The Ondo State Government has said that kidnappers found guilty in the state will face death penalty by hanging. The government also announced that buildings and facilities used by kidnappers in committing crime would be demolished after following due process in the court. The Attorney General and State Commissioner for Justice, Mr Kayode Ajulo stated this at a news briefing …

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Gilead Foundation for Sustainable Development have advocated community-based mechanisms to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). They called on all stakeholders —government institutions, civil society, media, and community members—to join hands in the crucial fight ‘to ensure that every girl in Ondo State grows up free from violence, empowered to thrive, and able …

Ondo State government has denied that Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa was involved in domestic violence with his spouse. It described a viral video, said to be that of the governor engaging in a domestic scuffle with his spouse, as blackmail. A statement by the SSA to the Governor on Strategic Communication, Allen Sowore, in Akure, fingered opposition parties as “responsible for …

Ondo State Government, yesterday, debunked the alleged claim that the state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, spent N7.3 billion meant for palliatives without the approval of the House of Assembly. The state government, which described the media report that the money was spent between July and September when the governor was on medical vacation as untrue, said that the contingency funds were …

The Ondo State Government has warned members of the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) against causing a breakdown of law and order in any part of the state. The state government had earlier suspended the operations of the union in the state after which a parks management committee was established to oversee the parks. …

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Ore, in Odigbo Local Council Area of the state, on Wednesday, stopped the state government and a private company, Sao Agro-Allied Services Limited, from forcefully evicting over 10,000 farmers from its Oluwa Forest Reserve. It also stopped the state government and the firm from grading the farmers’ cocoa farms. The farmers had protested …