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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
From Charles Adegbite, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has declared his readiness for opposition from those eyeing his governorship job, including member of his All Progressives Congress (APC) party, saying he has no grudge against them. Fayemi, while responding to questions from members of the public at the weekend during the August edition of […]
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Ekiti, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, July 29th, 2013
A governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, has described the rejection of the consensus arrangement proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan to select the party’s governorship candidate in 2014 election as gross indiscipline. Adeyeye said this in a statement issued on his behalf by the Director-General of his campaign […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Femi Makinde writes on the dispute between Governor Kayode Fayemi and the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele The Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti State has been polarised by the insistence of the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
From CHARLES ADEGBITE, Ado Ekiti A 45-yearold man, Mr. Daramola, is now in police net for allegedly beating his wife to death at Igbemo-Ekiti community in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Daramola, a motorcycle repairer and farmer, popularly known as Wasco, allegedly beat his wife, Mrs Iyabo Daramola, a mother of three children […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 1st, 2013
BY GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO EKITI — In a bid to discourage cases of rape and sexual harassment, Ekiti State government has opened a black book, called the Sexual Offender Register, where a list of convicted sexual offenders would be compiled and registered in the government gazette. The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Olawale Fapohunda, […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has sent the name of the Chairman of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, to the House of Assembly for approval as the new deputy governor of the state. The office of the deputy governor became vacant following the death of Mrs. Funmilayo Olayinka, who died […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
PRESS STATEMENT THE TASK OF THE LABOURER IS OVER: MRS. FUNMILAYO OLAYINKA Today I am painfully sored. As I write this with grieving heart and from a broken heart on the passage to eternity of my dear sis, our own elegant stallion,heroine of repute, all of these epaulets and more well earned and deserved all […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Monday, April 8th, 2013
EKITI State Governor Kayode Fayemi yesterday declared a seven-day mourning in honour of his deputy governor, Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka, who died in Lagos on Saturday after a long but spirited battle with cancer. In a broadcast, Fayemi described as painful the exit of a loyal deputy. He directed that condolence registers be opened in his […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Crisis is brewing at St. Paul’s Millennium Anglican Church, Odo Owa Ekiti, Ekiti State as some members allegedly picketed it last Sunday. It was learnt that the members sealed all entrances to the church and prevented worshippers from going in for service. The tension was said to have been caused by the alleged demotion of […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
THE youths of Emure Ekiti Thursday protested what they called incessant deaths of young people in the community. The angry youths, who made several bonfires in community and disrupted the market, stoned the traditional ruler the Elemure of Emure, Oba Emmanuel Adebowale Adebayo, a retired Commissioner of Police while trying to pacify them. The youths […]