Ondo State: 2 die as building collapses in Akure this morning

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2 people have been confirmed dead after a building under construction collapsed around 7am in Akure, Ondo State. Reports say the building that was to be used as a boarding house for a personal school, came crumbling down as workers on the site arrived to start the day's job. Two teenagers died in the incident while two others sustained injuries and have been rushed to a medical facility for medical attention

 

Residents in the area say the region is a swampy one and it could be that the foundation of the building was not well done and this  resulted in its collapse

Video: 2 of the 6 men who ra*ped a 16 year old girl in Akure, open up on Camera.

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R.I.P: Oba Adebiyi Adesida, Deji of Akure Is Dead

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The Deji of Akure, Oba Adebiyi Adesida, died in the early hours of today in Akure, Ondo State. Information on how the monarch died are sketchy. His passing is likely to be officially announced in seven days time according to tradition.  Oba Adesida became Deji of Akure just four years ago in 2010 after the prior Oba, Oluwadare Adesina Adepoju, was dethroned and banished by the Ondo state government for physically attacking his wife and pouring an unknown substance on her skin.  Oba Adesida was 63 years old. May his soul rest in peace.. Ase

Man Loses Manhood After Giving Beggar ₦50 In Akure

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Wonders,” they say, “will never cease”. This was the scenario at the weekend at the Old Garage, Akure when a middle-aged woman was alleged to have used charm to take a boy’s joystick.

It was gathered that the victim, Adewale Akande, a graduate of College of Education, Oro, Kwara State gave the woman who begged him for alms, N50 but five minutes later, he discovered that he was having a feeling that his manhood had disappeared.

Apparently uncomfortable with the situation, the victim, in his mid-twenties, called a traffic officer around to help him arrest the woman whom he said begged him for alms.

How Tinubu, Mimiko shunned each other, then shook hands in Akure

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Sworn political enemies, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, and Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, have exchanged pleasantries in public for the first time since the October 20 governorship election in the state.

Mr. Tinubu and other ACN leaders had in the build-up to the election accused Mr. Mimiko of betrayal and vowed to unseat him as governor.

The governor in turn fired back during his re-election campaigns, asking the electorate not to vote for the ACN’s candidate, Rotimi Akerodolu, as the state would be governed from Lagos, a reference to Mr. Tinubu.

Drama in Ikare as soldiers impound Abuja-bound trailer

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Soldiers at a checkpoint on Oba Adesida Road, Akure... on Friday.
| credits: Stanley Ogidi

There was drama in Ikare, Akoko North-East of Ondo State on Friday when an Abuja-bound trailer was impounded by a team of soldiers deployed in the community for today’s governorship election in the state.

NLC, TUC back Mimiko’s re-election bid

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Chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mrs. Bosede Daramola, said in Akure on Monday that workers and artisans across the state would lead the rally for the second term bid of Governor Olusegun Mimiko.Daramola told journalists in Akure that on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, both NLC and TUC would “celebrate Mimiko for flying the Labour Party flag higher and for making the workers proud in terms of workers’ welfare which is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.”

She said the NLC would lead over 120 leaders of all industrial unions under its congress while the TUC would lead over 38 leaders to the rally which would hold simultaneously with the LP mega rally in Akure at the same venue.

She enjoined all workers’ unions in the state, artisans and lovers of democracy and good governance to come out and join the rally for Governor Mimiko’s re-election.

The rally will be the third to be held in support of Mimiko by workers in the last three months.

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