Ondo state

Again, Fulani herdsmen block road with cows, attempt to kidnap monarch in Ondo

Oba David Olajide, the monarch of Osi in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo state, barely escaped being kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday. Herald Nigeria learnt that the suspected kidnappers attacked the monarch on the Akure Airport Road in Osi, the same spot where a woman, Mrs Olawumi Adeleye, and her stepson […]

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Akeredolu reminds herdsmen of daylight curfew, firearms ban in Ondo state

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has reminded herdsmen in the state not to violate the restriction on time for grazing and the ban against the use of weapons and ammunition. Akereredu, who spoke through his Special Assistant on Security Matters, Alhaji Jimoh Dojumo, said this while commenting on the attack on the palace of Onigedegede […]

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Oil well fire: 21 Ondo communities demand $2.5billion compensation from Chevron

The communities are within an eight-kilometre radius of the Ojumole Oil Well where a fire has been raging since Saturday

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Police vow to arrest ‘jilted lover’ who allegedly set 9 family members ablaze

Eight of the family members died in the arson

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OPC founder Frederick Fasehun is dead

The Senior Special Adviser on Media to Fasehun, Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Saturday.

Irate Youths shut down Benin-Ore road over 10 years blackout in Ondo South

FOR over five hours, both vehicular and commercial activities on the Benin – Ore – Lagos expressway were Wednesday completely paralysed as irate youths protest ten years of total blackout in the south senatorial area of Ondo state.

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More Boko Haram members in Ondo, suspect says

The suspect is the second to be arrested in the state within a week

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Suspected ritualists’ den discovered beside Ondo Assembly

An uncompleted two-storey building suspected to be a hideout of kidnappers and ritualists was yesterday discovered in Alagbaka area of Akure, the Ondo State capital.

Villagers trapped as soldiers ransack Ondo riverine community

SEVERAL villagers have been reportedly trapped in the bush for four days without food and water, while the waterways have been cordoned off, following the invasion of Ajapa community, the hometown of Ossy Ibori, the notorious sea pirate kingpin, already killed by soldiers in Lagos, at Arogbo kingdom, Ese-Odo Local Government Area, Ondo State.

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Police arrest alleged kidnappers of septuagenarian

The police in Ogun have arrested four suspected kidnappers of a 75-year-old woman, Wuraola Shittu. Shittu was kidnapped at Ibiade farm settlement in Ijebu Waterside on March 14. Towei Eduh, 31, Bikaramobowi, 17, Saturday Oti, 31 and Paymaster Efigga 30, all Ijaws from Arogbo in Ondo State, were apprehended by men of the state’s anti-kidnapping squad. It wasRead More

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