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A few days after the Governing Council of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, announced a 500 per cent increase in tuition fees, the students of the institution took to the streets of Akure, the state capital, on Monday in protest against the increment. The governing...

Former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the next year’s presidential election, saying that the President will contest on the platform of the APC despite the move by some eminent...

While others are out there hustling to get fuel at inflated prices, a hidden fuel reportedly led to a fire incident that razed down a bookstore at Adesida Road in Akure, Ondo State. @Videowood24 who reported the story, wrote; “Pls let’s b careful how … via Nigerian: Breaking News In Nigeria...

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, on Thursday launch a CubeSat, with the code name NigeriaEdusat-1, into space from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States. The Nigerian Cubesat, is a component of the Birds 1 satellites, comprising of four other CubeSats belonging to...

A popular Nigerian musician, Iledare Oluwajuwonlo, better known by his stage name Jaywon was over the weekend robbed by fans during a show in Gbogi area of Akure, the capital city of Ondo state. The music star music robbed off his mobile phone and gold chain. Jaywon disclosed to Naij, an...

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has urged the newly elected local government‎ chairmen in the state to employ team dynamics and good human management in their administration. The Governor stated this while delivering his address at the swearing-in ceremony for the 18 chairmen in...

Voting ongoing in all Units in the state, electorates are exercising their civic rights peacefully... See photos:

‎ One of the members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) security guards employed by the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, to guard his farm against the invasion of herdsmen has been killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Thisday reported that the...

Two cooks working at the Federal Government College in Akure, the Ondo State capital, are now in police net for allegedly using the sanitary pads used by female students for rituals. The suspects were caught by some students of the college after the suspects took used sanitary pads of some...

A former Commissioner for Lands and Housing in Ondo State, Alhaji Abbas Aidi reportedly slumped and died at a cyber cafe in Akure, Ondo state capital yesterday. According to Vanguard. he was said to have died after receiving an important letter that he had been expecting for a long time, though...

Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, the Deji of Akure, has banned the title of ‘Eze Ndi Igbo’ in Akureland and ordered it to be reviewed and replaced with a non-controversial honorary title. This is one of the conditions given by the monarch to end the crisis between him and the leader of the Igbo...