By Tunde Odesola In all my column-writing life, I’ve never kicked off an article with a quotation. But if I was going to do so in this piece, I would’ve started with the most popular Yoruba incantation and chanted, “Ohun ta wi fun ogbó, l’ogbó n gbo, ohun ta wi fun ogbà, l’ogba n gba, […]
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Ondo State Government on Thursday dissociated itself from some documents bearing the allegedly forged signature of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. It said that the governor still treats files. Two documents trending on social media were said to have been forged by some unscrupulous persons to syphon funds from the state’s treasury. But the Information and Orientation […]
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Ondo State State Government is set to commence the payment of the N35,000 wage award announced by the Federal Government to each of its workers. Sina Adeyeye of the office of HOS, quoted the Head of Service, Pastor Kayode Ogundele, as dropping the hint at the monthly meeting between government and the labour leadership after […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State vowed on Thursday that it “shall once again bring succour to the people by electing a PDP Governor at the November 16, 2024 Gubernatorial elections.” The vow was made by the party’s leaders in Ondo South Senatorial District of the state who also resolved to work towards […]
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— The Vice President, Senator Kashim Ibrahim Shettima, GCON — The Senate President, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON — The Right Honourable Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas — APC National Chairman, His Excellency, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje — Executive Governors here present — Distinguished Leaders and Members of the National Assembly — Secretary to the Government of the […]
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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid wait to cross from the southern Gaza Strip into the northern Gaza Strip along Salah Al Din road in the central Gaza Strip, November 25, 2023. Mohammed Saber, EPA-EFE. The United Nations welcomed on Tuesday the increase in aid deliveries into Gaza afforded by a temporary truce but warned it was not […]
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Ondo State Deputy Governor and the Vice Chairman of the State Executive Council, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Thursday presided over the state exco meeting. The meeting was held at the executive chamber of the governor’s office, Alagbaka Akure area of the state. It came after a meeting President Bola Tinubu had with stakeholders from the […]
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The Ondo State House of Assembly Assembly and its Speaker on Thursday withdrew its appeal filed before the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja which stopped the planned impeachment of the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The House and its Speaker had challenged the jurisdiction […]
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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Betta Edu, to release details of how the sum of N535.8 million was expended on feeding school children during the COVID-19 lockdown. Justice Nkeonye Maha, in a judgment, directed the minister and the ministry to furnish […]
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About 24 polytechnics and colleges of education have been converted to universities by the Federal and State Governments in the last three years, a move described by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) as an attempt to ‘kill’ technical education in the country. This came as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) warned […]
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