Category: Ondo State

New budget captures 73k minimum wage, salaries of newly recruited workers Gov approves expansion of OSOPADEC board, assents to Assembly Service Commission Amendment bill Towards meeting the new financial commitments of the state government, the Governor of Ondo State, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has signed into law the supplementary budget for 2024. The supplementary budget […]

CAN to hold 3-day prayers from Nov 10 The Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, has said that his administration is grounded in the body of Christ and will not fail in its duty to serve the people. The Governor made this assertion during an interface with Christian leaders in Ondo state at […]

Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, is set to sign the 2024 supplementary budget into law today. Totalling N92 billion, the budget will be signed this morning at the EXCO Chamber, Governor’s Office, Alagbaka, Akure, following its passage by the State House of Assembly two weeks ago. The State House of Assembly had committed the N92 […]

A former Secretary to the Federal Government, ex-Presidential Candidate, Afenifere chieftain and the Olu of Ilu Abo in the Akure Noth Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Olu Falae conversing with the Ondo State Governor and APC candidate in the coming November 16 Governorship Election, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa when the latter visited him […]

– say each “floored” the other The camps of the candidates of the All Progressives Congress, and Peoples Democratic Party have both rated their principals’ performance at last Sunday’s televised debate by the two as brilliant. Each of the two candidates “floored” the other according to their respective supporters. While the camp of the APC […]

The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Monday arrived Ondo State to lead preparations for the November 16 governorship election. On his arrival at Akure Airport, he assured that the flaws observed and recorded during the recent Edo State gubernatorial election have been identified and will not be […]

The Labour Party  has protested the perceived restriction of the recent televised governorship live debate to only the All Progressives Congress, and Peoples Democratic Party candidates in the coming November 16 election. In a statement titled *LABOUR PARTY REJECTS RESTRICTION OF CHANNELS TELEVISION GOVERNORSHIP DEBATE TO APC, PDP CANDIDATES*, and signed by its Campaign Organisation’s […]

Amidst a resurgence in communal tensions due to herder-farmer crisis and kidnapping in Ondo State, Otunba Bamidele Akingboye, the gubernatorial candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the state’s November 2024 polls, has advised the government to tackle the issue holistically. In a statement, he advised the state government to, as a matter of […]

Candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the coming November 16 Governorship Election in Ondo State, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, and former Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi on Sunday night clashed in a televised debate during which they unfolded their plans if elected. The high-profile live debate, that […]