A lance Corporal of the Nigerian Army (NA), Mr. Sunday Awolola, who allegedly raped a 300-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), was yesterday arraigned at a Magistrate’s Court in Akure, Ondo State.

The urban population growth rate in Nigeria is described as alarming, but it presents opportunities for young entrepreneurs in food supply chains. Statistics from Lagos State indicates that about 85 new persons relocate to Lagos daily, implying that about 31,025 people settle permanently in the city yearly.

Some unidentified gunmen yesterday shot dead a police inspector, simply identified as Lasisi, on Isua- Ise Akoko Road in Akoko South East Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The announcement of Senator Tayo Donald Alasoadura as Ministerial nominee to represent Ondo State by President Muhammadu Buhari has changed the political narratives ahead of the November 2020 governorship election.

Despair, palpitations, and rage seethe in the hearts of Nigerians as the late Olufunke Olakunrin, who was killed by unknown gunmen, is laid to rest today, while innocent Ondo State residents decry indiscriminate arrest by police.

Ahead of 2020 governorship election in Ondo State and the 2023 presidential race, former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged aggrieved party members in the state to bury their hatchets. He was said to have appealed to members of the party, especially…

A septuagenarian, Mrs. Moyo Jide and her four grandchildren were burnt to death in a fire incident yesterday, at Biagbini Community in Ese-Odo Local Council of Ondo State.  According to reports from the riverine community, the 70-year-old grandmother and others were trapped in a fire incident that happened at the wee hours of Saturday.  Sources…

The recent investigative report of a newspaper on the scarcity of teachers in public schools and the revelation that nearly 80 per cent of the states in the country have placed embargo on recruitment, are shocking and tragic. It is such dismal revelations that must question the whole idea of having a government in the…

The controversy that trails the RUGA resettlement scheme begins with the word RUGA itself. Some say it is an abbreviation of the title given to the scheme—Rural Grazing Area; others argue that there is no difference between it and Ranching. While others say it is generally regarded as Fulani settlement which in Hausa language is…

Association of Oil Producing Communities (AOPC) yesterday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to correct the alleged reign of injustice in the rotation of the position of Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a communique issued at the end of the meeting of the group for the second quarter of the year…

Ondo state elders yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Delta State indigenes as the next Chairman and Managing Director of the Commission. The elders, who spoke spoke in Akure, said the position of the managing director was the privilege of the four leading oil producing states of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom.…

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has empowered 2,187 in small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) .The beneficiaries are spread across Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Edo, Cross River, Abia and Imo states. Over 110 vendors and contractors were also engaged in execution of business contracts and trades, including wood and carpentry, fish farming, commodity…