Crime

By: Ade Adeleke Ondo State government today has described as falsehood the report that it has ordered the unconditional release of the embattled traditional ruler of Ayetoro community in Ilaje Local Government of Ondo state, Olorunmbe Ojagbohunmi, from prison custody. The State government also said that as not only false and mischievous the purported release of the monarch who had been classified as an impostor, but targeted to portray the government as enemy of rule…

By: Oluwatosin Adesola There was a pandemonium yesterday in Ore, Odigbo local government area of Ondo state for several hours following a violence that broke out between members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and their counterpart fron the Road Transport Employer Association of Nigeria (RTEAN). SUNSHINETRUTH learnt that many people sustained injuries, vehicles and other properties worth millions of naira were vandalised while business activities paralysed for hours during the bloody…

By: SUNSHINETRUTH There was tension in Ondo town at the weekend following a face-off between members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and youths in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, over who should be in charge of issuance of tickets to commercial motorcyclists (okada riders) in the town. The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Special Duties, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, had earlier removed one Mr. Banjo David as…

By: SUNSHINETRUTH A 63-year-old man, Oluwatubosun Dahunsi, on Wednesday confessed at a Magistrate court sitting in Akure, Ondo state capital, that he actually thought he was killing a goat when he used cutlass to matchet his wife, Funmilayo, to death. Dahunsi, who is facing one count charge of murder before Chief Magistrate, Charity Adeyanju was said to have used cutlass to matchete his wife to death on October 5, 2019 at about 6:30am, at Ita-Ipele…

By: Oluwatosin Adesola One week after she was swept away by flash flood at her off campus residence, a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko, AAUA, Miss Doyinsola Afolayan is yet to be found either alive or dead. The state government and AAUA had deployed special officials to recover her body to no avail since last week. The parents confirmed that contrary to social media post, their daughter is yet to be…