Ondo State government has started local production of science materials, in order to provide affordable modern science equipment for schools in the state. Education, Science and Technology Commissioner, Mr Femi Agagu who visited the workshop of the State Science Equipment Centre in Akure where the equipment are being produced, expressed satisfaction with the materials that […]
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To boost cash crops production in Idanre local government area of Ondo State, the Caretaker Management Committee has distributed cocoa seedlings to farmers within the Council area. This was contained in a statement by the council’s Head of Agriculture Department, Mr Olasunkanmi Fayato. It said that while distributing the seedlings, the Chairman of Idanre local […]
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Edo State Police Command on Saturday said it had recovered the official car of Prof. Gideon Okedayo, a lecturer with the Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa who was kidnapped on Thursday. Okedayo was kidnapped along with his driver in his official car, a Toyota Corolla marked 06X 47 OD, at Akoko […]
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The senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District of Ondo State, Nicholas Tofowomo, survived a road crash on Friday as his vehicle was involved in a road accident on Ilesa-Akure Expressway in Igbara Oke, the headquarters of Ifedore Local Government Area of the state. The accident also involved a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, […]
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Monarch pledges: ‘We would find means to employ Owo youths’ Oba Gbadegesin Ajibade Ogunoye is the new Olowo of Owo Kingdom, Ondo State. In this interview with Peter Dada, the monarch talks about his background, the town and some other issues. You were recently installed as the Olowo of Owo, and for those who don’t […]
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Institution’s FM Radio Station hits airwaves soon Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, RUGIPO, will start running degree programmes in at least 16 courses from next academic session. This plan is unfolding just as arrangements are being concretised for the institution’s radio station, RUGIPO FM, to hit the airwaves soon. The institution, according to its Acting Rector, […]
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Ondo State Government has wrapped up arrangements to establish the single largest cocoa estate in Africa on 2,000 hectares of cocoa plantation at Ijugbere, in Owo Local Government Area. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Otunba Adegboyega Adefarati, who disclosed this during the weekend in Akure at a media briefing, said that it was a deliberate […]
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Says the paper has improved remarkably, heads for the heights Salutes teacher and mentor, Osoba Urges hard work, rededication to uplift Owena Press Pleads with staff: “Please let us work together to make this paper a pride of the people of Ondo State.” By Banji Ayoola Being the moving speech delivered extempore by the Chairman […]
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Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State has donated office equipment to ease the take-off of the newly created Area Command of the Nigeria Police located at Iwaro-Oka Akoko. The donated items include computers and printers, and this gesture marked another step in the Corporate Social Responsibility of the University to the people and organisations […]
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The new Olowo of Owo, Oba Ajibade Ogunoye III has promised not to let his people down. Also, he expressed profound gratitude to his people, friends and well wishers for the goodwill and support shown to him during his installation. Speaking at a brief appearance at Ugha Court shortly after concluding his installation rites, he […]
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