By Banji Ayoola Remains of the departed mother of Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Evangelist Grace Bosede Akeredolu, will be buried on Saturday, November 12, in Owo, home of the governor. She died peacefully in her sleep on September 15, in her Ibadan, Oyo State capital residence at 90. The governor, in a statement signed […]
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Condoles governor over mother’s death, commends him for stance on national issues By Banji Ayoola Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, on Tuesday supported the move by Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to arm the local security outfit, Amotekun, with sophisticated weapons to meet force with criminals that have been unleashing horrors on his […]
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Says security outfit will be armed and backed by law Banji Ayoola Chairman of South West Governors Forum and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has justified why the local security outfit of states in the region, Amotekun, must bear sophisticated weapons like its counterpart in the North. Asserting that the State Security outfits backed […]
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Ondo State governor and chairman of the South-West Governors Forum, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, expressed his commitment to arming the South West Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, with sophisticated weapons for effective operation. This is just as the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; the Yoruba Council of Elders; and the Ohanaeze Ndigbo flayed […]
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By Banji Ayoola The President of the World Council of Owo Association, Inc, USA, (WOCOA), Mr Ogunmolawa Samuel Adebayo, on Sunday, 25 September 2022, congratulated two prominent sons of Owo land, Chief Akin Aruwajoye and Chief Rotimi Ibidapo for being considered deserving of the National Award, Officer of the Order of Niger (OON). Aruwajoye has […]
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The immediate past Commissioner for Water Resources in Ondo State, Mrs Yetunde Adeyanju and her supporters have decamped from the APC to PDP. In a grand ceremony at the PDP Secretariat in Ore, Adeyanju declared that as leader of the Women Groups for Akeredolu’s Campaign in 2016 and 2020 she can no longer pretend that […]
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Says governor’s ‘fear of failure in 2003 will consume him’ The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has criticised an alleged directive of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu denying the use of Government Field Ore, to receive his ex-commissioner, Mrs Yetunde Adeyanju into the PDP. A statement on Monday by the party’s State Publicity Secretary, Mr […]
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Ondo State Police boss, CP Oyeyemi Oyediran Ondo State Police Command on Friday denied a social media report that the terrorist group, the Islamic State West Africa Province attacked its vehicle and personnel in the state. Media reports stated that the terrorists group attacked the patrol vehicle of the police at Ipele area of Owo […]
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Ono State Police boss, CP Oyeyemi Oyediran Screening of the Police Academy, Wudil, Kano’s 9th Regular Course intakes from Ondo State will hold between Monday, September 26 and October 1. Police spokeswoman in the State, SP Funmilayo Odunlami, said in a statement that: “This is to inform the indigenes of Ondo State who applied for […]
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Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technplogy, Okitipupa, OAUSTECH, has commiserated with Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over the passage of his mother, Evangelist Grace Bosede Akeredolu. In a condolence message signed by the Vice Chancellor, Prof Temi Ologunorisa, the university said: “It is with great shock that the Management of the Olusegun Agagu University […]
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