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A five year old daughter of the deceased, Fayoke has narrated how her mother was killed  She alledge her father, identified as Gbenro of killing her mother Wayesola by strangling her to death.  She said she saw her father on the bed turning her mum’s  neck when she was going to toilet  that morning. She added that her father threatened to kill her when she made an attempt to ran outside to seek the help of their neighbours. She said she later saw her mum’s lifelessly body beside her father on the bed while their neighbours came to covered her with clothe. It was the neighbours that alerted the deceased brother on phone. They locked up the man and the lifeless body of his wife inside the room so that he won’t be able to escape as the deceased  brother went to Enuowa station in Ondo city to report the matter. The sad incident happened at Salvation Army Street, Odojọmu, Ondo city between 5-6 am. Spokesperson of the the state police command, Tee- Leo Ikoro said the ...

A staff of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Mr. John Obaniyi has declared that the only panacea to youth unemployment in Nigeria and other African countries is agriculture..  Mr. Obaniyi made the declaration in his lecture to the 2021 Batch 'A' (Stream 1) corps members at the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko. Mr. Obaniyi asserted that the best and only credible alternative that will make youths to be fully integrated and empowered is active involvement in agriculture. In a lecture titled Empowering Nobel Agribusiness Led Employment and Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (ENABLE-TAAT), the Agricultural entrepreneur disclosed that the traditional ways of farming can no longer sustain the needed revolution in the agricultural sector. While demonstrating the modern and technological ways agriculture and post harvest marketing should be handled, he said those who are coming into agriculture should be passionate, committed and not ...

By Nnonyelu Ruth Ifeyinwa Talking about tolerance in a tone,  people may consider harsh, aggressive or my point of view is to me, cutting my nose to spiting my face. This writeup is for general consumption because the two keywords has a universally accepted meaning. An incident occurred recently in a public gathering and the reaction of the individual concerned is relative to Zero tolerance, hence let's look at the dictionary meaning from Oxford Tolerance is the willingness to accept somebody /something, especially opinions behaviors that you may not agree with or people who are not like you. It's also the ability to suffer something, especially pain, different conditions, etc without being harmed.  Please note that as long as your decision as a human being is not to retire to the woods or live in isolation but that you want to live as a social animal, which will demand your going to source for livelihood either as an employee, an employer or a sole proprietor.  Whic...

Ondo State Government has approved the payment of School Certificate Examination Fees otherwise known as WAEC Fees for students in public schools in the state. This followed the approval of a memo sent to the governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN by the State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and signed by the signed by the Permanent Secretary, Mrs Lola Amuda. The memo was dated March 17, 2021. In approving the memo the following day, Governor Akeredolu further instructed that the sum be “paid directly to WAEC to be receipted for”. Recall that at a public function Akure early this year, Governor Akeredolu promised to take the burden of the payment of WAEC fees off parents to cushion the effect of hardship imposed by COVID-19. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo confirmed that a total number 25,736 students in Public Secondary Schools across the state will benefit from the gesture. He said, “the gesture by the State government was part of the determ...

The Director, Southwest Area Office, Mr. Emmanuel Danjuma Attah has declared that the National Youth Service Corps is the only symbol of unity holding us together as an indivisible entity. The Director made the declaration today when he paid unscheduled official visit to the NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikare-Akoko, Ondo State. Mr. Attah who entered the Camp unannounced was impressed with the organisational ability of the new State Coordinator, Mrs. Victoria Nnenna Ani who she described as excellent Protocol Officer. "I am quite impressed with what I saw especially the requirements put in place to observe the Coronavirus pandemic protocol". "Not only that, the camp environment is neat and well kept and this shows that the State Coordinator and her team have done what they needed to do and I have no doubt that the assessment of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will be in tandem with my honest observation". While conducting on the spot assessment at t...

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has disclosed that the success of orientation course is critical to the operations of the Scheme. The Director General made the disclosure today during a virtual Zoom meeting monitored across all the NYSC Camps nationwide. "I want to let you know that your attitude towards obeying the rules and regulations governing the conduct of orientation course and observing the protocol of COVID -19 will determine the success or otherwise of the cardinal programmes of this noble Scheme. General Ibrahim said that corps members should see their mobilisation and deployment to the State of service as a rare opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the development of the country. "My dear children in the national service, this meeting becomes imperative because of the new normal that we found ourselves as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic otherwise known as COVID -19 which has affected all our end...

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has approved the appointment of Princess Catherine Oludunni Odu as Secretary to the State Government. Princess Odu, a legal practitioner, was the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) before her appointment. She holds the following Degrees: • LLM (University of Lagos) •Bachelor Of Law(Nigerian Law School) •Bachelor of Law(University of Lagos) •Master of Science (Industrial Sociology, University of Calabar) and, •BSc. Sociology (University of Benin). Princess Odu has served in many capacities at both the State and Federal levels. She was Federal Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission and at different times, former Commissioner for Women Affairs and Education respectively. Her appointment is in recognition of her proven integrity and outstanding record of performance in her previous assignments. Similarly, Governor Akeredolu has approved the appointment of the immediate-past Head of the State Public Ser...