Smart card technology, the world over, is precisely 38 years old. It has been deployed by several governments for specific purposes. Have you ever imagined, however, a multi-purpose smart card powered by the social democratic mantra of democratizing access to all the good things of life, through which citizens can access and enjoy dividends of democracy, a card that makes it impossible for the people to be cheated? Welcome to Kaadi Igbe Ayo (KIA), Ondo State’s latest in digitalised service delivery. KIA is deployed to facilitate strategic planning and development, efficient record keeping, human resource monitoring in the public sector, anti-corruption drive and solutions, while enabling a higher level of qualitative/quantitative service delivery in the health, education, transport and agro-allied sectors.

Veteran Nigerian Olympian, Sam Igun has declared that for there to be another boom in sports in the country, all efforts should be made to reviving school sports.

Cross River athletics coach, Nelson Etung Godwin has dismissed insinuations in certain quarters that the State’s grassroot sports development programme was a waste.

Mrs. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, one of the surviving children of the matriarch of Awolowo family, Mrs. HID Awolowo, has asked those who might have been wishing their aged mother death to stop that, saying, no one could fast track her death.