Ondo Moves Teaching Hospital To FUTA As New College Of Medicine

Ondo State authorities has approved the question of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED) Teaching Hospital Complex to the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) to service arsenic its College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital.

Speaking with journalists aft the State Council gathering presided implicit by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Banji Ajaka said the Akure infirmary analyzable would present beryllium ceded to the Federal Government to service arsenic FUTA’s main aesculapian sciences facility.

According to Ajaka, the determination follows President Bola Tinubu’s support for FUTA to found a College of Medicine and a Teaching Hospital.

“The handover includes the transportation of staff, infrastructure, equipment, and liabilities. All employees volition beryllium absorbed into the FUTA Teaching Hospital nether the Federal Government,” the Commissioner said.

He added that the improvement was expected to fortify healthcare transportation successful the authorities portion advancing FUTA’s ambition to go a starring centre for aesculapian sciences successful Nigeria.

Briefing journalists, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Forestry, Engr. Leye Akinola, announced caller measures approved by the Council to support farmers from the interaction of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) which bans crops cultivated from deforested areas.

He said the authorities has approved agroforestry practices crossed selected forests portion ensuring reserved areas stay intact.

He added that cocoa, cashew, lipid palm, and rubber farmers volition beryllium permitted to proceed operations nether strict mapping and traceability systems.

“By December 30, 2025, immoderate harvest that cannot beryllium traced to a mapped workplace risks being rejected astatine the EU market. To safeguard livelihoods, the authorities volition enactment workplace mapping and assistance farmers permits to proceed operations,” Akinola added.

The Council besides approved a reappraisal of tariffs crossed cultivation nutrient and timber worth chains, aligning Ondo with different South-West states nether the DAWN Commission framework.

For his part, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku, clarified that each furniture subordinate has been directed to nominate a roadworthy task successful their respective section authorities areas to interaction communities directly.

He stressed that the inaugural was not for backstage oregon partisan interests but to guarantee equitable improvement crossed the 18 section authorities areas of the state.

Ajanaku said, “These roads are extracurricular the 2025 budgeted projects. They are supplementary interventions to interaction communities and heighten connectivity.”

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Hamidu Takuro, said the Council besides ratified the assignment of Joseph Ilesanmi arsenic the monarch of Sosan successful Akoko South-East section authorities area of the state.