Tag: ondo state
PDP dissolves Ondo Exco, constitutes caretaker committee
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday announced the dissolution of the Ondo State…
Ebola: Ondo passes cremation bill to law
The Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed into law a bill to provide for disposal of unclaimed corpses…
200,000 NYSC members participate in sanitation programme
Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Saturday, said 200, 000 corps members participated in the…
Ebola: Ondo govt. cancels summer lessons
The Ondo State Government on Friday cancelled all summer school lessons in the state. This was contained in a statement…
Aturu Buried
Human rights lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, who died last week, will be buried today at Ogbagi, his birth place in Akoko,…
Associates, Lawyers Pay Tributes To Aturu
Jamiu Yisa Human rights activists, lawyers, jurists, labour leaders, members of civil society organiations and a host of others on…
Ambode is a true Lagosian – Mogaji Of Edu Family
Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni The last may not have been heard of the indigeneship tussle of Akinwumi Ambode, governorship aspirant on the…
I Want To Add Value To Ondo State
Since the creation of Ondo State in 1976, the people of Ayede Ogbese have never had an indigene representing them…
Kidnappers Free Mother Of Hotelier
The octogenarian mother of Mr. Benson Akindeju, the Chief Executive Officer of Big Soul Hotel, Igbotako, Ondo State, who was…
Ex- Commissioner, Akerele Dies After Taking Wife To Hospital
Jamiu Yisa Former Commissioner for Information in the western Nigerian state of Ondo, Ranti Akerele is dead. P.M NEWS reliably…
Reports: Deposed Akure monarch pleads for reinstatement
The deposed monarch of the western Nigeria town of Akure, Oluwadare Adepoju Adesina, has urged the government of state of…
Mimiko blames quacks for Ondo high maternal deaths
Simon Ateba/ The high rate of maternal death in Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria, is caused by quack doctors and the…
Deji Falae Buried
The the late Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism, Barrister Ayodeji Olaniran Falae, who died in the Associated Airline plane that…
Lagos Releases DNA Results For Plane Crash Victims
The results of the DNA tests conducted on the 12 burnt bodies of the Associated Airline crash victims are now…
Omotosho Power Plant Ready
The Managing Director, China Machinery Engineering Corporation, Mr Liu Zhao-Long, on Friday said that the Omotosho 500 Mega Watts (MW)…
Mimiko absent as ex-governor Agagu buried amid tears
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Amidst tears and wailings, and despite the tragedy that befell the family as a result of a plane…
Lagos doctors stabilise Feyi Agagu, moved to new ward
Doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, are battling to save the life of Feyi Agagu, the son…
Agagu’s Community Got Premonition Of Tragedy —Family Member
A member of the late Dr Olusegun Agagu’s family, Chief Sehindemi Oguntoye, on Thursday said the community had received premonition…
Lagos Mourns Plane Crash Victims
The Lagos State Government has mourned victims of the Associated Airlines plane that crashed in Lagos, southwest Nigeria this morning.…
Plane Carrying Agagu’s Corpse Crashes In Lagos
An Associated Airlines plane conveying the corpse of the late former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, crashed on Thursday…
Senator Mark, others mourn Agagu
Nigeria’s Senate President David Mark on Saturday mourned the death of former governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Kokumo Agagu,…
Reports: Agagu, Ex Ondo governor dies
Dr. Olusegun Kokumo Agagu, a former Governor of Ondo State, in western Nigeria has died. He was aged 65. Agagu,…
Supreme Court to hear Ondo poll appeal this week
Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja Nigeria’s Supreme Court has rescheduled the hearing of appeals filed against the judgment of the Court of…
Youth, 20, Found Hanging In Mother’s Kitchen
The police in Okitipupa, Ondo State, are trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of a 20-year old boy…
Celebrating D.O. Fagunwa’s Enduring Legacy
Fifty years after the passing of Yoruba fantasy author, Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa, his home-state Ondo, played host to many eminent…
Defending Our Votes
By Babafemi Ojudu Let me start my reflections on the sanctity of electoral mandates with a personal experience of the…
The Need To Tighten Security In Prisons
On Sunday, a number of armed men, some reports put the number at 30, attacked the Olokuta Medium Security Prison…
Mimiko swears in new council caretakers
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the western Nigerian state of Ondo on Tuesday in Akure conducted the swearing in ceremony for…
38 Die, 206 Injured In Road Accidents In Ondo —FRSC
At least 38 persons died and 206 were injured in various accidents in Ondo State, southwest Nigeria, in the first…
Mimiko: ACN, PDP to appeal tribunal verdict
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Ondo State Chapter, has rejected the judgment of the Justice Andovar Kaka’an led Election…