By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure No fewer than 20 armed robbery suspects have been paraded on Thursday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by the Ondo State Security Network, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps. Among the suspects were juvenile armed robbers…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure There was jubilation galore in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Monday as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo declared his interest to run for the office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2023 general elections.…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) also known as Pyrates Confraternity has paid the National Examination Council (NECO) fees of no fewer than four children of people affected with leprosy at Ago-Ireti Community in Akure, Ondo…
…Just minor disagreement — Amotekun boss By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Men of the Ondo State Security outfit, codenamed ‘Amotekun’ and the soldiers attached to the 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Cantonment, Akure, on Tuesday clashed over the arrest of some cows…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Operatives of Department of State Service (DSS), has paraded a nursing mother among six-man syndicate that specialised in kidnapping of toddlers in Ondo State. The Director of DSS in Ondo State, Jonathan Kure, while parading the…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Unknown people suspected to be political thugs invaded the home of a popular politician, Hon. Olaolu Oladapo, in Ondo city, Ondo state, on Saturday night. Nigerian NewsDirect, however, learnt that these hoodlums could not achieve their…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON), Ondo State Chapter, has expressed worry over the continuous rise in the prices of premium motor spirit (PMS), popularly known as petrol, in the state, the situation, the…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Palpable fear has gripped residents of Arijodi/Ologunmolaare in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo state as court officials and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) sealed off their houses with children…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure An Ondo State Magistrate Court, sitting in Akure has sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Opeyemi Omoyemi to four and half years in prison for brutalising and inflicting body injuries on his 12-year-old house help identified as Joel…
Members of the Association of Resident Doctors, University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH) have suspended their two-day warning strike. This is contained in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday in Akure by the president of the association,…
