Rebuilt Ondo PDP secretariat for commissioning Dec 22

The newly rebuilt Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Secretariat, will be commissioned on Tuesday, 22nd December, 2020 in Akure, the state capital. This was contained in a statement by the party’s spokesman in the state, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei. Hoodlums, disguising as #EndSARS protesters, had ransacked, vandalised and burnt down the edifice on October […]

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Armed thugs attack security meeting in Kaduna

Armed thugs numbering about 100 on Monday stormed Arewa House, venue of the Northern region’s Security Review meeting, attacking participants of the meeting. The hoodlums brandishing dangerous weapons stormed the venue of the event at about 11 in the morning, carting away valuables such as mobile phones and destroying properties worth millions of Naira. The […]

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Kankara abduction: Revamp Nigeria’s security- Sultan

says, lapses exist in nation’s security architecture fears security chiefs benefit from insecurity Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III led Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has described the abduction of hundreds of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Kankara’s students, as a slap on President Muhammadu Buhari’s face. The apex Islamic body in the North […]

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Ondo assembly recalls suspended members

Ondo State House of Assembly has lifted the suspension order placed on four of its members. This was contained in a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Information,Youth and Sports Development, Akogun Olugbenga Omole They include a former Deputy Speaker, Hon Iroju Ogundeji, Hon Adewale Adewinle Williams, Hon Favour Tomomewo, and Hon Leonard Akinrinbido. […]

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Journalists charged on nation-building as Ondo NUJ begins press week

Aderoboye, Left, with colleagues at the service Media practitioners have been charged to practice their profession like a calling aimed at service to humanity. The call came yesterday as Ondo State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ began its 2020 Press Week with a thanksgiving service. Pastor Michael Gbala of the Redeemed Christian […]

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Dualise Akungba roads to curb crashes, residents tell Akeredolu, Buhari

Residents of Akungba Akoko have called Ondo the state government to dualise the major township road to save the people from incessant deaths. Prominent indigenes of Akungba Akoko appealed to both the Federal and State Governments to intervene in the incessant road accidents in the university community. “The main road in Akungba needs urgent dual […]

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Police arrest suspected kidnappers of ex-Ekiti commissioner

The police in Ekiti State Police have confirmed the arrest of two persons in connection with the kidnapping of an ex-Commissioner for Agriculture in the state, Mr. Folorunsho Olabode and two other persons. Police spokesman in the state, Mr. Sunday Abutu, said the suspects; Yakubu Aliyu and Dani Gide were arrested by the command’s operatives […]

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UN demands ‘immediate, unconditional’ release of Katsina schoolboys

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the attack by suspected bandits at Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State on Dec. 11. Guterres’ reaction came in a statement by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Monday in New York. He called for the “immediate and unconditional” release of no fewer than 300 male students, the […]

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Katsina mass abduction: Outrage over Buhari’s failure to visit school, 333 still missing, says governor

It’s shocking Buhari is in Katsina and can’t visit Kankara – Nigerians Parents protest, PDP alleges tear gas attack on protesters, flays FG Our focus is to resolve students’ abduction, not politics, says Presidency Prominent groups and Nigerians from different walks of life, on Sunday, took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over Friday’s abduction […]

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