By GBENGA ARIYIBI … How she was tortured in Ekiti palace, by daughter ADO-EKITI—A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Rebecca Adewumi, was, yesterday, lynched by a mob in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, over alleged witchcraft, even as the deceased family petitioned the police, asking for justice. Narrating the ordeal her mother passed through to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the first […]
A 400 level student of the Department of Public Administration at the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Mr. Danusa Jimoh, has allegedly killed his wife, Mopelola, during a brawl. The couple, whose relationship is blessed with a child, were said to have got married in 2008 and they had consistently been at each other’s throat for […]
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-West has berated the governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, over his last Saturday’s humiliation of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) worshippers in Erio-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The PDP, in a statement issued by its zonal publicity secretary, Kayode Babade, said “by personally supervising the seizure of keys of […]
By GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO-EKITI—Teachers in Ekiti State, yesterday, dared the state government, as none of the 16,000 teachers in the employment of the state government showed up for the controversial compulsory test. The government had issued a statement, via a state-owed radio, warning the teachers not to test its power by refusing to participate in […]
THE Catholic Bishop of Oyo Diocese, Most Reverend Emmanuel Badejo, on Friday, expressed the hope that Nigeria could still be pulled back from the brinks, if the people were willing to put the fear God in their dealings. Bishop Badejo made the remarks in his homily at the funeral mass for Mrs. Dorcas Aina Fayemi, […]
FORMER governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, has dared the incumbent governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to make good his threat of arresting and prosecuting him for parading himself as former governor, saying “if he (Fayemi) has no enough policemen to effect the arrest in Ekiti, he can call for reinforcement from his godfather in […]
Ekiti State Government yesterday spoke of its intention to begin the implementation of new minimum wage for its workers on Grade Level 7 to 17. The minimum wage is based on N19, 332 which is N1,332 more than the N18,000 passed into Law by the National Assembly. Workers on Grade Level 1 to Grade Level […]
GOVERNOR Kayode Fayemi at the weekend signed into a law a bill on the first edition of the laws of Ekiti State, finally freeing the state from its 15-year-long appendage to Ondo State. Signing the bill into law at the first “Ekiti State Justice Week” held at the High Court premises in Ado-Ekiti, the […]
Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has warned contractors handling the 14 newly awarded road projects across the state against shoddy jobs and involvement in shady deals with government officials. The governor gave the warning in Ado Ekiti at a meeting with the contractors on the specifications for the construction of the new roads. The […]
A two-week-old baby was found dumped at Eke Olere Close in Moferere Area of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti Ekiti State capital, on Tuesday. The baby girl was found wrapped in a white shawl and placed in a carton left in front of the home of a former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in […]
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