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Man rapes disabled teenager

    A mob in the Aratusi area of Akure, the Ondo State capital, nearly lynched a 54-year-old man after he was allegedly caught raping a disabled teenager in an...

Tanker crushes two to death in Ondo

    Two persons riding on a motorcycle have been crushed to death after a petrol tanker rammed into them. The incident occurred on Monday night around Sabo...

BREAKING: Residents doctors begin indefinite strike in Ondo

    Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors NARD in Ondo state have embarked on indefinite strike action.   This was in...

Ondo seals off three houses for not having toilets

    Officials of the Ondo State Government has sealed off three houses at Oke-Ogba,  Akure, over environmental offences. Occupants were allowed to take a few...

Two motorcyclists die in Ondo road crash, another murdered in Delta

    Two commercial motorcyclists popularly known as okada riders lost their lives in a road accident that occurred along Agbaluku road in Arigidi-Akoko, Akoko...

PHOTOS: Robber attack bank kill three in Ondo

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Flood sweeps two motorcyclists away in Ondo

    Two commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada have been swept away by flood in Ondo town, Ondo West Local Government. The flood occurred after...

Widow jailed by Ondo court for causing death of husband

    A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state has sentenced a woman Mrs Toyin Olusa to one-year imprisonment for causing the death of her husband,...

20-year-old Internet fraudster jailed 1 month for $150 love scam

    A Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Monday, sentenced one Oke Gideon 20, to one-month imprisonment for Internet fraud and romance scam. The...

Court fines Federal Government N175m for illegal acquisition of land

    An Akure High Court sitting in Ondo state has voided the acquisition of 20 hectares of land by the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs for the building...

We buy human parts from cemetery attendants for N5,000 ― suspects confess

    A member of a syndicate who specialises in exhuming corpses from a church cemetery in Ondo town, Ondo state, Lanre Akintola has confessed that they bought...

Missing woman found dead in Ondo

    Relatives of a 55-year-old woman, Joke Olaniji, have found her corpse two weeks after she was declared missing. The decomposing corpse was found at a cocoa...

We won’t accept payment of percentage salaries again, Ondo workers tell Akeredolu

    Workers in Ondo state are on a collision course with the state government over percentage payment of salaries. The State Executive and Administrative...

Ondo varsity shut, as gunmen rape 4 students

    Hundreds of students of the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, OAUSTECH, Okitipupa, Ondo State, have protested the alleged rape of four...

‘Why I became a robber’

    Gbenga Kikiowo, who said he robbed in Ghana and Nigeria, has explained why he took to crime to be famous, adding that his father, a former soldier,...

Three students killed, three others injured in Ondo auto crash

    Three students were confirmed dead while three others were injured in an auto crash that occurred along Oba-Ile road in the Akure North council area of...

I started robbery at 7, wanted to be as popular as Oyenusi, Shina Rambo ― 27-yr-old suspect

    Detectives in Ondo State Police Command have arrested a 27-year-old notorious armed robber, Gbenga Kikiowo, who confessed that he started committing crimes...

Teenage #EndSARS protester gets N10m bail in Ondo

    The Ondo state high court sitting at the Olokuta Medium Prison in Akure, Ondo state has granted bail to detained #EndSARS Protester, Kemisola Ogunniyi,...

Strange spirit directed me to rape 80-year-old grandmother — 65-year-old man claims

    A 65-year-old man, Emmanuel Joseph has claimed that he was directed by a spirit to rape an Octogenarian woman, in Ondo town, Ondo state.   The suspect...

EndSars: We don’t want to name our baby in prison — Family of teenage detainee plead with court, Ondo govt

    The family of the 18-year-old #EndSARS protester Kemisola Ogunniyi who gave birth in prison in Ondo state have pleaded that the naming ceremony of the...