Ondo Assembly deputy speaker, leader resign amid power-sharing move

The Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr  Abayomi Akinruntan and the Majority Leader, Mr Oluwole Ogunmolasuyi, resigned from their positions on Tuesday. While Akinruntan represents ...

4th June 2025

Ondo deputy speaker, majority leader resign

The Deputy Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mr Abayomi Akinruntan, and the Majority Leader, Mr Ogunmolasuyi, have resigned from their respective positions. Akinruntan represents Ilaje Cons...

3rd June 2025

FG's skill-up programme to upgrade 100,000 artisans

The Federal Government has said that it will train at least 100,000 artisans in the country in the Skill Up Artisan Super programme of President Bola Tinubu’s current administration. The FG, thr...

3rd June 2025

Parent, four others arrested for assaulting Ondo vice principal

The Ondo State Police Command has said it had arrested five persons in connection with the attack on the Vice Principal of Complete Child Development College Aule, Akure, Mr Alexander Rotifa, by the p...

3rd June 2025

Bishop urges national dialogue to tackle insecurity

The Catholic Bishop of Ondo Diocese, Most Rev Jude Arogundade, has called on journalists to foster dialogue among Nigerians as a way to address the spate of killings and insecurity across the country....

3rd June 2025

Seized phone: Ondo school VP beaten by WASSCE candidate's parents

The Ondo State Ministry of Education announced on Monday that it has launched an investigation into the assault on the Vice Principal of Complete Child Development College, Aule, Akure, identified as ...

2nd June 2025

APC, PDP clash over Aiyedatiwa’s performance

The Ondo State chapters of the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday clashed over the performance of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in his first 100 days in office. While t...

1st June 2025

Ondo APC, PDP trade words over Aiyedatiwa's 100-days-in-office

The Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Saturday lambasted the main opposition party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, which accused the state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa o...

31st May 2025

Police arrest 46 youths over cult clash in Ondo

The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday said it had arrested no fewer than 46 youths over an alleged cult clash in Ondo town on Tuesday evening. No fewer than four persons were killed in the clash b...

30th May 2025

Police arrest 46 youths after Ondo cult clash

The Ondo State Police Command on Thursday said it had arrested no fewer than 46 youths over an alleged cult clash which occurred in Ondo town on Tuesday evening. No fewer than four persons were killed...

29th May 2025

NCC donates equipment to Ondo hospital

The National Communications Commission on Thursday inaugurated an e-health project, it donated to the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Akure, Ondo State . According to the commission,...

29th May 2025

Afenifere youth leader, police clash over kidnap probe

The National Youth President of Afenifere, Prince Eniola Ojajuni, on Wednesday, challenged the Ondo State Police Command to provide any evidence of initiating a probe into his (Ojajuni’s) recent kid...

29th May 2025

Aiyedatiwa sets up anti-land grabbing taskforce in Ondo

The Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has set up a task force against land grabbing across the 18 local government areas of state. Speaking at the inauguration of the task force on Wednesday, ...

28th May 2025

Nigerian healthcare system challenged by high maternal mortality rate - Minister

The Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has said the Nigerian healthcare system is challenged by high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. This is as the Federal Government and the Ondo Sta...

28th May 2025

Police hunt kidnappers of three Ondo church members

The Ondo State Police Command said its operatives have launched a manhunt for the gunmen who abducted three persons at the Ogbese community in Akure North Local Government Area of the state. Our corre...

28th May 2025

Children's Day: Aiyedatiwa urges collective action against bullying in Ondo

The Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has called on all stakeholders to join hands and work against all forms of abuse of children, most especially bullying in the society. Aiyedatiwa, who descri...

27th May 2025

Tailor stabs man to death in Ondo

An Ondo State Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure, the state capital, has ordered the remand of a 23-year-old man, Faith Adeola, in police custody for allegedly stabbing one Gbenga Olotu to death. The ...

26th May 2025

Aiyedatiwa approves upgrade of 102 Ondo health centres

Ondo State Governor, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has approved the rehabilitation of no fewer than 102 primary health centres as part of efforts to enhance healthcare services across the state. The governor s...

26th May 2025

Ondo gov tribunal delivers judgment June 4

The Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure has fixed June 4, 2025, for judgment on the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Agboola Ajayi, against the...

25th May 2025

Ondo poll: Aiyedatiwa, PDP candidate know fate June 4

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital, on Saturday fixed June 4, 2025, for its judgment on the petitions filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Par...

24th May 2025