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Security

Ondo Amotekun 350 Slots Attract 16,000 Applicants

Applicants,16,000, have applied for the 350 vacant slots in the Ondo State security outfit, codenamed Amotekun. Already, 900 of them have been shortlisted.  The security commander, Chief Àdetunji Adeleye said this in Akure over the weekend Adeleye said that the state governor ordered the recruitment, Rotimi Akeredolu to strengthen and boost its operations.   He said, “the Continue Reading
Crime

Man Overpowers Robber in Ondo

The Ondo State Police Command says it arrested no fewer than 14 suspected criminals in different parts of the state. Some of the suspects were identified as Ojo Rotimi, Tosin Omoniyi, Jimoh Dele, Uwanfor Destiny, Babajide Moses, Tope Gbenga, John Simeon, Akinniranye Blessing, Jude Stephen, and Iranlowo Ayomide. Omoniyi was allegedly arrested while attempting to […]Continue Reading
Security

Gunmen Strike in Ondo Town

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have shot dead six persons at Sabo Area of Ondo town in Ondo State. The killing was said to have occurred on Wednesday night. This is coming less than five days after yet-to-be-identified gunmen killed about forty worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo. Positive FM gathered that […]Continue Reading
Economy

Eid El Fitri: Food Prices Soar In Ondo

Prices of Food items soared high with Ramadan ending as Muslims celebrate Eid El Fitri. Radio Nigeria reporter who went on market survey in Akure reports that both consumers and traders complained bitterly of the development. According to the survey , a cartoon of fish sold for 34,000 naira is now sold for 40,000 naira […]Continue Reading
News

Fuel Crisis : Nigerians Groan

Residents of Akure, Ondo State have appealed to the federal government and other stakeholders to urgently revive the nation’s moribound refineries as a lasting solution to fuel crisis in Nigeria. They made the appeal against the backdrop of the lingering fuel scarcity which is biting harder by the day. Radio Nigeria went round some filling […]Continue Reading
Crime

Ondo Police Apprehend Man For Rape

A middle aged man, Soji Bakare popularly known as SOJ has been arrested by men of the Ondo state Police Command for allegedly raping a 10yr-old primary school female pupil. Radio Nigeria gathered that SOJ assaulted the minor at her parents’ house at the weekend at Aiyeyemi street, Isolo area of Akure when her mother […]Continue Reading
Health

Cholera Prevention: Ondo Environmental Services Goes Tough On Unhygienic Practices

In a bid to prevent outbreak of cholera among residents of Ondo state, eighteen buildings have been closed by officials of the Environmental Services in Akure South Local Government for unhygienic practices. Director of Environmental Services, Akure South Local Government Area, Mr. Ayo Bello, disclosed this in an interview with Positive FM, Akure. Mr. Bello said […]Continue Reading
Crime

Gunmen Kill 2 in Ondo

Two security guards working a filling station on custom junction , Ondo road Akure have been killed by unknown gunmenspeaking with Radio Nigeria, one of the filling station supervisors, Mr Buhari Ashiru said the forty-five year old Israel and the other security man were found drenched in their pool of blood around five thirty in […]Continue Reading
Crime

Police Arrest Serial Hacker In Ondo

Ondo state police command has arrested a mass Communications student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan who specialised in stealing money from bank account using stolen SIMs cards.The suspected hacker, Omisakin Samson, was arrested after he stole N44,000 from a victim’s bank account using a stolen SIM card.Parading some suspects in Akure, the state Commissioner of police, Continue Reading
Security

Akeredolu Calls For Timely Intervention To End Farmers-Herders Clashes

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has appealed tothe Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO to profer timely solution to herders and farmers clashesGovernor Akeredolu made this appeal while playing host to the management team of FAO in Akure, the Ondo State capitalGovernor Akeredolu decried frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen noting that farmers were no longer ready Continue Reading
Economy

Consumer Rights Day: Examining Awareness Level

Raising awareness on healthy environment by tackling plastic pollution is the focus of this year’s World Consumer Rights Day which holds every 15th of March.In this special report, Staff Reporter Leke Adegbite examines the level of awareness among ondo state residents on how plastic materials are polluting the environment and the way forward.World Consumer Rights Continue Reading