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,…
By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure Residents of the Eleyowo Community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, have besieged the palace of the Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi over his alleged plan to impose a man on…
The Ondo State Internal Revenue Service (ODIRS) has sealed three hotels and two event centres as part of the state’s enforcement of payment of consumption tax in Akure, the state capital. The leader of the enforcement team and Assistant Director,…
