The International Labour Organisation (ILO), in partnership with the Ondo State Government and the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, recently launched a programme aimed at promoting health insurance enrolment among cocoa farmers, informal workers, and vulnerable households at risk of child labour. The initiative, under the ILO’s Global Accelerator Lab project, funded by the United States Department of Labour, is …

The 32 Artillery Brigade, Nigerian Army has offered free medical services to residents of Erinje community in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. The medical services rendered during the exercise included free medical consultation, free laboratory investigation, HIV counselling and test, malaria prevention and treatment, prostrate health awareness, DM/Neuropathic screening and breast cancer awareness. On the exercise which was …

Leaders of Aiyetoro, in llaje council area of Ondo state, have raised the alarm that 84 houses have been destroyed in the community since the leadership crisis started five years ago. Addressing newsmen under the auspices of Ogeloyinbo in the council of Aiyetoro and the Board of Trustees of the Holy Apostles Church, the leaders, lamented that the destruction persisted …