provide emergency medical, trauma care and road services along crash-prone highway corridors in the state, in a bid to salvage accident victims and curtail the ever-increasing deaths by road accidents, the Ondo State Emergency Medical Services Agency…

Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State and the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN), have agreed to work together and forge a partnership that would give birth to a new breed of well trained, focused and professional bankers for the national and international markets. This was the thrust of the discussion between the two institutions…

Seidu Shakiru Adeyemi, the boyfriend of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, the slain daughter of Lasisi Oluboyo, former deputy governor of Ondo State, has denied involvement in her death. Miss Oluboyo, the 25 year-old final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was on Sunday found dead at the home of her boyfriend in Akure, the…

Daughter of the immediate past deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Olugbenga Oluboyo, who was reported missing, Miss Adenike Khadijat, has been found dead in Akure, the state capital. The late Khadijat was found dead under the bed of her Abuja-based boyfriend, Adeyemi Alao, in Oke-Aro area of the city on Thursday, after she was…

Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Clement Faboyede and Director General of PDP Campaign Organisation in the state during the last general election, Modupe Adetokunbo, have been remanded in Prison custody following their arraignment at the Federal High Court, Lagos. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned them on three-count charge…

Former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Musiliu Smith and former military governor of Ondo State, Rear Admiral Sunny Olukoya (rtd) have been appointed as governing board members for the 2018 edition of the Nigeria Safety Award for Excellence Hall of Fame (9jaSAFE Award). Also on the list of the newly-formed governing board are Chief Executive…

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has declared Tuesday, June 12, work free day in honour of late M.K.O Abiola, winner of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election in the state. The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Yemi Olowolabi, made this known in a signed statement on Saturday in Akure copy of which…

Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Yemi Olowolabi, has explained that its free school feeding programme was suspended due to discrepancies in bank accounts submitted by food vendors. He said many of the vendors did not have bank accounts before they registered for the programme, but hurriedly opened one without genuine Biometrics Verification…