Akeredolu mourns, says: We’ve lost a great mind Celebrated former permanent secretary in Ondo State, Dr. Jacob Laoye Adegoke, MFR, has passed on. This was announced in a statement by the press secretary to the state governor, Mr Olabode Olatunde, which said that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, received the passage with a deep sense of loss […]
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By Banji Ayoola Empowerment is on the way for the elderly in Ondo State, as the state government on Wednesday started the collation of the senior citizens’ data with a view to giving them adequate care in their old age when they need help most. Indeed, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, at this year’s National Senior Citizens […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, is felicitating with the immediate past governor of the state, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, who turns 68 today, October 3. In a statement on Monday by its State Publicity Secretary, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, the party described the former governor as one of the few men whose achievements […]
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By Banji Ayoola Training of the staff of Ondo State Environmental Protection Agency, OSEPA, in air pollution management by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET, has kicked off. A statement on Wednesday by the agency’s Head, Media and Information Services, Bisi Agboola, said the five-day intensive training started on Monday, September 26, at the Federal University […]
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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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