The police in Ekiti State have arraigned a 20-year-old cattle rearer, Mohamadu Bello before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly destroying farm produce valued at N3.8m belonging to four individuals. The police prosecutor, Inspector Elijah Adejare, told the court on Thursday that the defendant committed the offence on August 10 at Ido Ile […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State on Tuesday bickered over the situation of hunger in the state and why Ekiti residents shunned the nationwide organized by some groups. Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, had in a statewide broadcast on July 31, appealed to Ekiti residents to embrace […]
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Ondo and Ekiti State Governments are collaborating on business lntegration to ensure rapid and sustainable development. The 0ndo State commissioner for Regional lntegration and Diaspora Relations, Prince Boye 0logbese and his counterpart from Ekiti state, Dr. Makanjuola Kareem made this known during a stakeholders’ meeting held in akure A statement by the ministy’s spokesman, Bisi […]
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0ndo and Ekiti State governments have closed ranks to address their security challenges in order to promote business ties. The 0ndo state commissioner for Regional lntegration and Diaspora Relations,Prince Boye 0logbese who was speaking at a stakeholders meeting on Regional lntegration between the two states emphasized that the Seaport springing up in 0ndo state is […]
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Ekiti State Governor Biodun Oyebanji has said that State Governors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), are clamouring for true fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual states to living wages for workers in the country. He made this clarification at the 7th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of […]
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As part of concerted efforts to improve healthcare accessibility and outcomes for the people of Ekiti State, the State Government is set to commence a comprehensive Free Surgical Mission aimed at providing essential surgical care to residents of the state. In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani […]
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The Alara of Ara in the Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Oba Adebayo Fatoba, has narrated how he managed to escape from gunmen who attacked and killed two of his colleagues last Monday. Fatoba, along with two other monarchs from the state – Onimojo of Imojo Ekiti in Oye LG and the Elesun […]
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The new commissioner for police in Ekiti, Adeniran Akinwale has assured the people of the state that the command under his leadership would review the security architecture for optimum performance. Akinwale, who spoke with newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital on Wednesday upon his assumption, explained that he would lead the command in […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji The proprietor of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, Gabriel Adesanya, on Wednesday, lamented that kidnapped pupils and staff members of the school were being subjected to a series of maltreatment by their abductors. Adesanya who spoke on Wednesday, said whenever the kidnappers called the parents, the children […]
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Ekiti state monarchs have threatened to invoke traditional methods including the Yoruba gods against kidnappers who are terrorising the state. The hoodlums, who hitherto operated in the North-West, have in the past weeks laid siege to the South-West where they have unleashed havoc on residents. On Monday, they killed two Ekiti monarchs-the Onimojo of Imojo, […]
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